Mr Loaie Maraqa

I am a consultant in oncoplastic breast surgery at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital, and honorary senior clinical lecturer at the University of Sheffield. In addition to my regular NHS surgical duties, I lead the breast multidisciplinary team meetings and I am also governance lead to the breast services.

I have an interest in breast cancer research, with a doctoral degree (MD) in genes associated with tamoxifen resistance (University of Leeds), in addition to interests in statistics and critical appraisal. I am a peer reviewer to the British Medical Journal, British Journal of Surgery and various other medical journals.

Prizes and awards include: MD with commendation (University of Leeds), British Journal of Surgery Prize (British Association of Surgical Oncology, BASO), Scholar in Training Award (American Association for Clinical Research, AACR), letter of commendation from the Association of Breast Surgery, in addition to regional prizes.

Clinical Interests

My clinical practice is entirely dedicated to breast surgery, particularly the management of benign and malignant breast disease and risk reducing surgery. I offer a full complement of surgical procedures such as lumpectomies, mastectomies, breast reduction techniques to treat breast cancer (therapeutic mammoplasty), lipomodelling (fat transfer), immediate reconstruction and symmetrisation surgery.

• Breast Reduction (mammoplasty)
• Breast Uplift Surgery (Mastopexy)
• Lipomodelling / fat grating
• Implant Reconstruction
• Nipple Sparing Mastectomy
• Skin Sparing Mastectomy 
• Nipple Reconstruction 
• Oncoplastic Surgery 
• Sentinel Lymph Node 
• Surgery for gynaecomastia (breast development in men) 
• Exchange of breast implants 
• Breast pain assessment 
• Breast cancer 
• Benign breast conditions 
• Family history assessment

Professional Memberships

• Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Glasgow
• Association of Breast Surgery