SURGEON’S BIOGRAPHY
Ivo Gwanmesia BSc, ChB, MRCS, FRCS(Plast)
Craniofacial Plastic Surgeon
A graduate of Manchester University Medical School, Ivo is
trained in all aspects of Plastic Surgery. He trained within the London
Deanery, working in most of London’s Teaching Hospitals. He obtained his
Certificate of Completion of Training in Plastic Surgery in November 2010. He
spent all of 2011 working as a fellow within the Craniofacial Unit at Great
Ormond Street Hospital. In August 2013, he left the UK for the United States
where he undertook a 12 month fellowship in Craniomaxillofacial surgery at the
world renowned Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, United States.
During his time at the Cleveland Clinic, Ivo spent time
further subspecialising in adult and paediatric craniofacial surgery. He also
undertook pioneering research which led to the development of a new technique
for the reconstruction of the middle vault of the nose, known as the ‘Fulcrum
Spreader Graft’. This method is now published in the scientific literature. He
is the author of several papers and is co-author of several chapters in the
newly published Plastic Surgery textbook ‘Plastic Surgery – A problem based
approach’ as well as the author of a couple of chapters in the new Atlas for
Craniofacial Surgery.
Ivo consults patients at 10 Harley Street in Central London and
operates at both the Highgate Hospital in North London and the Welbeck Hospital
in Central London. The types of procedures Ivo performs include:- facial aesthetic
surgery (facelift, brow lift, upper and lower blepharoplasty, neck lift, otoplasty,
rhinoplasty genioplasty, insertion of orbital rim implants, mandibular and
malar implants), breast aesthetic surgery (breast augmentation, breast
reduction, breast uplift (mastopexy), body contouring surgery (liposuction,
body lift, abdominoplasty, brachioplasty and thigh lift).
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BSc Immunology and Oncology
MSc Surgical Sciences
MB ChB University of Manchester
MRCS
FRCS (Plast)
USMLE