Mr Sameer Gujral

Qualifications

BSc (Hons), MBCHb, MRCS, FRCS (Plast)

GMC number: 6120303

Practising since: 2005

Specialties

Plastic Surgery

Consultation times

  • Tuesday bi-weekly
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About

Sameer Gujral is a fully accredited plastic surgeon with over 12 years of experience in the field. He was appointed as a substantive Plastic and Hand Surgeon at Derriford Hospital in 2021. His primary field of interest is hand surgery, covering all aspects of elective and trauma hand surgery along with complex reconstruction. His practice also includes the management of benign and malignant skin and soft tissue lesions, and he is part of the Derriford Hospital Skin Cancer multidisciplinary team and trained in dermoscopic examination of skin lesions using a specialist magnifying light microscope to aid diagnosis. Separately he has an interest in non-surgical aesthetics with several years of experience. He has undertaken specific training in facial non-surgical cosmetics. He was also an aesthetics fellow for two months in Bristol during his registrar-level training.

With regards to research he has over 30 publications many of which are in peer reviewed journals and has undertaken laboratory and qualitative research, presenting his work internationally in Switzerland, the USA, Edinburgh. Most recently this was in Toronto, Canada 2023 at the American Society for Surgery of the Hand.

Sameer ranked first nationally when he obtained his plastic surgery specialist registrar training number and when applying for a national advanced training programme in hand surgery being awarded a Training Interface Group Fellowship in Ortho-plastic Hand Surgery.

Sameer has subsequently undertaken two specialist hand surgery fellowships. One across plastics and orthopaedic hand/wrist surgery for 14 months Bristol and Bath, 2021-22. The other as the American International Travelling Fellow in Hand Surgery USA, 2023, where he visited leading hand surgeons in New Mexico, New York, Florida and Atlanta. Sameer is extremely passionate about hand surgery and is also training in bedside ultrasound scanning of the hand for therapeutic interventions and diagnostics, which he now uses in his hand surgery clinics at the Nuffield.  He is one of only a few hand surgeons locally currently offering this in the outpatient clinic at the time of consultation.

Special interests

  • Hand surgery
  • Skin cancer surgery

Treatments and tests offered by Mr Sameer Gujral at Nuffield Health

  • Carpal tunnel release
  • Trigger Point Injections
  • Dupuytren's fasciectomy
  • Excision of skin lesion
  • Cubital tunnel release
  • Dermal fillers

Locations Mr Sameer Gujral works with

  • Derriford Road, Plymouth, PL6 8BG

    01752 775 861
    Overall rating
    Good

Related experience

Memberships

  • Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons
  • Member of the British Society for Surgery of the Hand
  • Member of British Burns Association

Other posts held

  • Consultant Plastic and Hand Surgeon Burns Lead, University Hospitals Plymouth

Declaration

Mr Sameer Gujral does not hold a share or financial interest in this hospital, another Nuffield Health hospital or the company.

Mr Sameer Gujral does not have a share or financial interest in equipment used at this hospital or another Nuffield Health hospital.

Mr Sameer Gujral does not hold any paid advisory role(s) at this hospital or on behalf of Nuffield Health.