Specialist General Surgeon
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Dr. Chona Thomas
Lead Senior Consultant – Plastic Surgeon - Aesthetic, Reconstructive & Hand Surgery
Aster Royal Hospital
LANGUAGES
English, Arabic, Malayalam, Hindi
Education
MBBS, MS, FRCS, FACS (Plastic Surgery),
Fellowship in Craniofacial Surgery (Adelaide, Australia)
Specialization
Plastic Surgery
Nationality
Oman
License Grade
Lead Senior Consultant
Type of Physician
Visiting
Credentials
- Civil Service Award – Order of Oman – and granted Citizenship of Oman by H.M. Qaboos bin Said Al Said | 1991
- Distinguished Alumni Award – Trivandrum Medical College | 2007
- Dr. Bimani Das Bilwan Oration Award – APRAS & Burns Asso. India | 2011
Professional Associations
- 2005 – 2012 | President, Association of Plastic Surgeons of Oman
- 2004 – 2005 | President of the GCC Association of Plastic Surgeons
- 2004 – Present | Advisory Board, ”Science India Forum Muscat“ (Oman Chapter of “Vidhayan Bharati“) for the students of Indian Schools in Oman
- 2003 – Present | Post-doctoral examiner (Ph.D), Dr. M.G.R. Medical University, Tamil Nadu, India
- 2001 – Present | Regional Adviser of the Middle East to the SMILE TRAIN, an international plastic surgeon’s charity organisation for the global Management of facial clefts with headquarters at New York, U.S.A.
- 2001 – 2014 | Member, International Advisory Committee, Indian Journal of Plastic Surgery, published from India
- 1986 – 1991 | Active participation in the Managing Committee of the Indian Schools in the Sultanate of Oman as Parent Representative President Member, Board of Directors
Professional Experience
- 4 decades of experience
- 2000 – Present | Regional Editor to the Journal of Craniofacial Surgery, published from U.S.A.
- 1998 – Present | Permanent Guest Surgeon in Operation Smile, Norfolk, Virginia, U.S.A.
- 1995 – 2002 | Hospital Director, Khoula Hospital, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman (Ministry of Health)
- 1987 – 2000 | Medical Advisor to the Embassy of the United States of America, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman
- 1986 – 2012 | Clinical Associate Professor in the Department of Surgery,College of Medicine, Sultan Qaboos University, Sultanate of Oman
- 1985 – 2012 | Head of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Service, Ministry of Health, Sultanate of Oman
- 1983 – 2012 | Senior Consultant, Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Khoula Hospital, Ministry of Health, Sultanate of Oman
- 1981 – 1983 | Senior Specialist, Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Khoula Hospital, Ministry of Health, Sultanate of Oman
- 1981 | Locum Senior Registrar for a period of three weeks, Department of Plastic Surgery, Churchill Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom
- 1980 – 1981 | Full Time Resident Trainee in Plastic Surgery (Senior House Officer Equivalent to Registrar), Department of Plastic Surgery, Slough, United Kingdom
- 1978 – 1979 | Full time Resident Trainee (Senior House Officer), Department of Plastic Surgery, Churchill Hospital, Oxford, United Kingdom
- 1974 – 1978 | Surgical Specialist and in charge of a General Surgery Unit, Khoula Hospital, Ministry of Health, Sultanate of Oman
- 1971 – 1974 | Junior Surgeon, American Mission Hospital, Muscat, Sultanate of Oman
- 1968 – 1971 | Full Time Resident Postgraduate in General Surgery, Medical College Hospital, Trivandrum, Kerala, India
- 1967 – 1968 | House Surgeon, Medical College Hospital, Trivandrum, India
Clinical Expertise & Services Offered
Aesthetic (Cosmetic) Surgery:
- Rhinoplasty (Nose Correction) | Blepharoplasty (Eye lid Reduction) | Rhytidectomy & Brow lift (Face Lift) |Mammoplasty – Breast Augmentation & Reduction | Breast lift & Eversion of Nipple | Abdominoplasty (Tummy Tuck) | Liposuction (Fat Removal) | Body Contouring | Arm Reduction | Thigh Reduction | Labioplasty| Gynaecomastia (Male Breast Enlargement) | Fat Transfer | Soft Tissue Fillers | Botox
Reconstructive Surgery:
- Repair Cleft Lip and Palate | Pharyngeoplasty | Alveolar Bone Grafting | Hypospadias Operations | Salivary Gland operations | Resurfacing Operations for Bedsores & Ulcers
Hand Surgery:
- Acute Hand Injuries | Hand Deformities | Carpal Tunnel Syndrome | DeQuervain’s Syndrome | Dupuytren’s Contracture
Dermatological Surgery:
- Excision of Skin Tumors (Benign & Malignant) | Correction of Post Burn Deformity | Skin Grafting | Scar Revisions
