Taimur Shoaib - Glasgow Nuffield Hospital « Find Other Beauty Clinics in Temple

Taimur Shoaib is a fully accredited specialist consultant plastic surgeon on the General Medical Council's specialist register for plastic surgery. He is a Consultant in the NHS at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary, a Consultant at the Glasgow Nuffield private hospital, a consultant at Ross Hall Hospital in Glasgow, and an Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Glasgow. He runs a cosmetic practice in breast and facial surgery and an NHS practice in cancers of the face and mouth (as a head and neck surgeon) and for complex skin cancers requiring reconstruction and surgery for cancer spread. He qualified from the University of Glasgow in 1992 after which he trained in general surgery. This took place in the West of Scotland and in Oxford, following which he obtained the FRCS fellowship qualification in surgery from the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. Thereafter, Taimur Shoaib undertook a higher doctorate in Head and Neck Cancer Plastic Surgery, at Canniesburn Hospital in Glasgow. During this time, he helped develop a new surgical procedure called sentinel node biopsy in mouth cancer. He and the research team were the first to perform this successfully in this group of cancers and he has published many scientific articles on the technique. He has also lectured on the subject in many international conferences. He was subsequently awarded a higher doctorate in medicine by the University of Glasgow for his work in this area.