Mr Gault has been a Consultant since 1991, having graduated from Edinburgh University (MB ChB 1977). He held National Health Service appointments at Mount Vernon Hospital, Northwood, Middlesex and The Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street until his retirement from the NHS at the end of March 2006. His private practice is based in and around London.
He trained in Plastic Surgery in London, Paris, San Francisco and Tokyo. He has an active research and teaching programme, and regularly lectures in the UK and abroad. He became a Visiting Professor in 2004. In a combined project with the Swansea Institute, he worked on the first depilation laser – technology which is now in use worldwide. He devised a procedure to flushout chemotherapy leaks to prevent them causing tissue death (called extravasation injury), now adopted as policy in leading chemotherapy centres. He also developed the Ear Buddy, a tiny splint to correct prominent and deformed ears at birth, which has been commercially available since 1995. He is passionate about neonatal splintage of ear deformity as key to the drive to prevent unnecessary pinnaplasty (otoplasty) surgery in Europe and North America by 2030. He set up the London Centre for Ear Reconstruction, based at the Portland Hospital, in 2006.
Mr Gault is a full member of the British Association of Plastic, Reconstructive, and Aesthetic Surgeons (BAPRAS), the British Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (BAAPS) and the European Association of Plastic Surgeons (EURAPS). He acts as an Editorial Reviewer for the Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive, and Aesthetic Surgery and has published widely in British and international journals (over 150 academic papers), He is a regular contributor to books on Plastic Surgery. His main interest is now in aesthetic surgery, especially of the ear, breast and face, autogenous and Branemark ear reconstruction and laser surgery. About one third of his patients are children, about one third women and one third men.
Mr Gault undertakes medical negligence and personal injury reporting, including cases fought in the American courts, but not criminal cases. The cases are split approximately equally between plaintiff, defendant and joint instruction. Areas of internationally recognized expertise are ear deformity, laser surgery, correction of failed surgery and extravasation injury. Over one third of the ear surgery he undertakes is to correct a previous procedure which has failed. A full copy of his CV is available here.