Professor Odhran Porres Shelley

Odhran Shelley is a Consultant Plastic Surgeon specialised in Burn care and reconstruction as well as complex wound reconstruction. He graduated in medicine from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in 1993, and completed his fellowship in Surgery in Dublin in 1997. He was appointed to the Dublin Surgical Training scheme, and subsequently trained in Plastic Surgery at Canniesburn Plastic Surgery Unit in Glasgow. He also worked at the Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston and received the Mannick research award in 2000 for research on interactions between innate and adaptive immunity following injury. He completed his training in plastic surgery at Canniesburn plastic surgery unit in Glasgow and in Chelmsford and London, undertaking fellowships in burn care, microsurgical breast reconstruction , and aesthetic surgery and was awarded scholarships to plastic surgery units in Ljubljana Slovenia and Leuven ,Belgium. He was appointed as a Consultant plastic surgeon at St Andrew's Centre for Plastic Surgery and Burns, Chelmsford, UK in 2006 and subsequently became its Clinical Director. He returned to St James Hospital and Trinity College Dublin as Director of the National burns unit in Dublin in 2011 and is the clinical lead in plastic surgery at St James's Hospital. Odhran has written numerous papers on reconstruction in plastic surgery following cancer , injury and burns and he is actively involved in clinical research and international collaborations. For many years he has been involved in developing training programmes in Reconstructive surgery , anaesthesia , nursing, and allied health science in West Africa. He is a director and Chairman of the international charity Resurge Africa which supports and funds training in Sierra Leone, Ghana and India . He is an executive member and trustee of the British Burn Association and is actively involved in determining he standards for burn care. He has actively supported patient participation in their healthcare and assisted burn survivors in setting up a national support group.

  adipose derived stem cells   Burn Injury   CELLULAR IMMUNE-RESPONSE   Cytokine modulation of immune responses   Dermal Matrices   Frailty   IMMUNE FUNCTION   Immune regulation   INFECTION   INFLAMMATION   Microsurgery   RECONSTRUCTION   SCARRING   SCORING SEVERITY   Skin substitutes   Tissue Engineering   tissue reconstruction

Odhran is involved in both clinical and basic science research and is particularly interested in Burn injury and reconstruction. He is involved in collaborative research of inflammatory and fibrotic effects following burn injury, as well as supporting and developing burn care research capacity in West Africa. He has published on regulatory interactions between innate and adaptive immunity following burn injury. He is the deputy Chair of the Scar alliance partnered with colleagues at the University of Birmingham, and University College London to determine interactions between adipocytes and fibroblasts in scarring and fibrosis. His clinical research is directed at evolving therapies to improve scar outcome following injury including Laser therapy, Mechanical scar massage and structural fat grafting. He is also working to determine the effects of age and frailty on patients following injury to better identify patients at greater risk of a poor outcome following injury ,examining the ability of scoring systems to predict survival following injury and the recognition of frailty rather than age as a factor influencing outcome and survival.