Amira Sanki

Specialist Plastic Surgeon with board experience and experience in organising and delivering post-graduate surgical education.

• Australian Society of Plastic Surgeons
• Australasian Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons
• Royal Australasian College of Surgeons

• The effects of social media and the unregulated cosmetic surgery industry on body image and demands for plastic surgery, ANZAED Annual Conference, Gold Coast, Aug 25th
• Mutlidisciplinary guidelines for the preoperative screening of aesthetic breast surgery patients, ASAPS Annual Conference, 2023
• Evidence based pre and post operative non surgical care of aesthetic patients, ASAPS Annual Conference, 2023
• Patient Assessment in Body Contouring, Plastic Surgery Registrars Annual Conference, 2022
• Brachioplasty & Liposuction, NSW Plastic Surgery Registrar Teaching
• Anatomy of the lower face for injectors, ISAPS Annual Meeting, virtual, 2021
• NSW Plastic Surgery Registrar Teaching, NSW Plastic Surgery Registrar Teaching, virtual, 2021
• History and Science of Fat Grafting, ASAPS Annual Conference, virtual, 2020
• Practice Pearls and Complication Management, The Aesthetic Society, New Orleans, USA, 2019
• Anatomy Dissector and Presenter at ASAPS Cadaver Workshop, ASAPS Cadaver Workshop, 2018-01-01, 2022-12-31
• Pscyhological evaluation of the massive weight loss patient, ASAPS Annual Conference, Brisbane, 2019
• How to Pick Your Patients, Non-Surgical Symposium, Sydney, 2019
• Nuances of Breast Reduction Surgery, Breast Masters Symposium, Sydney, 2019
• Augmentation Mastopexy in the massive weight loss patient, Plastic Surgery Congress, Melbourne, 2018
• Surgical aspects of metastatic melanoma, St George Public Hospital Grand Rounds, Sydney, 2012
• The prediction, detection and surgical management of melanoma metastases, John Lowenthal Society Scientific Meeting, Sydney, 2011
• Duration of remission and survival following isolated limb perfusion, Annual Scientific Congress, RACS, Sydney, 2006
• Reduced expression of p16 and p27 is correlated with tumour progression in cutaneous melanoma, Annual Scientific Congress, RACS, Sydney
• Targeted high-resolution ultrasound is not an effective substitute for sentinel lymph node biopsy in patients with primary cutaneous melanoma, Annual Scientific Congress, RACS, Sydney
• Duration of remission and survival following isolated limb perfusion, 6th World Congress of Melanoma, Vancouver, 2005
• Malignancies of the inframammary fold, 10th Congress of the European Society of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgeons, Vienna
• Techniques for reducing blood loss in burns surgery: jelonet- adrenaline compression bandaging

• Randomised trial into the effect of diathermy setting on post-operative seroma following abdominoplasty- HREC APPROVAL NO. 2023/ETH/ 0129
• Multidisciplinary guidelines for the preoperative screening of aesthetic breast surgery patients – presented at ASAPS Annual Meeting 2023

• Peter Bancroft prize for a thesis passed without amendment 2014
• Stryker Prize for best clinical paper, Australia & New Zealand 2008 Registrars’ Conference
• Segelov travelling Fellowship 2004
• Department of Health Rural General Practice Prize 1999

• The Safety and effects of pregnancy after abdominoplasty: A systematic literature review, Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, 2023, 47, 4, 1472-1479, YG Karunaratne, PB Romeno, M Wills, A Sanki
• Isolated limb perfusion and isolated limb infusion for malignant lesions of the extremities, Current Problems in Surgery, 2011, 48, 6, 361-432, A. Sanki, H. M. Kroon, P.C.A. Kam, J. F. Thompson
• Ultrasound assessment of lymph nodes in the management of early-stage melanoma, Journal of Surgical Oncology, 2011, 104, 4, 354-60, J. F. Thompson, L.E. Haydu, A. Sanki, R.F. Uren
• Targeted high-resolution ultrasound is not an effective substitute for sentinel lymph node biopsy in patients with primary cutaneous melanoma, Journal of Clinical Oncology, 2020, 27, 33, 5614-9, A. Sanki, R.F. Uren, M. Moncrieff, K. L. Tran, R. A. Scolyer, H. Lin, J. F. Thompson
• Long-term results of hyperthermic, isolated limb perfusion for melanoma: a reflection of tumour biology, Annals of Surgery, 2007, 245, 591-6, A.Sanki, P.C.A. Kam, J.F. Thompson
• Reduced expression of p16 and p27 is correlated with tumour progression in cutaneous melanoma, Pathology, 2007, 39, 551-7, A. Sanki, W. Li, M. Colman, R. Karim, J. F. Thompson, R. Scolyer
• The role of cell cycle regulatory proteins in the pathogenesis of melanoma, Pathology, 2006, 38, 287-301, W. Li, A. Sanki, R.Z. Karim, J. F. Thompson, C. S. Lee, L. Zhuang, S. W. McCarthy, R. A. Scolyer
• Surgery for melanoma metastases of the gastrointestinal tract: indications and results, European Journal of Surgical Oncology, 2009, 35, 313-9, A. Sanki, R. A. Scolyer, J. F. Thompson
• The utility of ultrasound in patients with melanoma, Expert review of anticancer therapy, 2007, 7, 1651-64, R. Uren, A. Sanki, J. F. Thompson
• Reduced p16 and increased cyclin D1 and pRb expression are correlated with progression in cutaneous melanocytic tumors, International Journal of Surgical Pathology, 2009, 17, 361-7, R. Z. Karim, W. Li, A. Sanki, M.H. Colman, Y.H. Yang, J.F. Thompson, R.A. Scolyer
• Diagnostic and treatment challenges of inframammary crease breast carcinomas, ANZ Journal of Surgery

• I receive tremendous joy from helping my patients achieve remarkable body transformations from plastic surgery. I have a particular interest in body contouring after massive weight loss as this specific branch of plastic surgeon is a unique intersection of reconstructive and aesthetic work.
• I invest a great deal of time in teaching my registrars, as our health care system is carried by the strength of our training doctors. We are all a product of our teaching, and I hope to bestow upon the next generation the excellent teaching, ethics and care that I was privileged to receive.
• My role with ASAPS has opened another important chapter in my career in my desire to support the future of my profession and the safety of our patients. As the Chair of Education, I convened the Annual Conference, wrioe the Annual Registrars Aesthetic Exam, hosted the ASAPS journal Club and lectured at the Non Surgical Symposium and Anatomy Cadaver Workshop. In the past two years, I have redirected the focus of ASAPS education to our trainees, younger members and nurses. I have actively promoted the need for patients to take the decision to have cosmetic surgery seriously and to ensure that they are well informed and have a good experience from their surgery.
• I am hoping to contribute further to surgical training and research by returning to academia. I would thoroughly enjoy teaching medical students and hope to assist in the design and implementation the surgical syllabus for medical students.
• I am married to a plastic surgeon and have two teenage children and a cavoodle. I have always loved the diversity of Medicine, and have been proud of the contributions my medical parents have made to their community both as doctors and as teachers of doctors.