Professor Kayvan Shokrollahi

I am an Honorary Clinical Professor, at the University of Liverpool. I am a consultant Burns, Plastic and Laser Surgeon at the Mersey Regional Burns and Plastic Surgery Unit and hold a Masters degree in Law. I am the Clinical Lead for the Mersey Regional Burns Service at Whiston Hospital, and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal 'Scars, Burns, & Healing' which is the world’s only scar-focussed academic Journal. I am also Associate Editor of the Journal 'Annals of Plastic Surgery,' and former Chairman of The Katie Piper Foundation scar and burns charity. I was awarded the Hunterian Professorship of the Royal College of Surgeons in 2007 and undertake a wide variety of expert witness work for defence and claimant, as well as joint instructions for clinical negligence and personal injury. Redacted reports are available on request.

I have written the following textbooks: Burns (Oxford Specialist Handbooks in Surgery, in press April 2019); FLAPS: Practical Reconstructive Surgery (Thieme 2017), Laser management of Scars (Springer-Nature 2020) and Multiple Choice Questions in Plastic Surgery (TFM 2009). I have published numerous book chapters including the medico-legal chapter in the Oxford Specialist Handbook of Post-Operative Complications 2nd edition published in 2010, and 100 academic journal articles.

I am on the Specialist Register of the General Medical Council, and qualified as a doctor of medicine in 1999. I work in the NHS mostly in the Mersey Regional Burns and Plastic Surgery Service at Whiston hospital. I deal with a wide spectrum of acute and elective patients, including the severest of trauma and burns injuries from a wide catchment of 6 million as well as reconstructive surgery and cosmetic surgery. I also undertake regular paediatric work especially in the areas of general plastic surgery, skin lesions, ear surgery, lasers and scar management. I have a supra-regional NHS adult and children’s laser and scar practice taking referrals for laser and scar management from other burns and plastic surgery services nationally.

I specialise in work relating to:

-personal injury and  major trauma

-scarring

-clinical negligence (including consent issues)

-lasers

-extravasation injury

-pressure sores

-paediatric injury

Degrees and qualifications:
1996 - First Class Honours BSc in Cellular and Molecular Pathology
1999 - Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MB ChB)
2002 - Membership of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (MRCS)
2003 - Master of Science (MSc) in Clinical Engineering
2005 - Master of Law (LLM)
2009 - Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in Plastic Surgery
2004, 2011 - 2 x BTEC awards in skin laser therapy plus a laser safety supervisor certificate

Committees:
2010 - Cosmetic Surgery Interspecialty Committee of the Royal College of Surgeons as expert advisor in the area of consent to the Training and Certification Sub-committee
2017-19 – British Burn Association Executive Committee
2017-18 – Concept of Operations for Mass Casualties (Burns) Task and Finish group
2017-2019 – UK National Burn Care Standards Review Group
2017-2019 – National Burns Operational Delivery Network Group
2018 – Advisory Committee on Clinical Excellence Awards (Regional Subcommittee) Department of Health

2024   - Deputy Chair: The British Burn Association