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Professor Odhran Porres Shelley

Clinical Professor (Surgery)
Clinical Professor (School Office - Medicine)
      
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Professor Odhran Porres Shelley

Clinical Professor (Surgery)

 shelleyo@tcd.ie

 

Clinical Professor (School Office - Medicine)


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
Project Title
 Burn Scar Remodelling
From
2016
To
2021
Summary
Project to determine the clinical effectiveness of endermology in Scarring
Funding Agency
Joanne McMahon / Castlemahon Fund, St James Foundation
Person Months
12
Project Title
 Use of Laser therapy to Modulate Burn Scarring
From
To
Summary
Funding Agency
Joanne McMahon , Castlemahon Research Fund
Project Title
 Burn Care in West Africa
From
2015
To
2021
Summary
Supporting the development of sustainable reconstructive surgery and Burn services in West Africa
Funding Agency
THET, DFID, JOAC
Project Type
Building Healthcare resilience

Details Date
Chair of the British Burn Association
Chair of the Burn Care Standards Review Group United Kingdom and Ireland
Chair of Resurge Africa
Member of the Global Burden Disease Collaborator Network, University of Washington.
National representative and board member of Joint Colleges Higher Surgical Training in Plastic Surgery
Chair of National Burn outcomes UK and Ireland
Secretary of the Irish Association of Plastic Surgeons
Member of Global Burn care committee American Burn Association, Representing TCD/ St James Hospital
Specialty External reviewer in Plastic Surgery , Irish Medical Council
Board of governors of National Audit of Surgical Mortality
Trustee of Charity : International Reconstructive surgery Ghana
Member of Regulations and standards Committee, Irish Assoc of Plastic Surgeons
European Emergency Response Capacity Workshop Representing Ireland
Journal Reviewer, Burns Journal , Journal of Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, Microsurgery Journal and Irish Dental Journal
Deputy Chairman of the Scar Alliance Research group, University of Birmingham
Press Release , London . UK Britis assoc Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons SURVIVAL FROM BURNS INJURIES BETTER THAN EVER BEFORE
Language Skill Reading Skill Writing Skill Speaking
English Fluent Fluent Fluent
French Medium Medium Medium
Irish Fluent Fluent Fluent
Swahili Basic Basic Basic
Details Date From Date To
Member of the American Burn Association, committee in Global Health 2021
Member of the Global Burden Disease Collaborator Network, University of Washington. 2021 2021
Member of the British Burn Association Executive Council 2021
Member of the Irish Association of Plastic surgeons 2021
Member of the Global Initiative for Childhood surgery 2021
Member of the Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland 2019
Fellow of Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland 1996 2021
Fellow of the European Board of Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons 2007 2021
Member American Burn Association 2021
Member of European Burn Association 2021
Aine Cotter, Dempsey M, Buckley C, Shelley O, Case series of high pressure paint injection injuries in single digits in a tertiary referral centre over a one year period., Journal of surgical case reports, 2025, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Bickerton, S., Nizamoglu, M., Emamdee, R., Frew, Q., Borrows, E., Bangalore, H., Hussey, J., Khan, W., Martin, N., Barnes, D., El-Muttardi, N., Shelley, O.P., Dziewulski, P., An eighteen-year review of intensive care requirements for paediatric burns in a regional burns service, Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, 91, 2024, p258-267 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Traynor R, Brennan GI, Hoban T, Dolan AM, Breida Boyle, O' Connell B, Shelley O, Teoh TK, Successful control of an outbreak of Panton-Valentine leucocidin positive meticillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a National Burns Unit through early detection by whole genome sequencing., Infection prevention in practice, 2024, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Patrick Killian O"Donohoe, Odhran Shelley, Allograft use associated with better than predicted survival following burn injury, Burns, 2023, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Kearney, L., Abrahams, M., O'Connell, N., Shelley, O.P., A management strategy for burns surgery in hemophilia complicated by inhibitors: A case report, Burns Open, 7, (4), 2023, p114-116 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Kelly, G.A., Shelley, O.P., Cahill, K.C., An electronic operation note proforma improves the quality of operation notes in burns surgery, Burns, 49, (3), 2023, p664-669 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Goodall, R.J., Roberts, J., Correia, M.D., Frew, Q., Barnes, D., Dziewulski, P., Shelley, O., El-Muttardi, N., Management of purpura fulminans skin loss at a regional burns centre: Sixteen-year experience, Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, 79, 2023, p23-29 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Milton-Jones, H., Soussi, S., Davies, R., Charbonney, E., Charles, W.N., Cleland, H., Dunn, K., Gantner, D., Giles, J., Jeschke, M., Lee, N., Legrand, M., Lloyd, J., Martin-Loeches, I., Pantet, O., Samaan, M., Shelley, O., Sisson, A., Spragg, K., Wood, F., Yarrow, J., Vizcaychipi, M.P., Williams, A., Leon-Villapalos, J., Collins, D., Jones, I., Singh, S., An international RAND/UCLA expert panel to determine the optimal diagnosis and management of burn inhalation injury, Critical Care, 27, (1), 2023, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Jalil, K.I.A., Abrahams, M., Shelley, O.P., Hypothermia awareness: Recommendation for incorporation of patient temperature item in the WHO surgical safety checklist for burn surgery, Burns, 48, (5), 2022, p1271 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
Hurley, C.M., Phoenix, E., Duff, G., Lennon, P., Shelley, O.P., Incidental thyroid tumour during surgical tracheostomy in a patient with toxic epidermal necrolysis, Burns Open, 6, (2), 2022, p86-88 , Journal Article, PUBLISHED  DOI
  

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Odhran Shelley, The Metabolic Response following Burn injury , Baritish Assoc Plastic and Aesthetic surgery Advanced Courses in Plastic surgery, London ( online), 2020, Invited Talk, PRESENTED
Odhran Shelley, ICU for Burn Surgeons , British Assoc Plastic and Aesthetic surgery Advanced Courses in Plastic surgery, London ( online), 2020, Invited Talk, PRESENTED
Odhran Shelley, Skin Grafts , Skin Substitutes & Secondary Burn Reconstruction , European Course in Plastic Surgery , Oxford, 2019, Invited Talk, PRESENTED
Odhran Shelley, TENS Tracheostomy and Thyroid cancer, St James Grand Rounds, 2019, Invited Talk, PRESENTED
Odhran Shelley, Scar Wars, St James Grand Rounds, 2019, Invited Talk, PRESENTED
O Shelley, Wound Infection as a predictor of Scar Outcome , International Society of Burn Injury, New Delhi India, Dec, 2018, Invited Talk, PRESENTED
Odhran Shelley, Body Contouring within the Public sector, Irish Association of Plastic Surgeons, Dublin, May , 2018, Invited Talk, PRESENTED
Odhran Shelley, Frailty in the Surgical Patient , Mercers Institute for successful Aging Biogerontology Conference, St James Hospital, Feb , 2018, Invited Talk, PRESENTED
O Shelley , Non Surgical Facial Aesthetic Intervention. Benefits and Pitfalls , PostGraduate Dental Education Forum , RCSI, Feb, 2018, Invited Talk, PUBLISHED
Amber Young ,Amy Johnson ,Brendan Fogarty ,Bridie Grant ,Bruce Emerson ,Catrin Pugh ,Chris Moran ,Clare Thomas ,David Barnes ,Elizabeth Chipp ,Emily (Tig) Bridge ,Emily Huddlestone ,Helen WatkinsJacky Edwards ,Jamie Yarwood ,Janine Evans ,Jayne Andrew ,Joanne Bowes ,Jon Pleat ,Kayvan Shokrollahi ,Ken Dunn ,Krissie Stiles ,Laura Shepherd ,Lisa Williams ,Louise Johnson ,Odhran Shelley ,Peter Saggers ,Peter Drew (BSRG Chair) .Peter Dziewulski ,Rachel Wiltshire ,Sarah Gaskell ,Sharon Standen ,Steven Cook ,Stuart Watson ,Tony Fletcher ,Victoria Osborne-Smith, National Standards for Provision and Outcomes in Adult and Paediatric Burn Care, 2018, Notes: [Included Patient representative], Report, PUBLISHED

  


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Award Date
First Place and Silver Medal Medicine and Surgery 1991
RCSI/ Ethicon travelling Scholarship Klinichni Centre Plastic Surgery Ljubljana 1999
Presidents Prize, Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland 1997
John Mannick Research Award Brigham and Womens Hospital / Harvard Medical School 2001
Stephen Plumpton Research Award, Canniesburn ,Glasgow 2001
John Calder Award, British Association of Plastic surgeons 2001
Travelling Scholarship British Association of Plastic Reconstructive and aesthetic Surgeons UZ Leuven 2006
Clinical Excellence Award Mid Essex Hospital Trust 2009
Clinical Excellence Award Mid Essex Hospital Trust 2011
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.