Academic Training
Medical School: University of Buenos Aires 1971
Educational Council for Foreign Medical Graduates: approved 1972
Rotating Internship: Lutheran Medical Center Brooklyn NY 1973–74
Visiting Scholar Sahlgren Hospital University of Gothemburg Sweden. 9/1974 – 3/1975
Surgical Resident Medical College of Ohio. Toledo Ohio 1975-1977
Plastic Surgery Speciality Course. University of El Salvador. Buenos Aires Argentina. 07/1977 – 12/1979.
Microsurgery Fellow Tokyo Metropolitan Police Hospital. Chief: K Ohmori. 01/1980 – 06/1980
Visiting Scholar Royal Melbourne Hospital Microsurgery Unit. Chief : G.I. Taylor 08/1980 – 11/1980
Plastic Surgeon Instituto Nacional de Rehabilitación Buenos Aires, 01/1981 – 12/1982
Craniomaxillofacial fellow University Hospital Nancy France 1983
Staff Plastic Surgery Instituto Nacional de Rehabilitación Buenos Aires. 1984–1987
Visiting Scholar University Hospital Ljubliana Slovenia chief : Marko Godina 01/1985- 03/1985 Staff Plastic Surgery Burn Hospital Buenos Aires 1987–1992
Visiting Scholar Manuel Gea Gonzalez Hospital – Prof Fernanado Ortiz Monasterio 06/1986 – 08/1986
Visiting Scholar New York University Medical Center – Prof J.Mc Carthy 01/1988 – 03/1988
Professional Training
Staff Plastic Surgeon: National Institute of Rehabilitation Buenos Aires – 1984-1987
Staff Plastic Surgeon Hospital Municipal de Quemados – Buenos Aires Burn Hospital . 1987–1992
Staff Plastic Surgeon. Hospital D.F Santojanni. Buenos Aires. 1993–2009
Chief Division Plastic Surgery Hospital D.F. Santojanni. Buenos Aires 2009–2021
Healthcare Training
• Teaching assistant [research assistant (ad honorem)] Dept of Physiology University of Buenos Aires School of Medicine. 10/1970 – 02/1972.
• Teaching assistant. Division of Traumatology and Orthopaedics. University of Buenos Aires University Hospital – Hospital Escuela General San Martin.
Partial time. 09/1977 – 02/1979
• Honorary Assistant Professor III Chair of Anatomy. From 12 September 1984 to 31 March 1985
• Teaching assistant. Department of Anatomy 09/1984 – 12/1989. University of Buenos Aires School of Medicine
• Assistant Professor University of Buenos Aires School of Medicine 04/ 1989 (Res.Nº211, Exp.Nº500348/89)
• Visiting Professor University Miami Jackson Memorial Hospital 1991
• Director Advanced Course for Medical Graduates “Anatomical Basis of Flaps” University of Buenos Aires School of Medicine (Res.601) 1992
• Visiting Professor Plastic Surgery Educational foundation– PSEF- American Society of Plastic Surgery 1993.
Visiting Professor, Department of Surgery, Albany Medical College (Albany, New York)
Visiting Professor University Southern California, California, (USA). Prof. John Reinish
Visiting Professor UCLA. Los Angeles California. Prof Bill Shaw
Visiting Professor University California Irvine. Prof Furnas
• Professor of Biology, University of Buenos Aires 1993
• Assistant Professor Department of Anatomy University of Buenos Aires (res. No. 514, File No. 507816/87) March 1995 – February 1996
• Visiting Professor Miami University School of Medicine. May 1996
• Visiting Professor Department of Plastic Surgery Medical College of Wisconsin -May 1996
• Adjunct Assistant Professor of Plastic Surgery, New York University School of Medicine. New York, USA 2000–2002
• Visiting Professor University Hospital Gent Belgium 5/2007
• Visiting Professor University Hospital Gent Belgium 1/2014
• Honorary Guest Professor Fondazione Sanvennero Roselli, Milan Italy 1/2014
• Professor of the Official Course of Hand Surgery of the Argentinian Society of Hand Surgery at the University of Sciences UCES- Buenos Aires Argentina.
• Director Plastic Surgery Residency Program University of Buenos Aires Santojanni Hospital 2009–2021
Director of the Microsurgery Chapter, Latin American Federation of Plastic Surgery, 1996–2002.
• Editor of the Argentinian Journal of Plastic Surgery 1990–1994
• Member of the scientific committee GOLAM (Latin American group of oncoplastic surgery)
Scientific Societies
Past Member of the American Association of Plastic Surgeons
Past Member of the American Society of Maxillofacial Surgeons
Corresponding member of the American Society Plastic Surgery
Honorary Member Latin American Microsurgical Society
Member of the Argentinian Society of Plastic Surgery
Member of the Argentinian Society of Hand Surgery
Member of the Argentinian Association of Surgery
Member of the Argentinian Association of Orthopaedic Surgery
Corresponding member of the Cuban Society Plastic Surgery
Corresponding member of Guatemalan Society Plastic Surgery
Corresponding member of Honduras Society Plastic Surgery
Corresponding member of the Costa Rica Society Plastic Surgery
Corresponding member of the Peru Society Plastic Surgery
Corresponding member of the Uruguay Society Plastic Surgery.
Courses and Conferences
Presentations as a Speaker:
1) Vascularized island bone graft for scaphoid nonunion” 58th Annual Meeting of American Society of Plastic Surgery , San Francisco , California , U.S.A. , 1989
2) “Le Fort 1 Segment Irrigation” 58th Annual Meeting of American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons, San Francisco, California, U.S.A., 1989.
3) “Lateral Thigh Flap”, 69th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons, Hot Springs, Virginia, U.S.A. , Mayo 1990.
4) Microsurgical reconstruction of the aesthetic unit of the anterior neck” 61st Annual Meeting of the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Washington D.C., U.S.A. 1992
5) Latissimus Dorsi Musculocutaneous Flap Without Muscle”, 62nd Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, New Orleans, U.S.A. 1993
6) The Inframammary Extended Circumflex Scapular Flap (IMECS) : An Aesthetic Improvement of the Paraescapular Flap”, 74th Annual Meeting American Association of Plastic Surgeons, San Diego, California, U.S.A. , Abril 1995.
7) Free Tissue Resurfacing of the Esthetic Units of the Face and Neck for Burn Sequence”, Annual Meeting American Society of Plastic Reconstructive Surgeons, Arlington (USA). October 1995
8) “Experience with Twenty-Eight Free TRAM Flaps without Muscle for Breast Reconstruction”, Annual Meeting American Association of Plastic Surgeons, Arlington (USA). October 1995
9) The dorsal scapular island flap” Clinical experience. 76th Annual Meeting American Association of Plastic Surgeons, Portland, Oregon, USA, Mayo 1997
10) The Adductor Flap: A New Method for Transferring Posterior and medial Thigh Skin. 77th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Plastic Surgeons. Montreal. Quebec Canada 1998
11)Contralateral direction of the Internal Mammary Perforator Flap 92nd ASPS Annual Meeting San Diego 2013
12)Modification of the peroneal perforator flap for treatment of knee and distal femoral defects. 93rd ASPS Annual Meeting Chicago 2014
Scientific Publications
PUBLICATIONS IN PEER-REVIEWED ENGLISH-LANGUAGE JOURNALS
1- Neighboring flaps and cartilage grafts for correction of serious secondary nasal deformities. Plast. Reconstr. Surg. 76:876.1985.
2- Mammary construction and reconstruction in one surgical stage Ann.Plast.Surg. 18:3.1987
3- A new vascularized bone graft for scaphoid non-union. J.Hand Surg. 16A:474.1991.
4- Posterior interosseous forearm flap Experience with 80 consecutive cases. Plast.Reconstr.Surg. 92:285.1993.
5. Posterior interosseous island forearm flap. J Hand Surg Br. 1988 May;13(2):130-5. PMID: 3385286
6- Aesthetic microsurgical reconstruction of anterior neck burn deformities. Plast.Reconstr.Surg, 93:507,1994.
7- Posterior interosseous reverse forearm flap. Experience with 80 consecutive cases. Year Book of Hand Surgery., 1994.
8- Latissimus dorsi musculocutaneoous flap without muscle. Plast. Reconstr. Surg. 96:1608.1995.
9- A new musculocutaneous flap from the distal thigh for recurrent ischial and perineal pressure sores. Plast. Reconstr. Surg. 96:935.1995
10- Total face reconstruction with one free flap. Plast. Reconstr.Surg. 99:1566.1997.
11-The inframammary extended circumflex scapular flap: an aesthetic improvement of the parascapular flap. Plast.Reconstr.Surg. 99:70.1997.
12- Discussion of Arun Gosain et al. The temporal branch of the facial nerve: How reliably can we predict its path. Plast.Reconstr.Surg. 99:1234.1997.
13- Blood supply of the Le Fort I maxillary segment: an anatomic study. Plast.Reconstr.Surg. 100:843.1997.
14- The Adductor Flap: A New Method for Transferring Posterior and Medial Thigh Skin. Plast.Reconstr.Surg. 107:1725.2001
15- The dorsal scapular island flap: an alternative for head neck and chest reconstruction. Plast.Reconstr. Surg 111:67, 2003
16.- Contralateral Direction of the Internal Mammary Perforator Flap. Plast. Reconstr Surg 132 (4S-1)30 . Oct 2013
17.- Oncoplastic surgery in the treatment of breast cancer. Ecancer 7 / 293. 2013
18.- Oncoplastic options in breast conservative surgery. Gland Surgery. Vol 2 Nº 3 Aug. 2013
19.- Delivering bad news in aesthetic surgery. The Aesthetician Journal. Nov 2013
20.-Propeller thoraco-dorsal artery perforator flap for breast reconstruction Gland Surg 2014 Jun 01. doi: 10.3978/j.issn.2227-684X.2014.06.04
21.-Modification of the peroneal perforator flap for treatment of knee and distal femoral defects. Plast Reconstr Surg. 2014;134:114–155
22.- Extended thoracodorsal artery perforator flap for breast reconstruction Gland Surg 2015. doi: 10.3978/ j.issn.2227-684X.2015.04.20
23.- Preoperative digital mammography imaging in conservative mastectomy and immediate reconstruction Gland Surg 2015. doi: 10.3978/ j.issn.2227- 684X.2015.08.01
24.- TDAP: Island vs Propeller J.Plast.Reconstr.Aesth.Surg 69:506; 2016
25.- Stacked TDAP Flaps for Unilateral Breast Reconstruction Plast. Reconstr. Surg 138: 969, 2016
26.- Management of the Ischemic Nipple–Areola Complex After Breast Reduction Clinics in Plastic Surgery 2016
27- Antegrade Peroneal Flap through the Interosseous Membrane for Knee and Distal Femur Coverage Plast. Reconstr.Surg. 138:713; 2016.
28.- Refining the extended circumflex scapular flap for neck burn reconstruction: a 30- year experience. JRAS 70:1252e; 2017.
29.- Direct to Implant Reconstruction in Nipple Sparing Mastectomy: Patient Selection by Preoperative Digital Mammogram PRS Global Open 2017
30.- Thoracodorsal Artery Perforator Flap for Bilateral Breast Reconstruction Simultaneous Vs Staged Michigan Journal of Medicine 2017 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3998/mjm.13761231.0002.112
31.- Thoracodorsal artery flaps for breast reconstruction–the variants and its approach. Archives of Plast.Surg. 48:1; 2021
32.- Modified anterior intercostal artery perforator flap (AICAP) for autologous breast volume restoration after explantation . Journ Plast. Reconstr.Aesth Surg. 2021 On line ahead of print https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bjps.2021.03.123 .
33.- The Deltopectoral/Internal Mammary Artery Perforator Flap Revisited: Design Variations. Annals of Plastic Surg Apr 21 2021 Online ahead of print doi:10.1097/SAP0000000000002863
34.- The Importance of 5th Anterior Intercostal Vessels following Nipple Sparing Mastectomy. Plast.Reconstr.Surg.149:559; 2022 . DOI:10.1097/PRS.0000000000008828
35.- Cross midline trunk flaps. Plast Reconstr Surg . in press
Academic Merits
1987 National Academy of Medicine Award. Buenos Aires Argentina “ Indications and Results of the Microsurgical Technique in Hand Surgery”
ROBERT IVY AWARD (best paper presented) ASPS Meeting Montreal 1995. Montreal Canada. “Free Tissue Resurfacing of the Aesthetic Units of the Face and Neck for Burn Sequence”
“ROYAL ACADEMY OF MEDICINE OF SPAIN, SEVILLE”, 1989 Title of the work: Spanish: ‘Las ramas cutáneas del muslo. Su importancia en el diseño de los colgajos’ / English: The cutaneous arteries of the thigh. Its importance for flap design
“ENRIQUE HERNÁNDEZ LÓPEZ” (FOR SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH) FROM THE ROYAL ACADEMY OF MEDICINE OF THE DISTRICT OF GRANADA, SPAIN, 1990. Title of the work: Spanish: ‘Aportaciones anatómicas al abordaje quirúrgico del nervio facial extratemporal. Aplicaciones prácticas en cirugía maxilo-facial’ / English: Anatomical details for the approach of the facial nerve extra temporal in maxillofacial surgery
Best Abstract of the Symposium on Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the First Argentinean Conference on Cancer. The European School of Oncology . March 1998
“Tram island mammary reconstruction”
“Qualitas” 1997 Award . Buenos Aires, Argentina: Spanish: ‘Nuevos recursos en el tratamiento quirúrgico de las quemaduras graves y sus secuelas’ / English: New strategies for the surgical treatment of severe burns and sequelae
Argentinian Medical Association Anniversary Award 1992. Buenos Aires “Surgical treatment of sacral pressure sores”
‘Master Surgeon Ernesto Malbec Junior Award 1981’. Best paper X1 Annual Meeting of the Argentinian Society of Plastic Surgery. Huerta Grande Cordoba 1981 . “Rectus Anterior Musculocutaneous flap. Clinical Experience”
“Jorge Raúl Goyena Award” Best Paper Argentina Hand Surgery Annual Meeting . Buenos Aires 1985. “Severe Adduction Contracture of the First Web space. Dorsal forearm flap”
