Royal Lancaster Infirmary

Course Director

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.

Royal Berkshire Hospital, Reading

Course Director

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

York Hospital

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Liverpool University Hospitals

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Frimley Park Hospital

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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.

Royal Cornwall Hospital, Truro

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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.

Royal United Hospital, Bath

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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.

The Rotherham Foundation Trust

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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.