FPS UK Committee Members

Mr Charles East is a Consultant Surgeon at the Royal National Ear Nose and Throat Hospital (RNTNEH) and the Royal Free Hampstead NHS Trust. He was awarded the Hallett Prize by the Royal College of Surgeons of England and continued his training in ENT at Oxford, University College Hospital and the Middlesex Hospital. He was a senior clinical and research Fellow in the University of Washington Seattle for 12 months. His appointment to the National Post-Graduate Teaching Hospital, the RNTNEH in 1992 allowed him to practise general otolaryngology but develop a sub-speciality interest in nasal sinus and also facial plastic surgery. He is the lead clinician for the Rhinoplasty service at the RNTNEH. He is an Honorary Senior lecturer at University of London and the course director for the Plastic Surgery of the Nose and Techniques in Facial Plastic Surgery run by the Institute of Laryngology and Otology, University College London and the RNTNEH. He is the UK Vice President of the European Academy of Facial Plastic Surgery and regularly lectures at National and International meetings. He is a faculty member at the Royal College of Surgeons for minimally invasive sinus surgery and course tutor for National and International minimally invasive sinus surgery courses.

Mr Mackay is a Consultant Ear, Nose and Throat surgeon who was appointed to the Royal Brompton and Charing Cross Hospitals and is also an Honorary Senior Lecturer to the Institute of Laryngology and Otology. He has also been a Visiting Professor to the Mayo Clinic in America. He has an international reputation as a lecturer in rhinoplasty and sinus surgery and has published numerous papers and books on these subjects.

He is a founder member and board member of the European Academy of Facial Plastic Surgery and the British Allergy Foundation. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and Past President of ENT-UK and of the Section of Laryngology and Rhinology at the Royal Society of Medicine

Mr. Julian M Rowe-Jones FRCS (ORL) founded The Nose Clinic in 1998. He was educated at Marlborough College. He qualified in Medicine at St. Thomas’s Hospital, University of London in 1986 and received his specialist surgical training at St. George’s Hospital, London and Charing Cross Hospital, London where he was mentored by internationally recognized rhinoplasty surgeons. Since then, he has dedicated his surgical career to functional and cosmetic treatment of the nose. Mr. Rowe-Jones was the recipient of a travelling Fellowship awarded in 1996 by the European Academy of Facial Plastic Surgery (EAFPS) and is now Chairman of the EAFPS Fellowship Committee. He referees and peer reviews papers on nasal surgery for several other scientific journals, has written book chapters and numerous papers and has taught and lectured extensively on topics related to nasal plastic surgery in the UK, Europe, USA and Australia. Mr. Rowe-Jones is an interspecialty member of the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (BAAPS) and an allied specialty member of the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (BAPRAS). He has been on the Tatler list of top private specialists for the last three years.

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Mr. Simon Watts was born in the UK in 1966 but was brought up in Zambia and latterly South Africa. He eventually moved to the North East of England to train as an ENT specialist. Whilst undertaking his specialist training, he was awarded The Joseph Fellowship in Facial Plastic Surgery. This involved training in centres of excellence throughout Europe plus establishing research projects in nasal plastic and reconstructive surgery, after which he sat the US board exams for the American Academy of Facial Plastic Surgery. He strongly feels keeping up to date on developments within the specialty involves underpinning progress with on-going research and audit. As a result, he now teaches and examines on National ENT / Facial Plastic Surgery specialist training courses. In addition to this, active involvement in local curriculum development and teaching of ENT and Facial Plastics to medical students at the Brighton and Sussex Medical School is a rewarding part of his life.

Mr David Roberts MBBS BSc FRCS (ORL) has been a Consultant Ear Nose and Throat surgeon for the last 12 years. Appointed to Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospitals NHS Trust he has developed a tertiary service in rhinology and facial plastic surgery, specialising in rhinoplasty and complex sinus surgery in adults and children.

He is a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England and a member of the British Association of Otorhinolarygology and the European Rhinology Society. He holds the diploma of the American Association of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons and is a past fellow and a board member of the European Academy of Facial Plastic Surgeons. He lectures nationally and internationally on many aspects of facial plastic surgery.

Mr Rishi Talwar (BSc MBBS MRCS DOHNS) is a Specialist Registrar in ENT on the North Thames rotation. He has a burgeoning interest in Facial Plastic Surgery and is currently developing this further while working in London.

He is the trainees' representative on the committee, having been elected by the Association of Otolaryngologists in Training. He also has a keen interest in medical education, organising a practical ENT introduction course for SHOs and is an examiner for MBBS finals.