I completed undergraduate medical schooling in India and proceeded to train in General Surgery and later Plastic Surgery. After successfully appearing for the Plastic Surgery MCh examination, I applied for FRCS (Surgery in General) and was accepted as a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow in 2002. I worked for a year in the Plastic Surgery unit at Durham before taking up employment at Birmingham Children's Hospital, UK, where I have held middle grade posts for 18 years. My tenure here gave me a wide exposure to a wide range of paediatric plastic surgery conditions encompassing general plastic surgery and sub- specialties including congenital hand and upper limb, cleft and cranio-facial, burns, vascular anomalies, facial palsy and ear reconstruction. I have graduated to a more senior role within the Trust wherein I offer general plastic surgery, facial palsy, laser and peripheral vascular anomaly services. I am currently co- coordinating a Health Research Authority approved prospective study examining the usefulness of a clinical examination based weighted scoring system as a predictor of scaphoid fracture in children presenting with wrist pain following trauma, in the acute setting, validated against MRI scan.