Our Doctors

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

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

NATIONALITY

Oman

LICENSE GRADE

Lead Senior Consultant

TYPE OF PHYSICIAN

Visiting

Dr. Chona Thomas

Lead Senior Consultant – Plastic Surgeon - Aesthetic, Reconstructive & Hand Surgery Aster Royal Hospital

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

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

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