Asim Shahmalak

Who is Asim Shahmalak?

Dr Asim Shahmalak is a British hair transplant surgeon and broadcaster, and proponent of such surgery. In 2009, he performed the UK's first eyelash transplant, and he has treated a number of British celebrity patients, including medical broadcaster Dr Christian Jessen, actor David Fleeshman and Calum Best, the son of Manchester United star George Best.

Having begun his career as a general surgeon in the Republic of Ireland in 1990, he joined the National Health Service as a specialist doctor in general surgery in 2001, practising until 2011 when he dedicated himself full-time to private hair transplant surgery at his own Crown Clinic. He has appeared as an expert on a number of television and radio programmes, including the Channel 4 show Embarrassing Bodies, talking about his techniques and demonstrating his surgery. He also written and commented on hair transplant surgery and associated issues for a number of media publications and blogs in the United Kingdom.