Appointments
- Consultant Plastic Surgeon – Belfast Skin Clinic 2024 – current
- BAAPS mentorship at Purity Bridge, Tunbridge Wells 2023
- Paediatric Burns Fellow, Manchester 2023
- Cleft Fellow, John Radcliffe, Oxford 2022 – 2023
- Plastic Surgery, South Eastern Trust NI2017 – 2022
- Vascular/General Surgery Belfast Trust NI 2016
- General Surgery, South Eastern Trust NI 2015
- Emergency Medicine, South Eastern Trust NI 2015
- Obstetrics and Gynaecology, SE Trust NI 2014
- General Medicine, Southern Trust, NI 2013 – 2014
Education / Training / Qualifications
- FRCS Plast Part 2. 2022
- FRCS Plast Part 1. 2021
- MRCS Part B, The Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh 2015
- MRCS Part A, The Royal College of Surgeons Edinburgh 2014
- MB BCh BAO Honours Queen’s University Belfast 2013
- BSc Honours Zoology Queen’s University Belfast 2008
Specific Interests:
- Cleft lip and palate surgery
- Aesthetic surgery
Memberships of any Associations / Committees
- Craniofacial Society of Great Britain and Ireland
Research/publications
- Neck ergonomics in cleft surgery 2023 – Ongoing multi-centre research project to determine the impact of loupes, prismatic loupes and the microscope during primary cleft operations.
- Book Chapter – Rationale of Cleft Palate Repair, C Hill and S Martin
- Fayyaz G.Q. (eds) Surgical Atlas of Cleft Palate and Palatal Fistulae. Springer
- Forty peer reviewed publications
- Seventy-five national and international presentations
Awards
International
- ALSGBI prize – awarded for the best laparoscopic surgery related abstract submitted to the ASiT conference 2017
- International Society for Vascular Surgery (ISVS)– 3rd prize ISVS Poster Presentation at CACVS International Conference, Paris, France 2017
National
- Prize for the best poster presentation at the annual CFSGBI conference 2023
- Arnold Huddart Medal (CFSGBI) –– 2023
- The Barron Prize (BAPRAS) –2022
- SALG Patient Safety Conference, London. Change in Practice Regarding the Use of Throat Packs in Paediatric Cleft Surgery. Joint 1st place for oral presentation. 2019
- The Harvey Prize in Vascular Medicine – 2nd prize awarded for an oral presentation at the national RSM Vascular meeting 2016
Regional
- New Year New You: A surge in cosmetic tourism in Northern Ireland 2019
- Prize for the best poster in the case report/case series category at NIMDTA clinical excellence day.
Undergraduate
- Awarded 21 medals, prizes and scholarships at medical school
Teaching
- Plastic Surgery FRCS Viva teaching in Oxford, Manchester and Northern Ireland.
- Cleft surgery for the FRCS given to plastic surgery trainees in Oxford and Manchester.
- Virtual teaching to dental foundation trainees on cleft lip and palate annually from 2019 to 2021
- BAAPS/PLASTA Virtual Aesthetic Webinar series: Part 3 Head and Neck Aesthetics 2021.
- Secondary burns reconstruction teaching 2021.
- Faculty on the BAAPS/PLASTA ST3 interview course 2020 – 2021
- BAAPS/PLASTA Virtual Aesthetic Webinar series: Part 2 Head and Neck Aesthetics. Four-part series October 2020.
- BAAPS/PLASTA Virtual Aesthetic Webinar series: Part 1 Breast and Body contouring. Three-part series June 2020.
- An update on BIA-ALCL. Presented to plastic surgery colleagues 2019.
- Set up a new teaching programme at Queen’s University Belfast (QUB) for final year medical students.
- Faculty at the Royal College of Surgeons National Student Surgical Skills Competition – Northern Ireland heat
- ‘Teach the Teacher’ Course at NIMDTA
- Anatomy Clinical Demonstrator at Queens University Belfast for medical students
- Honorary surgical tutor for both 4th and final year medical students at Queen’s University Belfast.
- OSCE assessor at Queen’s University Belfast
- Regularly teaching colleagues at regional plastic surgery teaching sessions.