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Dr Yazan Masannat
Dr Yazan Masannat

Dr Yazan Masannat

MBBS, MRCSI, MRCSEd, DBRM, FEBS, FRCSEd, MD

Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer

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Consultant Oncoplastic Breast Surgeon

Aberdeen Breast Unit, Ward 315

Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, AB25 2ZN

 

Biography

Yazan Masannat is a Consultant Oncoplastic Breast Surgeon working in Aberdeen, Scotland/UK and a Lecturer at the University of Aberdeen and the University of East Anglia in England. After completing his basic surgical training in Wales and obtaining the membership exams of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh and The Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland he Moved to England. He obtained a doctorate from the University of Leeds and then moved to the South East Thames Sector of the London Deanery where he completed his Higher Surgical training. He trained in some of the best units in the world including Guy’s Hospitalin London and obtained the highly competitive and prestigious National Oncoplastic Fellowship at Mid-Essex Hospitals(St Andrews Centre for Burns and Plastic Surgery) followed by a further fellowship in the world-renowned Royal Marsden Hospital in London. His main clinical interest is breast conservation through level one and level two oncoplastic techniques and Breast Reconstruction. 

Currently he is actively involved in research exploring new MRI and imaging technologies in breast cancer, and also looking at the biology of the rarer types of breast pathology with the research teams at the University of Aberdeen. 

Teaching is an important part of Yazan’s practice. Locally he teaches at the University of Aberdeenand nationally he is a Tutor on the Master of Surgery in Oncoplastic Breast Surgery Program by the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England. He also designed a teaching website www.oncoplasticsurgeons.comon breast surgery in collaboration with colleagues from the UK, Europe, The States and India. Some of the best-known names in breast and plastic surgery are taking part in this project. 

He is also a member of the communications team and a co-opted member of the education and training committee with the Association of Breast Surgery (ABS) in the UK and also a member of the education and training committee with the European Society of Surgical Oncology (ESSO) and an examiner at the European Board in Breast Surgery and the European Board in Surgical Oncology.

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Research

Research Overview

MRI Scan in Breast Cancer

Breast Cancer

Teaching

Teaching Responsibilities

Co-Lead of the Medical Law and Ethics Course

Publications

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  • A rare complication of a common operation: hepatic artery pseudo aneurysm following cholecystectomy report of a case

    Masannat, Y. A., Al-Naser, S., Al-Tal, Y., Al-Koteesh, J., Sharaf, U. I.
    Irish Journal of Education, vol. 177, no. 4, pp. 397-8
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Nerve injury in lower limb vascular surgery

    Moawad, M. R., Masannat, Y. A., Alhamdani, A., Gibbons, C. P.
    The Surgeon, vol. 6, no. 1, pp. 32-5
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Solitary subcutaneous metastatic deposit from hepatocellular carcinoma

    Masannat, Y. A., Achuthan, R., Munot, K., Merchant, W., Meaney, J., McMahon, M. J., Horgan, K. J.
    New zealand medical journal, vol. 120, no. 1266, pp. U2837
    Contributions to Journals: Abstracts

  • Adverse effects of dyes used in sentinel node biopsy on immunocytochemical determination of hormone receptors in breast cancer cells

    Masannat, Y. A., Shaaban, A. M., Speirs, V., Coast, G., Jackson, P., Horgan, K., Hanby, A. M.
    Journal of Clinical Pathology, vol. 60, no. 6, pp. 730-732
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Gallstone ileus: a review

    Masannat, Y., Masannat, Y., Shatnawei, A.
    The Mount Sinai journal of medicine, New York, vol. 73, no. 8, pp. 1132-4
    Contributions to Journals: Review articles

  • Properties and characteristics of the dyes injected to assist axillary sentinel node localization in breast surgery

    Masannat, Y., Shenoy, H., Speirs, V., Hanby, A., Horgan, K.
    European Journal of Surgical Oncology, vol. 32, no. 4, pp. 381-4
    Contributions to Journals: Review articles

  • A rare complication of a common disease: Bouveret syndrome, a case report

    Masannat, Y. A., Caplin, S., Brown, T.
    World Journal of Gastroenterology, vol. 12, no. 16, pp. 2620-2621
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Chronic contained rupture of abdominal aortic aneurysm presenting with longstanding back pain

    Al-Koteesh, J., Masannat, Y., James, N. V. M., Sharaf, U.
    Scottish Medical Journal, vol. 50, no. 3, pp. 122-3
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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