Mr Riaz Agha

Profile

Riaz Agha is a Plastic Surgeon at Harley Clinic and an NHS Clinical Entrepreneur. He obtained his Certificate of Completion of Training in April 2020. In 2018, he completed his doctorate at Balliol College, University of Oxford where he was a Clarendon Scholar. His thesis was titled Evidence based Plastic Surgery. In 2010, Riaz was awarded a Scholarship from the National Institute for Clinical Excellence for his project on national surgical surveillance. He subsequently worked with the CQC to improve coverage and focus of their indicators for acute hospital services.

Riaz graduated from Guy's, King's and St. Thomas' Medical School in London with distinctions and a 1st in his intercalated BSc in Anatomy. He has been awarded 50 academic prizes, published 150 scientific papers and given 150 presentations at national/international level.

Riaz founded the International Journal of Surgery (IJS) which had an impact factor of 3.158 in 2018. He is a council member for the Section of Plastic Surgery at the Royal Society of Medicine with board level appointments to; the Elsevier Editorial System Advisory Board, Map of Medicine Fellows Board and the Association of Surgeons in Training. I sit on the Web Committee for the World Association of Medical Editors and have built two websites for NATO. He is formerly a Council Member for the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and an Ambassador for Enterprise UK.

Riaz has been a Consultant on healthcare and technology to a member of the Joint Ventures Board of the Bank of Scotland, former Vice-Chairman of the Governing Council of University College London and the former Chairman of the Further Education Council. He was cited as an “inspirational entrepreneur” by The Rt. Hon. John Hutton MP, Former Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise & Regulatory Reform at his keynote speech during Enterprise week 2007. In 2014 he was awarded Freedom of the City of London.