Professor Prof Dominic Furniss

I am Professor of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the University of Oxford. I studied medicine as an undergraduate at Trinity College, Cambridge, where I was a Junior and Senior Scholar, and graduated with a first class degree. I then moved to Christ Church, Oxford to study clinical medicine at the Oxford University Clinical School. Following graduation, I undertook basic surgical training in London, before returning to the Oxford Plastic Surgery Department in 2003. My clinical interests are in the fields of hand surgery, and supermicrosurgery for the treatment of lymphoedema. I have undertaken Fellowship training in Supermicrosurgery for Lymphoedema at the University of Tokyo, Japan, under the guidance of Professor Isao Koshima and Dr Makoto Mihara pioneers of supermicrosurgery for lymphoedema. Here, I was trained by these experts in the assessment, investigation, and surgical management of lymphoedema. I am a full member of the British Lymphology Society. I am also a very active Surgeon Scientist at Oxford University. I have secured a prestigious Wellcome Trust Intermediate Fellowship, the first awarded to a Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon, to analyse the genetics and epidemiology of common hand conditions. I established and lead the British Society for Surgery of the Hand Genetics of Dupuytren?s Disease consortium (BSSH-GODD consortium). This is a nationwide group of hand surgeons who have together collected information and samples from several thousand UK Dupuytren?s Disease patients. I am also Chair of the BSSH Research Committee, and a member of the British Association of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons Research Committee. I have written many papers for academic journals, presented work and lectured at both international and national conferences, and have written several book chapters.

My specialist clinical interest is the comprehensive treatment of lymphoedema. I pioneered multiple lymphaticovenular anastomosis surgery in the UK, and have visited leading units worldwide to bring the safest and best practice to my patients.