Qualifications:
M.B., B.S. (London) April 1965
F.R.C.S. (England) November 1969
Certificate of Higher Surgical Training in Plastic surgery granted by the Specialist Advisory Committee of the Royal College of Surgeons
Education:
School: Clifton College, Bristol
Medical School: Middlesex Hospital Medical School, (London University)
Present Appointments:
Honorary Consultant Hand Surgeon, the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore, London.
Consultant Hand Surgeon and Director, The Hand Clinic, Windsor, UK
Societies:
Council member, British Association of Plastic Surgeons, 1991-1993.
Member, SAC in Plastic Surgery (1994-8)
Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine.
President, Plastic Surgery Section of the RSM 1992-3
President, British Society for Surgery of the Hand, 1995.
Hon Secretary, British Society for Surgery of the Hand, 1986- 1988.
Council Member, British Society for Surgery of the Hand, 1989-1991.
Chairman, Interface Committee in Hand Surgery, 1998-2000.
President, British Association of Hand Therapists, 1993-4.
Member, International Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery
Chairman, Medical Commission on Accident Prevention, 1991-1994
Committee member, Advanced Courses in Hand Surgery
Hon Archivist, British Society for Surgery of the Hand, 2001-2005
Training in Plastic Surgery and Hand Surgery in Oxford and Louisville, Kentucky
Consultant Plastic Surgeon, Wexham Park Hospital, Slough. August 1977 - March 1992
Consultant Hand Surgeon, Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore, Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital, and Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London, between 1992 and 2000.
Visiting Surgeon, helping to establish the first Department of Plastic Surgery in Muscat Oman, 1975-1981.
Panel member, Plenary Session on Arthroplasty in the Rheumatoid Hand, Meeting of the International Federation of Societies for Surgery of the Hand, Boston USA, October 1983
Visiting guest speaker, course on "The Injured Hand", Monash University, Melbourne, Australia. 25-26 October 1985.
Invited Participant, Symposium on Reconstruction of the Child's Hand, Speaker on Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis, Dallas, Texas, 1986.
Committee member for British Postgraduate Medical Federation courses on plastic surgery (Now BAPS Advanced Course), organizer of three courses, and speaker and chairman on a number of courses.
Visiting Professor, course on "Updating in Surgery of the Hand", Brescia, Italy, April 10-11 1987.
Guest Speaker, Thai Society for Surgery of the Hand, March 1994.
Organizer of twice yearly meetings of British Society for Surgery of the Hand from 1986-1988, including major international meeting in Killarney, May 1988 which was a joint meeting with the American Society for Surgery of the Hand.
Faculty member, British Virgin Islands Plastic Surgery Meeting, 1993-2002.
Lecturer, St Thomas’ Hospital FRCS course, 1994-6.
Keynote speaker, Annual meeting of the American Association for Hand Surgery, Palm Springs, USA, 13 January 1996
Sidney Blair Lecture, Loyola University Medical Center, Chicago, 18 January 1996.
Member and participant, the Congenital Hand Anomalies Study Group; organizer of the first meeting, Windsor, September 1994, participant Tampere, Finland July 1995, Chicago May 1996, Leeds October 1998, Dallas 2000, Strasburg 2001, Hamburg 2003.
Papers, lectures and round tables at various National and International meetings.
Examiner for Diploma of Hand Surgery, Federation of European societies for Surgery of the Hand, 1st exam, Paris, April 1996.
Moberg lecture, Scandinavian Society for Surgery of the hand, Copenhagen, September 1996
Examiner for FRCS(plast), Intercollegiate Board of the Royal Colleges of Surgeons, 1998 – 2002.
Lecturer on all of a series of six consecutive Instructional courses in Hand Surgery, British Society for Surgery of the Hand, 2 days each, in January and June 1999, 2000, and 2001.
Visiting surgeon to Shri. Shirdi Sai Baba Hospital, Anandwan, Warora, Nr Nagpur, India to undertake surgery for leprosy and burn contractures, 2002,2003, 2004.
5th Kleinert and Kutz Professor of Hand Surgery, Louisville, Kentucky, USA, 6th – 11th November, 2001.
University of Toronto Division of Plastic Surgery Visiting Professor, 25-26 March 2004 .
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