Mr Dariush Nikkhah is a Consultant Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon who works within the Royal Free London NHS Trust. He is one of a few plastic surgeons in the UK who underwent fellowships in both reconstructive microsurgery and hand surgery. Mr Nikkhah began his medical education at the University of Southampton, after graduation he went on to do a fellowship in craniofacial research at University college london. During this period, he was awarded an MSc in Surgical Sciences and underwent his specialist training on the Pan Thames Plastic Surgery rotation in London at several prestigious units including the world renowned Queen Victoria Hospital, The Royal Free Hospital, Barts and The Royal London and Great Ormond St Hospital for children. Mr Nikkhah is an active researcher and an Honorary lecturer at University College London who has published over 125 PubMed listed articles in major plastic surgery journals and is currently a reviewer for the Journal of Plastic Reconstructive Aesthetic Surgery, Journal of Hand Surgery Europe and Microsurgery Journal; further, he edited a popular book on Hand Trauma published in 2018. Mr Jeremy Rawlins is a Senior Consultant Plastic Surgeon at the Department of Plastic Surgery, Royal Perth Hospital & Fiona Stanley Hospital, Western Australia. He was trained in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery on the Yorkshire rotation in the UK, and did fellowships in France, the USA and in Perth, Australia. Mr Rawlins has extensive experience in reconstructive microsurgery of the upper and lower limb and in the management of burns. Currently President of the Australian and New Zealand Burns Association, he has published over 30 peer-reviewed articles in Plastic Surgery Journals. Mr Rawlins holds both the FRACS (Plast) and FRCS (Plast) and is on the specialist register as a plastic surgeon in Australia. Mr Georgios Pafitanis is a Consultant Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon and a Senior Lecturer in London and a Lecturer at the medical school of the University of Cyprus. He completed his training in the United Kingdom and his fellowships in reconstructive microsurgery and lymphatic supermicrosurgery in Taiwan (Prof Hung-Chi Chen), Japan (Prof Isao Koshima) and South Korea (Prof Jeong Tae Kim). He has special interest in trauma, extremity and head and neck reconstructions and he practices at the Royal London Hospital and the University College London Hospital, at the Barts Health NHS Trust. Mr Pafitanis demonstrated his passion for academia while receiving the Robert Zhong award, the ESPRAS and EURAPS scholarships, given more than 90 international lectures in the field of microsurgery and has published over 85 articles in leading peer-reviewed journals.
