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Dr JOSE VARAS

Dr JOSE VARAS, plastic, reconstructive and aesthetic surgeon

*HIGHER EDUCATION *

  1. Medicine, Catholic University of Chile, Santiago, Chile.
    http://www.uc.cl/en/.
    Medical School: http://escuela.med.puc.cl/. Santiago, Chile, 1995 to 2002.
    General Physician Title: January 2003

    Optional Stays during Internship (2000 to 2002):
    • Pediatric Plastic Surgery
    • Emergency Medicine and Poison Center from New York City, New York University, United States, July and August 2002.
    • Adult Surgery, Paediatric Surgery, Pediatric Urology, Pediatric Nutrition, Head and Neck Surgery, Oncologic Surgery.
  2. Pediatric Surgery Residency<br> Pediatric Surgery Department, San Borja Arriarán Clinic Hospital, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile. April 1st, 2004 to April 2007.
    Validation by the Croatian Health Ministry in June 12th, 2015 (according to the plan of the European Higher Education Area Programme, with 60 months of duration).

    Optional Stays during residency:
    • Pediatric Urology Surgery
    • Pediatric Plastic Surgery
    • Adult and Pediatric Thorax Surgery Department, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, August 2006.
    • 1 year stay in neonatal surgery, orthopedics and pediatric urology in Zagreb Children’s Hospital to validate the specialty in Croatia according to the 5 year programme of the European Union), 2014 to 2015.
  3. General Surgery Residency
    University Hospital Dubrava, Zagreb, Croatia.
    From February 2011 to July 2012 and change to the plastic surgery residency programme in the same educational center.
  4. Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery Residency
    Clinical Hospital Dubrava, Zagreb, Croatia. From July 2012 to July 2017. *Program according to the European Higher Education Area of 5 years of duration.

Extracurricular activities

  • Membership as resident of the Croatian Society of Plastic Surgery (CSPRAS)
  • Member of the administrative committee of the Section for Residents of CPRAS.
  • Administrator of the Education Module from the CSPRAS webpage.
  • Research project: Microsurgical training in a 3D-printed model (from 2015).

PROFESSIONAL

Current: Consultant plastic, reconstructive and aesthetic surgeon in Auralia Medical Group.

Previous employments:

  • Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, as Registrar in Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, full time Registrar post from July 2019 until July 2021 (in the specialist register at IMC).
  • Chilean Health Ministry, Osorno Hospital, Los Lagos Region, as a staff plastic and reconstructive surgeon.
  • Part-time practice 2018 and 2019 in plastic and aesthetic surgery: Clinica Puerto Varas, Clinica Alemana de Osorno and Clinica Universitaria de Puerto Montt, Chile.
  • Part-time as Resident Medical Officer for NES Healthcare, Aylesbury, England from 2016 to January 2018 (Nuffield and BMI hospitals in UK).
  • Arcadia Clinic for Plastic and Aesthetic Surgery, Daruvar, Croatia. From November 2008 to March 2016.
  • Croatian Health Ministry, for general surgery residency shifts in emergency department, from 2010 to 2014.
  • Pediatric Surgery staff surgeon in Emergency department during 2007 at San Borja Arriarán Clinical Hospital, Roberto del Rio Children’s Hospital, Military Hospital and Police Hospital, Santiago, Chile.

CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION

IAPS Summer Meeting 2023
Irish Association of Plastic Surgery
Croke Park, Dublin, Ireland
18th and 19th of June 2023

Breast Surgery Masterclass 2023
Auralia Medical Group
Radisson Blu Hotel, Dublin, Ireland
25th of March 2023

ESPRAS meeting 2022
European Society of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery
Porto, Portugal
5th to 7th of October

IMCAS World Congress 2022 International Master Course in Aging Science
3rd to 5th of June 2022
Palais des Congrès, Paris, France

Autumn Scientific Meeting 2019
The British Society for the Surgery of the Hand – Dublin, Ireland
October 31, 2019 - November 1, 2019

Flap Dissection Course, part of the Patagonia Microsurgery Meeting
(with prof. Joon Pio Hong, Bauback Safa and others)
Hotel Cumbres, Puerto Varas, Chile
https://patagoniamicrosurgerymeeting.com/
February 28th to March 3rd, 2019.

General Surgery Review Course (American College of Surgeons)
Clinica Alemana La Dehesa, Santiago, Chile.
September 28 and 29th, 2018.

Peripheral Nerve and Brachial Plexus Surgery Course
Clinica Alemana, Santiago, Chile.
August 13th and 14th, 2018.

Pectus and Airway Surgery, 2015 Course.
Centro Internazionale di Studi e Formazione "Germana Gaslini"
March 5th to 7th, 2015, Genoa, Italy.

Annual Symposium of the Italian Society of Microsurgery: "Microsurgery without Frontiers: Sharing and Cooperation" Castello di Udine, Udine, Italy.
Italian Society for the Development of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery.
October 24-25th, 2014

Symposium: "Art of Breast Augmentation"
Modern Art Museum, Zagreb, Croatia.
Croatian Society of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery
September 13th, 2014

5th International Symposium "Fat Injection and Tissue Regeneration. The Cutting Edge. Where are we now."
Centro Congressi Fondazione Cariplo, Milan, Italy.

Sanvenero Rosselli Foundation for the Study of Plastic Surgery.
September 14th, 2013.

3rd Workshop of Aesthetic Surgery of the Breast.
Zira Hotel, Belgrade, Serbia.
Serbian Society for Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery.
May 16th, 2013.

Symposium on Breast Oncoplastics
Department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery. University Hospital Dubrava, Zagreb, Croatia.
December 14th, 2012.

2nd Symposium on Skin Melanoma: New Knowledge and Recommendations for a National Treatment Protocol
Department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery.
University Hospital Dubrava, Zagreb, Croatia.
November 31th to December 1st, 2012.

Paragon Advanced Symposium on Breast Surgery
Department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery.
Hospital Universitario Quirón, Madrid, Spain.
September 29th to October 2nd, 2010.

Practical course "Breast Reconstruction with Implants"
Department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery.
Clinical Hospital Dubrava, Zagreb, Croatia.
September 10th, 2010.

Master Course for the use of Dermal Fillers
Q-Med, Instructor Magda Belmontesi, Italy.
February 2nd 2010, Zagreb, Croatia.

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First and Second Croatian Breast Academy, Plastic Surgery.**
Years 2009 and 2010, 9 teaching hours each.
Rebro University Hospital, Zagreb, Croatia

Course "New Suture Materials, Local and Distant Flaps"
Department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery.
Clinic Hospital Dubrava, Zagreb, Croatia.
March 27 and 28th, 2009.

Live Surgery Workshop "Cosmetic Breast Surgery"
Austrian Academy of Cosmetic Surgery
Cosmetic Health Center, Klagenfurt, Austria.
November 14 and 15th, 2008.

Course "Update in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery in Children and Adults" American College of Surgeons, Chilean Chapter.
Sheraton Hotel, Santiago, Chile.
May 7 to 10th, 2008

Course "Update for the General Surgeon"
American College of Surgeons, Chilean Chapter.
Sheraton Hotel, Santiago, Chile.
May 7 to 10th, 2008

"Biomedical Basis of Pediatric Surgery Course"
Faculty of Medicine, Postgraduate School, University of Chile
July 2003.

"Introduction to Research Methods, Biostatistics and Evidence Based Medicine Course" Chilean Society of Pediatric Surgery.
October 2003.

EMERGENCY COURSES:
ACLS February 2016, Aylesbury, England.
PALS: February 2016, Aylesbury, England.

PUBLICATIONS

"The Scalp as Split-Thickness Graft Donor Site in the Treatment of a Massive Thermal Injury"
Authors: Kralj R, Barcot Z, Varas Fuenzalida JA, Kifer T, Butkovic D, Vukasovic I and Zupancic B. The Journal of the Croatian Medical Association. 138:200-203. October 2016.

"Duodenal Duplication Cyst: A Rare Differential Diagnosis in a Neonate with Bilious vomiting"
Authors: Župančić B, Gliha A and Varas Fuenzalida J. European Journal of Pediatric Surgery Reports. Published online in October 2015: https://www.thieme-connect.de/products/ejournals/pdf/10.1055/s-0035-1558827.pdf

"Craniofacial Anomalies of the Amniotic Band Syndrome in Serial Clinical Cases".
Authors: Morovic CG, Berwart F, Varas JA. Journal of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (PRS), Volume 113, No 6, May 2004.

Book chapter: "Intestinal Obstruction" of the textbook "Pediatric Surgery, 3rd Edition", 2013.
Book editor: CG Rostion. Chapter authors: J Varas, O Carvajal and MV Romanini. Mediterraneo Editorial Group

"Wilms Tumor: Association of Surgical Complications and Clinical and Imaging Findings"
Authors: CG Rostión, T Grandgean, P Bustamante, K Gac, J Varas. Revista Pediatría Electrónica (Electronic Journal of Pediatrics), www.revistapediatria.cl/ ), Vol. 4 No1, 2007

Book chapter number 2 "Surgical Anatomy",
Textbook of Pediatric Oncologic Surgery, pages 17-63. Main Editor: CG Rostión, Chapter Author. José Varas, Mediterráneo Editorial, 2007, Santiago of Chile.

"Laparoscopy in Paediatric Nephrectomies"
Authors: R. Ramírez M., O. Castillo, M. Santos M., R. Zubieta A., JM Escala A., N. Letelier C., M. Quitral V., M. Rivera G., C. Acuna M., J. Varas F. Revista Chilena de Urología (Chilean Journal of Urology), Volume 68, No 3, December 2003.

"Video assisted Pyeloplasty in Pyeloureteral Obstruction"
Authors: R. Ramírez M., O. Castillo, M. Santos M., R. Zubieta A., JM Escala A., N. Letelier C., M. Quitral V., M. Rivera G., C. Acuna M., J. Varas F. Revista Chilena de Urología (Chilean Journal of Urology), Volume 68, No 3, December 2003.

Book chapter "Poisoning" of the Manual of Pediatrics
from the P. Catholic University of Chile, published in the web site from the School of Medicine of the P. Catholic University of Chile (http://escuela.med.puc.cl/paginas/publicaciones/ManualPed/Intoxicaciones.html). Authors: José Varas Fuenzalida and Enrique Paris M.

"Spontaneous Rhythmic Activity in Human Placental Vessels: A Physiologic Pacemaker in Blood Vessels?"
Authors: Huidobro -Toro JP, González R, Varas JA, Rahmer A. Pharmacology Department of catholic University of Chile. Revista Médica de Chile, 129(10): 1105-12, Oct 200