Biography

LRCP, MRCS 1980

FRCS 1984

FRCS (Plast.) 1994

Clinical Medical School: Charing Cross Hospital

G.M.C. Number: 2532196

G.M.C. Specialist Register: PLASTIC SURGERY: 2532196

Nepali Medical Council: No 35559

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)

Douglas Lamb Lecture: BSSH, Oxford 2021: ‘The Language of the Hand’

1980-81: House Surgeon, Mayday Hospital, Croydon

1981-82: Anatomy Demonstrator, Charing Cross Hospital

1982-83: Senior House Officer, Charing Cross Hospital

1983-85: Registrar, Bedford General Hospital

1985-86: Registrar, Central Middlesex Hospital, London

1986-86: Senior House Officer, Whiston, Hospital, Liverpool

1986-87: Senior House Officer, Odstock Hospital, Salisbury

1987-91: Registrar rotation, St Andrew’s Hospital, Billericay, Essex St Bartholomew’s Hospital, The Royal London Hospital

1991-93: Senior Registrar, Withington Hospital, Manchester

1989: Resident to Dr Guy FOUCHER, Hand Surgeon, Strasbourg, France

1991: Fellow to Dr Daniel MARCHAC Aesthetic and Craniofacial Surgeon, Paris, France

1993: Fellow to Mr David EVANS Hand Surgeon, Windsor, England

2002: Wrist Fellow to Dr Marc Garcia-Elias & Dr Alberto Lluch Hand Surgeons, Barcelona, Spain

Previous appointments

1993-2003: NHS Consultant Plastic and Hand Surgeon (Lead Clinician, Hand Surgery): North Bristol Healthcare Trust; Frenchay Hospital United Bristol Healthcare Trust; Bristol Children’s Hospital

2005-2007: Hon. Senior Lecturer, University College, London Institute of Orthopaedics & Musculoskeletal Sciences

2007 – 2017: Senior Lecturer in Anatomy, King’s College, London Anatomy and Human Sciences Prof: Jon CLARKE

2017 -2018: Visiting Lecturer in Clinical Anatomy Centre for Applied Anatomy University of Bristol Director: Dr Michelle SPEAR

2013 – 2020: Consultant Hand Surgeon, Fortius Clinic, Marylebone, London

2007 – 2017: Hon Senior Lecturer in Anatomy, King’s College, London

2003 – 2015: Consultant Hand Surgeon, King Edward VII Hospital, London

2003 – 2013: Consultant Hand Surgeon, CircleWindsor Hand Clinic, Windsor

1999 -2009: Senior Consultant Hand Surgeon and Lecturer, Istituto Clinico Humanitas, Milan, Italy

• 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 occasional lecturer in subsequent series.
• Member of Council, British Society for Surgery of the Hand 1996 -2000, Re-elected: 2015 -2019
• Visiting Lecturer in Functional and Clinical Anatomy, University of Bristol (2018)
• Organiser and Faculty Member of various Instructional courses CURRENT: Upper Limb Anatomy Course Tendon Transfers in the hand; Cadaver dissection course
• 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   (2001 – 2008)
• 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 ( 2003-2008)
• 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)
• Tutor for the BSSH Diploma in Hand Surgery: Since 2006:  CURRENT
• Examiner for the BSSH Diploma in Hand Surgery: 2007 to 2014:
• Hon. Senior Lecturer, Anatomy & Human Science, King’s College, University of London ( 2007 – 2017)
• Visiting Lecturer in Functional Anatomy, University of Bristol (2017 – 2018)
• Member: Education committee Diploma sub-Group: BSSH Diploma in Hand Surgery  (2008 to 2014)

National

• Member British Society for Surgery of the Hand.
• Examiner for the BSSH Diploma in Hand Surgery, (2007 to 2014)
• Visiting Lecturer in Functional and Clinical Anatomy, University of Bristol (2017/8)
• Reviewer: Journal of Hand Surgery (1994 – 2015)
• Honorary Sen Lecturer, University College, London, Institute of Orthopaedics and Musculoskeletal Sciences (2005 – 2010)
• Tutor University of Bristol (Mentor to medical students), 2002-2004
• Member, Education and Training Committee, British Society for Surgery of the Hand, (2005-2008)
• Reviewer: Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery ( 2000 – 2012)
• College Assessor for Consultant Appointments; Royal College of Surgeons of England(2008 -2012)
• Mentor and Tutor to Plastic Surgery and Orthopaedic Trainees

International

• Visiting Lecturer and Hand Surgeon, Humanitas Hospital, Milan, ITALY; 1999-2009
• Assistant Editor to the French Journal ‘Annals of Hand and Upper Limb Surgery’; 1990-1993
• Occasional Surgeon with Medecins Sans Frontieres; Led Surgical team to Sarajevo, BOSNIA, April 1994
• Visiting Hand Surgeon to: Anandwan Leprosy Hospital, Warora, Nagpur, Maharashtra State, INDIA; Annual visits to conduct surgical programmes; 1999-2007 Anandaban Leprosy Hospital, Kathmandu, Nepal (2008-2011) Green Pastures Hospital, Pokhara, Nepal (since 2018; CURRENT PROJECT) Lalgadh Leprosy Hospital, Janatpur, Nepal (since 2010; CURRENT PROJECT) Kirtipur Hospital, Kathmandu, Nepal (since 2012; CURRENT PROJECT)
• Examiner (English, Italian, French) for the European Diploma in Hand Surgery; 1997-1999

Other

Scientific

• Media: ‘Dissected: The incredible Human Hand’ BBC Scotland; 2014 Programme website
• Illustrator to BAPRAS, BSSH and The European Journal of Hand Surgery

Non Scientific

• Illustrator
  ‘Imagining Alexandria’, poetry by Louis de Bernières; Pub: Harvill Secker, London, 2014. Amazon.
  ‘Of Love and Desire’, poetry by Louis de Bernières; Pub: Harvill Secker, London, 2016  Amazon
  ‘The Cat in the Treble clef’– poetry by Louis de Bernières; Pub: Harvill Secker, London, 2018 Amazon

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