John Potter Lecture

The John Potter Lecture is given annually at the BAPRAS Summer Scientific Meeting.

The lecture has been endowed by the late John Potter, a surgeon based in Newcastle upon Tyne, who pioneered surgery for children with cleft lip and palate. The lecture fund is administered by Newcastle University.

The inaugural lecture was given in 2012

John Potter Lecturers


2012 D Fisher  Cleft Lip Repair: Anatomical Subunit Concept 
2013 M Novikov  Smile Restoration in Developmental Facial Paralysis 
2014 L Lantieri  Face Transplant: a Paradigm Shift in Reconstructive Surgery 
2015 J Marsh  Cleft lip/palate and facial deformations: the lessons I have learnt 
2016 D David  Removing the stigmata of the cleft
2017 C T K Khoo  From Potter to the present: a plastic peregrination 
2018  M Clemens  Breast Implanted ALCL: Critical Lessons on an Emerging Malignancy
2019  N Mercer  Conundrums, Choices and Consequences - A  Career in Cleft Surgery 
 2020 T Goodacre Making things better...
2023

 M Henley

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