Welcome to the third installment of our Widening Participation in Plastics webinar series!
Ever thought about what life is like as a plastic surgeon? Thinking about a career in plastic surgery but want to know more?
This webinar series brought to you in association with PRASSA aims to give you an insight into the world of plastic surgery. Each webinar will explore a different sub-speciality of plastics from orthoplastics to trauma to burns, delivered by registrars and consultants across the country. We hope to show you what a day in the life of a plastic surgeon entails, discuss some interesting case stories and inspire you to join the world of plastics! We encourage you to ask questions in our Q&A at the end.
Session 3: Hand Surgery with Ms Barbara Jemec
Barbara Jemec is the founding Chairman of BFIRST (British Foundation for International Reconstructive Surgery and Training). She originally comes from Denmark, where she graduated from Copenhagen University in 1991, after which she relocated to train in the UK, where she became a consultant in the NHS for 17 years in central London teaching hospitals, before she took her Canadian Boards and relocated to Toronto.
Her current job at the Toronto Western Hospital in Plastic Surgery has an official Global Surgery component. She has been elected to many national surgical associations’ councils, and always worked to advance their active involvement and organisation of Global Surgery successfully.
She is committed to the training and development of sustainable projects in areas with poorer access to timely and relevant surgery, and has since she became a consultant in 2004, been visiting and working in Ghana, Mali, Bolivia and Bangladesh and the British Society for Surgery of the Hand project in Sierra Leone to help local Surgeons expand their repertoire of reconstructive procedures and improve patient care.
“We have a long way to go; but by identifying with our colleagues and patients in resource-poor areas, we will achieve a better understanding of how to most efficiently help to make access to surgery equitable.”
We look forward to seeing you at the event!