John Boorman has been a consultant plastic surgeon since 1987, first at Canniesburn Hospital in Glasgow and since 1992 at the Queen Victoria Hospital in East Grinstead. He has been the President of the Craniofacial Society of Great Britain and was Honorary Secretary of the British Association of Plastic Surgeons for 3 years. He is one of the UK delegates to the UEMS section of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery. His main speciality interests within plastic surgery are breast (both aesthetic and reconstructive), and cleft lip and palate.