Dr Kallirroi Tzafetta is a Consultant Plastic and Reconstructive surgeon. She has been a Consultant at St Andrew’s Centre of Plastic Surgery and Burns in Broomfield Hospital, Essex, in the United Kingdom. She specializes in reconstructions following Head and Neck Surgery and Facial Palsy. She also performs cosmetic surgery procedures, especially addressing the aesthetics of the head and neck area.
She has been trained in Plastic Surgery Centres in the United Kingdom, and she has furthered her microsurgical training and sub-specialized in Facial Palsy reanimation as a Microsurgical Fellow in Norfork, Virginia, USA under Prof Terzis. She has a Masters Degree (MPhil) from the University of Bradford, UK for her full time research in wound healing, awarded on 2001.
She is the President of the Plastic Surgery Division of the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM) in London, Chair of the Scientific Program Committee of EURAPS, Board member of the facial palsy UK, Secretary for the Bell’s Palsy Society and the World Society of Reconstructive Microsurgery.
She has been invited speaker in numerous National and International meetings and has authored scientific papers and textbook chapters (such as: Facial Reanimation at: Plastic Surgery, Indications and Practice by B Guyuron et al, Atlas of Operative Maxillofacial Trauma Surgery by M Perry, S Holmes, Oxford Textbook of Plastic Surgery).