Dr Rozina S. Ali
Plastic Surgery
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Qualifications
M.D, FRCS(Plast), MB BS, BSc
Special Interests
Labiaplasty, Kerastem hair therapy, Plastic surgery, Breast reconstruction, Breast augmentation, Breast aesthetics, Breast surgery, Breast reduction, Male breast surgery, Breast lift, Fat transfer, Nipple reconstruction, Brow lift, Liposuction, Abdominoplasty, Blepharoplasty, Facial aesthetic surgery, Face lift
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Initial Fee: £300
Follow Up Fee: £150
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Specialist Treatments
Treatments offered at King Edward VII's Hospital include, but are not limited to:
- Breast Augmentation
- Breast Reduction
- Breast Asymmetry
- Breast Reconstruction
- Mastopexy
- Gynaecomastia
- Liposuction
- Abdominoplasty
- Botox And Fillers
My Practice
Dr Ali is a highly trained, pioneering reconstructive and aesthetic plastic surgeon with background in academia. Dr Ali prides herself on her high-end, high quality, individualised care. She also has excellent service, offering full gamut of aesthetic treatments and technologies for her patients and specialises in state of the art Fat transfer and stem cell regenerative aesthetics.
Professional Biography
Dr Rozina S. Ali is a Consultant Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeon at King Edward VII's Hospital specialising in all aspects of Breast Surgery, including reconstructions, augmentations, reductions and nipple eversion to name a few. {{ label }}
Dr Ali is an internationally trained and highly experienced consultant plastic, reconstructive and aesthetic surgeon. She graduated from St Thomas Hospital Medical School, University of London with First Class Anatomy BSc honours and a research thesis on skeletal remains based at the Natural History Museum. Dr Ali continued her research interests, studying Leprosy in Venezuela and then later combined both interests, looking at the signs of leprosy in ancient bones. She completed her Doctorate at the Centre for Cutaneous Research, University of London, describing newly discovered innate immune peptides known as Human Beta Defensins in the skin and gut and going on to develop novel antibodies for research purposes.
Dr Ali has been writing and publishing in the scientific literature since 1991 with her contribution to the World Health organisation study on the ocular complications of leprosy and winning the Great Britain and Ireland Anatomical Society Undergraduate prize.
Dr Ali pursued postgraduate surgical training at several London teaching hospitals including St Thomas’ and the Royal London, as well as specialist units such as Great Ormond Street and the St Andrews Burns Unit at Chelmsford. Her interest in microvascular surgery was sparked when she was the only British junior doctor to attend the inaugural meeting of the World Society of Reconstructive Microsurgery in Taiwan in 2001. Since that time, she has pursued an interest in microvascular breast reconstruction and perforator flap surgery with additional training and fellowships in microsurgery, breast reconstruction, breast aesthetics and advanced surgery as well as several advanced aesthetics fellowship in Brazil with her friend and mentor the late Professor Ivo Pitanguy. She has gone on to write numerous paper on microvascular surgery and breast reconstruction and contributed to some of the most respected texts in Plastic surgery including Grabb’s Encyclopaedia of Flaps, Scott Spear’s ‘Surgery of the Breast: Principles and Art’ and the inaugural Perforator flaps books (Blondeel et al). She has collaborated and written with some of the most esteemed names in International plastic surgery. Her papers have been cited hundreds of times and she has been invited Keynote speaker or presenter at numerous National and International meetings from Singapore to Mexico.
Dr Ali has practiced in the NHS for 25 years and was a consultant in microvascular breast reconstruction for the last 10 years before relocating to London in 2017 to develop her breast and facial aesthetics practice in the private sector. Dr Ali continues to pursue her interest in breast reconstruction, congenital breast abnormalities and breast aesthetics. Her facial practice is sophisticated and nuanced combining the best of surgical innovations, non-surgical technologies and therapeutic skincare to serve the needs of her wide spectrum of discerning clients. She is a pioneer of fat transfer and the use of stromal vascular fraction (SVF) to inject stem cell rich media to scalp, face, breasts, scars in order to rejuvenate and regenerate tissues and volumise and reconstruct defects. She has developed a large regenerative aesthetics practice.
Dr Ali is a member of the ASPS Surgeon-to-Surgeon Breast Implant Safety Consultation Network. She is a multi-award winning surgeon, notable highlights include the prestigious Kroll scholarship to study microvascular breast reconstruction in Ghent, Belgium. She is the only Briton to win this Global award to date. She has been awarded a Craniofacial scholarship at London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children and a one year international microsurgery fellowship at the world-renowned Chang Gung memorial hospital in Taiwan. Other accolades include a British Association of Plastic Surgeons European scholarship and the Cutler’s Surgical Fellowship. Rozina is one of the most high profile aesthetic plastic surgeons in the UK today. She has been celebrated in the media, presenting the BBC2 Horizon documentary ‘The Truth about Looking Younger’ and Channel 4’s prime time TV series ‘How not to get old’. She is famously forthright and thoughtful and shares her personal philosophy of aesthetic surgery in her TEDx talk. She has written for the Huffington Post, been featured in numerous magazines and journals and has a Wikipedia page devoted to her. She has been recognized within her profession and in 2017 was profiled in the Centenary issue of Medical Woman as one of the UK’s top 100 female doctors who have succeeded in changing the medical landscape. She has won numerous healthcare awards including the Muslim Power 100 Healthcare Excellence Award, the Private Healthcare awards ‘Best Aesthetic and Reconstructive surgeon- London, 2019’ and awarded London’s leading Aesthetic Surgeon 2020 at the GHP Global Excellence awards and Aesthetic Surgery Specialist of the Year 2022/2023 by Corporate LiveWire Global Awards
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Career Highlights
- The prestigious Kroll scholarship to study microvascular breast reconstruction in Ghent, Belgium, the only Briton to win this Global award.
- Craniofacial scholarship at London’s Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children
- A one-year International microsurgery fellowship at the world-renowned Chang Gung memorial hospital in Taiwan.
- British Association of Plastic Surgeons European scholarship
- Cutler’s Surgical Fellowship for international study
- Presenter of BBC2 Horizon documentary ‘The Truth about Looking Younger’
- Presenter Channel 4’s prime time TV series ‘How not to get old’.
- Invited to give a TEDx talk on the power of Change.
- Has a Wikipedia page devoted to her.
Awards
- Pioneering Medical Women featured in Medical Women’s Federation centenary edition 2017 as one of the UK’s top 100 female doctors who have succeeded in changing the medical landscape.
- Winner Healthcare Excellence Award Muslim 100 Power list, Parliamentary Review, London 2018
- The Private Healthcare awards ‘Best Aesthetic and Reconstructive surgeon- London, 2019’
- 4th annual Greater London Enterprise Awards: Best Aesthetic Plastic Surgeon (UK) 2020
- London’s leading Aesthetic Surgeon 2020 at the GHP Global Excellence awards
- Aesthetic Surgeon winner Greater London Enterprise Awards 2021
- Acquisition International – Influential Businesswoman of the Year Awards – Aesthetic Surgery Specialist of the Year 2022 (UK)
- Shortlisted as Best Cosmetic surgery provider Finalist for The Safety in Beauty Diamond Awards 2022
- Aesthetic Surgery Specialist of the Year 2022/2023 by Corporate LiveWire Global Awards
Memberships
- American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS)
- Member of the ASPS Surgeon-to-Surgeon Breast Implant Safety Consultation Network.
- American society of Reconstructive Microsurgery (ASRM)
- British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (BAAPS)
- European society of aesthetic plastic surgery (ESAPS)
- Independent Doctors Federation (IDF)
- International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (ISAPS)
- Royal Society of Medicine (RSM)
- World Society of Reconstructive Microsurgery (WSRM)
Training Positions
As a consultant plastic surgeon, Dr Ali has presented nationally and internationally and been invited as a Keynote speaker in China, Singapore, Portugal and Mexico
Examiner 2008-2016 Norwich FRCS (Plast) Revision Course (Bi-annual)
Norfolk & Norwich University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Norwich (NNUH)
Gynae-oncological reconstruction lead at MDT
NNUH Laser lead
NNUH audit lead and convener of annual regional audit meetings
Plastic surgery Clinical Governance lead
Co-founder and organiser of the ACRM (advances and controversies in reconstruction microsurgery) International meetings, 2014, 2016
Cutting Edge Technologies
Pioneering and developing fat transfer and stem cell regenerative aesthetics. Fat is the richest source of adult mesenchymal stem cells and can be used to rejuvenate and regenerate mesenchymal cells in soft tissue.
Publications
M.D. Thesis
Awarded 2007 Investigation of Human Beta Defensins 1 and 2 in Human Skin
University of London (Queen Mary & Westfield College)Postgraduate Publications
- Bajaj-Elliott M, Fedeli P, Smith GV, Domizio P, Maher L, Ali RS, Quinn AG, Farthing MJ Modulation of host antimicrobial peptide (beta-defensins 1 and 2) expression during gastritis. Gut. 2002 51 (3) 356-61
- Ali RS, Falconer A, Ikram M, Bisset CE, Cerio R and Quinn AG Expression of the Peptide Antibiotics Human Beta Defensin 1 and Human Beta Defensin 2 in Normal Human Skin Journal of Investigative Dermatology 2001 117 (1) 106-11
- Chronnell CMT, Ghali LR, Ali RS, Quinn AG, Holland DB, Bull JJ, Cunliffe WJ, Mckay IA, Philpott MP and Muller-Rover S Human Beta Defensin 1 and 2 Expression in Human pilosebaceous units: upregulation in Acne Vulgaris Lesions Journal of Investigative Dermatology 2001 117 (5) 1120-5
Clinical Publications
- Ali RS, Cheng MH, Bernier C, Cardenas-Mejia A, Bluebond-Cangner R, Rodriguez EP and Ching WC Surgical Strategies to Salvage the Venous Compromised Deep Inferior Epigastric Perforator (DIEP) Flap Annals of Plastic Surgery, Oct 2010 65(4) p398-406
- Ali RS, Tsai D, Wei FC Reducing Mandibular Height to Increase Mouth Opening in Unreleasable Trismus Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, July 2010
- Ali RS, Bluebond-Langner R, Rodriguez E and Cheng MH The Versatility of the Anterolateral Thigh Flap Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Dec 2009, 124 (6 suppl):e395-407
- Lin CH, Cheng MH, Chen HC, Chen SC, Ali RS, Wallace C, Chang, YC Vascularized Groin Lymph Node Transfer for Post-mastectomy Upper Extremity Lymphedema Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Apr 2009 123 (4) p1265-75
- Ali RS, Bernier C, Cheng MC Bilateral Breast Reconstruction using bilateral ALT flaps – A Case report Annals of Plastic Surgery Feb 2009, 62 (2) 124-127
- Bernier C, Ali RS, Hsu YH, Cheng MC The Role of the Plastic surgeon in Extracranial-Intracranial (EC-IC) Bypass Surgery Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Feb 2009 123 (2) p517-523
- Cheng MH, Saint-Cyr M, Ali RS, Chang KP, Hao SP, Wei FC Osteomyocutaneous peroneal artery-based combined flap for reconstruction of composite and en-bloc mandibular defects. Head & Neck 2009, 31 (3) p361-70]
- Wang HY, Cheng MH, Chen SC, Ali RS, Chao TC One-Stage Immediate Breast Reconstruction with a Saline-filled Implant Following Skin-sparing Mastectomy in Asian Patients Annals of Plastic Surgery, 2008 60 (4) 362-366
- Blondeel PN, Ali RS, Cocquyt V, Depypere H, Monstrey S, Roche N, Van Landuyt K and Hamdi M Current Developments in Autologous Breast Reconstruction European journal of Plastic Surgery, 2005 28 (3) 226-232
- Ellabban MG, Ali RS and Hart NB Subcutaneous Metallic Mercury Injection of the Hand British Journal of Plastic Surgery 2003 56 (1) 47-49
- Ali RS, Garrido A and Ramakrishnan V Stacked Free Hemi-DIEP Flaps– A Method of Autologous Breast Reconstruction in a Patient with Midline Abdominal Scarring – A Case Report British Journal of Plastic Surgery 2002 55 (4) 351-353
- Garrido A, Ali RS, Spyrou GE and Ramakrishnan V Perforator Flaps for Natal Cleft Reconstruction British Journal of Plastic Surgery 2002 55 (8) 671-674
Books
- Microvascular Transfer of Anterolateral Thigh Flaps for Reconstruction of Head and Neck Defects Ali RS and Wei FC Grabb’s Encyclopaedia of Flaps (3rd Edition) Editors: B. Strauch, L.O. Vasconez, E.J. Hall-Findlay Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2008
- The Superior Gluteal Artery Perforator Flap in Breast Reconstruction Blondeel PN, Ali RS and Hamdi M Surgery of the Breast: Principles and Art (second edition) Editor: Scott L. Spear Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2006
- Vertical Scar Mammaplasty Editors: M. Hamdi, D. Hammond and F. Nahai Springer – Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2005
- The Design of Perforator Flaps Blondeel PN and Ali RS Perforator flaps: Anatomy, Technique and Clinical Applications Editors: P. Blondeel, S. Morris, G. Hallock and P. Neligan QMP, St Louis, 2005
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