Mr. Simon Myers was awarded his PhD from London University in keratinocyte growth and differentiation in cutaneous wound healing and cultured keratinocyte grafting in 1999. He raised a 2,127,000? European Commission Research and Technological Development Grant for skin engineering in 1996. He completed a Burn Fellowship at the Broomfield Burn Centre in 2001, and became Burn Lead Consultant at the Chelsea & Westminster Burn Centre in 2002, achieving designation for that service in the National designation process. He became medical director of the Stephen Kirby Skin Bank, and established a collaboration between the burn service, the Children's Fire and Burn Trust, and the London Fire Brigade aimed at burn prevention. He has been involved in International humanitarian ventures in burn care with Professor Navsaria. He received an award of merit as an NHS Champion from the King's Fund in 2004. At the beginning of 2006 he was appointed as Clinical Senior Lecturer at Queen Mary & Westfield College , and Honorary Consultant Plastic Surgeon to the St. Bartholomew's and The London NHS Trust, and Honorary Consultant Burn and Plastic Surgeon at Broomfield Hospital .

Research Activity

I have been in post since February of 2006, and previously in a full-time clinical post with significant service commitments. My present post is a HEFCE funded TR post. I have concentrated on a bid to The Healing Foundation to establish a basic science chair in burn care, and on delivering a distance learning post-graduate diploma in aesthetic surgery. My previous research interests lay in keratinocyte biology, and wound healing, particularly in relation to burn care. My present intention is to extend this to infection and immunity in relation to burn care, along the lines of the healing foundation bid.