Dr. Gennady I. Patlazhan
Medical Education and Qualifications:
After graduating in early 1998 from Odessa State Medical University, majoring in surgery, Gennady Patlazhan further specialized his medical skills by attending the Professional Traineeship and Professional Refresher Training for Public Health Care Specialists programme, based at Yaroslavl State Medical Academy, under the guidance of Doctor and Medical Sciences Professor K. P. Pshenisnov, who is one of the founders and a certified member of SPRAS, which is affiliated to the American (USA) community of plastic surgeons. Upon completion of the programme he was officially qualified to practice the medical specialisms of: plastic surgery, reconstructive surgery, aesthetic surgery, microsurgery, and hand surgery.
Professional Experience:
Practices general surgery at Odessa Regional Hospital from late 1998 to 2000. In 2000 begins work as plastic surgeon in Plastic and Esthetic Surgery Clinic VIRTUS. During more than 6 years’ medical practice, he has performed over 2000 successful operations in many, diverse types of plastic, aesthetic and reconstructive surgery. Gennady Patlazhan has become the leading plastic surgeon of VIRTUS Clinic.
Dr. Gennady I. Patlazhan performed the most complicated operations on participants of the Ukrainian plastic surgery project, The Beauty Factory: Made In Ukraine. Six participants were operated on; totaling fourteen operations, in all. Photos of participants. Participants’ commentary. Participants.
Additional information:
Leading Surgeon for series of training seminars entitled: Plastic and Esthetic Surgery, under the auspices of Odessa State Medical University. Dr. G. I. Patlazhan is author of the monograph Plastic Esthetic Surgery - Contemporary Aspects. (In Collection: Health 2000. 232 pgs). And author of articles: Treatment Methods for Hypertrophic and Keloidal Scars; Functional and Esthetic Rhinoseptoplasty; Augmentation Mammoplasty in the popular medical journal Les Nouvelles Esthetiques, Ukraine (2003-2004).
Dr. G. I. Patlazhan has participated in 28 scientific conferences, symposiums, seminars and events at the international level. He is scientific consultant for the popular journal Plastic Surgery as It Is (Ukraine). Joint author of articles about breast reconstruction in Annals of Plastic Surgery (Russia). He holds two patents on rhinoplasty innovations. An article of using SMAS-flap in open rhinoplasty in Russian Rhinology magazine. Similarly, Dr. Patlazhan has joint authorship with Prof Pshenisnov in reports about esthetic surgery in Vienna in 2005, and the only report representing CIS (Commonwealth of Independant States) for an international Medical congress in Rio De Janeiro, 2006.
In 2006, Dr. Patlazhan performed some of the most difficult operations currently known in the plastic surgery project Beauty Factory: Made in the Ukraine. He is a specialist leading a new school of plastic surgery. Gennady has mastered the most complicated techniques in reconstructive face and body surgery.
His most preferred operations are rhinoplasty and mammoplasty, as well as all types of complicated deformations (birth defects) and secondary operations, including remedying earlier operations done by other surgeons. Gennady is a member of: the Russian Society of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (SPRAS); the European Academy of Facial Plastic Surgery (EAFPS), and is Ukraine's representative member for the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (ISAPS).
