Dr Nicholas Kalavrezos

Nicholas Kalavrezos is a Head and Neck Reconstructive Surgeon and the Clinical Leadin the Head and Neck Centre at University College London Hospital with a backgroundin Oral and Maxillo-Facial surgery.

Nicholas is also the Lead Head and Neck Sarcoma Surgeon for the London SarcomaService. His clinical practice includes ablative and reconstructive surgery for the headand neck with a special interest in bone sarcomas and functional outcomes followingreconstructive surgery. His clinical practice also includes surgical treatment of salivarygland tumours as well as thyroid surgery.

Nicholas' research interests include applications of “tissue engineering” in head &neck reconstruction. Nicholas is a founding member of the “Centre for ReconstructiveSurgery” at University College London and holds a Senior Lecturer post at the same Institution. He is also a member of the “Face Transplant Group” based at Royal Free Hospital aiming to perform the first face transplant in the UK.

He has joint research projects in the Nanotechnology Lab of UCL on “tissue engineeredbio-scaffolding” aiming to replace defects of the head and neck (ie nose / ears) withtissue–engineered based micro-vascular flap reconstruction.

Nicholas lectures regularly at national and international meetings and holds theposition of the Secretary General on the Executive Board of the European Associationfor Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery.

Nicholas is also the EACMFS Junior President Elect.