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Mr D H Harrison
Douglas Harrison qualified in medicine in 1967 at the Middlesex Hospital, London after which he studied general surgery obtaining the FRCS in 1972. Following plastic surgical senior registrar training at Mount Vernon Hospital, Edinburgh and the United States he was appointed consultant plastic surgeon to Mount Vernon, Northwick Park, Edgware General and Barnet Hospitals in 1979. He held this post until 2006.
He has published extensively in areas of reconstructive surgery, particularly with regard to microvascular transfers, hand and paediatric surgery. He has written 65 peer-reviewed articles and was Hunterian Professor at the Royal College of Surgeons for his work on the reconstruction of facial palsy in December 1988. He was invited to J B Erich visiting Professor at the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota in 1994. In 1997 he was invited to be the Foundation Lecturer to the Royal Australian College of Surgeons in Brisbane. In October 1999 he was invited to give the Maliniac Lecture in New Orleans by the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.
Mr Harrison’s special interest in the reconstructive field is the reanimation of unilateral and bilateral facial palsy, attempting to provide movement in response to emotion. The latter is usually carried out with a crossed-facial nerve graft and the transfer of a muscle from the chest to the face with suitable reinnervation and revascularisation.
His other reconstructive interests relate to hand surgery, paediatric surgery and general reconstructive surgery. He has practised cosmetic surgery since 1979, with particular interest in facial cosmetic surgery, face lifting and rhinoplasty and also body contouring surgery to the breast and abdomen.
Dr R Zuker
Ronald Zuker received his MD degree from the University of Toronto in 1969, followed by a rotating internship in Vancouver, BC. He returned to the Gallie Program at the University of Toronto to obtain his Travelling Fellowship to pursue interests in microvascular surgery and paediatric plastic surgery.
In 1978 he joined the staff of The Hospital for Sick Children as a consultant in plastic surgery and as Director of the Burn Unit. He was appointed to the Department of Surgery of the University of Toronto as a lecturer in surgery in 1978, and became a Full Professor in 1994.
Currently the Medical Director of the Facial Paralysis Program at The Hospital for Sick Children he serves as consultant on the Cleft Lip and Palate Team and the Burns Unit. His interests lie in facial paralysis, cleft lip and palate, burns in children and paediatric tissue expansion.
His clinical research has focused on paediatric plastic surgery with special interest in facial paralysis reconstruction, tissue expansion in children, cleft lip and palate, Volkmann's ischemic contracture reconstructions and the reconstruction of conjoined twins following surgical separation. He has had numerous publications regarding the role of microsurgery in craniofacial conditions and has outlined the current state-of-the art management of Moebius syndrome.
He has always had a strong interest in surgical education and hopes to explore this further at an international level along with his ongoing interest in volunteer surgery around the world.