About Mr P. Kalu

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He holds an NHS Consultant post at Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust where he specialises in Breast Surgery and in particular microvascular breast reconstruction. He offers an extensive skin surgery service in addition to the management of skin tumours and is a member of the Oxford Specialist Skin Multi-disciplinary team.

Mr Kalu helps shape the careers of up-and-coming surgeons as the Plastic Surgery trainee lead for Oxford and has been elected by his peers as Non-Regional Council member for the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (BAPRAS). He also leads in monitoring national microsurgical practice for the UK National Flap Registry (UKNFR).

As a graduate of Imperial College, London, Mr Kalu has worked in leading Plastic Surgery units in London, Yorkshire and Newcastle. He undertook a period of research at the Royal Free in London in Microsurgery and how outcomes could be improved after trauma. He completed his specialist surgical training in Newcastle and is on the GMC’s Specialist Register for Plastic Surgery. He was appointed as a Senior Microsurgery Fellow in Oxford before taking up an appointment as a Consultant.

Academic CV

Undergraduate education

St Mary’s Hospital Medical School (Imperial College) London
Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery, MBBS

Postgraduate surgical training

Yorkshire School of Surgery, Leeds
Dual certification – MRCS England and Edinburgh

Plastic and reconstructive surgery training

Mount Vernon Hospital, Rickmansworth
Royal Free Hospital, Hampstead
St George’s Hospital, Tooting
St Thomas’ Hospital, London
Northern General Hospital, Sheffield
Queen’s Medical Centre, Nottingham

Northern deanery specialist plastic surgery training

Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle
Freeman Hospital, Newcastle
University Hospital of North Durham
The James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough