Helena K Puonti
Savonlinna Central Hospital, Finland
Biography
Plastic surgeon Helena K. Puonti has worked as microsurgeon since 1991. She has dedicated her work history for the development of surgical breast cancer treatment. She performed the first microneurovascular breast reconstruction with free ms-TRAM flap in 2001, and is preparing her thesis study from it. She has worked as the head of the plastic surgery department at Savonlinna Central Hospital since 1987, and fifteen years in her private own clinic Helena performing all kind of reconstructive plastic surgery. Cancer Society of Finland selected her for the oncologist of the year 2003 in Finland. Many plastic surgeons have started their career in her guidance and she gives yearly many lectures about the oncological surgery.