Royal Cornwall Hospital, Truro

Course Director

Cornwall’s first Consultant Oncoplastic Reconstructive and Cosmetic Breast Surgeon- appointed by the Royal Cornwall Hospitals NHS Trust (RCHT) in 2006. 

Established and developed one of the UK’s first dedicated Oncoplastic Breast Units that is Locally, Nationally and Internationally renowned as a Centre of Excellence.

Founding member and Past President of The Mammary Fold- UK Breast Trainees Association.

Course Director and Faculty Member for the Association of Breast Surgery Educational Courses portfolio and Honorary University positions at University of Exeter, University of East Anglia.

Dedicated to Postgraduate & Undergraduate Education and Training and the advancement of Oncoplastic Breast Surgery in the UK and beyond.

Worcestershire Royal Hospital

Course Director

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.

Forth Valley Royal Hospital/ NHS Fife and NHS Lanarkshire.

Faculty

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.

Royal United Hospital, Bath

Faculty

Mr Richard Sutton is a Consultant Breast Surgeon specialising in oncoplastic, reconstructive and cosmetic breast surgery at Bath Clinic. He also holds a substantive NHS consultant post at the Royal United Hospital (RUH) in Bath and was appointed in 2003.

Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Faculty

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.

Frimley Park Hospital

Faculty

Isabella has been a Consultant Oncoplastic Surgeon at Frimley Health NHS Trust since 2009, where she is the Clinical Lead for Frimley Park Breast Unit and The Parapet Unit in Windsor. She is passionate and dedicated in the training of oncoplastic breast surgery where she now mentors three Oncoplastic Fellows across the Trust. She was recently appointed Communications Ordinary Trustee to the ABS and she currently serves as Director of Course Development. Isabella has taught on the UEA Masters in Breast Oncoplastic Surgery for 13 years and has been the ABS Yearbook Editor since 2021. Her special interests include revisional surgery and using Lean methodology to improve efficiencies and surgical outcomes.

Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust

Faculty

Ms Anushka Chaudhry is a Consultant Oncoplastic and Cosmetic Breast Surgeon in Wiltshire. Being at the forefront of breast cancer care, she combines surgical expertise with a deep commitment to advocacy and education.  She is also Acting Deputy Chief Medical Officer of her hospital trust. 

In addition to her clinical work, Anushka serves as the chair of a young women's breast cancer charity, Aurora Breast Cancer Wellbeing, where she spearheads initiatives to support and empower those affected by breast cancer. 

Driven by a passion for equity in healthcare, Anushka is deeply involved in efforts to reduce inequalities in breast cancer treatment among ethnic minorities. Through educational outreach, community engagement, and advocacy campaigns, she works tirelessly to raise awareness and address systemic barriers to care. 

As an educator, Anushka shares her knowledge and expertise with colleagues, students, and the public. Through lectures, workshops, and mentorship programs, she inspires the next generation of healthcare professionals to prioritize compassion and advocacy in their practice.

The Rotherham Foundation Trust

Faculty

Lisa is Consultant Surgeon specialising in oncoplastic and reconstructive breast surgery.  She has been a Consultant at The Rotherham Foundation NHS Trust since 2017. She qualified from Leicester medical school in 1992 and undertook most of her surgical training in South Yorkshire as a Clinical lecturer.  Her training highlights include: Anatomy Demonstrator at UMDS London under the mentorship and supervision of Professor Harold Ellis and Barbers’ Company Professor Vishy Mahadevan MBBS PhD FRCS - where her love of teaching started; Two personal awards to conduct her research and support her training - RCS Research Fellowship and a 5-year CRUK clinical training Fellowship in Psychosocial Aspects of Cancer, TIG fellowship in Oncoplastic breast surgery in Newcastle - where she had free reign to consolidate her training and solidify her base for her consultant role. She continues to teach on ABS and university courses on breast cancer and decision making.

Royal Marsden Hospital

Faculty

Rachel is an oncoplastic breast surgeon at the Royal Marsden Hospital. She completed her surgical training within the London Deanery and a Royal College of Surgeons of England funded MD research degree at The Royal Marsden/Institute of Cancer Research, investigating improving cosmetic outcomes after breast cancer surgery. She completed an Oncoplastic Breast Surgery Fellowship at The Royal Marsden in 2020/1. Rachel’s research interests include improving surgical outcomes in breast cancer to improve the lives of women living with and beyond breast cancer and risk reduction surgery

Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading

Faculty

Brendan Smith is a Consultant Oncoplastic Breast Surgeon appointed as a consultant at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in 2005..

He was one of the first cohorts of National Oncoplastic TIG fellows and gained his first choice fellowship at the Christie and South Manchester University Teaching Hospitals.

Brendan set up the first Breast Oncoplastic Surgery service in the Oxford deanery and has trained many other Consultant breast surgeons.

He set up a level 1 oncoplastic training unit at the Royal Berkshire Hospital encompassing all aspects of oncoplastic breast surgery. Over this period he has always looked to develop and deliver new and more effective reconstruction techniques to his patients

Liverpool University Hospitals

Faculty

Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester

Faculty

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.

Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust

Faculty

She has been an Oncoplastic Breast Surgeon at the Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust since January 2001.  The breast unit in this trust diagnoses more than 300 new breast cancers each year with more than 100 major breast reconstruction procedures being undertaken on an annual basis.  These are mainly mastectomy procedures but also include breast conservation surgery for breast cancer.

University Hospital Coventry & Warwickshire

Faculty

Jo Skillman is a plastic surgeon who trained in Oxford, London, Sydney and completed an oncoplastic breast and an aesthetic fellowship. She has been a fully accredited specialist in plastic surgery since 2009 and is member of the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (BAPRAS). In addition to clinical work, she is also a trainer on the oncoplastic skills course and the Master's in oncoplastic surgery. She has published more than 30 articles on all types of cosmetic and plastic surgery. She has co-written the National Lipomodelling Guidelines, which sets quality standards in the UK. She is currently an NHS consultant in plastic surgery at a University Hospital in Coventry and Warwickshire specialising in reconstruction for people with injuries and breast and skin cancer.

Royal Lancaster Infirmary

Faculty

Penny McManus has been a consultant oncoplastic breast surgeon since 2004. She trained in Liverpool, the South-East and the West Midlands before taking up her consultant post in Hull. She relocated to Morecambe Bay in 2018.

Her NHS work consists mostly of the diagnosis and surgical treatment of breast cancer, and breast reconstruction following surgery for breast cancer. In the private sector she also does cosmetic breast surgery.

She has been involved in developing the new RCS England guidelines for cosmetic surgery and has published and presented her work on fat transfer both in the UK and internationally. She receives referrals from across the UK for fat transfer and for revision of reconstruction after mastectomy. She teaches on a Royal College reconstruction course for consultants and senior trainees.