Mr Riaz was invited to run an aesthetic surgery workshop in Burn and Plastic Surgery Unit, Nishtar Hospital, Multan, Pakistan 28-30 December 2017

Mr Riaz attended the scientific conference once again, this year.  The focus of the meeting was rhinoplasty (surgery to the nose) and breast surgery, both cosmetic and therapeutic

As we fast approach OPSA's next cleft lip and palate surgery mission, we wanted to find out what it's like to spend an hour in surgery with Mr Riaz, so here goes...

Mr Riaz is delighted to have been selected to serve on the BFIRST committee for a tenure of 3 years, commencing 1st July 2017.

Mr Will Holmes, a senior Specialist Registrar in Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, has been awarded one of only 4 ‘fellowship’ positions through BAPRAS/BAAPS

Mr Riaz and the UK team have just returned from another successful free surgery cleft camp at the purpose-built Cleft Hospital in Gujrat Pakistan.

Both girls were born with cleft lips and palates, caused when the roof of the mouth and the lips fail to fuse together properly in the womb, causing disfigurement, speech problems and often malnutrition because children with the condition struggle to feed properly.

The Welsh parents of a baby girl born with a cleft lip and palate have travelled 6,000 miles this weekend to help a family facing an identical ordeal in a country without a national health service.

Bushra, 15, spends her days cleaning the house and doing chores for her mother. She hides herself away from a world that only sees her disfigurement.

There's hardly a free seat in the waiting room. Mothers cradled babies in their arms, fathers try to keep older children entertained and teenagers wait for their names to be called.

Noorina Rahman, 40, has given birth to 14 children. Her daughter Sajida, now eight, and son Bahzara, six, were both born with cleft lips and palates.

IT is not yet midday and, already, the temperature is marching past 30 degrees outside Sialkot Airport, opened 10 years to the relief of travellers spared the gridlock of Islamabad or Lahore, traffic jostles for position.

Applications are now open for the BAAPS/BAPRAS Aesthetic Fellowship. The fellowships are designed to support post-CCT Trainee Plastic Surgeons wishing to learn skils in Aesthetic Surgery and Medicine.

In 2016 Anna Smola, a German medical student in her 4th year of training had the opportunity to select a surgical speciality to observe and work in for six weeks.

A young man has helped 10 children with cleft lip and palates undergo treatment in Pakistan after his face was transformed by a Hull surgeon. Jack Smith, 21, underwent five operations on the NHS after he was born with a cleft lip and palate.

During a recent trip to Multan, Pakistan (December 2016) Mr Riaz, on behalf of OPSA of which he is a trustee, was delighted to be able to hand over a Doppler Machine to the Burns Unit in Multan, Pakistan.

During his trip to Multan, Pakistan in December 2016, Mr Riaz was honoured to be invited to open the newly established Seminar/Conference Room and Medical Library at the Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit situated at the Nishtar Medical College and Hospital in Multan. 

On Wednesday 18th January Mr Riaz travelled to Atlanta, Georgia, USA to attend the SESPRS Annual Conference (Southeastern Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons). 

We have just returned from Gujrat in Pakistan for the 2nd of our bi-annual trips to undertake cleft lip and palate surgery for underprivileged and impoverished children.

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