Mr Mel Tohill

About

Mr Mel Tohill is a highly esteemed consultant plastic surgeon based in Belfast. He is renowned for his expertise in reconstructive microsurgery, breast reconstruction and skin cancer. He also specialises in nerve regeneration, scars and head and neck reconstruction.

After receiving first class honours in therapeutics and pharmacology in 1995, Mr Tohill qualified in medicine in 1997 from Queen’s University Belfast. He discovered a passion for plastic and reconstructive surgery during his core surgical training period, which he undertook in Belfast. To pursue this interest further, he relocated to London in 2001 to complete a research fellowship at the highly-esteemed Blond McIndoe Laboratories based at the Royal Free and University College London Medical School. He went on to complete higher training in plastic surgery at Bristol’s Frenchay Park Hospital and Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital in London, gaining invaluable expertise in head and neck reconstruction, microsurgery, breast reconstruction and lower limb trauma. Following consultancy appointments in highly esteemed plastic surgery units in Scotland, including Glasgow’s renowned Canniesburn Plastic Surgery Unit, he returned to Belfast in 2017, where he holds a position at Ulster Hospital Dundonald, within the Northern Ireland Plastic and Maxillofacial Surgery Service. He sees private patients at the revered Belfast Skin Clinic.

Whilst completing his research fellowship, Mr Tohill produced highly esteemed research on nerve regeneration and developed ground-breaking techniques which he has shared at national and international conferences of fellow experts. His numerous academic papers are published in peer-reviewed journals. Additionally, he was awarded fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons in 2009 and is also deputy chair of the Southern Eastern Health and Social Care Trust’s Skin CRG.

Education

• Deputy chair, Skin CRG, South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust (present)