Martin
has been a consultant plastic surgeon in the South Tees Hospital Trust
on Teesside since 1998. Shortly after his appointment, he was asked
to be clinical director of Reconstructive Plastic Surgery at the Middlesbrough
General Hospital, and following the move of the unit to the James Cook
University Hospital in 2003, has continued in that post to date. In
that time the unit has grown from two to five consultants and now offers
a comprehensive range of reconstructive plastic and microsurgery.
In
private practice since 1999, but with a three
year period of inactivity required to build
up the NHS unit, he now works as part of a
co-operative arrangement with two consultant colleagues in Teesside
Plastic Surgery.
www.teessideplasticsurgery.co.uk.
His private practice concentrates upon SKIN LESION TREATMENT, tattoo removal, facial threadveins and undertaking medico-legal work. At present he does not undertake private aesthetic/cosmetic surgery.
His basic medical training was undertaken at Guys Hospital in London where he also spent much time in the back of the net as the third team football goalkeeper and became part of the hospital, then the London, Inter-hospitals Revue cast. House jobs at both Guys and Pembury Hospital in Kent, were followed by a stint in the busy Accident Department of the Royal Hospital, Wolverhampton before being accepted onto the basic surgical training rotation at The General Infirmary in Leeds. It was early on in Leeds that he was introduced to the art and science of Plastic surgery and decided it was to be his career.
Career junior (Senior House Officer) plastic surgery positions at the Northern General Hospital, Sheffield and St. James's, Leeds led to his appointment to a training Registrar position in Leeds in 1993. Managing to survive this "hot house" environment, he had periods on parole in the Bradford plastic surgery unit, for a total of a year and a half, and the Australian Cranio-facial unit in Adelaide, South Australia, for the whole of 1995 before returning, completing his training and gaining specialist registration as a plastic surgeon in 1998.
Whilst not undertaking a period of formal research he has been first author of many published and presented clinical papers some of which are quoted in the international standard reference works of reconstructive plastic and hand surgery. In 1996 he won the Kay Kilner Prize for a work on Measuring Outcomes in Plastic Surgery. He has lectured at home and internationally on plastic, breast and micro surgery, with a particular affinity for the Indian subcontinent, where he believes the potential for plastic surgeons is enormous.
A member of the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (BAPRAS, formally BAPS), and the British Society for Surgery of the Hand, Martin was the first overseas life member of the Indian Association of Reconstructive Microsurgeons. He has chosen not to seek membership of the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (BAAPS), which he regards as redundant, and a divisive influence in British plastic surgery.
Martin is keen on innovation and technology in practice. He has introduced many practice innovations to the plastic surgery unit in Middlesbrough, and for a period before it was abolished he was joint National Clinical lead with the NHS Modernisation Agency's Action On Plastic Surgery programme.
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MBBS (London) 1987
FRCS (England)1991
FRCS (plast) 1998
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