Alex Woollard

Consultant Plastic Surgeon BM, BSc, PhD, FRCS(plast)

Mr Alex Woollard has an NHS practice based in the Royal Free London NHS Trust and at The Royal National Orthopaedic and Great Ormond Street Hospitals.

As a general plastic surgeon he manages trauma, skin cancer, post-bariatric skin excess, rejuvenative aesethetic surgery and non-surgical cosmetics but he has a sub-specialist focus in complex microsurgical reconstruction, nerve regeneration, and facial reanimation. He is the lead plastic surgeon at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore where he provides soft tissue reconstruction for complex revision arthroplasty, sarcoma, bone infection, and spinal surgery and the London Spinal Cord Injury Service.

Privately Mr Woollard is the lead plastic surgeon for the Cleveland Clinic London, echoing the complex reconstructive practice he has within the NHS for adult patients. In 2022 the Cleveland Clinic opened a brand new hospital at 33 Grosvenor Place, and outpatient facilities at 24 Portland Place and 55 Moorgate. Mr Woollard has clinics at all locations providing a complete plastic surgery service. He provides aesthetic services at the Hospital of St John and St Elizabeth in North London.

He is a founding partner of “Relimb” with Mr Norbert Kang. Relimb offers the only complete reconstruction service for amputees in the UK including osseo-integration (OI), Targeted Muscle Rein-nervation (TMR) and Regenerative Peripheral Nerve Interface (RPNI). Relimb has an international collaboration with Prof. Munjed Al-Muderis and The Osseointegration Group of Australia (OGAAP) and the Relimb team has travelled to Baghdad, Iraq as the plastic surgery contribution to the OGAP humanitarian mission there.

After leaving St Paul’s School, London, he studied medicine at Southampton University (BM) and History of Medicine (BSc) at the Wellcome Institute and University College London. He then returned to London for basic surgical training, specialist registrar training in plastic surgery, and finally a microsurgical fellowship at the Queen Victoria Hospital in East Grinstead, home of the fabled Guinea Pig Club. He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 2015 and entered the Specialist Register for Plastic Surgery the following year. He has been a consultant at the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust since 2016.

Mr Woollard has extensive experience in clinical research. His PhD research in nerve regeneration was completed under Professor JW Lichtman at the Centre for Brain Science in Harvard University. He has been awarded a Research Fellowship by the Royal College of Surgeons (2011) and the MRC (2003). He has received multiple prizes including the Patton-Masser from BAPRAS and the Stephan and Anna Galeski fellowship from the RCS, as well as grants from the Anton Jurgens and Roan Trusts. He is an Honorary Lecturer at University College London and continues to have an active role in research focused on nerve and muscle regeneration including TMR and RPNI. He presents and publishes work at both national and international levels.

Mr Woollard is an active member of the British Association of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons(BAPRAS), and the European Association of Reconstructive and Plastic Surgeons (EURAPS) He has been certified by the Royal College of Surgeons of England in both cosmetic surgery and non-surgical cosmetic procedures. He was chair of the Cosmetic Practice Standards Authority (CPSA) and a trustee of the Joint Council for Cosmetic Practice (JCCP). He is a specialist advisor for both the MHRA and NICE. He has worked with the Winton Centre for Risk and Evidence Communication to help develop tools for plastic surgeons to better communicate and consent their patients for surgery.

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Please send all correspondence to:

Mr Alex Woollard

33 Grosvenor Place

London

SW1X 7HY