Timothy Burge MB ChB FRCS FRCS (Plast)
Consultant Plastic Surgeon
Mr Burge originates
from Bristol, UK. He attended Colston’s School and
then entered Bristol University Medical School when he was
17. He qualified in 1981.
Having joined the Army
in 1978, officer training was followed by two years as a
General Practitioner and Regimental Medical Officer (1st
Battalion Scots Guards and the Cheshire Regiment) in Hong
Kong and Nepal.
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In 1985 he specialised in surgery, training in military hospitals in Yorkshire, Northern Ireland, London, Hong Kong and Nepal. He started working in Plastic Surgery in 1986. He became a Fellow of the College of Surgeons of England (FRCS) in 1988. He served in the first Gulf war with the Army Burn Team in Saudi Arabia.
He was then detached
to the NHS for further general surgical training (in
Basingstoke and Edinburgh) before sub-specialisation
in Plastic Surgery in the UK.
Mr Burge was a Registrar
in Plastic Surgery in Edinburgh (St John’s Hospital,
Livingston and the Royal Hospital for Sick Children)
and a Senior Registrar in Plastic Surgery at Queen
Mary’s
University Hospital, Roehampton, London, UK. He passed
the Intercollegiate Fellowship examination in Plastic
Surgery (FRCS (Plast)) in 1996. |
He was then fortunate enough to travel in the USA. He worked at the US Army’s world famous Burns Unit at Brooke Army Medical Centre and with the US Air Force at Wilford Hall Hospital; both in San Antonio, Texas. He was able to visit the Cosmetic Surgery Center in San Antonio, the Shriners Paediatric Burn Centre in Galveston, the Kleinert Hand Institute in Louisville and the renowned cleft surgeon, Dr Ralph Millard, in Miami.
Mr Burge (now a Lieutenant-Colonel in the Royal Army Medical Corps) returned to England in 1996 to take up a Consultant Plastic Surgeon post at the Royal Hospital Haslar, Portsmouth. He treated British servicemen and their families from around the world. He was also the Armed Forces lead clinician in burn care.
He served in Bosnia and Kuwait and had a further detachment to the Burns centre in Charleston, South Carolina in 2000. In 2001 he also visited plastic surgery units in Nepal and Paris.
He left the Army in 2001 to take up his present post as Consultant Burns and Plastic Surgeon at Frenchay Hospital, Bristol. He also works at the Bristol Children’s Hospital and sees patients at the Bristol Royal Infirmary and Southmead Hospital.
His special interests include the acute care and reconstruction of burns victims, both adult and children. Much of his other work relates to trauma and cancer. He has a longstanding interest in aesthetic surgery. He undertakes large amounts of medico-legal work. He has published and presented on a variety of topics in learned journals or to learned societies.
He is on the General
Medical Council specialist register. He is a member
of the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons, the
British Burns Association, the British Association
of Aesthetic Surgeons, the British Medical Association, the Medical
Defence Union and the Military Surgical Society.
He lives in Bristol,
UK, with his wife and three teenage children. |
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