Gatsby believed in the Green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter - tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther...And then one fine morning - So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
My current role
My work includes reconstructive plastic surgery, hand surgery for trauma and for degenerative conditions such as Dupuytren's disease, nerve problems and arthritis. I treat children's hands.
I am the lead consultant for the hand fellowship training program, I have previously been the head of the department of plastic surgery, I have been a program director.
I am part of the skin cancer MDT, I carryout lower limb reconstruction.
Previous history
I trained in medicine in Oxford and trained in plastic surgery at Hospitals in East Grinstead, Salisbury, Mount Vernon, and Cambridge.
I carried out research for 3 years at the Queen Victoria Hospital East Grinstead, and was awarded a Doctorate by Oxford University.
I carried out fellowship training in Leeds, and St Vincent's hospital in Melbourne, Australia.
Membership and accreditations
I am a member of the British Association of Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (BAPRAS), the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (BAAPS), the British Society for Surgery of the Hand, the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and the British Medical Association.
I have been awarded the Royal College of Surgeons Certificate for Cosmetic Surgery. I was awarded the Cardiff University/Bond-Solon certificate in expert reporting.
Personal interests
I am a rower, swimmer and runner: for reasons that I don't understand I am getting slower and am finding it hard to recover after training.
I own a chocolate Labrador who, to my astonishment, gets excited at the mere sound of my footsteps.