Mr Ramakrishnan delivered the 2017 Gillies Lecture at the British Association of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons (BAPRAS) Winter Meeting. The lecture, named after Sir Harold Gillies, the father of plastic surgery, is one of the two most prestigious orations in the plastic surgical community. He said “I am humbled, anxious, nervous, and excited to be delivering this lecture.”

Mr Ramakrishnan’s lecture was titled ‘Microsurgical Breast Reconstruction: a constant battle between beauty and blood supply’.