Scanhealth Norway Staff: Surgeons, Doctors & Nurses

Qualification:

Specialist cosmetic surgery

Experience:

Fredrik Gewalli

Associate Professor in plastic surgery at Lund’s University Hospital. Team-leader for micro-surgical activity within Head & Neck reconstruction.

Member of the Swedish Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, the Swedish Plastic Surgery Association and Internation Association for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery / ISAPS. Registered as Specialist in Plastic and General Surgery at General Medical Council-United Kingdom.

Born in Gävle in 1956. First studied for the dental profession at Karolinska Institut Stockholm with a three-year work experience placement at a private clinic. Between 1984-1989 he studied to become a doctor at Karolinska Institut Stockholm. He became a specialist in general surgery in 1997 and plastic surgery in 2000.


Dr Gewalli defended his research with the dissertation ”Dynamic Principles in Craniofacial surgery - Expander elements and their surgical application” 2001. Opponent Professor Fernado Ortiz Monasterio Mexico City Mexico. Head Instructor Professor Claes Lauritzen Gothenburg.

Dr Gewalli worked at the plastic surgical department at Sahlgrenska University Hospital 1998-2003.

Since 2003, Dr Gewalli has been chief surgeon at Lund’s University Hospital and Team-leader for Microvascular surgical activity with reconstructions within Head & Neck.

Since 2002, Dr Gewalli has been working with aesthetic plastic surgery. He has visited Professor Fernando Ortiz Monasterio in Mexico City and learned the basic principles of advanced beauty and reconstructive surgery.

Professor of Plastic Surgery in 2005.

Dr Gewalli continues his research and has 16 papers published and 6 pending publication. Research collaboration has been established with the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, Dr Babak Mehrara Department Plastic Surgery since 2006. A shared research project is ongoing within Head & Neck reconstructions after cancer treatment for example, with ”tissue engineering”. A research presentation was made in June 2007 in Stanford, California, USA. To be at the cutting edge of this science we have to work across borders.

The combination work with reconstructive plastic surgery at university hospitals and aesthetic plastic surgery at a private clinic is a conscious choice in order to acquire a wide competence and to have access to new knowledge.