Professor Shehan Hettiaratchy OBE MA Oxon DM FRCS[Plast] will give us a talk on
”A Surgeon’s View of War and Conflict”

Shehan (or H as he is often referred to) has been a consultant plastic and reconstructive surgeon at Imperial College Healthcare since 2009 and director of major trauma since 2016, overseeing London's busiest major trauma centre. He is also a professor of practice at Imperial College London, focusing his research on systems improvement in trauma care, in both the UK and in humanitarian settings. He leads the Traum@IC Research Group.

He has been involved in humanitarian healthcare for over 20 years, most recently working with UK-MED, deploying to Ukraine and Gaza. Shehan has strong links to the military healthcare having been a regular and reservist in the British Army for over 20 years. He has been deployed to Afghanistan twice and spent four years as a senior lecturer at the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine, conducting military research.

Shehan is also NHS England's national specialty adviser in armed forces health. He set up the first veterans physical health and wellbeing service in the UK, Op RESTORE (previously known as the Veterans Trauma Network), which is hosted at Imperial College Healthcare.