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Joy Odili

Consultant plastic surgeon

Highly respected Joy Odili was Britain’s first black female Science, Medicine & Engineering
consultant plastic surgeon.
She generally practises skin oncology, but she also has
a special interest in general plastic surgery, aesthetic and
reconstructive surgery of the ear and breast, vascular
malformations and weight-loss surgery.
Based at St George’s University NHS Foundation
Hospitals, London, she is an honorary Senior Clinical
Lecturer at St George’s University.
Joy has been the Educational Lead Consultant for plastic
surgery at the hospital, where she has mentored medical
students, taught undergraduate students and been involved
in the open days arranged by the Royal College of Surgeons
(England) and the British Association of Plastic Surgeons,
which introduce school children and medical students to
careers in plastic surgery.
Her support to students has meant that many have gained
invaluable work experience places in her hospitals and she
is keen to work with newer schools and organisations to NEW
promote the role of women in surgery. 2019 Dr Ian Nnatu
Joy practises from the private Hospital of St John and St Consultant psychiatrist
Elizabeth, Wimbledon’s Parkside Hospital, The Wellington
Hospital and the Portland.
A graduate of Glasgow University Medical School, she Dr Ian Nnatu practises as a Consultant Psychiatrist in
conducted research looking at the detection and treatment psychiatric intensive care at Charing Cross Hospital in
of malignant melanoma. Some of her most notable accolades London, with the West London Mental Health Trust, one
include an MD by the University of London and a Hunterian of the most diverse providers of NHS mental health care in
Professorship by the Royal College of Surgeons for her the UK. His specialist expertise is in the care and treatment
research into malignant melanoma in 2002. She has also of young men, often from black and minority ethnic
presented her research internationally and nationally. backgrounds, with severe and complex mental disorders
Additionally, she is part of the INSPECT group, a network such as psychoses and affective disorders often complicated
of European hospitals that are looking at the treatment of by substance misuse.
skin cancers with electrochemotherapy. During the past 12 years, while working in a very
ethnically diverse part of London, he has treated hundreds
of patients with some of the most complex mental disorders.
In recognition of his contribution to the delivery of safe,
high-quality patient care in the NHS and to his continuous
improvement of services, he has been awarded four local
NHS Clinical Excellence Awards.
Ian has been involved in the training of psychiatrists
several of whom have gone on to become Consultant
Psychiatrists with the NHS. He is the Royal College of
Psychiatrists college tutor for Charing Cross and thus holds
responsibility for the training of junior doctors in psychiatry
on this site. Since 2010, he has been an examiner for the
final exams for the Membership of the Royal College of
Psychiatrists in addition to being an examiner for Imperial
College medical students. He has been a personal tutor for
first- and second-year Imperial College medical students
for the past five years providing mentorship and support. In
recognition of his contribution to undergraduate teaching
and training, he was appointed Honorary Clinical Senior
Lecturer with Imperial College in 2013.
In addition to his work in the NHS, in 2013, he was
appointed Medical Director for Cygnet Hospital Harrow, a
60-bed hospital with four inpatient wards. This hospital
is part of Cygnet Healthcare, which is one of the largest
independent providers of mental healthcare in the UK.
In 2013, Ian was awarded the Fellowship of the Royal
College of Psychiatrists.

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