Personal Profile
Miss Leena Chagla is the immediate past President of the Association of Breast Surgery and past-President of the Liverpool and Northwest Society of Surgeons. She is the lead clinician and heads the breast unit at Merseyside and West Lancashire NHS Teaching Hospitals which is actively involved in clinical innovation and trials. She continues to publish regularly in peer reviewed journals.
Miss Chagla qualified from Grant Medical College, Mumbai, with a gold medal in Surgery. Whilst in India, she trained at the Sir JJ Hospital and at the Tata Memorial Cancer Centre. Her passion for surgical oncology developed in those formative years.
She is a popular speaker both nationally and internationally and is involved in the development of guidelines for the management of breast cancer. She is passionate about MDT working and she launched the Anti-bullying Campaign (#CoreItOut) for the Association of Breast Surgery (ABS) in alliance with the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (RCSEd). She represented the Association of Breast Surgery on the pathology Big 18 and the organising committee of Symposia Mammographicum.
Miss Chagla was instrumental in setting up the International Forum at ABS with a view to sharing good practice globally. She is committed to improving and standardising breast cancer care through education and training. She is an Educational Supervisor for the National Oncoplastic Fellow for the last 20 years and she has trained International trainees from LMICs on the MTI scheme since 2018.
Current NHS/University Posts
Consultant Breast and General Surgeon, Merseyside and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Clinical interests
- Breast surgery
- General Surgery
Professional memberships
- Association of Breast Surgery (ABS)
- Association of Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland (ASGBI)
Treatments offered
- Epigastric hernia repair
- Hernia repair paraumbilical and umbilical
- Skin lesion
- Total duct excision (Microdochectomy)