Presentations to National and International meetings

Lister Hospital Breakfast Seminar 20th May 2010
Current Concepts in Cosmetic Surgery

Royal Society of Medicine, Plastic Section, 18 May 2010
Invited Speaker
Prominent Ears: Assessment and use of safe and effective techniques

Undergraduate Plastic and Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery Conference, 7th February 2010
Invited Speaker
Paediatric Plastic Surgery

Facial Plastic Surgery Week February 2010
Invited Speaker
Prominent Ear Correction

Jordanian Facial Aesthetic Workshop 24th October 2009
Invited Speaker
Ear deformities and reconstruction

Aesthetic Orthognathic Surgery, Royal College of Surgeons of England 21st May 2009 Invited Speaker
Aesthetic Ear Surgery
Bariatric Surgery 16th May 2009 Royal Free Hospital
Case Presentation Post Weight Loss Surgery

British Society of Otology, 5th February 2009 Invited Speaker
Paediatric Ear Reconstruction

Undergraduate Plastic and Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery Conference, 31st January 2009 Invited Speaker
Paediatric Plastic Surgery

British Association of Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons, December 2008
Special Interest Group in Ear Reconstruction
The Great Ormond Street Hospital Ear Reconstruction Service

1BAPRAS Educational Course,
Manchester, 11-12th April 2008
The management of soft tissues in craniofacial surgery. Lecture

Maxilofacial Unit St George’s Hospital. Guest Speaker,
12th December 2007
Ear Reconstruction Management of Skin Malignancy

4th International Congress on Auricular Reconstruction BAPRAS
Edinburgh,10-12 October 2007
Comparing analgesia techniques after costal cartilage harvest.

British Association of Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons Educational Course, Manchester
29-30th September 2006
Paediatric trunk deformities. Lecture

British Association of Plastic Surgeons
December 2005
Versatility of diced cartilage – fascia grafts in dorsal nasal augmentation

European Association of Plastic Surgeons, Marseille, France
May 2005
Free tensor fasciae latae musculofasciocutanious flap. Its use in reconstructing challenging defects, a series of 85 cases.

Annual Scientific Congress of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, Melbourne, Australia,
April 2004
Free tensor fasciae latae musculofasciocutanious flap.

Annual Scientific Congress of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, Melbourne, Australia,
April 2004
The use of the Siamese combined free flap to reconstruct challenging defects: twin and triplet variants

International confederation for Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery
13th Congress, Sydney, Australia, August 2003
The phenomenon of the late recovered bell’s palsy. Treatment options to improve symmetry and patient psychology.

International confederation for Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, 13th Congress, Sydney, Australia,
August 2003
Extensor tendon rehabilitation regimes. A prospective randomised trial.

British Association of Plastic Surgeons,
June 2002
Percutanious anterior scoring, Another twist to the story.

European Association of Plastic Surgeons, Crete, Greece,
May 2002
Percutanious anterior scoring, Another twist to the story.

International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, Istambul, Turkey,
May 2002
Long term prospective follow-up of botulinum toxin treatment for facial rhytides

European Association of Plastic Surgeons, Helsinki, Finland,
May 2001
Invited Speaker ECSAPS Winner Best Presentation
5-fu modulates collagen synthesis by fibroblasts: implications for the reduction in post-operative recurrence rates in Dupuytren’s contracture.

British Association of Plastic Surgeons,
November 2000
5-fu and its mode of action in Dupuytren’s disease

European Congress for Scientists and Plastic Surgeons, Paris France.
October 2000
Best Presentation Prize.
5-fu modulates collagen synthesis by fibroblasts: implications for the reduction in post-operative recurrence rates in Dupuytren’s contracture

Scandinavian-Hungarian Hand Society, Kuopio Finland,
August 2000
The role of 5-fluorouracil in the modulation of the important pro-fibrotic factor, transforming growth factor beta 1, in Dupuytren’s contracture fibroblasts

Federation of European Societies of Surgery of the Hand, Barcelona, Spain,
June 2000
The modulation of fibroblast function to reduce the recurrence rates of Dupuytren’s disease of the hand (Poster)

Federation of European Societies of Surgery of the Hand, Barcelona Spain ,
June 2000
The complications of Dupuytren’s contracture surgery (Poster)

European Tissue Repair Society, Brussels, Belgium,
May 2000
The modulation of TGFb-1, an important profibrotic factor, by 5-fu in fibroblasts derived from Dupuytren’s contracture

British Association of Plastic Surgeons,
November 1999
Dupuytren’s Fibroblasts. The effect of growth mediators and 5-FU on collagen metabolism

British Society for Surgery of the Hand,
October 1999
How collagen synthesis of cultured fibroblasts is affected by 5-fluorouracil and TGFb

European Congress for Scientists and Plastic Surgeons, Maarstricht, Holland,
October 1999
How 5-fluorouracil and TGFb affects the collagen metabolism of cultured fibroblasts

American Society for Surgery of the Hand, Boston, Massachusetts, USA,
September 1999
Dupuytren’s fibroblasts and transforming growth factor b1: A possible explanation for high postoperative recurrence rates (Poster)

International confederation for Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, San Francisco, California, USA,
June 1999
Dupuytren’s Disease. A long term follow up of 253 patients (Poster)

Royal Society of Medicine, Plastic Section,
January 1999
Research. A Personal View.

British Association of Plastic Surgeons,
November 1998
The influence of TGFb-1 on Dupuytren’s fibroblasts

British Association of Surgical Oncology,
November 1998
Breast Reconstruction: comparing five different methods of breast volume measurement

RAFT Annual Seminar,
October 1998
Dupuytren’s disease

Royal Society of Medicine, Plastic Section,
May 1998
Difficult head and neck reconstruction

Royal Society of Medicine, Plastic Section,
March 1998
A secure case of self mutilation

Royal Society of Medicine, Clinical Section,
October 1996
Subclavian steal syndrome. Carotid subclavian transposition

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