Mr Awf Quaba
MB ChB FRCS(Ed)(Plast)

Specialty: Cosmetic surgery 
Outpatient times: By appointment
Appointments: 0131 447 2340
Website: www.quaba.co.uk 

Special interests

All surgical and non-surgical aesthetic care but particularly cosmetic facial surgery and breast surgery.

Training and background

Having served as an NHS consultant for over 20 years, Awf is now in full-time private practice.  He gained his primary medical qualifications in Mosul, Iraq.  He was awarded the prestigious Hallett prize by the Royal College of Surgeons of England for outstanding performance in their examination.  He completed six years of higher surgical training at the world renowned St Andrew's Plastic Surgery Unit in Essex and was appointed as a Consultant Plastic Surgeon in Edinburgh in 1987.

His NHS work covered a broad spectrum of adult and paediatric reconstructive problems.  He established the first NHS pulsed dye laser service focusing on the treatment of birthmarks.  He also built up expertise in the management of lower limb trauma, skin cancer, congenital hand surgery and breast surgery.

He has published over 60 papers in peer-reviewed journals, written a number of book chapters and co-edited a text on reconstructive surgery. Much of his work has been cited by others in their scientific papers.

He performs ongoing audit of his practice which is submitted annually to the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons.