Vijay is a consultant oral, maxillofacial and facial plastic surgeon at CUH.
He is also the clinical lead for oral and facial surgery. He is dually qualified in medicine and dentistry. His clinical interests are wide ranging and he has published on several areas of maxillofacial surgery. He has been instrumental in the adoption of innovative 3D / virtual surgical planning (VSP) for treatment of various maxillofacial conditions.
Vijay is active in the field of surgical education having served on several national training boards with the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and the Specialist Advisory Committee for Higher Surgical Training in Maxillofacial Surgery. He has active involvement with the Cambridge Medical School as a research advisor with the Department of Physiology, Development and Neurology.
He lectures and conducts surgical masterclasses nationally and internationally. Vijay has overseas experience including training in India, Austria and the United States. Working with Cambridge Global Health Partnerships (CGHP) and backed by Addenbrooke’s Charitable Trust (ACT), Vijay uses his spare time to help those facially disfigured in overseas war and by disease. He has led facial surgery campaigns to Botswana and India.
In 2023, he and trainee surgeon Mr Shadi Basyuni led a team of colleagues to Jordan to help refugees who fled from Syria and Iran nursing horrific injuries inflicted by bombs, bullets, flying glass and metal.
In this series, he is seen helping several patients and treating some of the most challenging trauma and facial deformity cases and undertaking two jaw reconstructions.
The cameras also film him repairing a large and unusual wound on the neck of patient Tracey, who was bitten by an insect and developed a life-threatening sepsis as a result of contracting fleshy eating disease called necrotising fasciitis.