Providing expert care
in Reconstructive and
Cosmetic Surgery

Curriculum Vitae

Name	Dr Venkataramakrishnan Venkataswami
Date of birth	22 August 1959

MBBS	16th September 1983
MS General Surgery	20th September 1986
FRACS Plastic Surgery	7th May 1990
FRCS England	12th February 1998

February 1982 – February 1983	Compulsory Rotatory Resident Intern, Government General Hospital, Madras
May 1983 – March 1986	Postgraduate Degree Course in General Surgery, Department of Surgery, Madras Medical College, Madras University, Madras
April 1986 – January 1987	Resident in Plastic Surgery, Department of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, Government Stanley Hospital, Madras
February 1987 – January 1988	Registrar in Plastic Surgery, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Woodville, South Australia
February 1988 – January 1989	Registrar in Plastic Surgery, Flinders Medical Centre, Bedford park, South Australia
January 1989 – January 1990	Registrar in Plastic Surgery North East Regional Plastic and Burns Unit, St Andrew’s Hospital, Billericay, Essex, UK
February 1990 – November 1990	Microsurgical Fellow Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, South Australia
December 1990 – July 1991	Registrar in Plastic Surgery North East Regional Plastic and Burns Unit, St Andrew’s Hospital, Billericay, Essex, UK

August 1991 – November 1991	Locum Consultant Plastic Surgeon North East Regional Plastic and Burns Unit, St Andrew’s Hospital, Billericay, Essex, UK
April 1992 – May 1995	Consultant Plastic Surgeon, Malar Hospitals, Lady Willingdon Hospital & Apollo Cancer Hospital, Madras, South India
June 1995 – December 2001	Consultant Plastic Surgeon, Hull & East Yorkshire Hospitals NHS Trust, Hull, East Yorkshire, UK
January 2002 – to date	Consultant Plastic Surgeon at Mid-Essex Hospitals NHS Trust, St. Andrews Centre for Plastic Surgery, Broomfield Hospital, Chelmsford, Essex. U.K.

April 1998 – April 1999	Lecturer in Plastic Surgery at the University of Bradford, to supervise research and development of instrumentation for soft tissue endoscopy
June 1999 – Dec 2002	Senior Lecturer in Plastic Surgery, University of Hull
October 2000 – Dec 2003	Plastic surgery National Tutor, Royal College of Surgeons of England, London
Jan 2003 – to date	Director, Pan Thames Educational Programme
June 2004 – 2010	Service Director, Speciality Directorate, MEHT, Chelmsford, Essex UK
June 2007 – to date	Member, Project Board, National Mastectomy & Immediate Reconstruction Audit, Health Care Commission
June 2005 – June 2007	Chairman, BAPRAS Educational Programme
13th July 2011 – 13th July 2014	Visiting Professor to the University of Westminster and Anglia Ruskin University, Chelmsford