Background
Adam Magos qualified as a doctor in 1978 having studied at King's College Hospital School of Medicine, University of London. During his training, he obtained a Bachelor of Science degree in Biochemistry (1975) from King's College, London. He specialised in Obstetrics and Gynaecology in 1980-86 at King's, and passed the membership examination of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologist in London in 1986. In the same year, he submitted and passed an MD thesis to the University of London on the subject of the premenstrual syndrome having been a Research Fellow with John Studd at King's. In 1998, he was made Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists.
In 1986, Adam Magos was appointed Clinical Lecturer in the Nuffield Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford where he worked with the late Professor Sir Alec Turnbull. In 1990, he moved back to London as Senior Lecturer/Honorary Consultant in the Academic Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology in the Royal Free Hospital with Professor Bob Shaw. The following year, he was appointed Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist/Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Royal Free, where he has worked ever since. In 1991, he was also appointed as Consultant Gynaecologist to the King Edward VII Hospital for Officers in London.
Adam Magos' special interests are in the area of minimal access (endoscopic) surgery, including laparoscopic and hysteroscopic surgery, vaginal surgery, and the management of uterine fibroids. He is a preceptor in hysteroscopic and laparoscopic surgery for the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. He also has major interests in research and postgraduate teaching, and has organised regular postgraduate training workshops on laparoscopic, hysteroscopic and vaginal surgery since 1989; the 100th Gynaecological Endoscopy Workshop took place at the Royal Free Hospital in September 2005.