Mr Riaz Agha

Dr Riaz Agha is an award-winning Consultant Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon working on Harley Street. He is certified as a Cosmetic Surgeon by the Royal College of Surgeons of England and is on the General Medical Council’s Specialist Register for Plastic Surgery. He trained in London and completed a prestigious International fellowship in Belgium where he was also awarded a licence to Practice by the Ordre des Medicins. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine in London.Dr Agha is double board-certified having taken the final exit exams set by the Royal Colleges in the United Kingdom and the European Board of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery. Dr Agha was also awarded his doctorate in Evidence-based healthcare by the University of Oxford (via Balliol College) where he was awarded the prestigious Clarendon Scholarship, awarded to the top 1% of 20,000 Oxford graduate applicants.Dr Agha graduated from Guy’s, King’s and St. Thomas’ Medical School in London with distinctions and a 1st in his intercalated BSc in Anatomy. He has been awarded 50 academic prizes from institutions like the University of Oxford, the Royal Society of Medicine and the British Association of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons (BAPRAS). Mr Agha has published 200 scientific papers and given 150 presentations at national or international level. His research has been cited over 8,000 times and he has written book chapters on nipple and breast anatomy, nipple sparing mastectomy and contributed numerous research papers in the area of fat grafting to the breast to the scholarly literature, including the highly acclaimed VOGUE Study. He completed his Plastic Surgical training in the prestigious London Deanery training programme. He rotated around a number of units including: Guy’s and St. Thomas’ Hospitals, King’s College Hospital, Queen Victoria Hospital, Chelsea and Westminster, Royal Free, Royal Marsden and Royal London Hospitals. Additional fellowship level reconstructive (microsurgical) and aesthetic training occurred in London and in Belgium. In 2018, he completed his doctorate in Evidence-based Healthcare at Balliol College, University of Oxford. He subsequently completed his post-doc. He has also previously conducted laboratory research at the prestigious tissue engineering lab at Harvard University/Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. He is regularly invited to make contributions as an expert reviewer or author to over 20 journals in the field of Plastic, reconstructive and aesthetic Surgery and Surgery in general. In 2010, he was awarded a Scholarship from the National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) for his project on national surgical surveillance. He subsequently worked with the Care Quality Commission (CQC) to improve the coverage and focus of their indicators for acute hospital services. In addition, he developed Projections for the NHS Outcomes Framework 2012-13 for the Department of Health and Sir Bruce Keogh.