Home| Clinical Senior Lecturer in Burns & Plastic Surgery |
Contact details:
| Tel: | +44 20 7882 2586 |
| Fax: | +44 20 7882 7172 |
| Email: | Simon.myers@qmul.ac.uk |
| Address: |
Centre for Cutaneous Research, |
Biography
Mr. Simon Myers was awarded his PhD from London University in keratinocyte growth and differentiation in cutaneous wound healing and cultured keratinocyte grafting in 1999. He raised a 2,127,000? European Commission Research and Technological Development Grant for skin engineering in 1996. He completed a Burn Fellowship at the Broomfield Burn Centre in 2001, and became Burn Lead Consultant at the Chelsea & Westminster Burn Centre in 2002, achieving designation for that service in the National designation process. He became medical director of the Stephen Kirby Skin Bank, and established a collaboration between the burn service, the Children's Fire and Burn Trust, and the London Fire Brigade aimed at burn prevention. He has been involved in International humanitarian ventures in burn care with Professor Navsaria. He received an award of merit as an NHS Champion from the King's Fund in 2004. At the beginning of 2006 he was appointed as Clinical Senior Lecturer at Queen Mary & Westfield College , and Honorary Consultant Plastic Surgeon to the St. Bartholomew's and The London NHS Trust, and Honorary Consultant Burn and Plastic Surgeon at Broomfield Hospital .
Research Activity
I have been in post since February of 2006, and previously in a full-time clinical post with significant service commitments. My present post is a HEFCE funded TR post. I have concentrated on a bid to The Healing Foundation to establish a basic science chair in burn care, and on delivering a distance learning post-graduate diploma in aesthetic surgery. My previous research interests lay in keratinocyte biology, and wound healing, particularly in relation to burn care. My present intention is to extend this to infection and immunity in relation to burn care, along the lines of the healing foundation bid.
Key Publications
• Transplantation of Keratinocytes in the Treatment of Wounds. S. Myers , H.A. Navsaria, R. Sanders, C. Green, I.M. Leigh. American J. Surgery. 1995:170;75-83,
• Culturing skin in vitro for wound therapy. H.A. Navsaria, S. Myers , I.M. Leigh, I.A. McKay. Trends in Biotechnology . 1995:13;91-99,
• Epidermal differentiation and dermal changes in wound healing following treatment of surgical wounds with sheets of cultured allogeneic keratinocytes. S. Myers , H.A. Navsaria, P.E. Purkis, A.E. Brain, I.M. Leigh. J. Clin. Pathology ; 1995: 48; 1087-1092,
• Skin storage . S.R. Myers , M. Machesney, R. Warwick, P.D. Cussons. BMJ Editorial. 1996:313;439,
• A hyaluronic acid membrane delivery system for cultured keratinocytes: clinical take rates in a porcine keratodermal grafting model. S.R. Myers , H.A. Navsaria, J. Grady, C. Soranzo, R. Sanders, C. Green, I.M. Leigh. J. Burn Care and Rehab . 1997:18;214-222,
• How far can a juxtacrine signal travel? Owen M.R., Sherratt J., Myers S.R. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London . 1999:266;579-585,
• Estimation of breast burn size. Hidvegi N., Nduka C., Myers S ., Dziewulski P. PRS . 2004 May;113(6):1591-7,
• Case-Controlled Study of Patients with Self-Inflicted Burns. Horner BM, Ahmadi H, Mulholland R, Myers SR , Catalan J. Burns . 2005 Jun;31(4):471-5,
• Acinetobacter infection is Associated with Aquired Glucose Intolerance in Burn Patients. D. Furniss, S. Gore, B. Azadian, SR Myers. JBCR . 2005:26(5):405-408,
• The role of hyaluronic acid in wound healing: assessment of clinical evidence. Price RD, Myers S, Leigh IM, Navsaria HA. Am J Clin Dermatol . 2005;6(6):393-402.
