Shehan Hettiaratchy
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Shehan Hettiaratchy

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Shehan Hettiaratchy is one of the UK’s leading surgeons, Consultant Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, Professor at Imperial College and National Director to the NHS for Armed Forces healthcare. He has spent ten years as Major Trauma Director of one of the busiest trauma centres in London. He led the team treating victims of the Grenfell fire and the Westminster Bridge attack, among other tragic events that have occurred in recent years. He has been named as a Daily Mail Health Hero of the Year and included as part of The Times Alternative Rich List. He was born and raised in Hampshire and has served in the British Army since he left school, as a regular and reservist, serving mainly with Airborne Forces, and was deployed to Afghanistan twice. He has worked in war zones (Abkhazia, Georgia, Chechnya, Kosovo) and disaster areas (the Haiti earthquake) with various UK NGOs. Since 2022 he has worked with UK-Med on surgical missions to Ukraine and Gaza. He was appointed an OBE in 2025 for his humanitarian work.
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