Our Consultant Plastic Surgeons

Miss Jennifer O’Neill is a plastic, reconstructive and aesthetic surgeon. 

Miss O’Neill graduated from Cambridge University (Queens’ College) with a first class degree and then completed clinical medical training at Oxford University (New College) in 2000.

Her initial surgical training was completed in London, Brighton, Exeter and East Grinstead. Miss O’Neill then visited Melbourne to perform research and earn a Master of Medicine (MMed) on the subject of the lymphatic system before taking up a further surgical training post on the South-West plastic surgery training programme in Bristol and Exeter.

She is a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (FRCS Plast), and isis on the GMC’s Specialist Register for plastic surgery and is a member of the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (BAPRAS).

Miss O’Neill’s fellowships were hand surgery in East Grinstead and a microsurgery fellowship performing free tissue transfer to the lower limb in Bristol. She also completed an interface fellowship in reconstructive and cosmetic surgery (Training Interface Group) in Guildford in addition to the Bristol aesthetic fellowship.

Miss O’Neill was awarded both the British and the European hand diplomas following the hand fellowship at Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead.

After becoming a Consultant in 2015, Miss O’Neill worked at Wexham Park Hospital treating hand injuries and skin cancer before becoming a permanent Plastic Surgery Consultant at Queen Victoria Hospital in East Grinstead in 2017.

Miss O’Neill is currently Surgical Tutor for plastic surgery at Queen Victoria Hospital and is part of the simulation teaching faculty. She has postgraduate qualifications in healthcare leadership and medical education.

Miss O’Neill has a specialist interest in skin cancer, hand surgery, reconstructive surgery and aesthetic treatments.

MB, BS, MCh, MS, FRCS (G), FRCS (Plast)

Mr Khandwala began in Plastic Surgery in 1989, training in both the UK and India, undertaking Plastic Surgery training at the St James University Hospital in Leeds, Charing Cross, Chelsea and Westminster, St Andrew’s Centre for Plastic Surgery in Chelmsford, Queen Mary’s, Roehampton and Stoke Mandeville Hospital. He completed his specialist training and was appointed a Consultant at the Queen Victoria Hospital in 2004. 

Mr Khandwala is a fully accredited specialist in Plastic Surgery, and he is on the Specialist Register for Plastic Surgery with the General Medical Council. 

He is a full member of the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons, the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons, the International Society of Plastic Surgery, and the British Society for Surgery of the Hand.

DM, MCh, FRCS

Mr Nick Parkhouse trained at Oriel College, Oxford and the Middlesex Hospital and carried out research into wound healing for which he was awarded a Hunterian Professorship of the Royal College of Surgeons in 1990.

Mr Parkhouse has been a Consultant Plastic Surgeon since 1991. He is based at The McIndoe Centre at East Grinstead and is also a Consultant at King Edward VII Hospital, Sister Agnes, in London. He has held NHS Consultants posts at both the Queen Victoria Hospital, East Grinstead and at Mount Vernon.

He is a Member of the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (BAPRAS), the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (BAAPS), the European Association of Plastic Surgeons (EURAPS) and the American Association of Plastic Surgeons (AAPS).

He has a special interest in the aesthetic/cosmetic surgery of the face, breasts, abdomen and arms. He also has a special interest in the optimisation of scarring and treatment of scarring disfigurement, and the treatment of moles and skin cancer.