Sami Al-Ani

Sami Al-Ani is a Senior Lecturer in Anatomy at Aston Medical School, Aston University. He combines academic work with clinical practice as a Plastic and Hand Surgeon, focusing on pediatric orthopedic injuries, hand surgery, and medical history research.

Research Interests:

• Systematic reviews in pediatric hand trauma
• Arab-Islamic influence on ophthalmology
• Medical education innovations
• Health tourism and cosmetic surgery ethics

Article Trends: Recent publications emphasize systematic reviews of pediatric fractures (fifth metacarpal neck, volar plate avulsion), historical medical research on Arab-Islamic contributions to ophthalmology, and critiques of cosmetic medical tourism.

External Collaborations: Active in international research networks, with collaborations spanning high-, middle-, and low-resource settings, particularly in surgical education model development.