Dr. Manuel R. Vegas (MD, PhD) is native of Burgos/Spain but is currently working in Madrid. He graduated magna cum laude at the University Autonoma de Madrid and received his MD and PhD from that University. Dr. Vegas completed his Plastic Surgery Internship and Residency at the Hospital Doce de Octubre in Madrid. He is Fellow of the European Board of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery (EBOPRAS, 1996) and Diplomate of the European Federation for Surgery of the Hand (FESSH, 1998). He had further training and education in Canniesburn (UK), Stanford (US) and Uppsala (Sweden). He has been a delegate of the EBOPRAS for many years, as well as a member of different national and international plastic and hand surgery societies. Deeply interested in Reconstructive Microsurgery, he will be the President of the Spanish Microsurgical Association (www.microcirugia.org) for the 2014-15 period. Also interested in medical management, he completed the Healthcare Management Program IESE in 2007. Also interested in Hand Surgery and Aesthetic Surgery he is currently working in Hospital Ramón y Cajal Madrid, Spain. Dr. Vegas has been involved in the plastic surgery training program in different Spanish hospitals and is a member of the editorial board of the Iberolatinoamerican Journal of Plastic Surgery (Cirugia Plastica Iberolatinoamericana)(ciplaslatin.com). Dr. Vegas has authored or co-authored numerous publications in some of the most prestigious Spanish and international trauma and plastic surgery journals and has been an invited surgeon and lecturer throughout Europe for the last years.

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