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Asim Shahmalak, MBBS, FISHRS

Membership Status

Fellow

Location

Crown Clinic, Global House
16 Bailey Lane
Manchester Airport
Manchester

M90 4AB

GB

Web: https://www.crownclinic.co.uk

Phone:  44-0161-437-4333

Fax: 44-0161-437-4334

Alternate Address

10 Harley Street, London W1G 9PF

Education, ISHRS Fellowship Training Programs, & Board Certifications

1 Medical School – Sindh Medical College, University of Karachi, Pakistan – 1988.

2 Senior House Officer in General Surgery in the Republic of Ireland 1990-1997.

3 Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons (FRCS) in 1995

4 Specialist Registrar in General Surgery in 1997.

5 Specialist Doctor in General Surgery for the Warrington & Halton Hospital NHS Foundation Trust 2001-2011.

6 Hair Transplant Surgeon for The Hospital Group – 2005-2007.

7 Founder & Director of the Crown Clinic hair transplant clinic in Manchester and Harley Street – 2007-present.

8 Facuty membr of Orlando Live Surgery Workshop

About the Doctor

Dr Asim Shahmalak studied for his medical degree (MBBS) graduating from the Sindh Medical College, University of Karachi, Pakistan, in 1988. He trained as a general surgeon, moving to the Republic of Ireland in 1990 to take up a post as a Senior House Office in General Surgery. In 1997, he qualified as a Specialist Registrar in general surgery. He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (FRCS) in 1995 before moving to the UK in 1996 where he worked as a general surgeon in the NHS for 15 years.

He began working privately as a hair transplant surgeon in 2006. In 2007 he founded his own hair transplant clinic called Crown Clinic. In 2011, he left the NHS to devote himself full-time to hair restoration and aesthetic surgery at Crown Clinic in Manchester and Harley Street. His current practice mainly offers follicular unit transplantation by both strip and FUE methods up to 3,500 grafts per session.

Apart from male and female pattern hair loss, Dr Shahmalak also specializes in eyebrow and eyelash transplant surgery. He was the first surgeon in the UK to perform an eyelash transplant – on a young female patient from Great Manchester. He recently became the first UK-based surgeon to perform an eyelash and eyebrow transplant on a patient on the same day – a mother in her 30s from Essex.

Dr Shahmalak is involved in an ongoing hair follicle research programme in collaboration with staff at the University of Manchester. The research group, headed by Professor Ralf Paus, investigates the biology and pathology of the hair follicle as a mincrocosmic miniorgan in which many of the fundamental problems of biology can be studied in exemplary fashion.

In January 2014, Dr Shahmalak took a team from Crown Clinic to Karachi, Pakistan, to perform eyelash, eyebrow and hair transplant surgery on six women and one man who had been horrifically injured in acid attacks – most after being doused in sulphuric acid. One victim was attacked by her husband in a fit of jealousy after taking a job as an air stewardess. Another was attacked after turning down her boyfriend’s marriage proposal. Dr Shahmalak funded the trip and surgery himself at a cost of £50,000 ($85,000). He was accompanied on the trip by a film crew from ITN news and it received widespread TV coverage.

Dr Shahmalak is one of the world’s best-known hair transplant surgeons and is in demand as a media commentator by organisations such as the BBC. He has his own blog on the internationally famous Huffington Post news website. He is the hair loss expert on the popular UK TV medical show Embarrassing Bodies. Dr Shahmalak is well-known for his work with celebrities – performing hair transplant on the famous model Calum Best (son of the late footballer George Best) and Christian Jessen, presenter of Embarrassing Bodies.

Dr Shahmalak has been a regular speaker at medical conference since 2008. He operates a busy practice in the UK mainly via word-of-mouth recommendation and referrals.

Dr Shahmalak is a participant in the ISHRS’s Operation Restore where physicians donated their services for free for a worthy cause. More details here:

https://ishrs.org/media-center/pro-bono-foundation.htm

ISHRS Join Year

2006

ISHRS World Congresses Attended

14

Procedures Performed

• Beards and moustaches
• Body hair transplantation
• Ethnic hair
• Eyebrows
• Eyelashes
• Female hair restoration surgery
• Follicular Unit Excision (FUE)
• Follicular Unit Transplantation (FUT)
• Medical (non-surgical) management of hair loss for men
• Medical (non-surgical) management of hair loss for women
• Scar revision