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Prof. Dr. Moustapha Hamdi

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Graduated at the University of Damascus in Syria in Medicine and Surgery, Prof. Dr. Moustapha Hamdi specialises in plastic, reconstructive and aesthetic surgery. His diversified and complete experience in large hospitals, has allowed him to develop his expertise in aesthetic breast surgery and breast reconstruction. Very human in his approach, Professor Hamdi has also been involved in humanitarian missions in Cambodia, Myanmar and more recently in his native country Syria. Up to now, Prof. Hamdi has personally trained more than 700 surgeons from 80 countries on his breakthrough procedures. He instructs by performing live-surgery demonstrations and one-on-one examinations with his patients. Many of the surgeons who learned his techniques from many international meetings and courses and also by attending the world recognised meeting in aesthetic surgery in Brussels (www.CATBBAS.com) returned home and applied his techniques to benefit their own patients.

Career

Moustapha Hamdi graduated in 1990 at the University of Damascus Syria as a doctor of medicine, surgery and obstetrics. After graduating, he moved to Belgium to complete an internship in general and plastic surgery at the various hospitals of the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB). He was then part of the academic staff of the Hospital in Glasgow Canniesburn and engaged in microsurgery and breast reconstruction between 1996-1997.

Between 1999 and 2011, Professor Hamdi was one of faculty embers of the Plastic Surgery Department in Gent University Hospital where he also presented his doctoral thesis for Pedicled Flaps in Breast Surgery: a new concept. In 2005, he again explored other horizons and worked three months along with the staff of the PACES Clinic in Atlanta. There, he focused mainly on aesthetic surgery of the eyelids and facial rejuvenation. Since 1 April 2011, Moustapha Hamdi works as a chairman of the department of plastic surgery of the Brussels University Hospital UZBrussel – Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Since 2007, he has been attached as a leading plastic surgeon to the Medical Institute Edith Cavell in Brussels (Chirec group) which moved recently to the Delta hospital. More recently, Prof. Hamdi is appointed as chief of the plastic surgery department in Delta hospital and the Interhospitals-network Chirec. He is also the founder of the European Center for Lymphatic surgery in 2016.

He established the Hamdi Foundation in 2021 as main mission to support breast cancer patients and increase awareness for breast reconstruction. For more info, go to http://www.hamdi.foundation/

With Brussels being his home base, Prof. Hamdi is active in many other locations as well, including Marbella and Dubai.

Affiliations

Thanks to his extensive international experience, Professor Hamdi is the former president of the Royal Belgian Society for Plastic Surgery (RBSPS). He is also active within the scientific committees of the European Society of Plastic Surgeons (EURAPS) and the American Society of Plastic Surgery (ASPS). He is also a member of the International (ISAPS), the American (ASPS and ASRM) and the World Society (WSRM). Additionally, he is a honorary member of the national societies of Syria and Colombia.

He is also national expert and member of the national recognition committee of the ministry of Health in Belgium.

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