Mr Chris Hoo

Qualifications

MB ChB Queens University Belfast - 2000

MD in Medicine Queens University of Belfast - 2008

Additional Training

Fellow in Oncoplastic Breast Surgery

Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle 2017

Fellow in Plastic Surgery

Alder Hey Hospital, Liverpool 2018

Committee member of the Northern Ireland Council British Medical Association

2018 - Current

Professional bodies (Positions held in last 3 years)

Fellowship Of RCPSG (Plast) Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow - 2016

Chair of Northern Ireland Junior Doctors Committee British Medical Association

2016-2018

PLASTA (Plastic Surgery Trainee Association) representative to Association of Surgeons in Training (ASiT)

2013-2016

Publications

Radical excision of vulval disease and multidisciplinary tissue flap reconstruction: the belfast experience.

Int J Gynecol Cancer. 2012 Feb;22(2):323-7. (PMID: 22080881)

Changes in Surgical Training: more than just European Working Time Regulations and Modernising Medical Careers

Ann R Coll Surg Engl (Suppl) 2013; 95: 74-75

The Role of Screening Audiometry in the Management of Otitis Media with Effusion in Children with Cleft Palate in Northern Ireland

P. Eastwood, K.H. Hoo, C. Hill. Cleft Palate-Craniofacial Journal 2014 Jul; 51(4):400-5(PMID : 24588580)

Survey of Assessment and Management of VPI among Cleft Surgeons in the British Isles; Journal of Plastics, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery

N. Hodgins, K.H. Hoo, P. McGee, C. Hill. J Plast Reconstr Aesthet Surg. 2015 Apr;68(4):485-91 (PMID: 25563974)

Credentialing in Surgical Specialities : Recommendations by the Association of Surgeons in Training; International Journal of Surgery

PJ McElnay, C McGoldrick, AJ Beamish, C Hoo, VJ Gokani, RL Harries. Int J. Surg. 2016 Nov; 36 Suppl 1:S10- S13 (PMID: 27664557)

Variation in the provision and practice of implant-based breast reconstruction in the UK : Results from the iBRA national practice questionnaire

iBra Steering Group, the Breast reconstruction Research Collaborative. The Breast 2017 Aug (PMID : 28768227)

Treatments and areas of interest

• Breast Enlargement with implants or fat (Augmentation)
• Breast Reduction
• Breast Uplift (Mastopexy)
• Aesthetic Breast Surgery
• ‘Tummy tuck’ (Abdominoplasty)
• Lipomodelling (includes liposuction and fat grafting/transfer)
• Reconstructive Breast Surgery - Correction of Breast Asymmetry
• Breast reconstruction with implants, adjustments to existing reconstruction, nipple reconstruction, correction of gynaecomastia (male breast enlargement)
• Skin lesions - removal of lesions or moles, reconstruction with local tissue or skin grafts
• Hyperhidrosis - underarms and hands
• Keloid scars
• Steroid injections
• Gynaecomastia