Miss Tania Cubison
Consultant Plastic Surgeon

Specialist interests: Burns; scaring; lower limb trauma reconstruction; microsurgery
Miss Tania Cubison is a military plastic surgeon who first joined Queen Victoria Hospital as an SHO in 1996. Miss Cubison is a Lieutenant Colonel in the Royal Army Medical Corps, and is one of two military doctors currently posted to the trust. As one of a small number of regular army plastic surgeons Lt.Col.Cubison has an operational role and will occasionally be deployed overseas.
Miss Cubison underwent specialist registrar training in East Grinstead and Newcastle-upon-Tyne, and was awarded the McGregor Gold medal for the FRCS (Plast) examination in 2006. She completed her training with a specialist burn fellowship at St Andrew’s Burn Centre, Chelmsford and visits to burn centres in the USA.
Specialises in lower limb trauma reconstruction and microsurgery, particularly the surgical management of amputees. She has recently been involved with the new technique of targeted muscle reinnervation, which is producing optimistic results in reduction of phantom pain and general stump pain in the amputee population.
Miss Cubison is the safeguarding lead for the Trust as well as medical director, and is very involved in outlooking at human factors and the influence on patient’s safety of team building and communication.
She is an active member of the British Burns Association and is currently the chair of the Senate for the Emergency Management of Severe Burns in the UK, as well as sitting on the Committee for the Trauma Interface Group. Miss Cubison is also a member of the Specialist Advisory Committee in Plastic Surgery, responsible for the training of the national trainees and has responsibility for less than full-time training, military trainees and also provides external support to the Yorkshire Deanery.
Consultants
- Mr Aakshay Gulati
- Mr Adam Blackburn
- Mr Alex Cash
- Miss Alexandra Molina
- Dr Ali Diba
- Dr Alison Chalmers
- Dr Amanda Jewison
- Mr Andre Litwin
- Mr Andy Mellington
- Miss Anita Hazari
- Mr Asit Khandwala
- Mr Baljit Dheansa
- Dr Ben Carey
- Dr Bill Barrett
- Mr Brian Bisase
- Mr Charles Nduka
- Dr Chetan Patel
- Mr Christopher Davis
- Dr Colin Lawrence
- Mr Damian Lake
- Dr Edward Pickles
- Ginny Kingsmill
- Dr Glenn Wearne
- Mr Gokulan Ratnarajan
- Mr Ian King
- Miss Jennifer O’Neill
- Mr John Tighe
- Dr Jonathan Sanders
- Dr Joy Curran
- Dr Julian Giles
- Miss Katia Sindali
- Mr Keith Altman
- Mr Keith Cullen
- Mr Ken Sneddon
- Miss Lauren Hardwick
- Mr Laurence Newman
- Dr Lindsay Winchester
- Mr Mark Cutler
- Mr Mark Pickford
- Mr Martin Jones
- Mr Mike Shelley
- Mr Navdeep Upile
- Dr Niamh Gavin
- Mr Nikhil Maini
- Mr Paul Drake
- Mr Paul Norris
- Professor Adrian Williams
- Professor Jag Dhanda
- Miss Rachael Harrison
- Dr Rachael Liebmann
- Mr Raman Malhotra
- Mr Robert Pearl
- Mr Ruben Kannan
- Mr Sam Orkar
- Mr Samer Hamada
- Dr Sarah Bailey
- Mr Simon Harvey
- Mr Simon Mackey
- Mr Siva Kumar
- Miss Sofia Ahmad
- Mr Stefano Stea
- Mr T C Teo
- Miss Tania Cubison
- Dr Timothy Vorster
- Mr Zaid Sadiq