Rate My Professor Patrick Lyall

Mr Patrick Lyall is a Clinical Senior Lecturer in the Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery section of the Department of Surgery and Critical Care at the Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago, within the Faculty of Medicine. A native of Dunedin, he graduated with an MB ChB from the University of Otago in 1992. He received a scholarship to study and teach anatomy at University College Dublin, graduating in 1995. Lyall completed specialist training in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery in all relevant New Zealand departments, attaining FRACS (Plast) certification in 2005. He then pursued further training in the United Kingdom in cosmetic surgery, hand surgery, breast surgery, and microsurgery. Upon returning to Dunedin in 2007, he co-established a Plastic Surgery unit at Dunedin Hospital with Mr Will McMillan in 2009 within the Department of Surgery. Additionally, he developed and teaches the Postgraduate Diploma in Surgical Anatomy at the University of Otago Medical School, with clinical specialties encompassing plastic and reconstructive surgery and anatomy.

In clinical practice at Southern District Health Board Dunedin Hospital and in private practice, Lyall's special interests include breast reconstruction and surgery, cosmetic surgery, hand surgery, skin cancer surgery and management, microsurgery, and burns surgery. His academic output includes co-authorship of five publications: Stringer, M. D., & Lyall, P. (2012). Design, implementation, and evaluation of a Postgraduate Diploma in Surgical Anatomy. Anatomical Sciences Education, 5(1), 48-54; Gwynne-Jones, D., Lyall, P., Hung, N. A., & Meikle, G. (2008). Accidental human injection of Excenel RTU: Ceftiofur hydrochloride in cottonseed oil. Clinical Toxicology, 46(8), 908-910; Lyall, P., & Beasley, S. W. (2001). Effect of neck flexion on oesophageal tension in the pig and its relevance to repaired oesophageal atresia. Pediatric Surgery International, 17(2-3), 193-195; MacDonald, S., Lyall, P., Israel, L., Coates, R., & Frizelle, F. A. (2001). Why barium enemas fail to identify colorectal cancer. ANZ Journal of Surgery, 71(10), 631-633; Lyall, P. W., Qi, B. Q., & Beasley, S. W. (2000). Study of the effect of neck flexion on oesophageal tension in the pig and its relevance to repaired oesophageal atresia [Abstract]. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Surgery, 70(Suppl.), A117.