Vivien Lees MA MB BChir MD FRCS(Plast)
Consultant Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgeon
Profile
Miss Vivien Lees graduated from Oxford and Cambridge Universities in 1982 and 1984 respectively. The basic surgical qualification Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (FRCS) was gained in 1988 and the Intercollegiate Specialty Fellowship in Plastic Surgery FRCS(Plast) in 1995. Higher surgical training was undertaken in Billericay/London and later in Leeds/ Bradford with time also spent gaining further specialist hand surgery experience in Louisville, Kentucky (USA) and Boston (USA) through 1996. Appointment as Consultant in Plastic, Reconstructive and Hand Surgery followed in 1997 at Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester.
Miss Lees undertakes a full range of cosmetic surgical procedures. She is also known for her expertise in hand, wrist and upper limb surgery. She maintains an active research and teaching programme having published over 43 papers in the medical literature and contributes regularly as presenter at national and international scientific conferences.
Miss Lees is currently Chair of the Specialist Advisory Committee (SAC) in Plastic Surgery leading for plastic surgery training in the UK and Republic of Ireland. She is also a Council member of the British Association of Plastic Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgeons (BAPRAS). She was formerly Chair of Education & Training for, and Council Member of, the British Society for Surgery of the Hand (BSSH). She has taken a lead role in development of the Postgraduate Diploma in Hand Surgery that has provided a new paradigm in higher specialist training. She is a recent past examiner for the Intercollegiate Examination in Plastic Surgery. In the past she has served as Council Member for the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (BAAPS) and represented BAAPS on the charitable Healing Foundation promoting research into relevant areas of aesthetic research.
Miss Lees is an Honorary Reader with the University of Manchester and has ongoing commitments to research with particular interest in functional anatomy of the hand, wrist and forearm. She was awarded a Hunterian Professorship for 2011 for her work on ‘Functional anatomy of the Distal Radioulnar Joint’ by the Royal College of Surgeons of England.
Qualifications
- MA (Hons) Physiological Sciences Oxford University 1982
- MB BChir Cambridge University 1984
- FRCS Royal College of Surgeons of England 1988
- MD thesis Cambridge University 1994
- Sir Walter Langdon - Brown Prize for best thesis
- FRCS(Plast.) – Intercollegiate Specialty Examination in Plastic Surgery 1995
Current appointments
Clinical interests
- Consultant in Plastic Surgery, Department of Plastic Reconstructive and Burns Surgery, » Links
Wythenshawe Hospital, South Manchester University Hospitals Trust- Honorary Consultant - Manchester Children’s Hospitals NHS Trust
Memberships & Positions Held
- Cosmetic surgery including breast surgery
- Hand and Wrist surgery (wrist, hand trauma, rheumatoid, nerve, children)
- General Plastic Surgery (skin lesions and skin cancer, scar revision, developmental breast anomalies)
Research and Publications
- Chairman Specialist Advisory Committee (SAC) in Plastic Surgery (current)
- Board member Intercollegiate Specialty Examination in Plastic Surgery (current)
- Examiner Intercollegiate Specialty Examination in Plastic Surgery (recent)
- Council Member British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgeons (BAPRAS) (current)
- Council Member British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (BAAPS) (recent)
- British Society for Surgery of the Hand (BSSH) - Council member
- Chairman of Education and Training Committee (developing Postgraduate Diploma in Hand Surgery – The ‘Hand Diploma’)
- Faculty member Instructional Courses in Hand Surgery
- Member Research & Development Council of the Healing Foundation (past)
- Specialist Register for Plastic Surgery (GMC)
- Co-Editor European Journal of Hand Surgery (2008-2009)
- Honorary Reader, School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester
- Hunterian Professor, Royal College of Surgeons of England 2010
- Reviewer British Journal of Hand Surgery (1999-2002)
- Reviewer British Journal of Plastic Surgery (2003-2006)
Thesis work
- MD Thesis: ‘An investigation of angiogenesis in mammalian skin autografts’ VC Lees, 1993
- University Department of Pharmacology, Cambridge
- MD thesis supervised: ‘Biomechanics of the Distal Radioulnar Joint in Health and Disease.’ H Shaaban. Awarded University of Manchester 2001.
- PhD thesis in progress: ‘Functional anatomy of forearm mechanics.’ P Malone. University of Manchester.
Published Book Chapters (selection)
- Gray’s Anatomy 39th Edition 2004, Churchill Livingstone, Edinburgh - Sections on Biomechanics of the wrist joint and
Anatomy of wrist ligaments- The Growing Hand (Eds. A. Gupta, S.P. Kay & L.R. Scheker. 1999. Churchill Livingstone. London)
- Chapters: Anomalies of the Tendons & Free flaps in children (with S.P. Kay)
- DRUJ replacement arthroplasty To be published in : Disorders of the Hand: Diagnosis and Treatment. 2012
(Eds. Trail & Felmming) Springer-VerlagPublished papers (selection)
- Malone P, Hutchinson C, Terenghi G, Twining C, Lees VC. Subluxation-related ulnar neuropathy (SUN) syndrome related to distal radioulnar joint instability. J Hand Surg European (in press)
- Kalson N, Malone P, Lees VC. Fibre bundles in the human ECU tendon are arranged in a spiral. J Hand Surg European (in press)
- Lees VC. The functional anatomy of forearm rotation. Journal of Hand and Microsurgery 2009; 1(2): 92-99.
- Lees VC, Henley M, Sandhu D. Interface specialty training in the UK. Ann R Coll Surg Engl (Suppl) 2010; 92:126-128.
- Lees VC. The Postgraduate Diploma in Hand Surgery: training hand surgeons of the future in the UK. Journal of Hand Surgery 2008; 33E(2):98-102 .
- Russell CJH, Bush JA, Russell GWP, Thorlby A, McGrouther DA & Lees VC. Dynamic skin tension in the forearm: Effects of pronation and supination. Journal of Hand Surgery 2009; 34A: 423-431.
- Shaaban H, Pereira C, Williams R & Lees VC. The effect of elbow position on the range of supination and pronation of the forearm. European Journal of Hand Surgery 2008; 33E: 1:3-8. [Number 1 journal download in 2008]
- Shaaban H, Giakis G, Bolton M, Williams R, Wicks P, Scheker LR & Lees VC. The load-bearing characteristics of the forearm: Pattern of axial and bending force transmitted through ulna and radius. Journal of Hand Surgery 2006; 31B: 274-279.
- Peck F, Kennedy S, Watson JS & Lees VC. The influence of practitioner-led hand clinics on index hand trauma operations. British Journal of Plastic Surgery 2004 : 57; 45-49.
- Shabaan H, Giakis G, Bolton M, Williams R, Scheker LR & Lees VC. The distal radioulnar joint as a load-bearing mechanism – a biomechanical study. Journal of Hand Surgery 2004 : 29A: 1: 85-90.
- Lees VC & McCabe SJ. The rationale for hand transplantation. Overview. Transplantation 2002: 74(6): 749-753.
- Bayat A, Shaaban H & Lees VC. The pulley system of the thumb: Anatomical and biomechanical study. Journal of Hand Surgery 2002; 27A: 628-635.
- Lees VC. Successful revascularisation of digit in a neonate. Journal of Hand Surgery 1999: 24A:4; 812-815.
- Lees VC & Fan T-PD. A freeze-injured skin graft model for the quantitative study of basic fibroblast growth factor and other promoters of angiogenesis in wound healing. British Journal of Plastic Surgery 1994; 47(5): 349-59. For which awarded: British Journal of Plastic Surgery Prize 1992
- Lees VC & Briggs JC. The effect of initial biopsy procedure on prognosis in Stage 1 invasive cutaneous malignant melanoma - review of 1086 patients. British Journal of Surgery 1991 ; 78(9) : 1108-10. For which awarded: Bodenham Prize (Frenchay Hospital) 1993
