Ms Lauren Uppal

Ms Lauren Uppal is a Plastic, Reconstructive & Hand Surgeon whose NHS practise is based at St Thomas’ Hospital in London where she is the Clinical Lead for the Hand Surgery Department and Lead for the Day Surgery Unit.

Ms Uppal graduated in 2001 with first class honours in New Zealand. After completing her Plastic Surgery training programme in London, she continued to train in subspecialty areas in fellowships. These included training in orthopaedic and plastic complex trauma reconstruction and hand surgery at the Royal Centre for Defence Medicine, paediatric hand surgery at Great Ormond St Hospital and aesthetic surgery at the Wellington Hospital. After obtaining Fellowship status at the Royal College of Surgeons, she also was awarded the European Board of Hand Surgery Diploma. She became a consultant in 2014.

Ms Uppal is passionate about training the next generation of surgeons and has set up the first-Hand Fellowship for Plastic Surgeons in London. She is the Course Director for the Advanced Hand and Wrist Cadaveric Dissection Course and teaches at the Royal College of Surgeons, the Royal Society of Medicine and she is on the faculty of several plastic surgery cadaveric courses. She also organises and teaches on specialist training courses for Hand Therapists and General Practitioners. She sits on the interview panel for National Selection for plastic surgery trainees and has many publications in peer-reviewed journals, including book chapters, and has presented her work internationally.

• Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
• Cubital Tunnel Syndrome
• Trigger finger
• Finger Arthritis
• Dupuytren's fasciectomy
• Ganglion Removal
• Hand and Wrist Ligament Reconstruction
• Hand Surgery for Dupuytren's Disease
• Osteotomy Surgery
• Ulnar Nerve Release Surgery
• Nerve reconstruction
• Reconstruction after trauma
• Reconstruction and correction of scars
• Surgery for cerebral palsy of the arm and hand
• Trauma surgery
• Anti wrinkle injections
• Removal of facial skin lesions
• Removing benign skin lesion
• Breast enlargement
• Correction of breast asymmetry underdevelopment
• Breast reduction
• Breast uplift
• Chest reduction
• Dermal Filler Treatments
• Ear correction
• Eyelid surgery
• Fat transfer
• Liposuction
• Tummy tuck
• Upper arm thigh body lift

• Dupuytren’s
• Carpal tunnel syndrome
• Cubital tunnel syndrome
• Ganglions
• Trigger fingers
• De Quervain’s
• Rheumatoid arthritis
• Osteoarthritis
• Raynaud’s
• Tendon and nerve repair/reconstruction
• Fracture fixation
• Post trauma reconstruction for impaired hand function
• Moles
• Cysts
• Lipomas
• Scar revision
• Tummy tuck
• Breast reduction
• Breast augmentation
• Liposuction
• Prominent ears
• Eyelid surgery
• Fillers