Miss Deborah Foong

Miss Deborah Foong is a Consultant Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon based in Birmingham. Her NHS practice is based at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham and the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust where she specialises in complex reconstruction following cancer treatment and trauma.

Miss Foong’s specialist interests are in soft tissue reconstruction following cancer treatment or trauma. In her NHS practice, she is the principal plastic surgical reconstructive surgeon at the Birmingham Sarcoma Unit, and manages complex extremity trauma at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital. 

She has a special interest in amputee surgery and is a core member of two specialist multidisciplinary amputee clinics. Her scope of work includes refashioning of amputation stumps and all forms of nerve surgery for neuroma, including targeted muscle reinnervation (TMR) and regenerative peripheral nerve interface (RPNI) surgery. She is the lead plastic surgeon on the the team performing osseointegration surgery for British Veterans at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital Birmingham.

Miss Foong completed undergraduate medical training at the University of Nottingham, qualifying in 2003. She trained in the West Midlands and Manchester before completing her Higher Surgical Training in Nottingham. In 2017, she had conferred upon her the Specialty Fellowship of the Royal College Of Surgeons (Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, FRCS (Plast)). Prior to her appointment as a Consultant Plastic and Reconstructive surgeon, she completed fellowships in Microsurgical Reconstruction in Nottingham, and in Hand Surgery at the Pulvertaft Hand Centre, Derby. She has been a member pf the Joint Committee of Intercollegiate Examinations FRCS (Plast) MCQ Writing Group since 2020.