Riccardo F. Mazzola MD.     www.

Riccardo Mazzola obtained his Medical Degree at the University of Pavia in 1967. Board in ENT in 1970 at the University of Ferrara. Board in Plastic Surgery at the University of Milan in 1974 (head Prof. G. Sanvenero Rosselli). He received his General Surgery training at the University of Milan from 1974 through 1977. Assistant Professor of Plastic Surgery at the University of Milan since 1971 and he is currently the Responsible for the Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery training program, of the Postgraduate School of ENT, and Maxillo-Facial at Milan University School of Medicine.
On April 1975, he established the Fondazione G. Sanvenero Rosselli for Plastic Surgery, as a tribute to his late uncle Gustavo Sanvenero Rosselli, founder of Plastic Surgery in Italy. The institution promotes various forms of teaching, fulfilling a continuous postgraduate training program, by arranging meetings, seminars and courses in the field of Plastic Surgery. Directed by a Board of Trustees, the Fondazione has coordinated more than 150 meetings/seminars and organized 44 theoretic-practical courses with live surgery over the years. Riccardo Mazzola is currently the Vice-President. The Fondazione houses one of the most important rare books collections on Plastic Surgery, with volumes dating from 1490 onward (more than 3,000 books).
Founding member, Secretary General and President of the EURAPS (European Association of Plastic Surgeons). Secretary of the Italian Society of Plastic Surgery from 2001 to 2004. Riccardo Mazzola is a member of over 15 national and international societies, among them the prestigious American Association of Plastic Surgeons (AAPS).
He presented 450 invited panels, lectures, conferences, courses at National or International Meetings/Congresses. He has organised 48 Congresses or Courses.
Keynote speaker in numerous International Congresses, he has been awarded the Maliniac lecturer at the 2006 ASPRS Congress in S. Francisco (U.S.A.)
He is the co-Author of 3 textbooks (“Craniofacial Malformations, Churchill Livingstone 1990; “Velopharyngel Incompetence”, Masson 1995, in Italian, “Fat Injection, from Filling to Regeneration”, Quality Medical Publishing, 2009), 12 book chapters and 111 publications, 37 of them in peer reviewed scientific journals.
His primary interests include Cleft Lip and Palate, Head and Neck reconstruction, Nasa Reconstruction, Rhinoplasty and History of Plastic Surgery.

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