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Professor Simon Holmes , BDS MBBS FDS RCS (Eng) FRCS( CSIG) FRCS (OMFS)

Simon

Consultant Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon Bartshealth NHS Trust, Professor of Craniofacial Traumatology QMUL

Email: s.holmes@qmul.ac.uk

Profile

Simon is Professor of Craniofacial Trauma and Consultant in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the Royal London Hospital since 2003. He leads the Craniofacial trauma team and specialises totally in the management of facial reconstructive surgery and aesthetics. He has developed the Multidisciplinary Craniofacial Trauma Team which is unique in the field.


His academic commitments are closely related to development of translational research,  specialty training both nationally and internationally

He has introduced numerous new surgical and aesthetic  techniques together with digital treatment planning technologies, and developed a comprehensive and fully integrated approach to facial trauma which has proven both innovative and successful. His major clinical interest is in the management of Complex Cranioorbital reconstruction for which he has an established international reputation.


He has lectured widely nationally and internationally, and is a regular keynote speaker at International Conferences. He has contributed to and edited two major textbooks on craniofacial trauma. One of these was awarded the BMJ Prize for best Surgical Textbook in 2014.  He has published in major anatomical textbooks including Gray’s Anatomy, and Gray’s Atlas of Surgical Anatomy. He has published widely in the Maxillofacial literature, and is  on the editorial review board for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Orbit, Injury, and the International Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. His research interests are around assessment of severity of injury with development of assessment of outcome tools. He has developed an iPhone App as a craniofacial skeletal fracture severity score calculator.


He is also interested in forensic analysis of facial injuries, as well as developing embedding of facial trauma services in international first aid collaborations.


He has developed and chairs a distance learning MSc course in craniofacial trauma at QMUL. Politically he is active within his specialty - he was previously the nominated facial trauma lead for BAOMS, and a member of AO UK Craniofacial.

 

Centre:   Centre for Oral Immunobiology and Regenerative Medicine

Teaching

Teaching


1) Course director of MSc in Craniofacial Trauma and Reconstruction
2) Anatomy of the head and neck for DClinDent
3) Undergraduate lectures on facial trauma

Textbooks

Atlas of Operative Maxillofacial Trauma Surgery Post-Traumatic Deformity: Post-Traumatic Deformity
Perry, Michael & Holmes, Simon. (2020).  Atlas of Operative Maxillofacial Trauma Surgery Post-Traumatic Deformity: Post-Traumatic Deformity. 10.1007/978-1-4471-5616-1.

Manual of Operative Maxillofacial Trauma Surgery Perry, Michael & Holmes, Simon. (2014).
ISBN: 978-3-319-04458-3 Manual of Operative Maxillofacial Trauma Surgery. 10.1007/978-3-319-04459-0.

Atlas of Operative Maxillofacial Trauma Surgery: Primary Repair of Facial Injuries Perry, Michael & Holmes, Simon. (2014).  ISBN: 978-1-4471-2854-0 Atlas of Operative Maxillofacial Trauma Surgery: Primary Repair of Facial Injuries. 10.1007/978-1-4471-2855-7.

Book Chapters

Face and Scalp
Gray’s Anatomy 41st Edition
Holmes S
Elsevier - ISBN: 9780702063060


The Orbit
Grays Anatomy Applied Surgical Anatomy 2019
Holmes S, Blythe J  - ISBN 0702073865
 
Facial Fractures
Grays Anatomy Applied Surgical Anatomy 2019
Blythe J, Holmes S –  ISBN 0702073865


The Orbital Skeleton
In book Clinical Head And Neck Anatomy For Surgeons 2016
Peter A Brennan, Vishy Mahadevan, Barrie T Evans
CRC Press - ISBN 144415737X

 

 

 

 

Research

Examples of research funding:

 

Publications

Publications

Orbital Bone Fractures in a Central London Trauma Center: A Retrospective Study of 582 Patients
Moffatt J, Hughes D, Bhatti N, Holmes S J Craniofac Surg 2021 Jan 05 doi 10.1097/SCS.0000000000007384


Combining trauma severity indices to create a unified craniofacial disruption index: addition of the frontobasal unit to the ZS model Douglas JA, Gill K, Holmes S  BJOMS 2020 Br J Oral Maxillofac Surg. 2020 Sep;58(7):784-788.


What are the limitations of the non patient specific implant in titanium reconstruction of the orbit ?
Schittler F, Vig N, Burkhard JP, Lieger O, Michel C, Holmes S.  BJOMS 2020 58 (9) e80-e85

Toward a consensus view in the management of acute facial injuries during the Covid-19 pandemic
Holmes S, Bhatti N, Bhandari R,  Chatzopoulou Dominiki. (2020). Toward a consensus view in the management of acute facial injuries during the Covid-19 pandemic.  Br J Oral Maxillofac Surg. 2020 Jun;58(5):571-576.

Acquired Brown Syndrome in Head Trauma: Does Fixation of Associated Nasal and Frontal Bone Fractures Provide a Cure? Watts M,   McQuillan J, Holmes S. (2020).  Acquired Brown Syndrome in Head Trauma: Does Fixation of Associated Nasal and Frontal Bone Fractures Provide a Cure?.   Br Ir Orthopt J 2020 Jan 30;16(1):1-3.


The “European Zygomatic Fracture” research project: the epidemiological results from a multicenter European collaboration Brucoli M, Boffano P, Broccardo E, Benech A,  Corre P, Bertin H,  Pechalova P, Pavlov N,  Petrov P,  Tamme T,  Kopchak A,  Hresko A, Shuminsky E, Dediol E,  Tarle, M,  Konstantinovic V,  Petrovic M,  Holmes S,  Karagozoglu K, Hakki  F, Tymour F. (2019).  The “European Zygomatic Fracture” research project: the epidemiological results from a multicenter European collaboration.  Journal of Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery. 47. 10.1016/j.jcms.2019.01.026.

Elite and Professional sports facial injuries management – a consensus report Scott N,  Hughes J, Forbes-Haley C, East  ,Holmes S, Wilson E , Ball S, Hammond D, Drake D, Hutchison I, Cobb A. Elite and Professional sports facial injuries management – a consensus report.  Br J Oral Maxillofac Surg. 2020 Dec;58(10):e254-e259.

Craniomaxillofacial Trauma Management in Austere and War-zone Environments - A Role for Composite Tissue Allotransplantation? Ghanem A, Borg T, Sadigh P,  Myers S, Smith D, Holmes S. (2019).  Craniomaxillofacial Trauma Management in Austere and War-zone Environments - A Role for Composite Tissue Allotransplantation?.
The Annals of Fires and Burn Disaster. XXXII. 308.

Contemporary Classification of Zygomatic Fractures; A Shift to using Function over Form Douglas J, Gill K, Holmes S. (2018).  Contemporary Classification of Zygomatic Fractures; A Shift to using Function over Form. British Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. 56. e52. 10.1016/j.bjoms.2018.10.154.

Prevalence and predictive factors of psychological morbidity following facial injury: a prospective study of patients attending a maxillofacial outpatient clinic within a major UK city Wilson N, Heke S,  Holmes S, Dain V, Priebe S, Bridle C, Aylen I, Boyd C,  Ramjaun G, Kanzaria A. (2018). Prevalence and predictive factors of psychological morbidity following facial injury: a prospective study of patients attending a maxillofacial outpatient clinic within a major UK city. Dialogues in Clinical Neuroscience. 20. 327-339. 10.31887/DCNS.2018.20.4/sheke.


Management of facial trauma in children in the Libyan war, our experience Zaggut A, Farook S, , Bhatti N, Holmes S. (2017). Management of facial trauma in children in the Libyan war, our experience.
British Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. 55. e145. 10.1016/j.bjoms.2017.08.172.

Management of complex orbital fractures Bhatti N, Kanzaria A,  Huxham-Owen N, Bridle C, Holmes S. (2016). Management of complex orbital fractures.  Br J Oral Maxillofac Surg. 2016 Sep;54(7):719-23. doi: 10.1016/j.bjoms.2016.04.025. Epub 2016 Jun 3.

The effect of direction of force to the craniofacial skeleton on the severity of brain injury in patients with a fronto-basal fracture Stephens J, Holmes S, Bulters D, Evans B.T.(2016).  International Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. 45. 10.1016/j.ijom.2016.01.016.


Applied anatomy of the anterior cranial fossa: What can fracture patterns tell us? Stephens J,  Holmes S,  Evans BT.(2015).  Applied anatomy of the anterior cranial fossa: What can fracture patterns tell us?. International Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery. 45. 10.1016/j.ijom.2015.10.002.

Mechanisms and management of vision loss following orbital and facial trauma. McClenaghan, F.C. & Ezra, D.G. & Holmes, Simon. (2011).  Mechanisms and management of vision loss following orbital and facial trauma.
Current opinion in ophthalmology. 22. 426-31. 10.1097/ICU.0b013e3283499420

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