Mr Kenneth Elder

Mr Kenneth Elder is a Consultant Breast Surgeon practising at Spire Edinburgh Hospitals Murrayfield and at the Western General Hospital in Edinburgh, where he is the breast lead for the University of Edinburgh ChM qualification.

He specialises in breast cancer surgery, breast reconstruction, and the management of benign breast disease. His expertise includes breast lump investigation and removal, breast conservation surgery, mastectomy, breast reconstruction following mastectomy, implant removal, inverted nipple surgery, sentinel lymph node biopsy and lymph node removal, and axillary clearance. He also manages high-risk patients requiring advice or surgery.

Mr Elder completed his medical degree at the University of Nottingham in 2008. Following graduation, he worked as a disaster relief doctor in East Timor and was awarded The Worshipful Society of Apothecaries of London prize for Conflict and Catastrophe Medicine. He went on to complete higher surgical training in Edinburgh and surrounding hospitals.

During his training, he undertook a research fellowship at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Research Centre in Melbourne, Australia, under Professor Iain Campbell, focusing on modern breast screening and the genetics of pre-cancerous breast disease. His research was widely published and presented internationally, and he was awarded the Ethicon travelling scholarship. He later returned to Australia to complete a breast surgery fellowship at the Royal Women’s Hospital in Melbourne under Professor Bruce Mann. In 2022, he travelled to Japan on the Sir James Fraser scholarship from the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh to study cryogenic minimally invasive breast surgery.

Mr Elder is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. His clinical interests cover the full spectrum of benign and malignant breast conditions.