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About Miss Yvette Godwin
Personal Profile
Ms Yvette Godwin is a Consultant Plastic Surgeon at Sheffield Children’s Hospital. She divides her work equally between the NHS and the Humanitarian sector covering both adult and paediatric reconstructive plastic Surgery.
She graduated from the University of Cambridge 1989 and was awarded FRCS (Eng) in 1991. She trained in the Trent region and Glasgow completing the Intercollegiate FRCS (Plast) in 2001. Travelling Fellowships include Oncologic reconstruction at Toronto General hospital Canada, Breast reconstruction and microsurgery at Uppsala University Hospital, Sweden, The Derby hand fellowship, Derby UK, and Ear reconstruction with Mme Firmin in Paris, France. She was a Consultant Plastic Surgeon in Edinburgh from 2005-2012.
Ms Godwin’s private practice interests will include general Adult and Paediatric plastic reconstructive surgery. Specialist interests include hand surgery and breast surgery. Academic background includes design and lead of International and local research projects. These projects reflect a broad range of specialist interests. Her publications reflect the importance of measuring surgical outcomes to support evidence-based medicine.
Teaching commitments include being a member of the Plastics faculty for the HEST course and annual lectures at Cambridge University Medical school. Ongoing teaching in zones of conflict include promotion of the MDT, Ortho-plastic approach for blast and ballistic injury, antibiotic stewardship as well as training in Plastic surgery relevant to context.
Clinical Interests
Adult Plastic Reconstructive surgery
- Adult Breast surgery
- Breast reduction
- Breast reconstruction (not implant based)
- Residual congenital breast asymmetry
- Breast uplift (mastopexy)
- Fat transfer for breast reconstruction
- Male gynaecomastia
- Inverted nipple correction
- Hand surgery
- Dupuytren’s contracture correction
- Carpal and cubital tunnel release
- Hand lesions
- Mucous cysts
- Ganglions
- Trigger fingers/trigger thumbs
- Dequervains tenosynovitis (Note: wrist and base of thumb arthritis not covered)
- Skin lesions
- Scar revisions
- Split earlobe repair
Paediatric Plastic Surgery
- Hand surgery
- Congenital Hand differences
- Paediatric Hand lesions/ganglions
- Trigger thumb and finger
- Adolescent breast
- Congenital breast asymmetry
- Skin and scars
- Removal/biopsy Skin lesions
- Scar management and revision
- Correction burns contractures
- External ear
- Otoplasty
- Pre-auricular skin tags
- Split earlobe repair
Professional Memberships
- Royal College of Surgeons (Eng)
