Rozina Ali

MBBS(London) MRCS(England) FRCS(Plast) M.D. FRCS (Plast) MB BS BSc Honours (First Class)

Aesthetic & Microvascular Reconstruction Surgeon

Rozina Ali is a highly qualified aesthetic and reconstructive plastic surgeon. Her expertise lies in all aspects of breast reconstruction and aesthetics as well as surgical and non-surgical facial aesthetics. Breast surgery represents the ability to sculpt tissues whilst facial aesthetics is the practice of art on nature’s canvas.

Rozina trained at St Thomas’ Hospital Medical School, and attained a 1st class Hons. Degree in Anatomy which in turn led to research into the effects of Leprosy on bones. She later spent three months working in a Leper Colony in Venezuela investigating the ocular effects of leprosy for a World Health Organization pilot study.

Rozina completed an M.D. study of antimicrobial peptides, based at the Centre for Cutaneous Research and funded by the North East Thames Burns Unit Association. During her plastic Surgery training, Rozina attended the Inaugural meeting of the World Society of Reconstructive Microsurgery (WSRM) in Taiwan in 2001 and since then has been at the forefront of perforator flaps and microsurgery. She contributed to writing the manuscript of the first encyclopedia of perforator flaps during her 6-month tenure in Gent, Belgium.

Rozina is the only Briton to date to have been awarded the prestigious international Kroll scholarship and until recently was the only woman to have ever won this award. She was awarded a Craniofacial Fellowship at Great Ormond street hospital and soon after an International microsurgery fellowship at the world-renowned Chang Gung Memorial Hospital in Taiwan.

Rozina worked within the NHS for 25 years, her NHS service includes 10 years as a reconstructive microsurgery consultant with a specialist interest in breast and gynaecological reconstruction following cancer treatment. During this time she also had a successful practice in gender reassignment surgery. Rozina has enjoyed being at the sharp end of innovation and within the aesthetics field has been an early pioneer of fat transfer, the use of biodegradable matrices for breast work and using non-surgical therapies to enhance surgical facial aesthetics. Rozina recognises that since ageing is a multifactorial ongoing sequence of events, treatment needs to be timely, multifactorial and ongoing to mitigate the process.