Dr. Jaume Masià

 Professional experience

• More than 20 years of experience
• Director of the Advanced Breast Reconstruction and Microsurgery Unit of the Planas Clinic, Barcelona (2001 - present)
• Service Director, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Service of Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau and Hospital del Mar (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) (2005 - present)
• He started the Microsurgery Unit of the Planas Clinic achieving in a short time to become the Advanced Unit of Breast Reconstruction of the most important private health in southern Europe
• Head of the Microsurgery Unit of the Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau (2001)

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 Sub-specialties

• Dr. J. Masià, after a long period of training in the best centers of plastic surgery in the world (United Kingdom, USA, Belgium, Finland and Japan), was a pioneer in our country in the DIEP technique for breast reconstruction. Since 1999 he has carried out more than 500 breast reconstructions with these advanced techniques, achieving excellent results. For his work and his professionalism, he has become a point of reference not only for many patients who have suffered breast cancer but also for numerous Spanish and other plastic surgeons who visit him continuously to learn this type of surgery.

 Positions in public associations

• President-Elect of the Spanish Society of Reconstructive and Aesthetic Plastic Surgery
• Vice-President of the Spanish Society of Plastic, Aesthetic and Reconstructive Surgery (SECPRE), since 2006
• President of the Spanish Group of Advanced Breast Reconstruction (GERMA), since 2008

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 Teaching posts

• Professor of the Faculty of Medicine of the Autonomous University of Barcelona, ​​director of the Doctorate Course in Reconstructive Microsurgery of the Department of Surgery of this university as well as professor in different Masters and postgraduate courses of other Spanish and European universities
• Professor, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (2004 - 2005 - present)
• Visiting professor at 32 national meetings and 43 international meetings

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 Education

• Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Barcelona (1986 - 1992)
• Basic Surgical Training at Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford (United Kingdom), at Pius Hospital, Valls (Spain) and Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona (1993 - 1996)
• Training in Plastic Surgery at the Hospital of Santa Creu i Sant Pau (Barcelona), Vall d'Hebron Hospital (Barcelona), Kaplan Institut de Cirugia de la Mano (Barcelona), Canniesburn Hospital, in Bearsden (United Kingdom), Queen Victoria Hospital, in East Grinstead (United Kingdom), Gent University Hospital, Ghent (Belgium), Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford University (United Kingdom), Malmö University Hospital, Malmö (Sweden) and Helsinki University Hospital , in Helsinki (Finland) (1996 - 2001)
• Complementary training at the Center of Microsurgical Breast Reconstruction, Charleston, South Carolina (USA), Tokyo University Hospital, Tokyo (Japan)
• Title of Expert in Vascular and Nervous Microsurgery, by the Medical Association of Barcelona and Center of Experimental Surgery SAT of Sabadell (2001)
• Title of Specialist in Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau (2001)
• PhD by the Autonomous University of Barcelona (2008)

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 Publications and conferences

• Author of 6 chapters of specialty books
• Author of more than 12 articles in specialized magazines
• Author of 62 abstracts in Congresses
• Author of 2 specialty books

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 Professional membership

• President of the Spanish Society of Plastic, Aesthetic and Reconstructive Surgery (SECPRE)
• President of the Spanish Group of Advanced Breast Reconstruction (GERMA)
• Member of the National Commission of Specialty of Plastic, Aesthetic and Reconstructive Surgery by the Ministry of Health and Consumption
• Member of the European Society of Plastic Surgery (EURAPS)
• Member of the Spanish Society of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery (SECPRE)
• Member of the International Society of Lymphology (ISL)
• Member of the Spanish Association of Microsurgery (AEM)
• Member of the Association pour le Développement de la Chirurgie Réparatrice de la Tete et du Cou, Institut Gustave-Roussy, Paris, France
• Member of the Group for Advancement of Breast Reconstruction (GABRs), Charleston, South Carolina, USA
• Member of Pyrenean Society of Plastic Surgery
• Member of the Catalan Society of Plastic, Reconstructive and Esthetic Surgery
• Member of the Spanish Group of Advanced Breast Reconstruction (GERMA)

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