Simon Lee has been a consultant Plastic surgeon in Bristol since 2003. He continues to work in the NHS focusing on Paediatric reconstructive surgery where he runs the southwest of England service for Congenital deformity in children and the new born. This includes hand and upper limb, foot, face, ears, chest wall and breast anomalies. He weekly performs complex procedures to reconstruct anomalies for children born without the normal anatomy to help them settle into normal life both physically and emotionally. This includes finger and thumb reconstructions, facial reanimation, breast and chest wall reconstructions as well as ear reconstruction and treatment of vascular anomalies. He is regularly performing nerve and vascular microsurgery to assist in these operations. He was the Specialty Director of Plastic surgery in the NHS in Bristol from 2010-2015 and was responsible for setting up the new Paediatric department at The Bristol Royal Children’s Hospital and establishing the new adult department at Southmead Hospital following its transfer from Frenchay Hospital. Mr Lee set up private practice in 2005 operating out of the Nuffield Hospital Bristol and the BUPA Hospital (now Spire) where he very quickly developed a large and successful practice. He now regularly receives referrals from around the country from colleagues and GP’s to help with a wide range of Cosmetic procedures including the complex and the revision. He is now part-time in the NHS and spends most of the week helping cosmetic patients performing operations and consulting.

Mr Lee specialises in Breast, Body and facial procedures and in recent years has been leading the way in minimal scarring endoscopic facial techniques and giving the option of local anaesthetic facial rejuvenation including, blepharoplasty, deep plane face and neck lifts all performed under local anaesthetic as day case procedures.

He was the first Plastic Surgeon in the UK outside of London to develop a stand alone Aesthetic Clinic specialising in both minimally invasive and surgical procedures and was also the first Plastic surgeon to bring to the UK big name brands and new technologies such as Coolsculpting (cryolipolysis), Ultherapy (non-surgical ultrasound face lifting), Fraxel:Repair (the original fractional Co2 laser skin resurfacing) and has been using these technologies for over 15yrs.

In his training years before becoming a Consultant Mr Lee was a student at the Royal London Hospital before going on to train in Plastic Surgery in some of the world’s most famous centres including Canniesburn Hospital Glasgow, Great Ormond Street Hospital London, The Royal Adelaide Hospital Australia and the Christine M Kleinert Institute USA.

He has also worked extensively in the developing world with NGO’s such as Medice San Frontiers, as a lead surgeon in Papua New Guinea and as a war and conflict surgeon in desperate situations in countries such as Ethiopia and Somalia

He is a family man living in the country with two children and a weimaraer dog. He continues to enjoy outdoor activities and travel with his family. He is a successful sportsman having competed nationally and internationally across several sports. He is an active member of a local rowing club where with his team mates he has won multiple National Masters Championship finals and in a similar time frame has won several times at the World Masters Rowing Championships, in Italy France and Slovenia.