Personal Profile
Professor Carrie Newlands is a Consultant Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon. Her primary focus is to work with her patients, finding out what is important to them and "giving kind, experienced and evidence-based advice, so that we can work out a plan together.”
Training and Appointment
Carrie undertook her higher surgical training in Ireland, East Grinstead, Brighton, and Guildford. She was appointed as a Consultant to the Royal Surrey County Hospital in Guildford in 2003 and held the post of Clinical Director from 2006 to 2010. In 2007, 2010 and 2012, she received an NHS Clinical Excellence award at Bronze national level "in recognition of her sustained contribution to the NHS." This was renewed again in 2016 and she received a Silver award in 2021.
Carrie was the Co-Chair of the Regional Skin Cancer Specialist Multi-Disciplinary Team (2019 - 2021) and Network Chair 2021-2023.
In 2023 she joined the University of Surrey School of Medicine.
She is the co-author of the prestigious Oxford Specialist Handbook of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, first published in 2009 and second/ third editions published in 2015 and 2020.
Carrie has held several national posts including:
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Lead for Skin Cancer Surgery for the British Association of Maxillofacial Surgeons (BAOMS) at the Royal College of Surgeons 2014 to 2016.
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Editorial Advisor to British Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery 2012 - current
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Intercollegiate Board of Examiners for the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons, writing questions and standard setting for the specialty. In 2014 she was appointed Chair of the OMFS MCQ writing group for this exam, which senior trainees must pass to become a consultant.
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Chair of the written examination of the FRCS of the Joint Royal Surgical Colleges for all the UK surgical specialities 2016 to 2019 and Chair of the OMFS FRCS Examination Board, 2019-2022
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Lead-author “Non-Melanoma Skin Cancer” in the UK Consensus Guidelines in Head and Neck Cancer, which was originally published in 2011, updated 2016 and for 2024 as co-author.
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She worked from 2016-2021 with the British Association of Dermatologists, co-authoring the internationally recognised guidelines on basal cell and squamous cell skin cancers, (Non –melanoma skin cancers) published in 2021and 2020.
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Carrie delivers educational talks to local dentists and doctors as well as lecturing to national and international groups.
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During the Covid pandemic she gave regular national teaching webinars on managing patients with skin cancer. This was to help other surgeons progress their knowledge, at a time when surgical training and education needed to be de-prioritised in day-to-day NHS practice.
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Carrie is an elected member of Council of BAOMS, and currently co-leads the independent Working Party on Sexual Misconduct in Surgery.
Awards and Prizes
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2012: The British Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons (BAOMS) Surgery Prize, “a prize and medal awarded annually, which will be considered a high honour, to be awarded to a person or persons who are adjudged to have made a major contribution to Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery in the widest sense.”
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2016: National Silver Clinical Excellence award- given to “recognise senior clinician’s achievements of national or international significance.”
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2020: The BAOMS National Trainers' Trainer of the Year in 2020, following nomination by the regional trainees.
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2022: The President’s Prize for her presentation on UK variation in management of Pleomorphic Dermal Sarcoma, a rare skin cancer, at the BAOMS national conference.
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2023: The BAOMS Down Prize, for her major contribution to the speciality or Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery.
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2023: The Colyer Gold Medal from the Royal College of Surgeons of England. This medal is awarded at irregular intervals, ‘for liberal acts or distinguished labours, research and discoveries eminently conducive to the improvement of natural knowledge, contributions to the profession or wider society through actions or discoveries.” and is the highest accolade which can be bestowed.
Current Practice
Carrie’s ethos focuses on the needs and wellbeing of patients. She specialises in the management of facial skin lesions. Her specialist areas of interest include removal of facial lesions such as skin cancers, and reconstruction. She also looks after patients who have oral medicine problems (conditions of the skin inside of the mouth) and those who need surgical removal of wisdom and other teeth; or have salivary gland problems. She carries out her work with care and gentleness and puts the patient at the heart of what she does.
Research Interests
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High risk cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma
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Sentinel node biopsy in skin cancer of the head and neck
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The role of radiotherapy in skin cancer treatment
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Sexual misconduct in healthcare.
