Tania Cubison

Plastic surgeon in East Grinstead

FRCS(Plast) FRCS MBBS

GMC: 3539163

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Miss Tania Cubison is a globally in-demand consultant plastic surgeon based in East Grinstead, specialising in targeted muscle reinnervation (TMR), labiaplasty (with local anaesthetic) and gender reassignment top surgery alongside surgical tattoo removal, burns and amputation. She practices at nationally-renowned centre of excellence The McIndoe Centre, in the west Sussex town.

Miss Cubison has unique expertise in the new revolutionary TMR procedure. It allows people with prosthetic limbs the life-changing opportunity to control prosthetic devices and experience sensory feedback. She is one of the few plastic surgeons in the UK that are skilled in TMR and has treated patients from all over the world using this technique.

Miss Cubison ability to perform labiaplasty with local anaesthetic is an approach that only a handful of UK plastic surgeons possess. Furthermore, her all-woman team of assistants provide reassuring and comprehensive support for this complex and sensitive procedure. Miss Cubison's team is there for this and all of the operations she skilfully undergoes, providing her with support that cements her reputation as a top-class plastic surgeon.

These further procedures include breast reduction, breast augmentation and abdominoplasty. Furthermore, she performs skin grafting and complex microsurgical techniques, especially for lower limb injury, including secondary stump revision. She is also an expert in gender reassignment top surgery.

Miss Cubison is also highly-experienced in acute burn care and secondary burn scar reconstruction. She has undertaken a number of studies to evaluate burn healing and uses many new techniques that may help reduce scarring.

She is also involved in teaching burn care and is the national chair of the Emergency Management of Severe Burns Senate, which is part of the British Burn Association (BBA). She trains the next generation of plastic surgeons and is a member of the national Specialist Advisory Committee for plastic surgery training. Additionally, Miss Cubison is the SAC representative on the Training Interface Group in Major Trauma and works to train a multi-disciplinary group of consultants who will lead trauma care into the future.

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Credentials

GMC: ‍3539163

Professional experience

• More than 30 years of experience
• Consultant Plastic Surgeon, The McIndoe Centre, East Grinstead (present)

Sub-specialties

• Targeted muscle reinnervation
• Burns
• Amputation
• Tattoo removal
• Breast augmentation and reduction
• Abdominoplasty
• Gender reassignment top surgery

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Teaching posts

• Involved in teaching burn care for the Emergency Management of Severe Burns Course for the British Burn Association.
• Trains junior doctors who are the next generation of plastic surgeons.

Education

• Botox and Fillers Training Course Cosmetic Courses (2010)
• Gold Medal in the FRCS(Plast) Royal College of Surgeons of England (2006)
• FRCS Royal College of Surgeons of England (1997)
• MBBS University of Newcastle–Upon-Tyne Medical School (1991)
• BTEC in Skin Laser Technology, Treatment and Applications. (2006)

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Publications and conferences

• Has presented both nationally and internationally.
• Published extensively in peer-reviewed journals.
• The Role of Military Plastic Surgeons in the Management of Modern Combat Trauma: An Analysis of 645 Cases. Maitland L, Lawton G, Baden J, Cubison TC, Rickard R, Kay A, Hettiaratchy S. Plast Reconstr Surg. 2016 Apr; 137(4):717e-724e. doi: 10.1097/PRS.0000000000002020
• Comparing the surgical timelines of military and civilians traumatic lower limb amputations. Staruch RM, Jackson PC, Hodson J, Yim G, Foster MA, Cubison TC, Jeffery SL. Ann Med Surg (Lond). 2016 Feb 15; 6:81-6. doi: 10.1016/j.amsu.2016.02.008. eCollection 2016 Mar
• The epidemiology and mortality of pretibial lacerations. Cahill KC, Gilleard O, Weir A, Cubison TC. J Plast Reconstr Aesthet Surg. 2015 Jan 26. pii: S1748-6815(15)00038-8. doi: 10.1016/j.bjps.2015.01.011. [Epub ahead of print]
• Home-made explosive found inside injured Afghan. Pengelly S, Moore N, Burgess D, Mahlon M, Rowlands T, Cubison TC. J R Army Med Corps. 2014 Jun 26. pii: jramc-2014-000270. doi: 10.1136/jramc-2014-000270. [Epub ahead of print]
• Evidence based management for paediatric burn: New approaches and improved scar outcomes. Kishikova L, Smith MD, Cubison TC. Burns. 2014 Dec; 40(8):1530-7. doi: 10.1016/j.burns.2014.01.020. Epub 2014 Mar 12.
• Acute bilateral leg amputation following combat injury in UK servicemen. Penn-Barwell JG1, Bennett PM2, Kay A2, Sargeant ID2; On behalf of the Severe Lower Extremity Combat Trauma (SeLECT) Study Group (Collborators Bennett PM, Fries CA, Cooper J, Kendrew JM, Midwinter M, Rickard RF, Porter K, Rowlands T, Mountain A ,Jeffrey S, Evirviades D, Cubison TC.) Injury. 2014 Jan 29. pii: S0020-1383(14)00051-5. doi: 10.1016/j.injury.2014.01.025. [Epub]
• Tea and coffee scalds in children: A British epidemic requiring a solution. Kishikova L, Smith MD, Cubison TC. Burns. 2013 Jul 16. doi:pii: S0305-4179(13)00191-5. 10.1016/j.burns.2013.06.009. [Epub]
• A novel method for the harvest of a large full thickness skin graft using a quiver. Walsh K, Bednarz B, Arya R, Cubison TC J Plast Reconstr Aesthet Surg. 2013 Jul 10. doi:pii: S1748- 6815(13)00360-4. 10.1016/j.bjps.2013.06.023. [Epub ahead of print]
• The tertiary management of pretibial lacerations. Lo S, Hallam MJ, Smith S, Cubison TC. J Plast Reconstr Aesthet Surg. 2012 Sep; 65(9):1143-50. Epub 2012 Jan 24. Tania C.S. Cubison Updated 07/08/16 9
• The "Tokyo" consensus on propeller flaps. Pignatti M, Ogawa R, Hallock GG, Mateev M, Georgescu AV, Balakrishnan G, Ono S, Cubison TC, D'Arpa S, Koshima I, Hyakusoku H. Plast Reconstr Surg. 2011 Feb; 127(2):716-22.
• Invited Author. Chapter 29: Fundamentals Plastic Surgery for Fundamentals of Surgical Practice (3rd Edition) an MRCS Handbook. Edited by Kingsnorth and Bowley. Cambridge University Press 2011
• Shaping the military wound: issues surrounding the reconstruction of injured servicemen at the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine. Evriviades D, Jeffery S, Cubison TC, Lawton G, Gill M, Mortiboy D. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2011 Jan 27; 366(1562):219-30.
• Managing frostbite. Hallam MJ, Cubison TC, Dheansa B, Imray C. BMJ. 2010 Nov 19; 341:c5864.
• Fast response letter on frostbite – BMJ; Cubison TC, Hallam MJ February 2010
• How would you like your tea, vicar? Jamnadas-Khoda B, See MS, Cubison CT, Dheansa BS. Burns. 2010 May; 36(3):356-9. Epub 2009 Jul 7.
• Pediatric superficial scald burns – reassement of our follow-up protocol. Egro FM, O'Neill JK, Briard R, Cubison TC, Kay AR, Estela CM, Burge TS. J Burn Care Res. 2010 JanFeb; 31(1):196-9.
• The impact of recent legislation on paediatric fireworks injuries in the Newcastle upon Tyne region. (AF Edwin, Cubison TC, SA Pape). Burns. 2008 Nov; 34(7):953-64. Epub 2008 Jun 3.
• Evidence for the link between healing time and the development of hypertrophic scars (HTS) in paediatric burns due to scald injury (Cubison TC, SA Pape, N Parkhouse). Burns 2006 Vol 32 (8) 992 - 999.
• Dermal Preservation using the Versajet® Hydrosurgery System for Debridement of Paediatric Burns (Cubison TC, SA Pape, SLA Jeffery) - Burns 2006 Vol 32 (6) 714 -720 Response to comments by Dr Gravante and collegues (re article: Dermal Preservation using the Versajet® Hydrosurgery System for Debridement of Paediatric Burns), Cubison TC– Burns 06
• Chapter 12. Scar Revision: In Plastic Surgery the Second Edition (Ed Mathes) A Chapter for the new edition of the text book previously known as McCarthy (N Parkhouse Cubison TC, D Humzah,) – WB Sauders, Dec 2005
• So much for percentage, but what about the weight? (Cubison TC, PM Gilbert) Emergency Medical Journal 2005, Vol 22 (9) 643-645
• Colour Coding for Hand Rehabilitation (Cubison TC, MHM Seath, HJCR Belcher) Annals of Royal College of Surgeons 2004 Vol 86 (4) 306
• The Domestic Washing Machine: a common cause of electrical burn (N Nicolaou, D Humzah, Cubison TC, PM Gilbert) European Journal of Plastic Surgery (2004) 26:422-424
• The Principles of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Chapter 22. Military field surgery text book. (Cubison TC, AD Malyon) HMSO 2003
• Lasagne: A simple model to assess the practical skills of split skin graft harvesting and meshing. (TCS Cubison, T Clare) British Journal of Plastic Surgery Jan 03 Vol 55/8 703-704
• Treatment before transfer: the patient with burns (HL Ashworth, Cubison TC, PMGilbert, and KM Sim) Emergency Medical Journal (prev Journal of Accident and Emegency Medicine). Sept 01 Vol 18 349-351
• Warming Milk: A preventable cause of scalds in children (SLA Jeffery, Cubison TC, C Greenaway, PM Gilbert and N Parkhouse) British Medical Journal. Jan 00 Vol 320 No 7229. 235
• The Pre-Burns Unit Management of the Burnt Patient (Cubison TC and HL Ashworth) Published in Abstract . Emergency Medicine July 99.
• External Fixation of Lower Limb Fractures in Children (RJH Gregory Cubison TC, IM Pinder and SR Smith.) The Journal of Trauma. Nov 92 Vol 33 No 5. 691-3

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Prizes and awards

• Health and Social Care Award, Innovations in Acute Care, Regional Winner and National Runner up (2009)
• St Andrews (Hackett) Audit Prize (Oct 2007)
• McGregor Gold Medal FRCS (Plast) (Sept 2006)
• British Burns Association Presentation Prize (2002)
• Queen Victoria Hospital Clinical Audit Awards, Second Prize (2002)
• Royal Society of Medicine Plastic Surgery Case Presentation Prize (1996)
• Montefiore Bronze Prize for General Surgery (Military Prize) (Nov 1992)
• Newcastle University Medical School Special Study Prize for a Project on External Fixation (Aug 1990)

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Professional membership

• Member of the British Association of Plastic Surgeons
• British Medical Association
• British Burn Association
• International Society for Burns Injuries
• Association of Trauma and Military Surgeons
• Military Surgical Society
• Trauma Care Society

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Languages spoken

English