Miss Sonja Cerovac
Consultant Hand and Plastic Surgeon
QualificationsMD MSc FRCS(Plast)
Languages spoken:English and Serbo-Croatian
Main NHS base:
Clinical interests:
- Cosmetic Surgery of the body, breast and face (breast enlargement/reduction/uplift, gynaecomastia correction, tummy tuck, liposuction, thigh and arm lift, facelift, eyelid rejuvenation, non surgical rejuvenation, scar revisions)
- Hand surgery (nerves and tendon repairs and late reconstructions, Dupuytren’s disease – surgery and collagenase injections, ganglions, tendinitis, fractures, sprains, joint deformities, nail disorders)
- Wrist pain (arthritis, scaphoid fractures and non-unions, wrist ligament ruptures, wrist instabilities, ulnar impaction syndrome, arthroscopy – key hole examination)
- Skin cancer and benign lumps
Fees, Training & Background:
Sonja is an experienced Plastic and Reconstructive surgeon with a subspecialisation in Hand and Wrist surgery, appointed as a Consultant at St George’s Hospital in 2008. She has been the Lead Consultant for the Department of Plastic Surgery since 2019. Her practice involves aesthetic surgery for the face and body, hand and wrist surgery, and cosmetic or reconstructive surgery for skin cancer, scars and benign skin lesions. Unique skill mix has evolved from comprehensive and targeted training spanning almost 15 years.
Sonja qualified from the Medical School at Belgrade University in Serbia in 1992 and commenced her surgical training at busy general and plastic surgery units there. After moving to the UK in 1995, she completed the South London Plastic Surgery Specialist Rotation and focused further career on cosmetic and hand surgery. Sonja was awarded a title of Master in Surgical Science for her postgraduate research thesis in the field of flexor tendon surgery from the University of London in 1999. She accomplished aesthetic surgery fellowship at the McIndoe Surgical Centre in East Grinstead, orthopaedic wrist training at Wrightington Hospital in Wigan and hand fellowship at Windsor Hand Clinic in 2008.
Sonja’s cosmetic practice is focused on operative rejuvenation of the face, breast and body, but she also offers patients a non-surgical treatments with dermal fillers and botulinum toxin injections. Skin surgery, soft tissue reconstruction and scar revisions are integral part of her practice and she welcomes prompt service for removal of skin cancers and benign lumps in outpatients facilities.
Her NHS clinical duties are within the scope of hand and wrist surgery and regularly looking after patients with life and limb threatening injuries and infections. Due to her cross speciality training, Sonja is versatile with techniques of microsurgery as well as wrist arthroscopy (key hole surgery). She is keen to see and treat patients with acute trauma at the short notice whenever possible, to avoid difficulties in management of late, missed injuries.
Training of medical students and junior colleagues, research, outcome analysis and their publications are some of many facets of her dynamic practice.
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