Ms Judith Hunter
Ms Judith Hunter
Miss Judith Hunter is a Senior Consultant Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgeon, specialising in breast reconstruction; breast reduction; breast uplift (mastopexy) and breast augmentation. Miss Hunter has extensive experience in body contouring, including abdominoplasty (tummy tuck); brachioplasty (arm lift); inner thigh lift and liposuction. Miss Hunter sees patients in London at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust and within Imperial Private Healthcare at Charing Cross Hospital, where she is based full time; she also operates at the London Welbeck Hospital. Miss Hunter is listed on the General Medical Council Specialist Register for Plastic Surgery and is a member of BAPRAS, the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgeons; she is Honorary Associate Professor at the University of East Anglia; a FRCS (Plast) Examiner and Chair of the North West London Oncoplastic MDT.
Miss Hunter read medicine at Cambridge, graduating with a First Class Honours degree and attaining her FRCS (Plast) in 2011 and her specialist registration in plastic surgery in 2013; she has undertaken three microsurgery fellowships, at the Royal Marsden and St Thomas’s Hospitals in London and a year in Australia, for which she was awarded the Ellison-Cliffe Travelling Fellowship from the Royal Society of Medicine.
Miss Hunter has a special interest in all forms of breast reconstruction, especially using free tissue transfer (DIEP); transverse upper gracilis (TUG) and breast symmetrisation; in addition to body contouring surgery after massive weight loss.
Miss Hunter very much enjoys guiding her patients through their breast reconstruction journey and is known for her attention to detail, caring approach and positive outlook.
Miss Hunter has established a breast reconstruction spoke clinic at Northwick Park Hospital, working alongside fellow breast surgeons, so making it easier for patients in North West London. Partly as a response to COVID 19, Miss Hunter has set up and chairs a weekly Oncoplastic Breast MDT meeting for all breast and plastic surgery colleagues in the sector to ensure patient safety and consensus. Together with breast oncology surgeons from Imperial, Ealing and Northwick Park, she is developing her practice in lymphaticovenous anastomoses, to reduce the incidence and effects of lymphoedema (arm swelling) after axillary lymph node surgery. Alongside her colleagues at Imperial, she has been working with the pioneers of the LYMPHA procedure in Genoa.
Miss Hunter supports the major trauma centres on call at St Mary’s and Charing Cross Hospitals for extremity trauma to aid with complex wound repair.
In addition to an MD research degree, Miss Hunter has over 30 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals and has presented 31 papers at national and international meetings; her primary research interests are in the anatomical basis of flaps; pre-operative imaging of free flaps and outcomes in breast reconstruction surgery. Miss Hunter has been an invited speaker for international webinars organised by Stryker and Imperial College.
Miss Hunter has a strong teaching interest and is a faculty member on the MS oncoplastics course at the University of East Anglia and in her current post, she has set up a microsurgery simulation lab. Miss Hunter is a judge at a national core training surgical simulation competition; a faculty member of the Imperial FRCS (Plast) viva course and in 2017, set up a flap simulation course. In recognition of her contributions, Miss Hunter has been made an honorary lecturer at the University of East Anglia.
In her spare time Miss Hunter enjoys cooking and entertaining friends, together with her husband Eric; travelling; skiing; swimming; going to the theatre and walking with their dog, Havana.