Consultant Plastic & Reconstructive Surgeon,

Nottingham City Hospital, Nottingham University Hospital Trust, UK

Stephen McCulley is Consultant Plastic & Reconstructive surgeon based in Nottingham in the UK since 2002. He graduated in the UK and completed his specialist training between Cape Town, South Africa and Nottingham.

He specializes in all aspects of Reconstructive, Oncoplastic and Cosmetic breast surgery. He is trained and performs both oncological and reconstructive aspects of breast surgery and has a special interest in Breast conserving techniques (namely Therapeutic Mammaplasty and local perforator flaps), microvascular autologous breast reconstruction, the planning of reconstruction in face of radiotherapy and breast asymmetry/chest wall deformity surgery. He published his original approach to Therapeutic mammaplasty in 2005.

Along with Breast and Plastic surgery colleagues he has developed the combined Oncoplastic service in Nottingham, which has become a leading centre for Oncoplastic Breast surgery research, teaching and development. The Plastic surgery unit has also championed improved efficiencies and outcomes in microvascular breast reconstruction. 

He is co-founder of the ORBS (Oncoplastic Reconstructive Breast Surgery) meetings in Nottingham, running since 2008. This meeting is aimed at both Plastic and Breast surgeons, presenting the latest techniques and research in Oncoplastic surgery and been a major catalyst for expansion of oncoplastic techniques in the UK and beyond.