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Curriculum Vitae

 

 

PERSONAL DETAILS

 

Name

 

Dr Venkataramakrishnan Venkataswami

     

Date of Birth

 

22 August 1959

 

ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

 

MBBS

 

16th September 1983

     

MS General Surgery

 

20th September 1986

     

FRACS Plastic Surgery

 

7th May 1990

     

FRCS England

 

12th February 1998

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

February 1982 – February 1983

 

Compulsory Rotatory Resident Intern, Government General Hospital, Madras

     

May 1983 – March 1986

 

Postgraduate Degree Course in General Surgery,
Department of Surgery, Madras Medical College,
Madras University, Madras

     

April 1986 – January 1987

 

Resident in Plastic Surgery,
Department of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery,
Government Stanley Hospital, Madras

     

February 1987 – January 1988

 

Registrar in Plastic Surgery,
The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woodville,
South Australia

     

February 1988 – January 1989

 

Registrar in Plastic Surgery,
Flinders Medical Centre, Bedford park,
South Australia

     

January 1989 – January 1990

 

Registrar in Plastic Surgery
North East Regional Plastic and Burns Unit,
St Andrew’s Hospital, Billericay, Essex, UK

     

February 1990 – November 1990

 

Microsurgical Fellow
Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide,
South Australia

     

December 1990 – July 1991

 

Registrar in Plastic Surgery
North East Regional Plastic and Burns Unit,
St Andrew’s Hospital, Billericay, Essex, UK

 

CONSULTANT POSTS

 

August 1991 – November 1991

 

Locum Consultant Plastic Surgeon
North East Regional Plastic and Burns Unit,
St Andrew’s Hospital, Billericay, Essex, UK

     

April 1992 – May 1995

 

Consultant Plastic Surgeon, Malar Hospitals,
Lady Willingdon Hospital & Apollo Cancer Hospital,
Madras, South India

     

June 1995 – December 2001

 

Consultant Plastic Surgeon, Hull & East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust, Hull, East Yorkshire, UK

     

January 2002 - to date

 

Consultant Plastic Surgeon and Service Director for Specialist Surgery at Mid-Essex Hospitals NHS Trust, St. Andrews Centre for Plastic Surgery, Broomfield Hospital, Chelmsford, Essex. U.K.

 

D. OTHER POSTS:

 

April 1998 - April 1999

 

Lecturer in Plastic Surgery at the University of Bradford, to supervise research and development of instrumentation for soft tissue endoscopy

     

June 1999 - Dec 2002

 

Senior Lecturer in Plastic Surgery, University of Hull

     

October 2000 - Dec 2003

 

Plastic surgery National Tutor, Royal College of Surgeons of England, London

     

Jan 2003 - to date

 

Director, Pan Thames Educational Programme

     

June 2004 - to date

 

Service Director, Speciality Directorate, MEHT, Chelmsford, Essex UK

     

June 2007 - to date

 

Member, Project Board, National Mastectomy & Immediate Reconstruction Audit, Health Care Commission

     

June 2005 - June 2007

 

Chairman, BAPRAS Educational Programme

     

13th July 2011 - 13th July 2014

 

Visiting Professor to the University of Westminster

Mr Ramakrishnans