Leading UK Plastic Surgeon Elected to top European Surgical Research Post

June 29, 2011 - PRLog -- Mr. Charles Malata, Consultant Cosmetic and Reconstructive Plastic Surgeon at Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust based at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, has been elected as President of the European Society for Surgical Research (ESSR).  He has been a member of the society since 1996 and served on the Board since 2006. Mr Malata has been Secretary General since 2009.  Speaking of his new position, Mr Malata said “I am deeply honoured and humbled by my election and I am looking forward to serving the ESSR in this new capacity. Needless to say I am apprehensive about the new responsibility but I am prepared to rise to the challenge”.

Since his appointment to the ESSR Board, Mr Malata has encouraged closer research collaboration between the different countries and stimulated UK participation in the ESSR to an all time high.

Mr. Malata has an active clinical research programme having written more than 70 peer-reviewed publications. He lectures nationally and internationally on cosmetic surgery, breast surgery and microvascular free flap surgery. His research interests are in breast implant surgery, breast reconstruction and microvascular free tissue transfers. He is the most senior reconstructive breast plastic surgeon in the Cambridge Breast Unit and was recently voted by his peers nationally as one of the top 10 breast plastic surgeons in the UK (Daily Mail Poll).

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