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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