Jonathan believes that academic rigour is as important as practical rigour when it comes to providing a leading and authoritative service to clients. This is why he maintains a keen interest in research, lecturing, education and representative positions on behalf of patient care.
Jonathan has produced many papers, publications and presentations. A selection is listed on these pages.
Degrees
Bachelor of Science; Honours First Class, London 1987
Bachelor of Medicine; Bachelor of Surgery, London 1990
Medical Doctorate; University of London 2002
Diplomas
Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh 1994
Speciality Fellowship in Plastic Surgery, FRCS(Plast) 2003
Jonathan is frequently invited as Senior Faculty to present his work and to chair surgical forums for peers and trainees. A recent selection of these events includes:
Aesthetic Surgery:
RSM Aesthetics 10 – Royal Society of Medicine, London, February 2018
President of Faculty of Aesthetics 2017-18. Once day, international and multidisciplinary forum for discussion and peer review in state of the art aesthetics care.
International, invited faculty by Jonathan Britto to promote a patient centred, ethical, and evidence – based approach to patient care in aesthetic medicine and surgery.
Aesthetic Medicine Live! Olympia, London March 2018
Invited faculty – presenting personal results and perspectives in mid facelifting and eyelid aesthetic surgery.
FaceEyesNose – May/November 2012-2017
Aesthetic Surgery of the Face. Founding Faculty and Chair
Warwick Medical School, University of Coventry and Warwickshire.
SORG Comprehensive Course, May 2017
Whats in a Face? Analysis, techniques & outcomes in facelift surgery; Tuttlingen, Germany, May 2017
Moorfields Orbitofacial Course
Invited Faculty, Royal College of Surgeons of England, July 2015
Session Chair: ‘The Surface and Just Beneath’
RSM IGC-7 Interventional Cosmetics: New and Controversial Treatments, London 2015
CCR Expo, London 2013, 2014
Session Chair: ‘Blepharoplasty’, ‘Complications of non-surgical aesthetics’
Session Chair: Great Live Debate, outcome of the Keough Report into Cosmetic Care
Masterclass in Facial Aesthetics Course Co-Director.
Faculty of General Dental Practitioners, Royal College of Surgeons of England
July 2009, June 2011, June 2013
Reconstructive Surgery:
Session Chair: Hypertelorism
International Society of Craniofacial Surgery; Tokyo, Japan; 2015
Session Chair: Controversies and Challenges in Head and Neck and Facial Palsy
St Andrews Head and Neck; Chelmsford, Essex; 2015
Co Chair: Craniofacial Session II. ESPRAS Meeting, Edinburgh, 2014
Association of Plastic Surgeons of India (APSICON) – Faculty & session chair
APSICON meeting, Coimbatore Sept 2011
‘Craniofacial, Clefts, and Head and Neck Surgery’ Session
BAPRAS Summer Meeting 2007, Deauville, France
‘Head & Neck Surgery; Facial Palsy’
Convening Chair. Two day instructional course, for consultants and trainees, with international and national delegates from a number of specialities. Responsibility for programme and invitation of local and international faculty.
BAPRAS Advanced Educational Course: March 2007.
Jonathan is frequently invited to lecture on subjects of aesthetic surgery and reconstructive craniofacial surgery. Recent subjects include:
Vale Visiting Professor: Orbito-palpebral surgery in Children
Faculty of Plastic Surgery, Lindsay – Thompson Academic Day
University of Toronto Medical School, Toronto, Canada, June 2014
Presidential Address:
What is plastic surgery; technique or speciality?
Royal Society of Medicine, London June 9th 2015
Visiting Professor:
Craniofacial Resection and Reconstruction: Paul Tessier, PCR, Perforators, and Titanium
Harvard Medical School, Boston October 2006
A selection of Invited lectures in Reconstructive & Aesthetic surgery:
Craniofacial Surgery: the privilege and power of multi-disciplinary care
AIMS Meeting (Annual International Medical Students Meeting), Lisbon, March 2016
Complex Peri-orbital Reconstruction
Controversies and Challenges in Head and Neck and Facial Palsy
St Andrews Head and Neck; Chelmsford, Essex; 2015
Symposium: Apert Syndrome: Craniofacial surgery.
Invited Panel: 10th European Craniofacial Congress, Gothenburg, Sweden June 2015
Light and shadow, volume and vector: what’s in a face?
Keynote speaker: Face-Eyes-Nose: www.faceeyesnose.co.uk
Warwick Medical School, University of Coventry and Warwickshire, May 2014
Fronto-orbital surgery & Frontofacial surgery
Visiting Professor; SORG Course in craniofacial surgery, Institute of Maxillofacial Surgery
Moscow, Russia, November, 2013
The Paediatric Orbit: Fronto-orbital surgery & Frontofacial surgery
CME Lecturer, KK Women’s and Children’s Hospital, Singapore, August 2013
What is craniofacial surgery?
Invited Lecturer: Plasticon 2013, Society of Plastic Surgeons of Bangladesh, Dhaka 2013
Scalpel, saw and spring versus molecular ‘scrambling’ – refining outcomes and defining challenges in craniofacial surgery
Invited Plenary Speaker: European Plastic Surgery Research Council Meeting, Hamburg 2012
Technological adjuncts in planning the separation of Craniopagus twins
Invited Panel: IPRAS International Confederation for Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, Vancouver 2011
Eyes together! Orbitopalpebral surgery in congenital craniofacial syndromes
Section of Ophthalmology, Royal Society of Medicine, London, October 2011
Periorbital & Midface Soft Tissue Surgery
Facial Deformity Surgery, Past Present and Future… Royal College of Surgeons of England, London, May 2011
Composite Facial Allotransplantation in children and adolescents – is there a place?
BAPRAS Advanced Educational Course: Craniofacial Surgery & Facial Transplantation Oct 2010
Craniofacial Reconstruction of the Skull Base
BAPRAS Advanced Educational Course: ‘Craniofacial Surgery’, April 2008
Lessons learned from human craniofacial dysostosis syndromes: will defining molecular developmental pathology yield therapeutic gain?
Craniofacial Society, Leeds, April 2003
Sutures, Synostosis, and Syndromes:
International Association of Paediatric Dentistry, Paris, September 2001
Synergising strategies for the lower eyelid and mid face: optimising the available options
RSM ICG-7. ‘New and Controversial Treatments’;
Royal Society of Medicine, London. February 2015
Aesthetic strategies for the eyelids and midface: When the knife must replace the needle
13th Anti-Aging Medicine World Congress (AMWC); Monaco, March 2015
The Unfavourable outcome in Facial Aesthetic surgery: to avoid and to manage
Keynote speaker: Face-Eyes-Nose: www.faceeyesnose.co.uk
Warwick Medical School, University of Coventry and Warwickshire, May 2014
Component separation of the lower eyelid and midface: Aesthetic and reconstructive applications
Section of Ophthalmology, Royal Society of Medicine, London, April 2014
Peri-orbital aesthetics: To inject or to operate?
CCR Expo 2014, Olympia, London, October 2014
Peri-orbital aesthetic surgery: Midfacelifting, why, when, and how
Face-Eyes-Nose: Practical Aesthetics Course, www.faceeyesnose.co.uk
Warwick Medical School, University of Coventry and Warwickshire, May 2013
Augmentation Mastopexy in a single stage
BODY 2013, Royal Society of Medicine, November 2013
‘Pitfalls in the use of Facial Aesthetic Injectables’
CCR Expo 2013, Olympia, London October 2013
Poisons, and the pursuit of plastic perfection!
Clinical Innovations Conference, Royal College of Physicians of England, London, May 2010
Periorbital Aesthetic Surgery
Aesthetic Orthognathic Surgery Course,
Royal College of Surgeons of England, London, May 2009
Facelift & Browlift
Royal Society of Medicine: ‘Interventional Cosmetics’, London, February 2008.
ZIFENS+/-. Technical refinements and decision-making based upon facial morphologic classification for orbital box osteotomy and facial bipartition in the correction of hypertelorism.
Britto JA manuscript in preparation 2016
Peskett E, Kumar S, Baird W, Jaiswal J, Li M, Patel P, Britto JA, Pauws E
Analysis of the Fgfr2C342Y mouse model shows defects in the pattern of mesenchymal condensation through transcriptional regulation of Sox9
Biol Open Submitted 2016
Way B, Khonsari RH, Karunakaran T, Nysjo J, Nystrom, I,
Dunaway DJ, Evans RD, Hayward RD, Britto JA
Correcting exorbitism by Monobloc frontofacial advancement in Crouzon-Pfeiffer Syndrome: an age-specific, time – related, controlled study.
Plast Reconstr Surg. Submitted 2016
Glass GE, Hon, KAV, Scweibert, K, Bowman R, Jones BJ, Dunaway, DJ, Britto, JA
Ocular morbidity in the correction of orbital hypertelorism and dystopia: A 15 year experience
Plast Reconstr Surg. In press 2016
Khonsari RH, Way B, Nysjo J, Odri GA, Raphaël O, Evans RD,
Dunaway DJ, Nystrom, I, Britto JA
Frontofacial advancement and bipartition in Crouzon-Pfeiffer and Apert syndromes: impact of fronto-facial surgery upon orbital and airway parameters in FGFR2 syndromes
J. Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery in Press 2016
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcms.2016.08.015
Ibrahim A, Suttie M, Bulstrode N, Britto JA, Dunaway D, Hammond P, Ferretti P.
Combined soft and skeletal tissue modeling of normal and dysmorphic midface postnatal development.
J. Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery in press Sept 2016
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcms.2016.08.020
Gravvanis A, Britto JA.
The distally based, venous supercharged anterolateral thigh flap.
Microsurgery. 2016 Aug 1. doi: 10.1002/micr.30085.
Hayward R, Britto J, Dunaway D, Jeelani O.
Connecting raised intracranial pressure and cognitive delay in craniosynostosis: many assumptions, little evidence.
J Neurosurg Pediatr. 2016 May 13:1-9.
Senarath-Yapa K, Li S, Walmsley GG, Zielins, E, Paik K, Britto JA,
Grigoriadis AG, Wan DC, Liu KJ, Longaker MT, Quarto N
Small Molecule Inhibition of TGF Signaling Enables the Endogenous Regenerative Potential of the Mammalian Calvarium.
Tissue Eng Part A. 2016 May;22(9-10):707-20
Pessis R, Lantieri L, Britto JA, Leguerinel C, Wolkenstein P, Hivelin M.
Surgical care burden in orbito-temporal neurofibromatosis: multiple procedures and surgical care duration analysis in 47 consecutive adult patients
J Craniomaxillofac Surg. 2015 Oct;43(8):1684-93.
Hayward R, Britto JA, Dunaway D, Evans R, Jeelani NU, Thompson D.
Letter to the Editor: Raised intracranial pressure and nonsyndromic sagittal craniosynostosis.
J Neurosurg Pediatr. 2015 May 22:1-4.
Breakey W, Abela C, Evans R, Jeelani O, Britto J, Hayward R, Dunaway D.
Hypertelorism correction with facial bipartition and box osteotomy: does soft tissue translation correlate with bony movement?
J Craniofac Surg. 2015 Jan;26(1):196-200
Moses MA, Green BC, Cugno S, Hayward RD, Jeelani NU, Britto JA,
Bulstrode NW, Dunaway DJ.
The management of midline frontonasal dermoids: a review of 55 cases at a tertiary referral center and a protocol for treatment.
Plast Reconstr Surg. 2015 Jan;135(1):187-96.
Britto JA, Greig A, Abela C, Hearst D, Dunaway DJ, Evans RD
Frontofacial surgery in children and adolescents: techniques, indications and results.
Semin Plast Surg. 2014 Aug;28(3):121-9.
Greig AV, Britto JA, Abela C, Witherow H, Richards R, Evans RD, Jeelani NU,
Hayward RD, Dunaway DJ
Correcting the typical Apert face: combining bipartition with monobloc distraction.
Plast Reconstr Surg. 2013 Feb;131(2):219e-230e.
Kumar S, Peskett E, BrittoJA, Pauws E
Putative genes downstream of FGFR2 contributing to coronal craniosynostosis in a crouzon mouse model.
Int.J.Surg. 11(8):597–598 Oct 2013
Abela C, Mclellan L, Truscott K, Jeelani O, Dunaway DJ, Britto JA,
Hayward RD, Jones B, Diwan Z
A 10 – year experience of over 100 frontofacial procedures in syndromic children and their complications.
Journal of Neurology Neurosurgery & Psychiatry 83(Suppl 2):A5-A6 55 Nov 2012
Britto JA, Gwanmesia I, Leshem D
The Christmas Tree foreheadplasty, a novel technique used in combination with a bandeau for fronto-orbital remodelling in craniosynostosis
Childs Nerv Syst. 2012 Sep;28(9):1375-80.
Dunaway DJ, Britto JA, Abela C, Evans RD, Jeelani NU.
Complications of frontofacial advancement.
Childs Nerv Syst. 2012 Sep;28(9):1571-6.
Kumar S, Peskett E, Pauws E, Britto JA
Characterisation of coronal suture fusion in a Crouzon mouse model
Br. J. OMFS 2012 Jun
Fattah A, Pollock J, Maheshwar, Britto JA
Big Bad BCCs: craniofacial resection and reconstruction for atypical basal cell carcinomata.
J Plast Reconstr Aesthet Surg. 2010 May; 63(5):e433-41
John H, Britto JA
Nonchoroidal intraorbital malignant melanoma arising from Naevus of Ota
J Plast Reconstr Aesthet Surg. 2010 Apr;63(4):e387-9
Gravvanis A, Britto JA
Venous Augmentation of Distally Based Pedicled ALT Flap to
Reconstruct the Tibial Tuberosity in a Severely Injured Leg
Ann Plast Surg. 2009 Mar; 62(3): 290-2
Britto JA, Jones BM
Dr Paul Tessier: Obituary
Independent Newspaper, Mon 23 June 2008
Figus A, Britto JA, Ragoowansi RH, and Elliot D.
A clinical analysis of Dupuytren’s disease of the thumb
J Hand Surg Eur Vol. 2008 Jun; 33(3):272-279
Chong DK, Murray DJ, Britto JA, Tompson B, Forrest CR, Phillips JH.
A cephalometric analysis of maxillary and mandibular parameters in Treacher Collins syndrome.
Plast Reconstr Surg. 2008 Mar;121(3):77e-84e.
Leshem D, Tompson B, Britto JA, Forrest CR, Phillips JH.
Orthognathic surgery in juvenile rheumatoid arthritis patients.
Plast Reconstr Surg. 2006 May; 117(6):1941-6.
Britto JA, Buncic R, Lapid O, Phillips JH.
Potential blindness: an unusual complication of lateral canthopexy.
Br J Plast Surg. 2005 Oct; 58(7):1029-32.
Marchac D, Britto JA.
Remodelling the upper eyelid in the management of orbitopalpebral neurofibromatosis.
Br J Plast Surg. 2005 Oct; 58(7):944-56.
Khan SH, Britto JA, Evans RD, Nischal KK.
Expression of FGFR-2 and FGFR-3 in the normal human fetal orbit.
Br J Ophthalmol. 2005 Dec; 89(12):1643-5.
Britto JA
Advances in the Molecular Pathogenesis of Craniofacial Conditions
Oral Maxillofac Surg Clin North Am 2004; 16(4):567-586
Elliot D, Britto JA
Tripier’s innervated myocutaneous flap 1889
Br J Plas Surg. 2004 Sep; 57(6):543-549
Britto JA, Tompson B, Leshem D, Ng B, Forrest CR, Phillips JH
Anatomical anomaly in the Treacher Collins mandible: significance in bimaxillary surgery (Abstract)
Can J Plas Surg 2004; 12(2):101 – 102
Accioli JJ, Britto JA, Henin D, Vacher C
The fascial planes of the temple and face: An en-bloc anatomical study and a plea for consistency.
Br J Plas Surg. 2003 Oct; 56(7):623-629 (Journal Lead article)
Vacher CV, Accioli JJ, Britto JA
The upper buccal sulcus approach, an alternative for post-trauma rhinoplasty.
Br J Plast Surg. 2003 Apr; 56(3):218-23.
Griffiths, M, Britto JA, Frame J
Five – year follow up of replantation of penis and testis in a child
The Lancet 2003; 361:263
Britto JA, Elliott D
Thumb function without the Abductor Pollicis Longus and Extensor Pollicis Brevis.
J Hand Surg [Br] 2002; 27(3):274-7
Britto JA, Evans RD, Hayward RD, Jones BM
Towards pathogenesis of Apert cleft palate – FGF, FGFR, and TGF genes are differentially expressed in sequential stages of human palatal shelf fusion.
Cleft Palate Craniofac J 2002; 39(3):332-340
Britto JA, Ragoowansi RH, Flemming AFS
A Novel Method for the repair of flexor digitorum superficialis lacerations in zone 2
Plast Reconstr Surg 2001; 108:456-459
Ragoowansi RH, Britto JA
Genetic and epigenetic influences on the pathogenesis of Dupuytren’s disease. (Letter)
J Hand Surg [Am]. 2001; 26A(6):1157-1158.
Britto JA, Elliott D
Aggressive keloid scarring of the Caucasian wrist and palm.
Br J Plas Surg 2001; 54(5):461-463
Britto JA, Evans RD, Hayward RD, Jones BM
From Genotype to Phenotype: the differential expression of FGF, FGFR, and TGF genes characterises human cranioskeletal development, and reflects clinical presentation in FGFR – syndromes.
Plast Reconstr Surg 2001; 108:2026-2039
Britto JA, Moore R, Evans RD, Hayward RD, Jones BM
Negative autoregulation of fibroblast growth factor receptor 2 expression characterizing cranial development in cases of Apert (P253R mutation) and Pfeiffer (C278F mutation) syndromes and suggesting a basis for differences in their cranial phenotypes.
J Neurosurg 2001; 95(4):660-673
Britto JA, Chan C-t J, Evans RD, Hayward RD, Jones BM
Differential expression of FGFRs in human digital development suggests common pathogenesis in complex acrosyndactyly and craniosynostosis.
Plast Reconstr Surg 2001; 107(6):1331– 1338
Taylor W, Hayward RD, Lasjaunias P, Britto JA, Thompson D, Jones BM, Evans RD
The enigma of raised intracranial pressure in patients with complex craniosynostosis:
the role of abnormal intracranial venous drainage.
J Neurosurg 2001; 94(3):377 – 385
Singh – Ranger G, Britto JA, Sommerlad BC
Contact dermatitis complicating pinnaplasty.
Br J Plas Surg 2001; 54(3):243-5
Britto JA, Chan C-t J, Evans RD, Hayward RD, Thorogood P, Jones BM
Fibroblast Growth Factor Receptors are expressed in Craniosynostotic Sutures.
Plast Reconstr Surg 1998; 101(2):540 – 543
Britto JA, Ragoowansi RH, Sommerlad BC
Double tongue, intraoral anomalies, and cleft palate – Case Reports & A Discussion of Developmental Pathology.
Cleft Palate Craniofac J 2000; 37:410–415
Britto JA
‘Stitch tricks’. Letter to the Editor.
Br J Plas Surg 1999; 52(7):599 – 60
Britto JA, Evans RD, Hayward RD, Jones BM
Maxillary distraction osteogenesis in Pfeiffer’s syndrome – Urgent ocular protection by
gradual midfacial skeletal advancement.
Br J Plas Surg 1998; 51:343 – 349
Jones BM, Hayward RD, Evans RD, Britto JA
Occipital Plagiocephaly – An epidemic of craniosynostosis? (Editorial)
Br Med J 1997; 315:693 – 694
Britto JA, McCoy D, Fourie LR
Clonidine as a Premedication for Rhinoplasty. (Letter, reporting PRCT)
Plast Reconstr Surg 1997; 100(2):548 – 549
Britto JA
Residency Experienced: In pursuit of structured apprenticeship…
Ann R Coll Surg Engl 1995; 77(2):64 – 66
Bell GW, Britto JA
Extraction site healing complicated by neoplasia.
Dental Update 1995; 22: 9:383-5
Metcalfe K, Britto JA, Murphy M, King T, Monson J
Entirely suprasellar case of Rathke’s cleft cyst – chiasmal compression without endocrine dysfunction.
J Endocrinol 1992; 135(s):37
Kumar D, Soffer EE, Wingate DL, Britto JA, Das-Gupta A, Mridha K
Modulation of the Duration of Human Postprandial Motor Activity by sleep.
Am J Physiol 1989; 256:G851-G855
Soffer EE, Kumar D, Mridha K, Das-Gupta A, Britto JA, Wingate DL
The Effect of Pirenzepine on Oesophageal, Gastric and Enteric Motor Function in Man.
Scand J Gastroenterol 1988; 23:146-50
Kumar D, Soffer EE, Britto JA, Das-Gupta A, Mridha K, Wingate DL
Interaction of Food and Sleep in the Modulation of Human Proximal Small Bowel
Motility. (Abstract) Dig Dis Sci 1987; 32:918
Armstrong-James M, Britto JA, Fox K, Mercier BE
Short Latency Responses to Vibrissa Stimulation from Layer Vb Neurones in the Rat
Barrel Field. (Abstract) J Physiol 1987; 33:43P
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Book:
Britto JA, Dalrymple-Hay MJR.
‘Pathways Through Surgical Finals’. Churchill Livingstone, 1993. Reprinted 1994, 1996
A guide to surgical decision – making for the medical student and junior surgical trainee.
Reviews: • Br J Surg 1994; 81: 4: 629 • Ann R Coll Surg Engl 1994; 76: 5: 359
J Irish Coll Phy Surg 1995; 24: 1: 46
Book Chapters:
Fattah A, Meara J, Britto JA
‘Craniofacial development and congenital anomaly: a contemporary review of processes and pathogenesis.’ Pediatric Otolaryngology 5th Edn.
Bluestone CD & Healy GB. 2010
Britto JA, Bulstrode N, Dunaway DJ, Morris, P, Sivakumar B, Smith G, Thorburn G, Kangesu TL
‘Paediatric plastic surgery’: The GOS handbook of Paediatrics
Britto JA, Reardon WR
‘Syndromic craniofacial dysostosis: Molecular & developmental aspects’ The Clinical Management of Craniosynostosis.
Hayward RD et al (Ed). Mac – Keith Press, 2004
Thompson DNP, Britto JA
‘Classification and clinical diagnosis’ The Clinical Management of Craniosynostosis.
Hayward RD et al (Ed). Mac – Keith Press, 2004
Britto JA, Fenton L, Fenton OM.
‘The Skin, Skin Tumours, & Plastic Surgery’ New Airds Companion In Surgical Studies
Burnand KG & Young AE (Eds, 3rd Edn). Churchill Livingstone, 1998
Britto JA, Moganasundram S, Phipps AR
‘Thermal, Chemical, and Explosive Injuries’ Trauma – A Scientific Basis for Care
Alpar EK & Gosling P (Eds). Edward Arnold, 1999
Britto JA, Fenton OM
‘Burn Injury and its Management’ Trauma. A Companion to Bailey & Love’s Short Practice of Surgery
Skinner D & Whimster F (Eds). Edward Arnold, 1998
Britto JA, Phipps AR
Major Burn Trauma; Pathophysiology & Early Management
SURGERY 1995; 13: 12:283 – 8
Additional contributions to books
‘The Developing Human – Clinically Orientated Embryology’. (7th Edn)
‘Before we are born’ (6th Edn). Persaud V. WB Saunders, 2000
