Short Resumé of Prof. Dr. Phillip Blondeel
Phillip Blondeel is an internationally leading expert on aesthetic and reconstructive breast surgery and one of the pioneers in the so-called “perforator flap” surgery. He is Professor of Plastic Surgery and chairman of the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the University Hospital Gent, Belgium, as well as an attending Plastic Surgeon at Laclinic in Montreux, Switzerland.
A native of the United States of America, Phillip Blondeel received his medical degree from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Medical School in Leuven, Belgium. He underwent postgraduate training in plastic surgery in the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Universitaire Ziekenhuizen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven as well as at Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany and earned his Doctor in Medical Sciences (PhD) degree at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Gent in 1998.
Prof. Blondeel is a fellow of the Collegium Chirurgicum Plasticum (Belgian Boards)and a diplomate of the European Board of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery. He is full member of the Belgian Society of Plastic Surgery and extra-ordinary member of the Swiss Society of Plastic Surgery. He holds membership in numerous international scientific societies, among them the American Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery, the European Association of Plastic Surgeons and the American Society for Plastic Surgery. He is honorary member of the South-African and Canadian Society of Plastic Surgery.
A world-renowned expert in the field of aesthetic and reconstructive breast surgery, Prof. Blondeel is a much sought after speaker and teacher who has also authored and co-authored numerous books, book chapters, peer-reviewed articles and abstracts. He currently sits on the editorial boards of the Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery and the Journal of Reconstructive Microsurgery.
At the end of 2011, Prof. Blondeel led the team that performed the first face transplant in Belgium (#19 worldwide) and is the Chairman of the Vascularized Composite Tissue Allagraft Program at the University Hospital Gent.
Medical training:
Limburgs Universitair Centrum Medical School, Belgium. (1981 - 1984)
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Medical School, Belgium. (1984 - 1988)
30/6/88: Medical Doctor (M.D.) degree obtained "magna cum laude"
General surgery training: Universitaire Ziekenhuizen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium(1988-91)
Plastic surgery training: Universitaire Ziekenhuizen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and the Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany.(1991-1994)
7/6/94: Fellow of the Collegium Chirurgicum Plasticum, Brussels
31/7/94: graduated as Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery
15/11/94: graduated as diplomate of the “European Board of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic surgery” (EBOPRAS)
20/5/98: graduated “maxima cum laude” as doctor in Medical Sciences (Ph.D.) in the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Gent. Thesis “Free perforator Flaps in Breast Reconstruction”.
Professional career:
1/8/94 - 31/8/95 : attending plastic surgeon, department of Plastic Surgery, University Hospitals K.U.Leuven, Belgium.
1/9/95 - 30/11/97: assistant Professor, department of Plastic Surgery, University Hospital Gent, Belgium.
1/12/97 – 30/9/2000: associate Professor, department of Plastic Surgery, University Hospital Gent, Belgium.
> 1/10/2000: Professor-lecturer of Plastic Surgery, Gent University, Belgium
> 1/10/2018: Full Professor of Plastic Surgery, Gent University, Belgium
>2016: chairman of the department of Plastic Surgery, Ghent university Hospital, Gent, Belgium
>10/2020: chairman of the Burn Center, Ghent university Hospital, Gent, Belgium
> 2003-2020: Attending surgeon at LaClinic, Montreux, Switzerland
> 2021: Attending surgeon at Clinique Montchoisi, Lausanne, Switzerland
Membership scientific societies:
<2015 Belgian Society of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery (BSPRAS)
Société Suisse de Chirurgie Plastique, Reconstructive et Esthétique (SSCPRE) (membre extraordinaire)
Fellow of the Collegium Chirurgicum Plasticum (FCCP)
European Association of Plastic Surgeons (Euraps)
Diplomate of the European Board of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery (EBOPRAS)
European Burns Association (EBA)
American Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery (ASRM)
International Confederation for Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery (IPRAS)
The Association of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons of South Africa (honorary member)
Canadian Society of Plastic Surgery (CSPS) (honorary member)
International appointments & boards:
Secretary of the Belgian Accreditation Committee for Plastic Surgery
1999-2009 : President of the Chapter of Microsurgery of the Royal Belgian Society of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery.
2009-2015: Treasurer of the Royal Belgian Society of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery.
> 2000: international reviewer for the Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Go, Journal of Reconstructive Microsurgery and the European Journal of Plastic Surgery
> 2001: member of the editorial board of the Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, the Journal of Reconstructive Microsurgery and the European Journal of Plastic Surgery
2010-2014: international associate editor of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
2006 - 2009: country representative of Belgium at the EURAPS
>2006: member of the Board of Recognition of Plastic Surgeons in Belgium (Dutch chamber)
>sept. 2018: president of the Board of Recognition of Plastic Surgeons in Belgium (Dutch chamber)
2019-2021: President-elect of EURAPS
Scientific publications and teaching:
books: 7
chapters in books: 37
videos: 9
publications :
international peer-reviewed: 167
national: 8
international proceedings: 9
abstracts: 163
A detailed list of all scientific publications of Prof. Blondeel can be found here.
Philanthropy:
Creator, co-founder and director of the Board of the “Beautiful After Breast Cancer Foundation”.
This public non-profit foundation aims to increase awareness and to fund research projects in the field of reconstructive breast surgery.
www.BeautifulABC.com
Awards:
December 1993: first perforator flap (unilateral DIEP, tertiary breast reconstruction) in Belgium and Europe (surgeons: Ph. Blondeel & Willy Boeckx)
January 1994: first bilateral DIEP (primary breast reconstruction) in Belgium and Europe (surgeons: Ph. Blondeel & Willy Boeckx)
17/5/96: Prize for the best clinical presentation (as co-author) at the 8th annual meeting of the EURAPS, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
16/10/1997: first perforator flap (unilateral DIEP, sec. breast reconstruction) in Switzerland (surgeons: Ph. Blondeel & Michel Pfulg)
25/11/1998: first perforator flap (unilateral DIEP, sec. breast reconstruction) in Hungary (surgeons: Ph. Blondeel & Gustav Gulyas)
18/1/1999: presenter of the Marko Godina Memorial lecture at the 14th annual meeting of the American Society of Reconstructive Microsurgery, Hawaii, U.S.A.
22/5/1999: Prize for the best clinical presentation at the 10th annual meeting of the EURAPS, Madrid, Spain: The sensate free Superior Gluteal Artery Perforator (S-GAP) flap: a valuable alternative in autologous breast reconstruction.
17/6/2000: Best scientific paper, Belgian Society for Plastic reconstructive and Esthetic Surgery.(bi-annual prize)
14/3/2003: First bilateral DIEP flap (tertiary breast reconstruction) in Norway (surgeons: Ph. Blondeel & Anadi Begic)
1/1/2004: Prize for the best clinical manuscript in the British journal of Plastic Surgery for 2003.
Spring 2005: Exposition of life time work at the “Visionaire Belge” Exposition at the occassion of 175th Anniversary of Belgium at the “Center for Fine Arts” in Brussels (by personal invitation of Harald Zeeman).
29/5/2005: The Hans Anderl Award. Grant of € 5000 awarded by the European Association of Plastic Surgeons for the best clinical career of a young plastic surgeon.
6/12/2006: The 2006 Sir Archibald McIndoe Lecture. British Association for Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery. Royal College of Surgeons, London, UK.
2/6/2007: The Canadian Royal College of Physicians Lecture at the Canadian Society of Plastic Surgery Meeting in Banff, Canada.
30/3/2011: Establishment of the “Beautiful After Breast Cancer Foundation”. Director of the Board and co-Founder.
5/5/2011: The 6th annual Whitaker Lectureship, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
end 2011: The first face transplant in Belgium, 19th in the world.