Biography

Mrs Imtiaz-Crosbie is a consultant breast surgeon. Her interests are all aspects of breast cancer surgery, both screen-detected and symptomatic as well as benign breast disease.
She is also able to provide a family history and genetic testing service and risk reducing surgery as part of a multidisciplinary team.

She provides immediate breast reconstruction after mastectomy as well as therapeutic mammaplasty in the setting of breast conservation surgery, all with contralateral symmetrisation.

Mrs Imtiaz-Crosbie works collaboratively with eminent consultant plastic surgeons from the Royal Free Hospital to offer the best of breast cancer surgery and aesthetic surgery to all patients.

She qualified from University College London and The Middlesex Medical School, and undertook an MSc investigating the role of matrix metalloproteases in wound healing.

Her higher specialist training in surgery was on the Chelsea and Westminster rotation culminating in an oncoplastic fellowship at The Royal Marsden Hospital.

Languages

English

• ‘Endocrine Surgery F. Imtiaz, F Palazzo. In book entitled ‘Medicine for Health Service Managers edited by Ms Rachel Lisauer and Ms Ela Pathak-Sen. Oxford University Press, 13th February 2009.
• ‘Antioxidants enhance the susceptibility of colon carcinoma cells to 5-fluorouracil by augmenting the induction of the bax protein.’ D.Adayamo, F. Imtiaz, S. Toffa, M. Lowdell, M. Winslet. Cancer Letters 2001 Mar 10;164(1):77-84
• ‘A rare case of breast carcinoma presenting with paraneoplastic cerebellar degeneration’ Kelechi Eseonu, Fawzia Imtiaz, Katy Hogben. JCSR Feb 2010 10:6.
• The role of Malignant Ascities in the Expression of Adhesion Molecules on Cultured Mesothelial and Endothelial cells.’ F. Imtiaz, P. Dabbagh, S. Toffa, M. Winslet. European Journal of Surgical Oncology (EJSO) Vol 24;6:614-630, Dec 1998
• ‘The effects of Malignant Ascities on the adhesion of tumour cell lines on endothelium.’ P. Dabbagh, F. Imtiaz. S. Toffa, M. Winslet. European Journal of Surgical Oncology (EJSO) Vol 24; 6:614-630, Dec 1998
• ‘The effect of ascities on the antioxidant staus of tumour cells in vitro.’ S. Toffa, F. Imtiaz, P. Dabbagh, M. Winslet. European Journal of Surgical Oncology (ESJO) Vol 24; 6:614-630, Dec 1998
• ‘Radical Surgery for Colonic Endometriosis.’ J.Crosbie, F. Imtiaz, M. Wallace. Colorectal Disease, 6(Suppl.1), 93, July 2004

Research interests include genetics of breast cancer and the role of Matrixmetalloproteinases in surgical adhesion formation and wound healing.