Memoirs by Anthony Roberts OBE, Restore President, Released
Anthony Roberts OBE writes:
With nothing else to do during Covid, I started writing my memoirs.
Volume I ‘Scholarship Boy to Engineer, Plastic Surgeon and Sportsman’ was published last year. This is an illustrated account of my training and working life firstly as a chemical engineer, and then after retraining as a medical doctor in four different countries, my life up to becoming a...
The Restore Essay Prize is run annually and is open to all current UK medical
students. Many see this as a great way to explore and nurture their interest in the
field of Burns, Plastic, and Reconstructive Surgery. Once again this year, we received
an exceptional standard of entries from medical schools across the country. After
careful assessment by external reviewers, there was an outright...
On Monday 21st October 2019, and in close proximity to National Burns Awareness Day, Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS and the Stoke Mandeville Burns Unit team hosted its first Burns Symposium. This event was chaired by Alexandra Murray and Fadi Issa, with excellent organizational support from Restore and sponsorship from a number of the companies that regularly support our service. The symposium...
We are pleased to announce that we will be running the Restore Essay competition this year. We will be open for entries from Monday 29th April 2024 until...
Anthony Roberts OBE writes:
With nothing else to do during Covid, I started writing my memoirs.
Volume I ‘Scholarship Boy to Engineer, Plastic Surgeon and...
For Burns Awareness Day 2022, Restore Research created a poster competition for foundation doctors to help raise awareness about burns and the management of...
This year Restore Research is running a national poster competition for foundation doctors (pre core/IMT training) for National Burns Awareness Day 2022. The...
Miss Ryan currently has a national training number in Burns and Plastics surgery in Wales. From August 2020-Feb 2022, Daisy worked at Stoke Mandeville...
Mina Ip, a current clinical research registrar in burns and plastic surgery at Stoke Mandeville Hospital and also a Restore Duke of Kent research fellow,...
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the Best Evidence for Scar Treatment Study had to be put on hold. However we managed to catch up with Dr Riyam Mistry to see how...
Restore Research are excited to announce that we are now participating with AMRC Open Research, a new F1000 Journal. AMRC provides a platform for research...
Dr Riyam Mistry MBChB BSc(Hons) is working with Restore to investigate the effect of silicone gel sheeting in the treatment of scarring. He has previously...
The Restore Essay Prize is run annually and is open to all current UK medical
students. Many see this as a great way to explore and nurture their interest in...
On Monday 21st October 2019, and in close proximity to National Burns Awareness Day, Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS and the Stoke Mandeville Burns Unit team...
A father saved his son from scarring from a scalding cup of tea by immediately running his son’s legs under cold water for over 20minutes. Our chairman and...
For National Burns Awareness day our Director of Research, Fadi Issa, shares the 3 important steps to immediately treat a burn injury with BBC Breakfast.
STEP...
Restore Student Fellow, Majid Al-Khalil, and trustee, Jonathon Pleat attended the European Burns Association Conference in Helsinki from the 4th to the...
Help us to increase our funds to support our burns and scarring research through AmazonSmile. AmazonSmile is the same Amazon as you know. However, it means...
We’ve recently
caught up with Riyam Mistry on his Single-Blinded, Randomised
Trial into the Efficacy of Silicone Sheeting for Cutaneous Scars. The Best...
Our essay competition deadline has been extended to the 31st July 2019!
Essay Title: How should we assess scarring?
This annual competition is a fantastic...
Interested in Burns, Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery?
Focusing on prevention and treatment of abnormal wound healing, Restore is an independent research...
Restore have recently appointed Dr Fadi Issa, previously part of Restore’s Scientific
Advisory Committee, as their new Director of Research. Dr Issa...
Riyam Mistry completed his medical degree at the University of Bristol in 2016 and is
now Restore Fellow and Lead Clinical Researcher for the project, “A...
In recent years, student and trainee-led medical research networks have been growing,
however, there is yet to be one for burns. Restore Research have founded...
On 21st-22nd March 2018 Mr Jonathon Pleat, deputy director of research at Restore, attended the 2nd International Scar Treatment Conference, Scars II, in...
Rebeca Arroyo Hornero is in the last year of her Restore-funded DPhil programme at the Transplantation Research Immunology Group of the University of Oxford....
The first in a series of interviews with people active in burns research, Dr Sara Correia Carreira speaks about her work developing moving skin scaffolds,...
The Restore Essay Prize is run annually and is open to all current UK medical
students. Many see this as a great way to explore and nurture their interest in...
Born and raised in Kenya, Michael studied medicine at the University of Aberdeen. Following his graduation, he underwent further training in Aberdeen, Oxford...
Thank you to everyone who entered the essay competition this year. Entries have now closed and winners will be announced shortly. If you missed the opportunity...
Click below and listen to Restore Fellow Catrin Griffiths discuss burns research, the psychological impact of living with an altered appearance following a...
We are delighted to announce that Restore Fellow Rebeca Arroyo Hornero and her supervisor Dr Fadi Issa have been honoured with an award at the Transplantation...
Read on for the second entry in our Fellow’s Blog by Rebeca Arroyo Hornero!
I am just back from the Transplantation Science Symposium in Canada and I...
Could you tell us a bit about yourself?
I am a 4th year medical student at Imperial College London, currently studying for an intercalated degree in surgery...
The American Burns Association recently held its 49th annual meeting in Boston, Massachusetts and Mr Jonathon Pleat, Restore’s Director of Research, was one...
Miss Alexandra Murray graduated from the University of Leeds medical school in 2000. During basic surgical training in London she developed a passion for...
London Fire Brigade (LFB) provides fire and rescue services across the whole of the Greater London area, serving the capital’s 8.2 million residents as well...
In the first entry of our Fellow’s Blog, Restore Fellow Rebeca Arroyo Hornero introduces herself and her work. Through this new feature, we hope to share...
Calling all UK medical students: we are extending the deadline for the Restore Essay Prize 2016-2017 with updated terms and conditions.
Essays are invited with...
Firstly, can you tell us about your career so far?
I started medical school in 2005 at the University of Southampton. I’ve always been interested in surgery...
Researchers, collaborators, clinicians and many interested individuals gathered at the Centre for Appearance Research (CAR) at The University of the West of...
We have recently launched our latest essay competition and it would be great to hear a little about what inspired you to apply and the subject of your essay as...
Dr Fadi Issa is to become a member of Restore’s Scientific Advisory Committee. Dr Issa is an NIHR Academic Clinical Lecturer in Plastic Surgery at the...
We are very pleased to announce that Rebeca Arroyo Hornero has been honoured with an award at a recent meeting of the The Transplantation Society in Hong Kong....
Progress continues to be made in the development of the CARe Burns Scales, a new set of Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) for burns patients. These new...
Could you tell us a bit about yourself and the work you’ll be doing for Restore?
I’ve recently graduated from the University of Bath with a degree in...
A new essay competition will be announced for 2016-2017 in August. Please watch our website for information on this national competition which supports medical...
Mr Jonathon Pleat, Restore’s Director of Research, visited Dr Marianne Ellis at the University of Bath last week. Dr Ellis is an expert in biochemical...
BAPRAS (The British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons) recently held its Summer Scientific Meeting in Bristol. Restore was in...
We are delighted to announce that Restore has been awarded funding by the Vocational Training Charitable Trust (VTCT) to support an exciting new project on...
A delegation from Restore has visited Oscare in Antwerp at the invitation of Professor Peter Moortgat. Based in Belgium, Oscare provides care for patients with...
This June, people from around the world gathered in the beautiful city of Antwerp for two days of presentations, workshops and discussion on the latest scar...
Restore is excited to announce it’s first female ambassador, aspiring journalist Lucy Wilson!
The day before her first birthday, Lucy was severely burnt...
Restore is delighted to announce The Freemasons donation of £20,000 towards Fadi Issa’s (MA BMBCh MRCS DPhil) project, which is looking at ways of helping...
Restore was delighted to have the opportunity to visit the National Burns Camp held every year in Cambridgeshire which welcomes eight to seventeen year-old...
Having previously met Ron Dobson, the London Fire Commissioner, Vivien Morgan CEO attended a meeting with many other burns charities, coordinated by Dobson and...
Christopher Gilmour kindly opened the doors to Winslow Hall on Friday 17th July for an exclusive drinks reception held in aid of Restore, prior to the...
On Monday 29th June Vivien Morgan, CEO, and Dominic Furniss, Restore’s Deputy Director of Research, had a live interview with Kat Orman on BBC Radio...
Restore have recently been lucky enough to hear from Jordan Rea who was severely burnt aged just 10 months and, nearly 24 years later as an engineer in the...
One of our previous essay competition writers, Guy Stanley, has been having a very busy time in Ghana! Guy is currently at the National Reconstructive Plastic...
One of our newest and most exciting ambassadors is Karl Hinnett who, while serving in Basra in 2005, suffered burns across 37% of his body after being...
The Healing Foundation conference on the 1st of July at the RCS in London, attended by Vivien Morgan CEO and Amanda Oliver Campaign Manager, hosted a day for a...
His Royal Highness the Duke of Kent witnessed first-hand the courage of patients who are enduring the long-term impact of serious burn injuries during a visit...
Viven Morgan, CEO, visited the headquarters of the London Fire Brigade where she met the London Fire Commissioner, Ron Dobson (pictured with Vivien), who...
