Professor Jian Farhadi is a Consultant Plastic Surgeon, specialist in reconstructive and aesthetic breast surgery as well as surgery after weight loss. He was the past Director of the Department of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery at St Thomas’ Hospital in London, United Kingdom. Professor Farhadi has an
exclusive clinical focus on reconstructive breast surgery, aesthetic and corrective breast surgery. As a microsurgeon, he performs more than 160 microsurgical procedures per year. He has innovated a number of procedures over the years, e.g. the internal bra breast lift.
Professor Farhadi gained his medical degree at the University of Basel, Switzerland, and the University Pitié-Salpetriè in Paris, France. His general and plastic surgical residencies was completed in Switzerland and Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.
Professor Farhadi is actively involved in teaching and research. He is author of over 70 publications and several book chapters. Professor Farhadi also is Co-director of the European Masters in Breast Surgery, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery and Chairman of the London Breast Meeting.

Associate Professor of Surgery, Department of Surgery, Kasr El–Aini School of Medecine, Cairo University.
• Consultant of Oncoplastic Breast Surgery, Cairo University Hospitals.
• Executive Director – Sherif Omar Cancer Foundation (FAKOUS CANCER CENTER)
• CEO – Healthcare Corporation of Arabia (HCA)
• Managing & Medical Director – Arab Breast & Cancer Care – Cairo Center (ABC)
• Faculty & Examiner – European Board of Breast Surgery - UEMS
• Secretary General – Mastology Association of Northern & Southern of the Meditereanean -
MANOSMED
• Secretary General – African Breast Cancer & Woman Health Foundation
• Member of Editorial Board of the Journal (Current Breast Cancer Reports) & the European
Journal of Oncology.
• Director of the Breast Committee of the Egyptian Chapter of the American College of Surgeons.

Professor Arnie Purushotham has been a Consultant Academic Surgeon for 25 years having worked in Glasgow, Cambridge and London. He is Professor of Breast Cancer at King’s College London and Consultant Surgeon at Guy’s and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust. He is also the Director of King’s Health Partners Comprehensive Cancer Centre and until recently Senior Clinical Advisor, Cancer Research UK and Medical Director, Tata Trusts Cancer Care Programme.
As a scientific researcher, Professor Purushotham’s goal has been to drive high quality clinical and translational research that directly impacts cancer patients. Key areas of research are patterns of metastatic spread, novel optical intra-operative imaging, window of opportunity trials, prevention and early detection, cancer in low- and middle-income countries and cancer outcomes.

Prof. Bahadir M. Gulluoglu works at Marmara University School of Medicine, Department of General Surgery since 1991 and currently is a full-time professor (tenured) at the same institution since 2009. He formerly served as the Vice-Coordinator and Head-Coordinator for clinical graduate medical education at Marmara University (2006-2012). Prof. Gulluoglu is also a member of Institutional Review Board at his university since 2011. He also serves at University of Medicine, Pharmacy, Science and Technology of Targu Mures, Romania as faculty member for doctorate studies. Prof. Gulluoglu is the co-founder of Marmara University Hospital, Breast Center (2001) which is a member of Breast Centres Network. Prof. Gulluoglu also works as the core faculty member at European Academy of Senology (EAoS), International Breast Ultrasonography School (IBUS), European School of Oncology (ESO), Norwegian Breast & Endocrine Surgery Board and MANOSMED Mediterranean University of Mastology. He is also the deputy secretary of UEMS European Board of Surgery, Division of Breast Surgery and holds honorary fellowships of both European Board of General Surgery and Breast Surgery. Prof. Gulluoglu currently serves at BRESO (European Breast Surgical Oncology Certification) Structure Working Group as theoretical knowledge committee member. Prof. Gulluoglu is currently the president of SENATURK (Senology Academy-Turkey), executive committee member of Breast Surgery International (BSI) and country coordinator of Oncoplastic Breast Consortium (OPBC) in Basel, Switzerland. He formerly served at Senologic International Society (SIS) as deputy secretary and Committee for National Breast Cancer Screening at Turkish Ministry of Health as chairman. Besides, Prof. Gulluoglu is an honorary member of both Bulgarian Surgical Society and Romanian Society for Breast Surgery and Oncology. He is the founding executive member of Turkish Society of Breast Surgery. Prof. Gulluoglu is the institutional research coordinator of EORTC Breast Cancer Group and member of ASCO Resource-Stratified Guideline Advisory Group in Alexandria, USA. Prof. Gulluoglu is the co-chair of International Istanbul Breast Cancer Conference (Breastanbul) and (Turkish) National Health Quality Forum. He is the convenor of Istanbul Reconstructive Breast Cancer Surgery (IREBS) Workshops and currently serves as the associate editor at Breast Care (Karger).

Zoltán Mátrai is a surgeon, specialized in general, thoracic and plastic surgery as well as clinical oncology. Since 2012 he is the Head of Department of Breast and Soft Tissue Surgery and since 2014 also Head of Centre of Surgical Oncology, National Institute of Oncology, Hungary. Dr Mátrai is fellow of the European Board of Surgery in Surgical Oncology and Breast Surgery. Furthermore, he is founder of the Central and Eastern European Breast Cancer Surgical Consortium and President of the Central Eastern European Academy of Oncology. He is currently working on research topics in the field of oncoplastic breast surgery and is interested in treatment optimization of the axilla after sentinel lymph node biopsy, to name just a few. He is a lecturer and trainer for residents, trainees and fellows in breast surgery. He is editor of the textbook Principles and practice of oncoplastic breast surgery, published on Hungarian, English and Russian languages, and author of 98 scientific papers.

Yazan Masannat is a Consultant Oncoplastic Breast Surgeon Working at Aberdeen Royal Infirmry/NHS Grampian which is the tertiary referral centre for the North East of Scotland. He is also an Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland/UK, and Tutor at the MS Oncoplastic Breast Surgery Program with the University of East Anglia, Norwich/England UK. Yazan is a member on the Education and training committee of the Association of Breast Surgery (ABS), Communications Lead and Executive Group at the iBRA-net and an Examiner at the European Board of Surgical Oncology and European Board of Breast Surgery (UEMS)
He has more than 30 publications and has been awarded numerous research grants including the prestigious NRS Fellowship award by the Chief Scientist Office (CSO) in Scotland. This is to continue research on Novel MRI techniques in Breast Surgery with the Team at the University of Aberdeen which he does on top of his clinical work. Yazan is also the creator of www.iBreastBook.com which is a free online resource with contributions from many of the leading Breast and Plastic surgeons across the world. The iBreastBook Webinar series, which he started during the covid pandemic with the support of colleagues has been a huge international success.

Prof. Markopoulos qualified from Athens University Medical School in 1979 and he specialized in General Surgery (1985). He received his PhD from Athens University in 1985 and holds an MPhil degree in Oncology–Breast Cancer from St. George’s Medical School, University of London - UK (1988). He has worked as a Senior Registrar in surgery at the Breast Unit of St. George’s Hospital and Medical School and at The Royal Marsden Hospital in London (1985-1988). He has also worked as research fellow at Ludwing Institute for Cancer Research at Sutton - Surrey, UK (1986-7). He is the current President of the UEMS -Division of Breast Surgery and head of the examination board of the EBSQ in Breast Surgery exams (2016-2021). He has been an elected member of the European Society of Breast Cancer Specialists (EUSOMA) Executive Committee (2010 -2016) and he is a member of several medical associations and societies including the UK Association of Breast Surgery at The Royal College of Surgeons (ABS), American College of Breast Surgeons (ACBS) and the European Society of Surgical Oncology (ESSO).
He is the founder of the Hellenic Society of Breast Surgeons (HSBS 2000), which also served as President from 2000 to 2016, when he resigned to focus on UEMS-Division of Breast Surgery, and he was the head of the education, training and clinical trials section of the society. He is also the head professor of the elective course on “Breast Disease and Cancer” for the students of the final year in the Medical School of the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens in Greece. Professor Markopoulos is national coordinator and PI in a number of international and national research projects and clinical trials and has published over 350 scientific papers in peer-reviewed international and Greek medical journals with more than 7,500 citations by other authors and a current h-index of 41 and i10-index of 124. He has also authored (4) and edited (17) several books on breast disease and cancer, including the “European textbook of Breast Cancer management for Surgeons” (Springer 2018), official book of the EBSQ exams in Breast Surgery.
He is President of the scientific committee in two Greek Breast Cancer advocacy groups and Europa Donna Hellas. He has organized a large number of national and international postgraduate courses and meetings on breast cancer over the last 30 years, including the 2-days October’s meeting on the “Advances in Breast Cancer Management” he organizes annually since 1996, and he has lectured extensively as an invited speaker at national and international congresses. He is recipient of a number of scientific awards during congresses and honorary awards for his work with breast cancer patients.

Specialization in Mastology in Brazil, and fellowships programs in Breast Surgery and in Reconstructive Surgery in Italy, England, and Germany. He works as a breast oncoplastic surgeon at the Federal University of Goias and at the Araujo Jorge Hospital in Goiania (Brazil). Reviewer for many journals, author and co-author of dozens of scientific papers and book chapters. Authored of a textbook on Oncoplasty and Breast reconstruction in Brazil. Experienced faculty in Oncoplastic and breast Reconstruction in Brazil and abroad. Head of a traditional hands-on course on Oncoplastic Surgery, organized by the Brazilian Society of Mastology in Goiania (Brazil).

Professor Pereira is a Consultant Surgeon with extensive experience in general and oncoplastic breast surgery, and has been working at the James Paget University Hospital for the last twenty three years. He was the first Consultant General Surgeon in the East of England to provide a full range of breast reconstruction operations. He has been a national trainer for Consultants and Surgical Trainees on breast reconstruction operations for many years. He is also a trainer and teacher in the Department of Education at the Royal College of Surgeons of England. He has a special interest in the outcomes of surgery, and has been instrumental in developing and leading the national mastectomy and breast reconstruction audit programme. This is the first study in the world looking at outcomes of breast cancer surgery, and the largest patient outcomes study ever carried out in the UK. The results of this national audit have led to the publication of “UK Best Practice Guidelines” for oncoplastic breast reconstruction (2012). Professor Pereira has demonstrated various surgical techniques at local, national and international levels, including performance of live-link television operations to consultant surgeons. He is one of the founding members of Norwich Medical School, and led the undergraduate programme at the James Paget University Hospitals. He has a strong interest in postgraduate education, and has led the development of the award winning Specialist Mastership programmes in breast, colorectal surgery and regional anaesthesia; and is currently Programme Director to this innovative training programme, which provides the highest postgraduate qualification for these specialities in the UK. He oversees a faculty of more than 200 consultant trainers in the UK and abroad, who voluntarily contribute to the success of these innovative post graduate programmes. Professor Pereira performs a wide range of breast procedures including major reconstructions, therapeutic mammoplasties, augmentations, reductions, liposuction and liposculpture. He has given more than 150 national and international lectures and regularly conducts masterclasses in oncoplastic breast surgery worldwide.
Prior to coming to Norfolk, Professor Pereira was a researcher with the Royal College of Surgeons of England and has pioneered the a peripheral nerve reconstruction operation for restoring protective sensation His postgraduate general surgical training was undertaken in various hospitals in the London region, and plastic surgical training was at Mount Vernon Hospital at Northwood, Queen Victoria Hospital at East Grinstead and the Emory Clinic in Atlanta, USA. He has a strong background in research and has published extensively in areas of breast cancer, breast reconstruction and peripheral nerve reconstruction.
In 2017, he successfully led a UK national pilot study on the use of blended education and training in surgery, which has won a Silver National Technologies Award and been shortlisted for the BMJ awards 2018. A national roll out of this innovative educational programme in surgery is planned to start in 2019 across the NHS.

Dr Shalaka is a young and energetic breast cancer surgeon. After finishing MS in General Surgery from the prestigious Sir G.S. Medical College and KEM Hospital, Mumbai; she joined the Tata Memorial Centre to pursue MCh is Surgical Oncology. She spent a year at the King’s College London at the Guy’s campus to learn the intricacies of translational cancer research and completed the MRes degree from University of London. Dr Shalaka is practicing as a breast surgical oncologist at Mumbai’s Tata Memorial Centre since 2013. The knowledge of intricacies of laboratory research helped her establish and be a part of the Clinician Scientist Laboratory in Advanced Centre for Treatment, Education and Research in Cancer (ACTREC). She is a principal investigator of several clinical and translational studies including a randomized controlled trial on neoadjuvant chemotherapy versus chemo-endocrine therapy in operable breast cancer patients. A recently completed randomized trial of “a decision aid (DA) (developed with the help of Harvard Inc and Navya Network) to help less empowered women from the developing countries like India choose between breast conservation surgery and mastectomy” was presented at the SABCS, 2019 and ASCO, 2020. A few studies are currently ongoing with respect to understanding novel therapeutic options for triple negative breast cancer and effort to establish gene signature for tumour dormancy to study mechanisms of late recurrences in hormone receptor positive breast cancer. Other than a keen aptitude for research, an astute eye for aesthetics of breast cancer surgery has made her learn and adapt various oncoplastic procedures in routine practice to improve the quality of life of Indian breast cancer patients.

Dr Mark Harries is a Consultant in Medical Oncology at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust and an honorary senior lecturer at King’s College London.  He specialises in the treatment of Melanoma and Breast Cancer.

He graduated from Cambridge University and underwent clinical training at the Royal London Hospital.  He trained in Medical Oncology at the Royal Marsden Hospital and completed a PhD and post-doctoral work in the Department of Immunology at University College, London.

His research interests include immunotherapy for melanoma and breast cancer as well as clinical trials of new biological agents for these diseases. He is lead investigator on a number of clinical trials and has published over 50 papers.

He is Chairman of the charity Melanomas Focus.

Dr. Arun Kumar Goel is an alumnus of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi. He did his training in general surgery from the same institute. This was followed by surgical oncology training at the Dr. BR Ambedkar Institute Rotary Cancer Hospital, AIIMS. He has been practicing in the field of Surgical Oncology for nearly twenty five years with breast cancer management as his major interest area. He has been previously associated with Dharamshila Cancer Hospital, Batra Institute of Cancer Care (Batra Hospital & Medical Research Centre), Fortis group of hospitals (Fortis Noida and Fortis Jessaram Hospital), and Action Cancer Hospital. He has been associated with current hospital (previously known as Pushpanjali Crosslay Hospital) as Head of Surgical Oncology services from 2009.
He is a member of Indian Association of Surgical Oncology, Association of Breast Surgeons of India, European Society of Surgical Oncology, and Society of Surgical Oncology. He is a founder member of Oncology Forum (Delhi & NCR). He is the convenor of Geriatric Oncology Group and Molecular Oncology Group of Oncology forum. He has been actively involved in academics and clinical research with national and international publications and contributions to textbooks in surgery and oncology. He has been an active participant in various national and international conferences. He is currently running a DNB Surgical Oncology program at Max Superspecialty Hospital Vaishali.
He is also the executive trustee of Indian Anti Cancer Trust, a Delhi based NGO that is involved in cancer awareness, education and patient support. The trust has supported the series of webinars known as Focused Studies in Breast Cancer that has been well appreciated.

- Presently working as a Principal Consultant in Surgical Oncology (Breast disease management group) at Max Super-speciality Hospital, Patparganj and Vaishali
- Medical training (graduation and post-graduation in General Surgery) from Government medical college, Nagpur, Maharashtra, India
- Trained at breast cancer surgeries and Oncoplastic Reconstructions in Breast unit at Llandough Hospital, Cardiff School of Medicine, Cardiff (UK), under the able guidance of Professor Robert Mansel
- Experience: 20 years after post-graduation
- Area of interest and core area of work is breast cancer surgeries (Oncoplastic reconstructions, breast reconstruction, sentinel lymph node biopsies etc.).
- Passionate about research in the field of breast cancer and have published in international journals
- Pursuing MCh in Oncoplastic Breast Surgery from University of East Anglia, UK

After completing her master’s in general surgery, Dr. Urvashi Jain completed her super- speciality training in Breast Surgical Oncology at the prestigious Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai. She is currently training as a Senior Oncoplastic Clinical Fellow in the Academic Breast Unit at Guys & St. Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust, one of the largest cancer centres in London, in advanced oncoplastic and reconstructive breast surgery. She is well published and has recently co-authored a chapter on Breast Cancer Surgery, for the Oxford Textbook of Surgery. She has been invited as international faculty to present at International Breast Conferences. She actively participates in both, regional and national audits that have been recently published in peer reviewed journals of repute. She assists Breast Cancer Now, a large UK charity with the updating of patient information leaflets. She has a special interest in survivorship, enhancing patient related outcomes and positively contributing to the Quality of life of breast cancer survivors, by improving their post-surgical outcomes through state of the art reconstructive surgery. She is leading a project assessing PROMs (Patient Reported Outcome Measures) in women that have undergone breast surgery at Guys and St Thomas’ Hospital. She maintains a strong interest in research and is working with researchers at Kings College, London on several novel intra-operative techniques.

Dr. Sneha Joshi is a senior scientist at CTCR-PCCM. She received her M.S from the University of Pune and obtained her Ph.D in Immunology from Rutgers University, NJ, USA. She completed her post-doctoral training at Columbia University, NY, USA in Osteoimmunology with a focus on Leukaemia blasts.

Masters in Surgery from Thanjavur medical college
Associate Professor in Department of Surgery, PSGIMS&R , Coimbatore
Studying Mch Breast Oncoplasty from University of East Anglia
Fellowship in Breast Oncoplasty training with PCCM under guidance of Dr. Koppiker
Academic interest in Breast Oncoplasty.

Ms. Vaishali Chhajed has a Bachelors in Computer Science. She is a results-oriented hands-on IT professional with 20 years of expertise in successful completion of multi-million-dollar hardware and software programs through coordinating teams including remote teams across continents, developing partnerships, and building positive relationships with and between C level customer executives, architects, engineers, local officials and vendors. She has international business experience with programs upto $330 Mn. And has experience with more than 75 multi-nationals and knowledge of various industries such as Healthcare, Insurance, Finance, Banking, Telecommunications, Commercial, Education, State and Local Government. Amidst the pandemic she has widened her experience to include event management be it physical events or online web conferences.

Dr . Rupa is currently working with CTCR as a Consultant Scientist. She did her PhD in Cancer Biology from ACTREC-TMC in Mumbai and a four-year postdoctoral fellowship at IISER Pune. She has also been working on the Indian Cancer Genome Atlas (ICGA) and has been a part of the team to work on Ethics Committee approvals for ICGA.

Sanket's PhD research has been in cancer biology wherein he studied genetics underlying tumorigenesis using a Drosophila tumor model and discovered novel transcriptional mechanisms of tumor suppression. He also investigated if these mechanisms are conserved in the mammalian system and carried out cancer patient OMICs data analysis from for clinical correlates to the tumor suppressors he had discovered in Drosophila. Currently, he is engaged in translational cancer research as a postdoctoral fellow at Centre for translational research (CTCR), Pune.