Online CV

Mr Vivek Sivarajan MB ChB MRCS MD FRCS Plast,

Consultant Plastic Surgeon

 

 Memberships

Full Member of BAPRAS - The British Association of Plastic, Recosntructive and Aesthetic Surgeons

Full Member of BAAPS - The British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons

Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer at the University of Glasgow Medical School

Consltant Plastic Surgeon at Canniesburn Plastic Surgery Unit, Glasgow Royal Infirmary (NHS)

 

Laser Experience         

 

I have extensive previous Laser Surgery experience. I was employed as a Laser Clinical Research Fellow between March 2001 and August 2003, during which I conducted 1400 laser cases including 750 resurfacing procedures. I have experience of using many different Laser and IPL systems and have Laser experience gained in Canniesburn Plastic Surgery Unit and St Andrew’s Plastic Surgery Unit, Chelmsford.

 

I have conducted research in Laser Surgery using a newly developed technique of depth measurement videomicroscopy to image capillary structure in Capillary Malformations undergoing laser treatment. This had led to six first author full manuscript publications and 11 oral presentations and 2 posters at National and International Meetings. I was the recipient of travel bursaries to attend both the American and International Laser meetings to present my research and was selected to publish my findings in Lasers in Surgery and Medicine, the World’s premier laser Journal, as one of the best presentations at the American meeting. My research has earned me the award of an MD from Edinburgh University.

 

I have also completed the BTEC qualification in Laser Surgery and between 2003-2005 was the UK National Representative to the organising committee of the International YAG Laser Society.  

 

 

Aesthetic Experience

 

I have undertaken 9 years training in Plastic Surgery, including learning aesthetic surgery exclusively during two periods of Aesthetic Fellowship. In 2005 I spent time working with Mr Martyn Webster and in 2008 I spent a further period training in the finer points of aesthetic finesse.

 

During my NHS Plastic Surgery training I have undertaken a wide range of aesthetic procedures and am happy to offer the full range of aesthetic procedures to my patients.

 

In my Consultant post I conduct laser resurfacing, chemical peels and rhytidectomies for patients with post acne scarring.   

 

 

 

Fellowships

 

In 2008 I completed my overseas Microsurgical Fellowship. During this time I spent 8 weeks visiting Prof. Fu Chan Wei at the Chang Gung Memorial Hospital in Taipei, Prof Isao Koshima at the University of Tokyo and Prof Wayne Morrison at the Bernard O’Brien Microsurgical Institute in Melbourne, Australia.

 

During these fellowships I learnt a great deal about optimising free tissue transfer, especially in Taipei where one lead surgeon may be involved in three or four free flaps in one day. I also learnt many intricacies of perforator flap surgery especially from observing and talking to Prof Koshima. I was also taught how to perform lymphatico-venous anastomosis using supramicrosurgical techniques whilst in Tokyo. During all three visits I believe the greatest element I have learnt has been the ever increasing role for microsurgical techniques in plastic surgery.    

 

 

 

EDUCATION

 

13/03/2008             Intercollegiate Specialty Board in Plastic Surgery

                                FRCS Plast

 

27/11/2007             University of Edinburgh

                                MD

 

9/04/2001               Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow

                                MRCS

 

1992-1997              University of Edinburgh

MB ChB

 

1985-1992               Birkdale School, Sheffield, S. Yorks.

 

 

 

Employment

 

Consultant Plastic Surgeon

Canniesburn PSU, Glasgow Royal Infirmary (NHS),

Nuffield Health Glasgow Hospital and Ross Hall Hospital Glasgow (Private)

 

 

 

COURSES/MEETINGS ATTENDED

 

BMLA                                                                                            Salisbury                                                 May 2009

International Meeting of Oncoplastic and

Reconstructive Breast Surgery                                                 Nottingham                                            Sept 2008

Thirty years of Plastic Surgery                                                  Glasgow                                                 Apr 2008

BAPRAS                                                                                         London                                                   Dec 2007

IPRAS                                                                                             Berlin, Germany                                   Jun 2007

BAPRAS                                                                                          London                                                  Dec 2006

Conjoint Scientific Congress                                                     Hong Kong, China                                Oct 2006

British Skin Laser Study Day                                                      Exeter                                                    May 2006

British Association of Plastic Surgeons                                  London                                                  Dec 2005

British Association of Plastic Surgeons                                  Windsor                                                Jul 2005

British Association of Plastic Surgeons                                  London                                                  Dec 2004

British Skin Laser Study Day                                                      Glasgow                                                May 2004

British Association of Plastic Surgeons                                  London                                                  Dec 2003

Joint International Laser Conference                                      Edinburgh                                             Sept 2003

American Society of Laser Medicine and Surgery ASLMS     Anaheim, USA                                       Apr 2003

British Association of Plastic Surgeons                                  London                                                   Nov 2002

Laser Florence                                                                              Florence, Italy                                      Oct 2002

Scottish-Irish Meeting                                                                Aberdeen                                              Oct 2002

International YAG Laser Society                                               Pattaya, Thailand                                Oct 2002

British Skin Laser Study Day                                                      Bristol                                                    May 2002

BTEC Skin Laser Technology                                                       Loughborough College                       Sept 2001

Canniesburn Microsurgical Course                                          Canniesburn Hospital                        Aug 2001

British Association of Plastic Surgeons                                  Stirling                                                   Jul 2001

An Era in Science and Enterprise                                             Canniesburn Hospital                         Jun 2001

SNB in Head and Neck Cancer                                                  Glasgow                                                 Jun 2001

British Skin Laser Study Day                                                      Goole                                                     May 2001

Emergency Management of Severe Burns                               Edinburgh                                             Jan 2001

A.T.L.S. Course                                                                              Glasgow                                                Nov 2000

Surgical and Vascular Anastomosis                                        RCPS, Glasgow                                     Oct 2000

Basic Surgical Skills Course                                                      RCS, Edinburgh                                     May 1999

Plastic Surgery Research Showcase                                         RSM, London                                        Jan 1999