Professor Prof Kefah Mokbel

Professor Kefah Mokbel FRCS is the lead consultant breast surgeon at the London Breast Institute of the Princess Grace Hospital, Professor (Honorary) of Breast Cancer Surgery at Brunel University London, UK, an honorary consultant breast surgeon at St. George's Hospital. Kefah Mokbel is the founder and current president of Breast Cancer Hope; a UK-based charity "dedicated to improving the quantity and quality of life in women diagnosed with breast cancer". He was appointed as a substantive consultant breast surgeon at St. George's Hospital NHS trust in February 2001. He was named in Tatler magazine's Best Doctors Guide as one of the featured "Top Breast Surgeons" in 2006, 2007 and 2013. In November 2010 he was named in the Times magazine's list of Britain's Top Doctors. Professor Mokbel's clinical interests in the field of breast surgery include the early detection of breast cancer, breast lumps, breast pain, mastectomy, nipple discharge, minimally-invasive breast surgery, sentinel node biopsy, skin-sparing mastectomy, breast reconstruction, cosmetic breast surgery, prevention of breast cancer, genetic predisposition, and the management of benign conditions including breast cysts, mastalgia and fibroadenomas. Prof. Mokbel has extensive experience in the field of reconstructive and aesthetic breast surgery.Kefah Mokbel's main research interest lies in the field of molecular biology and the clinical management of breast cancer. Furthermore he has published several papers in the field of aesthetic breast surgery including breast reconstruction following mastectomy and augmentation mammoplasty using implants and fat transfer. His prolific research output includes over 300 published papers in medical literature. According to Google Scholar Kefah Mokbel has 350 publications [8] which have been cited more than 6000 times with a H-index of 53 and an i10-index of 192. He has also written 14 books in various disciplines including surgery, oncology, breast cancer, and postgraduate medical education. Mokbel is a member of the editorial board of several international medical journals and a peer reviewer for leading medical journals including The Lancet. Mokbel has supervised and examined a significant number of higher postgraduate degrees in the field of breast cancer including PhD, MSc, MD and Master of Surgery degrees.

Early detection of breast cancer, breast screening, breast pain, breast mouse, breast cysts, wide local excision of breast cancer, breast lumpectomy, breast wire-guided excision, breast fine needle aspiration biopsy, breast core biopsy, mammography, breast ultrasound, breast MRI, nipple discharge, breast pain, breast lumps, breast abscess, inflammatory breast cancer, triple negative breast cancer, invasive lobular cancer, mastectomy, sentinel node biopsy, skin-sparing mastectomy, breast reconstruction, microdochectomy, breast implants, breast fat transfer, breast infection, LCIS, DCIS, cosmetic breast surgery including breast augmentation, breast reduction, breast asymmetry surgery, and breast lift, breast cancer prevention, genetic predisposition to breast cancer, BRCA1, BRCA2, and the management of benign conditions including breast cysts, breast lumps, papilloma, radial scar, mastalgia and fibroadenoma.