Dr. Muhammad Sheraz Raza

MBBS, MRCSEdin.,FCPS Plastic Surgery, Fellowship in Hand & Microsurgery NUH Singapore

Dr. Sheraz Raza is a Cosmetic and Plastic Surgeon par excellence. He is specially passionate in imaginative body sculpting that includes Rhinoplasty, Tummy tuck, Liposuction in Lahore, Blepharoplasty , Facelift, Botox and Filler. Dr Sheraz takes pride in his work and maintains very high standards in the services he provides in both Cosmetic and Reconstructive Plastic Surgery. He is very passionate about his craft as a plastic surgeon and thinks of his surgery as an art rather than science. Dr. Sheraz is famous for Rhinoplasty and Liposuction surgery as well.

Education:

Dr. Sheraz attended Crescent Model Higher Secondary School, Lahore for 10 years, from 1986 to 1996, completing his primary and secondary schooling. Crescent being one of the top schools in the province. He then joined the prestigious institute of Government College Lahore in 1997, home to greatest of scholars, politicians and socialites. He qualified through pre-medical Tests and entered the central medical education program of Punjab and joined Punjab Medical College, Faisalabad in 1999. There he- qualified with honours in all professional examinations and exited the medical school in 2004.

Immediately after exiting from medical school Dr. Sheraz went to USA and joined internship and later research program in the all prestigious institute of Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. Mayo Clinic in Rochester Minnesota is the house to original Sir William Worral Mayo and is the biggest private hospital in USA. He returned to Pakistan and did his House Job in Mayo Hospital, Lahore, the biggest tertiary care hospital in the region. During his work as a house officer he was known as The Ghost for his tireless working capacity. After housemanship Dr. Sheraz went to UK and completed his MRCS( Memebership of Royal College of Surgery). He did his initial 2 years of General Surgery Training in Shaikh Zayed, PGMI, Lahore. Shaikh Zayed Hospital is the biggest and the top ranked Hepato-biliary surgery center and also provides largest liver transplant services in the country. Dr. Sheraz joined Plastic Surgery in Mayo Hospital, Lahore in 2008. He completed his training in Plastic Surgery and qualified for the exit exam in Plastic Surgery with Distinction in 2012. During the training he was regarded as one of the brightest trainee and appreciated and acknowledged by whole Plastic Surgery Faculty both national and international. He was a very familiar face in most national and international meetings and conferences. During his training Dr. Sheraz developed special interest in Cosmetic Surgery and Hand & Microsurgery. He attended a one year fellowship program in Hand and Microsurgery in National University Hospital, Singapore from 2013 to 2014. He was liked by all peers and well regarded by all major Hand Sourgeons from around the world with whom he frequently encountered in conferences all around the world.
After the formal training he frequented a number of international travelling fellowships in Cosmetic Surgery. He is also a familiar face in international symposia presenting his latest techniques as well as learning to refine his skills in ever progressing and evolving field of Plastic Surgery.

Dr. Sheraz Raza has developed a proficient practice in most aspects of plastic surgery but there are certain procedures that he has special interest in and his results speak volumes of this interest. He is especially interested in Facial Rejuvenation procedures and surgery especially Blepheroplasty and Face lift. He travels to Europe and US on annual basis to keep himself up to date with all the recent advancements in these procedures. Another procedure that is very close to his heart is Nose reshaping surgery known as Rhinoplasty. It is one of the most challenging procedure for any surgeon as no 2 persons have same kind of nose, nor same kind of nose suites on 2 different faces.

• Other procedures that Dr. Sheraz have special interest in include body contouring procedures (liposuction, tummy tuck, brachiplasty, breast implants, buttock lifts).
• Hand Surgery and reconstruction also have a sepcial place in Dr. Sheraz’s passions.

Dr. Sheraz has a special place in his heart for research and he has designated a good amount of his time to his research projects, which are quite a few in number. He has a number of publications in peer reviewed journals on the topics of skin graft donor site management, tendon repair techniques in upper limb, modifications of flaps for soft tissue defects coverage, nerve repair techniques, options of burn management, amongst so many others. Dr. Sheraz takes out special time to travel around the world to discuss his own research and listen to other people’s ideas to expand his vision at every opportunity. He is currently involved in one of the bigger trials on fat grafting and stem cells procurement and their molecular effects in Cosmetic procedures and various kind of neurological and tissue degenerative disorders.

Dr. Sheraz Raza proposed a modification in tendon repair technique by Lim & Tsai involving looped sutures, in American Journal Of Hand Surgery . This modification received wide acceptance and considerably reduced the price of procedure. He has also devised a modification of Sural Artery Flap for heel defects that has considerably improved outcomes in hands of most reconstructive surgeons.
Dr. Sheraz has also proposed a new technique of nerve repair esp in Brachial Plexus injuries which is supposed to improve results in nerve injury patients.

Dr. Sheraz has been an out and out sportsman in his school and college days. He captained Cricket, Basketball and Volleyball teams in both school, high school and college days winning cups and medals on the way.
His hobbies mainly involve collecting watches for which he has a pretty impressively large collection. He likes watching movies in his spare time and is usually quite up to date about the latest raves in movie world.

Dr. Sheraz is actively involved in a lot of pro bono work. He is working with a number of charities and NGOs especially the ones working on helping Burn Victims, Acid Victims and also in childhood defects like clefts and other congenital defects.
He worked selflessly in 2005 Kashmir earthquake stricken areas. He was one of the first ones to reach those places and help establish the 1st base hospital in Bagh, Azad Kashmir. He worked in collaboration with BBC and CNN to help organize the lost and found children database. After that he has also been instrumental in holding camps in far off rural areas in an attempt to help these people who are deprived of medical facilities.