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Welcome to the website of Mr Blackburn. He is a British trained Consultant Plastic Surgeon who is on the GMC's specialist register for Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery.
Mr Blackburn is a substantive NHS consultant working at the Queen Victoria Hospital in East Grinstead and the Royal Surrey County Hospital, Guildford. In the NHS he specialises in Microsurgical Breast reconstruction, Skin cancer, Gynaecological and Perineal Reconstruction.
He also sees patients privately for cosmetic and reconstructive procedures at the New Victoria Hospital in Kingston, the Mount Alvernia Hospital in Guildford and the McIndoe Surgical Centre in East Grinstead. His Private Practice mirrors his NHS practice and he subspecialises in Cosmetic breast and Abdominal surgery along with the management of benign and malignant skin lesions.
ABOUT MR BLACKBURN
Mr Blackburn studied medicine at Imperial College School of Medicine (University of London) where he graduated with distinction. Whist studying for his MBBS degree he obtained a first class BSc Honours degree in physiology and was awarded the British Physiological Society's undergraduate prize.
Following his basic surgical training at the Royal Surrey County Hospital in Guildford, he commenced his plastic surgery training in 2002. He trained at Wexham park, St George's, Charing Cross and Chelsea and Westminster Hospitals before moving to the North East of England to complete his higher surgical training. During this training he gained experience in all aspects of Plastic surgery, both cosmetic and reconstructive.
Mr Blackburn understands the importance of listening to patients and finding out exactly what they desire before committing to surgery. In 2008 he wrote a scientific paper on the importance of listening to patients and understanding their concerns in cosmetic surgery. This won the prize for the best paper on the subject of cosmetic surgery published in the Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery that year.*
In 2010 he was awarded a prestigious trauma fellowship at the world renowned (for trauma reconstruction) Ganga Hospital in Coimbatore, South India. Here he learnt how best to use advanced microsurgical techniques in the management of patients with major trauma.
In 2011 he returned to London having attained the distinguished post of microsurgical fellow at St Thomas' Hospital. Here he spent 15 months honing his expertise in microsurgical breast reconstruction, perineal reconstruction and chest wall reconstruction.
Mr Blackburn started working at the Queen Victoria Hospital in East Grinstead in 2012 and has a busy practice reconstructing patients following breast cancer and managing patients with skin cancers. He is also an Honorary Consultant at the Royal Surrey County Hospital where he sees patients who require complex microsurgical breast reconstructions and and performs complex perineal reconstructions for the departments of gynaecology and general surgery.
*VF Blackburn & AV Blackburn: Taking a History in Aesthetic Surgery: SAGA – the Surgeon’s Tool for Patient Selection. JPRAS 2008; 61:723-9.
Mr Blackburn is a substantive NHS consultant working at the Queen Victoria Hospital in East Grinstead and the Royal Surrey County Hospital, Guildford. In the NHS he specialises in Microsurgical Breast reconstruction, Skin cancer, Gynaecological and Perineal Reconstruction.
He also sees patients privately for cosmetic and reconstructive procedures at the New Victoria Hospital in Kingston, the Mount Alvernia Hospital in Guildford and the McIndoe Surgical Centre in East Grinstead. His Private Practice mirrors his NHS practice and he subspecialises in Cosmetic breast and Abdominal surgery along with the management of benign and malignant skin lesions.
ABOUT MR BLACKBURN
Mr Blackburn studied medicine at Imperial College School of Medicine (University of London) where he graduated with distinction. Whist studying for his MBBS degree he obtained a first class BSc Honours degree in physiology and was awarded the British Physiological Society's undergraduate prize.
Following his basic surgical training at the Royal Surrey County Hospital in Guildford, he commenced his plastic surgery training in 2002. He trained at Wexham park, St George's, Charing Cross and Chelsea and Westminster Hospitals before moving to the North East of England to complete his higher surgical training. During this training he gained experience in all aspects of Plastic surgery, both cosmetic and reconstructive.
Mr Blackburn understands the importance of listening to patients and finding out exactly what they desire before committing to surgery. In 2008 he wrote a scientific paper on the importance of listening to patients and understanding their concerns in cosmetic surgery. This won the prize for the best paper on the subject of cosmetic surgery published in the Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery that year.*
In 2010 he was awarded a prestigious trauma fellowship at the world renowned (for trauma reconstruction) Ganga Hospital in Coimbatore, South India. Here he learnt how best to use advanced microsurgical techniques in the management of patients with major trauma.
In 2011 he returned to London having attained the distinguished post of microsurgical fellow at St Thomas' Hospital. Here he spent 15 months honing his expertise in microsurgical breast reconstruction, perineal reconstruction and chest wall reconstruction.
Mr Blackburn started working at the Queen Victoria Hospital in East Grinstead in 2012 and has a busy practice reconstructing patients following breast cancer and managing patients with skin cancers. He is also an Honorary Consultant at the Royal Surrey County Hospital where he sees patients who require complex microsurgical breast reconstructions and and performs complex perineal reconstructions for the departments of gynaecology and general surgery.
*VF Blackburn & AV Blackburn: Taking a History in Aesthetic Surgery: SAGA – the Surgeon’s Tool for Patient Selection. JPRAS 2008; 61:723-9.
