Mr Sahan Ranna-Eliya is a Consultant hand, reconstructive and plastic surgeon at the Royal Victoria Infirmary. He specialises in both adult and children’s hand surgery including congenital anomalies.
Mr Ranna-Eliya is also one of our Melanoma and Non-Melanoma (Squamous (SCC) and Basal (BCC) Cell) Skin Cancer specialists, working closely with colleagues from the Northern Centre for Cancer Care at the Freeman Hospital, and Dermatology at the RVI. He also specialises in reconstruction after major injury in both upper and lower limbs.
Born in Sri Lanka, Mr Ranna-Eliya grew up in Manchester, and studied his medicine at both Cambridge and Oxford Universities, qualifying in 1994. Since then he has worked throughout the UK, initially based in Oxford, where he did his research into children with craniofacial deformities. He then carried out specialist training in Liverpool, Swansea, Sheffield and here in Newcastle, before returning as a Consultant in 2009.
Mr Ranna-Eliya was a member of the UK Plastic Surgeons Overseas committee for over a decade, and has a longstanding interest in improving the availability of reconstructive techniques in poorer parts of the world. He led one of a number of teams to Haiti after the 2010 earthquake, and has worked in China, and Nepal, and Sri Lanka, and more recently led teams to Sierra Leone to help establish a Hand and Reconstructive surgery service there.
