Worcestershire Royal Hospital

Aesthetic Committee Chair

Steven Thrush is an experienced breast reconstructive and aesthetic surgeon who has been a Consultant Breast Surgeon in Worcester since 2004. He is passionate about education and has been involved with the the ABS (previously Royal College of Surgeons of England)  breast courses since 2005. He is also a module lead for the Oncoplastic Breast Masters Course run through University of East Anglia. He has lectured internationally and published numerous academic papers on breast surgery.

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Mr Dibyesh Banerjee MBBS MS FRCSEd FRCS, is a Consultant Oncoplastic Breast Surgeon based at St George’s University Hospital in Tooting, SW London. In his NHS and Private practice, he offers a wide range of Aesthetic, Oncoplastic and Reconstructive surgery. He has developed close links with his Plastic Surgery colleagues to offer the full range of surgical options – esp. autologous reconstructions – to his patients. This also allows him to adapt many of the finer aesthetic aspects into his repertoire. Mr Banerjee operates on over 160 breast cancer patients each year. He performs over 60 implant-based breast reconstructions annually, alongside similar numbers of breast augmentations, reductions, therapeutic mammoplasty and mastopexy procedures. These are for symmetrisation as well as for cosmetic surgery, in carefully selected cases. He maintains a high standard of practice, audits his results regularly and seeks patient feedback diligently.

Mr Banerjee qualified in 1990 from Madras University and commenced his Higher Surgical Training in the UK from 1994. He was appointed to his current post in 2004. His overseas experience includes attachments at the Plastic Surgery Dept at Emory University, Altanta and, at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre, in NYC. He is an active faculty member of various training courses. He has served on the Advisory Board of some Breast Implant and mesh companies (on Honorary basis). As a keen surgical trainer and educator, he sits on the SW London Training Committee and is on the Faculty for National ST Selection. Mr Banerjee has been the Educational Supervisor and mentor to over 30 Breast Surgery trainees since 2005, many of whom have gone on to become Consultant Colleagues locally as well as, nationally. In his free time, he enjoys listening to music including jazz & blues and travelling. He is an active member of Surrey County Cricket Club.

ABS President

ABS President

Miss Leena Chagla is the President of the Association of Breast Surgery and past-President of the Liverpool and Northwest Society of Surgeons. She heads the breast unit at St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals which is actively involved in clinical innovation and trials. She continues to publish regularly in peer reviewed journals.

Leena qualified from Grant Medical College, Mumbai, with a gold medal in Surgery. Whilst in India, she trained at the Sir JJ Hospital and at the Tata Memorial Cancer Centre. Her passion for surgical oncology developed in those formative years.

She is a popular speaker both nationally and internationally and is involved in the development of guidelines for the management of breast cancer. She is passionate about MDT working and she launched the Anti-bullying Campaign (#CoreItOut) for ABS in alliance with RCSEd. She represented ABS on the pathology Big 18 and the organising committee of Symposia Mammographicum.

Leena was instrumental in setting up the International Forum at ABS with a view to sharing good practice globally.  She is committed to improving and standardising Breast cancer care through education and training. She is an Educational Supervisor for the National Oncoplastic Fellow and she is a Professional Clinical Advisor for screening to Public Health England.

Outside of work Leena is a keen sportswoman having played water-polo for Maharashtra, Liverpool and the Northern Counties at the highest level.

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James Paget Healthcare NHS Trust

ABS Vice President

Ms Downey qualified from Nottingham University in the last century and she undertook SHO training in Bristol, Research in Breast Cancer Oncology in Manchester and Registrar training in Yorkshire. Her first consultant post in Bradford for 4 years and moved to East Anglia in 2005. Sarah's first involvement in RCS was examiner for MRCS at time OSCE introduced. Acted on committee and then Chair of Court of Examiners for RCS England. Part of training committee since came to East Anglia in 2005. Undertook Divisional Director role in own hospital for 5 years – opened new daycase unit. Acted as regional Breast Screening QA Surgeon for 6 years. Joined SAC in 2015 and became regional TPD in 2018. Currently Chair of General Surgery SAC.  Undergraduate PBL tutor and online tutor for oncoplastic MS. Director of Screening for own Trust and also Clinical Appraisal Lead. Former TIG Chair and faculty on Advanced Breast Cancer Course. Currently Honorary Secretary of ABS.

Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust

ABS Trustee

Mr Douglas Ferguson qualified in 1993 (St George’s, London), achieved FRCS (Eng) in 1997, a TiG Oncoplastic Fellowship in 2004 and in 2005 both an MS and the Gold medal for FRCS(GenSurg). He was appointed Exeter’s first Oncoplastic Surgeon in 2006 and Clinical Lead 2009; developing an accredited Oncoplastic centre of excellence, with National TiG Fellow Host status and is the ABS TiG rep. He has worked on regional STCs, as RCSEng College, University representative and as Medical Director at AAC panels. He established and convened several Oncoplastic SWOBS Courses. He was a RCSE Breast Tutor and is Faculty for ABS courses portfolio. He is a University of Exeter Hon Associate Professor for teaching/ research, supervises an MD student and is PI for 9 NCRN trials. He was privileged to be elected as ABS Honorary Treasurer in 2019.  He is the Chairman and a coach of his junior football club and continues to learn the guitar!

Forth Valley Royal Hospital/ NHS Fife and NHS Lanarkshire.

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Lucy Khan qualified from the University of Edinburgh in 2006 and trained at the Edinburgh Breast unit before completing her oncoplastic fellowship at Frimley Park Hospital, Surrey, including training in aesthetic and cosmetic breast surgery. She worked as a consultant at Mid-Cheshire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust before returning to Scotland where she is a consultant oncoplastic breast surgeon based at Forth Valley Royal Hospital but also working in NHS Fife and NHS Lanarkshire.

She has interests in lipofilling, symmetrising surgery and immediate breast reconstruction. She has a busy private practice focused on cosmetic breast surgery and is keen to support breast and plastic surgeons to undertake safe, best practice in this area. Lucy is keen to promote the cosmetic surgery accreditation scheme and the national breast and cosmetic implant registry.

Queen Elizabeth Hospital

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Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester

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Mr Murphy is a specialist in all types of breast problems, whether it be pain, lumps, cosmetic issues or cancer related problems. He specializes in breast cancer surgery, breast reconstruction, male breast surgery and cosmetic breast surgery. His sub-specialist clinical interest is in revisional cosmetic breast surgery and risk reducing surgery.

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

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Professor Roy is a Consultant Oncoplastic and Reconstructive Breast Surgeon in Oxford since 2011. She only performs breast surgery and offers all aspects including breast cancer surgery, reconstruction surgery and cosmetic surgery.

She graduated from University of Delhi, India and underwent higher surgical training at Oxford. She was selected for prestigious National Oncoplastic Fellowship at Nottingham University Hospitals NHS Trust in 2009 and did a higher degree in research in breast cancer from University of Dundee. Since her appointment, she has set up a successful Oncoplastic breast service at OUH trust. A full range of reconstructive service is being offered in close association with plastic surgeons, who perform free flap reconstruction. She is a very dedicated clinician and offers compassionate consultations and individualized expert advice and opinion for breast problems.

Miss Roy specializes in diagnosis and management of breast diseases, both benign and malignant. Her specialist interest includes surgical management of breast cancer whilst ensuring an optimum aesthetic outcome by offering specialist techniques such as mammaplasty and partial breast reconstruction. She offers immediate breast reconstruction with implants and flaps for patients undergoing mastectomy for breast cancer and offers sentinel lymph node biopsy for axillary staging of patients with breast cancer. She also offers correction of breast deformities and/or breast asymmetry to patients having undergone breast cancer surgery in the past.

She is actively involved in breast cancer research and is the principal investigator at Oxford for national and international trials. She is motivated to enhance the research in the field and is actively involved in recruiting patients for research projects in collaboration with CRUK.

BAPRAS Representative