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With years of experience, expertise in a range of procedures and recognition in her field; you can be sure that under the care of Kallirroi Tzafetta you are in expert hands.

For over two decades, Ms Tzafetta has been changing her patients’ lives.  After in-depth, personal consultations in her caring and approachable style, she has performed an extensive number of aesthetic and reconstructive plastic surgery procedures.

As a Consultant Plastic Surgeon within the NHS based at the renowned St Andrew’s Centre for Plastic Surgery and Burns within Broomfield Hospital in Chelmsford; Ms Tzafetta brings her expertise to patients needing facial reconstructive procedures following facial paralysis, cancer removal, trauma as well as general plastic surgery.

MEMBERSHIPS AND QUALIFICATIONS:

• Obtained her Medical Degree from the University of Athens.
  · Awarded a Master of Philosophy (MPhil) from the University of Bradford, for her full-time research work on wound healing.
• Fellow of the Royal College of Plastic Surgeons FRCS(Plast).
  ·   Member of the European Board of Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery  (EBOPRAS).
  ·   Fellowship in Microsurgery and Facial Paralysis Reconstruction at The Microsurgical Research Centre at Eastern Virginia Medical School, USA.
• On the GMC Specialist Register for Plastic Surgeons.
• Member of the British Association of Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (BAPRAS).
• Member of the British Association of Aesthetic Surgeons (BAAPS).
• Member of the European Association of Plastic Surgeons (EURAPS).
• Member of the World Society of Reconstructive Microsurgery (WSRM).
• Member of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS).
• Member of the Rhinoplasty Society of Europe (RSE).

POSITIONS HELD: 

• President of the Plastic Surgery Section in the Royal Society of Medicine (RSM)
• Past Chair of the BAPRAS Specialist Interest Group in Facial Palsy
• Secretary General of the Sir Charles Bell’s Society of Facial Nerve
• Chair of the Educational Programs Committee at EURAPS

Ms Tzafetta has acquired a Master’s Degree on Wound Healing following her two-year full-time research at the University of Bradford. She appreciates research as a tool of advancing Medicine and promoting surgical innovation. She has collaborated with Anglia Ruskin University in Chelmsford where she has hosted scientific meetings and anatomy dissection courses.

During her fellowship in Norfolk, Virginia, USA, Ms Tzafetta was awarded a grant from the Plastic Surgery Educational Foundation (PSEF) in the USA.  This funding allowed her to undertake laboratory and clinical research on facial paralysis and the facial nerve. The results of her work were published in the Journal of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (PRS). The insights gained during this research meant that Ms Tzafetta was asked to co-author a chapter on facial reanimation in the textbook PLASTIC SURGERY: Indications and Practice (Elsevier).

An accomplished speaker, Ms Tzafetta is regularly invited to talk at conferences and other events, sharing her expertise in several areas including facial paralysis, facial reconstruction and facial aesthetic surgery.

She has been a member of national and international faculties in numerous conferences and courses around the world as an expert on her field. She has authored several book chapters and peer reviewed publications at scientific journals.