About Ghassan Abu-Sittah

Ghassan Abu-Sittah is a British-Palestinian plastic and reconstructive surgeon trained at the University of Glasgow. In 2012, he was appointed Head of the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the American University of Beirut Medical Center, where he lead the paediatric war injury programme and the multidisciplinary war injury clinic. In 2015, he became cofounding director of the Conflict Medicine Program of AUB's Global Health Institute.

In 2020, he returned to the United Kingdom, where he practised plastic and reconstructive surgery in the private sector.

He is currently Professor at the Centre for Blast Injury Studies at the Imperial College of London, Clinical Director of the Regional Trauma Initiative at the WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, and a member of the Board of Directors of INARA, a non-profit organisation that provides reconstructive surgery to children injured in war in the Middle East.

He has worked as a war surgeon in Yemen, Syria, Iraq, southern Lebanon and the Gaza Strip. In October 2023, he worked for 43 days in the Shifa Hospital in Gaza and in the Ahli-Baptist Hospital.

His testimony was used in the South Africa’s case against Israel at the International Court of Justice.

In March 2024 he was appointed Principal of the University of Glasgow for the 2024-2027 period, elected by the students to represent them. Visit the university’s official websiteto find out more about this position.