Ms Norma Timoney

Ms Timoney is the lead Plastic Surgeon of the Evelina London Children’s Hospital, based at Guys and St Thomas’ NHS Hospital. She joined Guy's and St Thomas’ in 2005 and is a member of the South Thames regional cleft lip and palate team.

She qualified from the University of Bristol Medical School. Prior to this, she obtained a BA, BDent Sc in Dentistry from the University of Dublin, Trinity College. Following medical school she went on to train in surgery in the south west of England and subsequently undertook specialist training in plastic reconstructive and aesthetic surgery in the Midlands.

She spent a year of additional specialist training in Canada at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, working in the fields of cleft lip and palate, facial palsy, ear reconstruction, congenital hand, brachial plexus injury and children's burn injury. She also spent some time training with world renowned ear reconstruction specialist, Dr Nagata, in Japan.

She is currently a member of the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (BAPRAS), and is a past training programme director for London specialist registrar training in plastic and reconstructive surgery, and is currently a member of the Plastic Surgery specialist advisroy committee. She is also a member of the Craniofacial Society of Great Britain and Ireland.

She performs charitable work overseas with Facingtheworld.net and a Medical Education Exchange Team in Vietnam, looking after children with facial conditions