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- Honorary Lecturer
- Department of Surgical Biotechnology
- Div of Surgery & Interventional Sci
- Faculty of Medical Sciences
Ms Jajini Varghese is a Plastic Surgeon and Consultant in Oncoplastic Breast Surgery at the Royal Free Hospital and Honorary Clinical Lecturer at University College London.
She trained on the Pan-Thames London rotation with dual qualifications in Plastic Surgery and Breast Surgical Oncology through the TIG National Oncoplastic Fellowship.
Ms Varghese completed her PhD on the Genetics of Breast Density and Breast Cancer using Genome-wide data on a full Cambridge Commonwealth Scholarships after her MPhil in Epidemiology at the University of Cambridge.


Her research interests include;
1) Development of personalised cancer treatment based on tumour genomic data
2) Risk-stratified breast screening based on Polygenic Risk Scores (PRS)
3) Application of Raman Spectroscopy in intra-operative decision making
4) Minimally invasive surgery through Robot-assisted Breast surgery.
Jajini teaches on the Burns, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery MSc course at UCL.
She is the module lead for the Breast Oncoplastic section.
She supervises MSc students and is an MSc and PhD examiner.
23-DEC-2020 | Academic Consultant Breast Oncoplastic Surgeon | Department of Breast Surgery | Royal Free NHS Foundation Trust, United Kingdom |
01-JUN-2019 – 20-DEC-2020 | National Breast TIG Fellow | Department of Breast Surgery | St Barts NHS Trust, United Kingdom |
01-JUN-2017 – 01-JUN-2019 | Pan Thames Plastic Surgery Registrar | Department of Plastic Surgery | Royal Free NHS Trust, United Kingdom |
01-JUN-2015 – 01-JUN-2017 | Pan Thames Plastic Surgery Registrar | Department of Plastic Surgery | Royal Free NHS Trust, United Kingdom |