Prof Ajay L Mahajan MBBS, FRCSI, M Med Sc, MD, FRCS (Plast)

Professor Mahajan holds the Chair of Plastic Surgery at the University of Bradford and is a Consultant Plastic Surgeon at Bradford Teaching Hospitals.

He graduated from medical school (MB BS) in 1991. He then went on to do his surgical training in Ireland and attained his fellowship at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (FRCSI) in 1999. Following this, he pursued his interest in Plastic Surgery and has been working in the speciality since then.

Being keen on establishing a scientific foundation to treating his patients and practicing evidence based medicine, he has actively participated in research, having done his Master of Medical Sciences in plastic surgery (MMedSc) at the National University of Ireland, Galway. Based on his accomplished academic career, Professor Mahajan was offered a Research fellowship at the University hospitals of Geneva, Switzerland, where he pursued his research interests, worked in a wide variety of clinical and lab based projects that culminated in his Doctorate of Medicine (MD) in plastic surgery. In 2009, he also passed his specialist exam in plastic surgery (FRCS Plast), following which he was awarded the Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) and placed on the specialist register for practising plastic surgery by the General Medical Council (GMC) in the UK. He was appointed Consultant Plastic Surgeon at Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Calderdale and Huddersfield NHS Foundation Trust in 2011.