Prepectoral Breast Reconstruction (PDF)

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Dr. Hilton Becker is an Adjunct Professor of Surgery at the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida and serves as a voluntary faculty member at the Department of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery at the Cleveland Clinic, Florida. Dr. Becker received his medical degree from the University of Witwatersrand Johannesburg, South Africa, where he completed his internship and residency in general surgery and plastic surgery. He was elected as a fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, Scotland before completing a second residency in plastic surgery at the Medical College of Virginia, USA. He has been engaged in plastic surgery practice since 1981 and is certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery. A member of numerous regional and national medical societies (American Society of Plastic Reconstructive Surgeons, American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, American College of Surgeons, andthe Royal College of Surgeons-Edinburgh, the International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery, and honorary member of the Association of Plastic Reconstructive Surgeons of Southern Africa), Dr. Becker also has extensive experience in surgical lecturing and teaching, and has published over 60 articles and chapters in surgical textbooks. He is a reviewer for the journal Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, the Aesthetic Surgery Journal, and the European Journal of Plastic Surgery. He has developed several medical devices and holds several medical patents.

Dr Raghavan Vidya MS, MD, FRCS is a Senior lecturer at Birmingham University and Consultant Oncoplastic breast surgeon at the Royal Wolverhampton NHS Trust. She graduated from University of Madras, India followed by Postgraduate training in General Surgery. She completed her MD (Research) on aromatase inhibitors from University of Edinburgh and higher surgical training in Wessex and West Midlands. Dr Vidya is a faculty in several