Professor Simon Kay

Kay, SimonProfessor Simon Kay is a consultant plastic surgeon based in Leeds and has a special interest in hand surgery, microsurgery, children's surgery and breast surgery. Professor Kay was President of BAPRAS in 2009

He is Professor of Hand Surgery at the University of Leeds. Current research includes a joint collaboration on nerve repair with Umeä University in Sweden where he is an honorary visiting Professor in Plastic and Hand Surgery at the Faculty of Medicine.

Simon established a children's hand surgery service that is now one of the largest such clinics in the UK and has pioneered and demonstrated convincingly the value of microsurgery in reconstruction of congenital defects of children's hands.

Articles and Opinions
Exploring plastic surgery and hand transplantation- June 2012
The 5 C's checklist for men's cosmetic surgery -October 2011
Cosmetic surgery and general practice -February 2009
Microsurgery: The biggest advance in plastic surgery in 60 years -May 2008 
Choosing a cosmetic surgeon -June 2008
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