Graduated from Trinity College Dublin in 1996. Membership in Surgery from Royal College of Surgeons 2000. Plastic Surgery Research Fellowship at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, USA, 2000 – 2001. Higher Surgical Training in Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery 2001 – 2006. Hand Surgery Fellowship at the Pulvertaft Hand Centre, Derby, UK 2006. Diploma in Hand Surgery awarded by the Federation of the European Societies for Surgery of the Hand 2006. Fellow of the European Board of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery 2006. Breast and Aesthetic Surgery Fellowship in Akademikliniken, Stockholm, Sweden 2007. Intercollegiate Fellowship in Plastic Surgery 2007.