Mr Ahmed Emam is a Consultant Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon at Sancta Maria Hospital, Swansea, with NHS consultant posts at the Welsh Centre for Burns and Plastic Surgery, Morriston Hospital, Swansea, and the Major Trauma Centre at University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff. He has completed over 3,000 surgical procedures, including more than 600 involving complex microsurgical reconstruction.

Specialist Interests

• Microsurgical limb reconstruction
• Microsurgical breast reconstruction
• Skin cancer surgery and soft tissue oncology
• Hand surgery
• Aesthetic breast surgery and body contouring
• Bone infection (osteomyelitis)

Conditions Treated and Procedures Offered at Sancta Maria Hospital

Reconstructive Surgery

• Microsurgical reconstruction following cancer excision
• Complex limb reconstruction
• Breast reconstruction (all microsurgical techniques)
• Bone infection (osteomyelitis) management
• Amputation surgery and stump revision
• Scar revision
• Skin cancer surgery

Hand Surgery

• Hand surgery assessment and treatment
• Soft tissue oncology of the hand

Aesthetic Surgery

• Breast augmentation, reduction and uplift
• Implant exchange and revision
• Male breast surgery (gynaecomastia)
• Facial aesthetic surgery including eyelid surgery and ear surgery
• Body contouring

Training and Fellowships

Mr Emam qualified with his MBBCh with Honours from Alexandria University Faculty of Medicine in 2007 and completed his initial plastic surgery training in Alexandria, Egypt, covering all aspects of plastic, reconstructive and aesthetic surgery. He then spent a year as a specialist at one of the largest aesthetic surgery centres in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, before moving to Southmead Hospital, Bristol, one of the UK’s largest plastic surgery units.

At Southmead he completed two highly regarded microsurgical fellowships: a breast reconstruction fellowship covering all aspects of microsurgical breast reconstruction and aesthetic breast procedures, and a limb reconstruction fellowship focusing on complex acute limb reconstruction and the management of bone infection.

He gained his MRCS from the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 2012, his MSc from Alexandria University in 2013, his European Board of Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery fellowship (FEBOPRAS) in 2015, and his FRCS(Plast) from the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 2018.

Research and Teaching

Mr Emam has published scientific articles across the plastic surgery literature and regularly presents at national and international plastic surgery conferences. He is a faculty member of multiple plastic surgery courses and teaches at both undergraduate and postgraduate level.

Professional Memberships

• Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (Plastics) FRCS(Plast)
• European Board of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery (FEBOPRAS)
• British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (BAPRAS)
• British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (BAAPS)
• British Society of Surgery of the Hand (BSSH)
• British Sarcoma Group (BSG)