
Professor Rowan Pritchard-Jones
Professor Rowan Pritchard-Jones, Consultant Plastic Reconstructive Surgeon and Executive Medical Director, NHS Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care Board
For its 15th year, the aspiring plastics, reconstructive and aesthetic surgery (APRAS) national conference for medical students and junior doctors interested in a career in plastic surgery, will be held at The Royal Society of Medicine.
The conference aims to teach students and junior doctors the key components of plastic, reconstructive and aesthetic surgery (PRAS), as well as provide them with useful career advice as they plan for the future.
The morning session endeavours to cover subspecialties in PRAS through high-quality, interactive lectures delivered by eminent surgeons from around the country. In the second part of the day, attendees will partake in a practical session on suturing, local flaps and tendon repair to improve their skills in plastic surgery techniques.
There will also be the chance to win a national prize for best research presentation.
Attendees will be able to:
The afternoon workshops are now fully booked. You can still register for the morning session to attend the lectures.
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We would like to thank our sponsor Plasta for their support of this event. Please note that the scientific programme and content has not been influenced in any way by the sponsor. We would also like to thank MedSync for kindly providing the microscopes, Lloyd Loupes for the loupe vouchers, as well as UK Loupes for providing the loupes, for the event workshops.
Professor Rowan Pritchard-Jones, Consultant Plastic Reconstructive Surgeon and Executive Medical Director, NHS Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care Board
Consultant Burn and Plastic Reconstructive Surgeon, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Mr Jorge Leon-Villapalos is a Consultant in Plastic, Reconstructive, Aesthetic, Laser Surgery and Burns at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London. He has held the posts of Lead Clinician of the Burns Unit, Chair of the London and South East Burns Network, Education Chair of the British Burns Association and National Executive BBA member. He is a Senior Clinical Lecturer and PhD supervisor at Imperial College School of Medicine and an external examiner for the MSc program at UCL. He is the current Chair of the Burns Special interest group at The British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons and the former Education Chair of the British Burns Association.
Mr Leon-Villapalos was a fellow in Adult and Paediatric Burns and Adult and Paediatric Burns Intensive care at the Shriners Hospital for Burned Children in Galveston, Texas, USA. He specializes in all aspects of Plastic, Reconstructive and aesthetic Surgery. His main interest and subspecialty is Burns Surgery, the Plastic Surgery management of difficult and complex burns, scars, wounds and any conditions with extensive skin loss. He is a long-time user of Laser Technology for scar management and skin resurfacing.
He actively researches in wound healing, methods of early detection of infection in burn injuries and delivery of drugs via biomaterials into burn wounds.He teaches and publishes regularly on all aspects of Burns management and Burns reconstruction.
President, Plastic Surgery Section, Royal Society of Medicine, Consultant Plastic Surgeon, St Andrew's Centre for Plastic Surgery
Mr Fateh Ahmad is a Consultant Plastic, Head and Neck and Craniofacial Surgeon at the renowned St. Andrew’s Centre for Plastic Surgery. He completed his training in Mersey deanery, followed by fellowships in Birmingham, Australia and New York. His sub-speciality interests are in head and neck reconstruction and craniofacial surgery. He has a particular interest in virtual planning for craniomaxillary surgery and is an advocate for inter-disciplinary collaboration in complex reconstructions. He is a Hunterian Professor and the current president of the Plastic Surgery Section of the Royal Society of Medicine.
Mr Fateh Ahmad, President, Plastic Surgery Section, Royal Society of Medicine and Consultant Plastic Surgeon, St Andrew's Centre for Plastic Surgery and Burns, Broomfield Hospital
Mr Naveen Cavale, Past President, Plastic Surgery Section, Royal Society of Medicine
Mr Jorge Leon-Villapalos, Consultant Plastic Surgeon, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
1. Spare-part surgery: A case of vascularised metacarpophalangeal joint transfer in hand trauma Nicholas Cereceda-Monteoliva
2. Titanium breathe implant use in secondary rhinoplasties for patients with cleft lip and/or palates can help improve symmetry and cosmesis Varnaja Varnachandran
3.Does the mechanical fragmentation or disruption of lipoaspirate increase the vascularity of fat grafts compared to unprocessed lipoaspirate or fat grafts prepared using centrifugation alone? - A systematic review Naveen Goddard
Mr Asmat Din, Consultant Plastic Surgeon, Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust
Miss Sophie Dupré, Plastic Surgery Registrar, Specialty Trainee Year 3, St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Mr Dominic Yue, Consultant Plastic Surgeon, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Mr Fateh Ahmad
Professor Rowan Pritchard-Jones, Consultant Plastic Reconstructive Surgeon and Executive Medical Director, NHS Cheshire and Merseyside Integrated Care Board
Sponsored industry presentation by PLASTA
Plastic Surgery Trainees Association – Mr Joseph Ward on behalf of PLASTA
Miss Alice Gargan and Miss Jasmine Shah
Mr Grant Nolan and Mr Harsh Samarendra
Miss Sophie Dupré and Mr Alex Scarborough
Miss Valdone Kolaityte and Mr Christian Asher
Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole St, Marylebone, London, W1G 0AE, United Kingdom
Registration for this event will close at 1:00am on 25 November 2022. Late registrations will not be accepted.
The agenda is subject to change at any time
If the event is recorded, we are only able to share presentations that we have received permission to share. There is no guarantee that all sessions will be available after the event, this is at the presenter’s and RSM discretion.
All views expressed at this event are of the speakers themselves and not of the Royal Society of Medicine, nor the speaker's organisations.
This event will be recorded and stored by the Royal Society of Medicine and may be distributed in future on various internet channels.