

IAPS meeting 2025 in Croke Park on the 15th and 16th May
15 May @ 8:00 am - 16 May @ 5:00 pm
EVENT INFORMATION
IAPS meeting 2025 in Croke Park Conference Centre on the 15th and 16th May
Guest Speakers
She has been a NHS consultant since 2007 and worked initially in Manchester as the lead for breast reconstruction at the Nightingale Centre at Wythenshawe Hospital, one of the largest breast cancer units in the country. In April 2013, she took the post of lead for plastic surgery trauma reconstruction at Guy’s and St Thomas’ hospitals.
She is also a member of the British Society of Gender Identity Surgeons as a breast/chest wall surgeon. She is actively involved in plastic surgery training and has represented both the London and North West Deaneries. She is a member of the Specialist Advisory Committee for the Joint Committee of Surgical Training. She holds the PG Certificate in Medical Education and is working toward a Master’s at King’s College London. She is also in her final year of a LLM at Cardiff University.
Victoria enjoys scientific research in plastic surgery and has presented at multiple national and international meetings and is widely published in scientific journals and surgical textbooks. Victoria started her training in plastic surgery in 1998 and worked in a variety of London plastic surgery units, as well as the Queen Victoria Hospital in East Grinstead and the St Andrew’s Centre in Chelmsford. During her training she spent time at the MD Anderson in Dallas, Akademikliniken in Stockholm and was a microsurgical fellow in Taiwan for 15 months
His specialist interests lie in cosmetic and reconstructive surgery for the breast, fat transfer, and aesthetic surgery of the breast and face. Graduating from University College London and the Middlesex Medical School in 1994, he commenced his surgical training at The Royal Free Hospital, London. By 1998, he had already gained a Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. Following this, he undertook a period of full-time research and was awarded a Master of Surgery (MS) degree and an Arris and Gale Lectureship and College Medal by The Royal College of Surgeons of England in 2003 for his research and work into wound healing. He then moved to six years of Higher Surgical Training in Plastic Surgery in London and the South East, with rotations at the St Andrews Unit in Chelmsford, St Thomas’, The Royal Marsden, and The Craniofacial Unit at Chelsea and Westminster. In 2006, he relocated to Houston, Texas, where he spent a year as Fellow at the MD Anderson Cancer Centre focusing on microsurgical reconstructive surgery. He is highly regarded within the field due to his meticulous attention to detail and impeccable credentials. In 2013, he was included in the Breast Section of the Tattler Doctors Guide – Britain’s Top 250 Consultants by Specialty.
Currently, she is Head of the Microsurgery Unit of the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Hospital de Sant Pau in Barcelona, and Associate Professor of the Department of Surgery at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.
She was graduated from Hospital Clinic medical school at Universitat de Barcelona and she undertook her Plastic Surgery training in Hospital de Sant Pau in Barcelona. She completed abroad her training in microsurgery: Plastic Surgery Department Universitair Ziukenheis Gent, Belgium (Prof. P. Blondeel), East Cooper Medical Center, Charleston, US (Dr. R.J. Allen) and The University Tokyo Hospital, Japan (Prof. I. Koshima). Later, she received her PhD degree in lymphatic super-microsurgery from the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona.
As an accomplished clinician, her expertise focuses on reconstructive and aesthetic breast surgery, lymphoedema surgery and super-microsurgery.
She is author and co-author of multiple articles and book chapters and presents her work internationally. She is member of several scientific associations and she was awarded the EURAPS Best Paper 2022. She is actively involved in basic and clinical research projects, and teaching both at undergraduate and post-graduate level, being part of the educational board of the Reconstructive Microsurgery European School
Dr. Masia introduces the most innovative micro-surgical breast reconstruction and Lymphoedema techniques in Spain since 2000, situating Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau as the flagship Spanish centre for Lymphoedema treatment and breast reconstruction. He shares his welfare work with an important teaching, research and education work.
He is the Chief of Plastic Surgery Department, Sant Pau University Hospital, Barcelona, Spain, Full Professor in Lymphoedema Surgery, Department of Surgery, School of Medicine, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain, Co-Director of the European School of Reconstructive Microsurgery, General Secretary of the World Society of Reconstructive Microsurgery, Spanish Delegate for EURAPS (European Association of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery) from 2021 and Past-President of the Spanish Society of Plastic, Aesthetic and Reconstructive Surgery