Mr Simon Filson is a full time Consultant Children’s (“Paediatric”) Plastic Surgeon and Head of the Paediatric Plastic Surgery Department at the Evelina London (Guys and St Thomas’ Trust).

He graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of the Newcastle Upon Tyne University, with Merit and then trained as a surgeon in the North East of England until 2011, when he moved to “Rambam” Hospital in Haifa, Israel, a famous trauma centre. The majority of the workload involved the reconstruction of complex war injuries and burns from Syria, Israel and the Palestinian Territories. Due to his surgical work, patient care and junior doctor training, in 2014, he was recognised with the prestigious Excellence award, “Oved Mitztayen”. To further his specialisation he is also trained in all aspects of Paediatric Plastic Surgery on a year’s fellowship with some of the world leading children’s surgeons at the Sick Kids Hospital, Toronto. On returning to the UK he continued his sub-specialisation with a Microsurgical and Breast reconstruction Fellowship at Guys and St Thomas’ Hospitals.

He has particular interests in Paediatric facial reconstruction, vascular malformations and upper limb/chest wall reconstruction. He is passionate about education and improving the care of all children and is the Lead for Education in the Surgical and Anaesthetic Directorate.  

He is also your average, barely surviving parent to two toddlers (4 and 2) and was shocked at the lack of evidenced based or trustworthy expert opinion on the internet, with the top Google searches often relying on “Old Wives Tales/Remedies” and “parent experts”. These often had conflicting opinions or in some cases dangerous advice, with all of this only adding to the confusion/fear/guilt of trying to care for these little, confusing humans.

So was born CareForMyChild, a website/community run by respected, experienced NHS professionals to demystify things with trustworthy, unconflicted, clear information/advice.