Mr Martin Hirsch

Mr Hirsch has been a Consultant Gynaecologist and Endometriosis Specialist at the Oxford University Hospitals since 2020. In 2007, he graduated from the University of Southampton with a Bachelor of Medicine. Following this, he worked at the Southampton General Hospital until 2009, when he became a Senior House Officer in Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the Bay of Plenty Hospital in New Zealand until 2011. Mr Hirsch has had a very extensive career within Gynaecology and Obstetrics practising at several hospitals including: The St Bartholomew’s Hospital, the Royal Free Hospital, the North Middlesex University Hospital, and the University College London Hospitals. He is currently an Honorary Clinical Fellow at the University of Oxford Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology and a senior council member of the British Society for Gynaecological Endoscopy (BSGE).

Mr Hirsch is an advanced endoscopic gynaecological surgeon specialising in surgery for women with endometriosis, fibroids, ovarian cysts, and menstrual disorders. He is passionate about improving endometriosis care and offers holistic, medical, and surgical treatments for people with endometriosis associated pain. This includes surgery for severe endometriosis within a multidisciplinary team.

Mr Hirsch works closely within research teams at the University of Oxford, the University College London, and the UK Cochrane Centre. His specialist research interest is endometriosis and within a research setting he works collaboratively with patients and other endometriosis experts to try to improve diagnosis and treatments for endometriosis associated pain and infertility.

Mr Hirsch has coordinated and supervised an extensive amount of educational courses for universities. These include the coordination of: Simulated laparoscopy courses, providing laparoscopic sessions to junior trainees at the University College London Hospital, and a simulated laparoscopic library course at the Barts Health NHS Trust and The Royal London Hospital. Mr Hirsch has also held courses on basic surgical skills, abnormal uterine bleeding, novel developments in endometriosis, reproductive health, and women’s health revision. He has supervised undergraduate medical students conducting their intercalated BSc since 2015, previously in global health at the Barts Health NHS Trust and The London School of Medicine & Dentistry, and reproductive health at the University College London Hospital.

Mr Hirsch has published expansively in peer reviewed journals in the area of endometriosis including the development of recent core outcome set. His research portfolio includes 41 published items in the field of endometriosis, attracting over 600 citations from other researchers. Mr Hirsch presents this work regularly at national and international conferences with national recognition awards from NHS improvement, The British Society of Gynaecological Endoscopy, and Health Education England.

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