Biographical Details

• General Surgical Training • Plastic Surgery Training • Specialist Fellowships
• Consultant Appointments • Teaching Commitments
• Other Appointments/Membership of Societies  

Qualifications






Awards

 

 

Clinical Medical School

G. M. C. Reg. No.

Ordine dei Medici No.

Specialist Register:

LRCP, MRCS 1980
FRCS 1984
FRCS (Plast.) 1994

Certificate of Higher Surgical Training in Plastic Surgery  April 1994
Awarded by The Specialist Advisory Committee of the Royal College of Surgeons

European Travelling Scholarship  1989 and 1991
British Assoc. of Plastic Surgeons

Ian McGregor Medal   March 1994
for distinction in the FRCS (Plastic Surgery)

Charing Cross Hospital,
University of London

2532196

41175

2532196 (Plastic Surgery)

 

General Surgical Training                                                                                                                                  (top of page)

1980-81

1981-82

1982-83

1983-85

1985-86

House Surgeon, Mayday Hospital, Croydon

Anatomy Demonstrator, Charing Cross Hospital

Senior House Officer, Charing Cross Hospital

Registrar, Bedford General Hospital

Registrar, Central Middlesex Hospital, London

Plastic Surgery Training

1986-86

1986-87

1987-91

1991-1993

Senior House Officer, Whiston, Hospital, Liverpool

Senior House Officer, Odstock Hospital, Salisbury

Registrar rotation, St Andrew's Hospital, Billericay, Essex
St Bartholomew's Hospital, The Royal London Hospital

Senior Registrar, Withington Hospital, Manchester

Specialist Fellowships

1989

1991

1993

2002

Resident to Dr Guy FOUCHER,
Hand Surgeon, Strasbourg, France

Fellow to Dr Daniel MARCHAC
Aesthetic and Craniofacial Surgeon, Paris, France

Fellow to Mr David EVANS
Hand Surgeon, Windsor, England

Wrist Fellow to Dr Marc Garcia-Elias & Dr Alberto Lluch
Hand Surgeons, Barcelona, Spain

Consultant Appointments                                                                                                                                  (top of page)

National Health Service/University appointments

 

May 1993-Oct 2003




2005 - 2007


Since 2007

 

Consultant Plastic and Hand Surgeon
(Lead Clinician, Hand Surgery):
North Bristol Healthcare Trust; Frenchay Hospital
United Bristol Healthcare Trust; Bristol Children’s Hospital

Hon. Senior Lecturer, University College, London
Institute of Orthopaedics & Musculoskeletal Sciences

Hon. Senior Lecturer, King's College, London
Anatomy and Human Sciences

Private Practice

 

Since 2003

Since 1993

Since 1994


1999 - 2009

 

Consultant Hand Surgeon
The Circle Hand Clinic, Windsor

Consultant Hand Surgeon
Nuffield Hospital and Spire Hospital, Bristol

Consultant Hand Surgeon
King Edward VII Sister Agnes, London

Senior Consultant Hand Surgeon and Lecturer
Istituto Clinico Humanitas, Milan, Italy

 

Teaching Commitments, Faculties and Committees:                                                                  (top of page)

 

• Founding Member, Organising Committee for the Instructional Course in Hand Surgery, British Society for Surgery of the Hand. Participation, as lecturer in all meetings of series one and two and occasionally in series three.
  
• Member, Education and Research Committee, British Society for Surgery of the Hand
  (1992 – 1993; 1997 – 2002, 2005 - 2009)
  
• Member of Faculty, Workshops in Hand Surgery, Royal College of Surgeons (since 2001)
  
• Member of Faculty, Advanced Skills Course in Hand Surgery, Royal College of Surgeons (2003-2005)
  
• Member of Faculty,  Basic Skills Course in Hand Surgery, Royal College of Surgeons (since 2003)

• Tutor and Examiner, MSc Students and Orthopaedic Juniors, Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital (2004-2008)
  
• Member of Faculty; Nicolaes Tulp Flap dissection course, Utrecht, Holland (2007 and 2009)
  
• Regular teaching in meetings organised for Junior Surgeons, Accident & Emergency Officers, Nurses, Paramedics, Hand Therapists.
  
• Tutor, Training Rotation for Orthopaedic Trainees in Bristol (2002–2003)
  
• Internal examiner and tutor for MSc and FRCS (Orth) students, Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Bolsover street, London (2005-2008)
  
• North West Thames Supervisor and Tutor for the BSSH Diploma in Hand Surgery (2006-2010)
  
• Hon. Senior Lecturer, Anatomy & Human Science, King’s College, University of London (since 2007)
  
• Member: Education committee Diploma sub-Group: BSSH Diploma in Hand Surgery

 

Other Appointments/Membership of Societies:                                                                                          (top of page)

 

National

• Member British Medical Association.
• Member British Association of Plastic Surgeons.
• Member British Society for Surgery of the Hand.
• Member Royal Society of Medicine
• Member of Council, British Society for Surgery of the Hand; 1996 –2000.
• Examiner for the BSSH Diploma in Hand Surgery (since 2007)
• Honorary Sen Lecturer, University College, London, Institute of Orthopaedics and Musculoskeletal Sciences
  (since 2005)
• Tutor University of Bristol (Mentor to medical students), 2002 - 2004
• Counsellor to Medical Staff Frenchay Hospital, 2003 – 2004
• Member, Education and Training Committee, British Society for Surgery of the Hand, 2005 -2008
• Reviewer: Journal of Hand Surgery (since 1994)
• Reviewer: Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery (since 2000)
• Honorary Senior Lecturer, King’s College, London, Anatomy and Human Science (since 2007)

International

• Visiting Lecturer and Hand Surgeon, Humanitas Hospital, Milan, ITALY; 1999-2009
• Assistant Editor to the 'Annals of Hand and Upper Limb Surgery'; 1990-1993.
• Occasional Surgeon with Médecins Sans Frontières; Led Surgical team to Sarajevo, BOSNIA, April 1994.
• Visiting Consultant Hand Surgeon to:
  Anandwan Leprosy Hospital, Warora, Nagpur, Maharashtra State, INDIA;
  Annual visits to conduct surgical programmes. 1999 – 2007
  Anandaban Leprosy Hospital, Kathmandu, Nepal (since 2008)
• Examiner (English, Italian, French) for the European Diploma in Hand Surgery 1997 – 1999

Other

• Member of AEIMS (European Association of Medical Illustrators)
• Member Chelsea Arts Club
• Member Royal Geographical Society