Mr M Syed is a plastic surgery consultant at the Guys and St Thomas’ Hospitals NHS trust in central London and runs a busy practice with a specialist interest in children and adolescents reconstruction.

Mr M Syed has been working in the plastic surgical speciality since 2005. He was selected for specialist plastic surgical training on the renowned Pan Thames (London) rotation following a national selection. He has since trained at many internationally renowned centres including St Andrews Centre for plastic surgery, Royal London Hospital, Royal Marsden Hospital, St Thomas’s Hospital and Leeds General infirmary.

He has undertaken specialist fellowships in Breast, microsurgical, limb and burn reconstructions at centres of international repute both in UK and USA and also worked with leading surgeons in the field. After completing the training Mr M Syed started practicing as a consultant with specialist interest in Breast reconstruction at prestigious Leeds teaching Hospitals NHS trust. He subsequently took a substantive consultant job in St Thomas’ Hospital since August 2016.

He has strong academic background and undertaken PhD and research during his training from the University of Westminster and Centre for Cutaneous research, Queen Mary, University of London. He has published extensively in peer reviewed journals and co-authored book chapters in the field. He is involved in training plastic surgeons and is involved in running dissection courses. He is also involved in training other surgeons around the world as is involved with meet-international.org (medical education exchange teams).

Mr M Syed is the Key Opinion leader (KOL) for My Ellevate with Cyanosure UK. My Ellevate is a unique minimally invasive neck lift marketed by Cyanosure. It is an established technique in United States and has been available in UK only since May 2022. Mr M Syed was directly trained by Dr Gregory Mueller (Beverley Hills, CA, USA) who is the inventor of this technique and now Mr M Syed regularly trains surgeons on cadavers and patients in this technique. He regularly runs cadaveric sessions in London to train surgeons from UK and abroad.

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