Dr. Abel Mesquita graduated in Medicine and Surgery from the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto in 1989, and has been a Specialist in Plastic, Reconstructive, and Aesthetic Surgery since 1998, registered with the Portuguese Medical Association (Ordem dos M\u00e9dicos) and its College of Plastic, Reconstructive, and Aesthetic Surgery. In the academic field, he is an Invited Associate Professor of Plastic, Reconstructive, and Aesthetic Surgery at the Abel Salazar Institute of Biomedical Sciences (ICBAS) and Regent Professor of the Elective Course Unit in Plastic, Reconstructive, and Aesthetic Surgery at ICBAS.
\nIn his hospital career, he is a Senior Hospital Assistant in Plastic Surgery, founded the Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Department at the Local Health Unit of Santo Ant\u00f3nio (ULSSA), serving as its Director from 2013 to the present, and also serves as the Outpatient Clinic Manager for Plastic Surgery at ULSSA. Previously, he was the Director of the Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Department at the Maria Pia Specialized Central Children’s Hospital (1998-2008) and Head of the Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Unit at CHUP (2008-2013). Institutionally, he was a Board Member of the College of Plastic, Reconstructive, and Aesthetic Surgery between 2009 and 2017. In the private sector, he is the Clinical Director and Founder of Cl\u00ednica Model \u2013 Porto (from 2002 to the present), having also served as Clinical Director of Cl\u00ednica Renaissance \u2013 Porto (1998-2002).
\nHis international specialization began in 1997 when he completed training in Craniofacial Surgery and Rhinoplasty under Prof. Dr. Fernando Ortiz Monast\u00e9rio and Prof. Dr. Fernando Molina at the Hospital Manuel Gea Gonzalez in Mexico City. Between 1998 and 2001, he attended several international courses and training programs in LASER and Intense Pulsed Light (IPL) and their clinical applications in the treatment of Congenital Malformations and Aesthetic Surgery, under Dr. Ram\u00f3n Villa Rovira at the Institut Vila-Rovira of Reconstructive and Aesthetic Plastic Surgery and Centro M\u00e9dico Teknon in Barcelona, under Dr. Mario Trelles at the Instituto M\u00e9dico Vilafortuny in Tarragona, and under Dr. Javier Moreno Moraga at the Instituto M\u00e9dico Laser in Madrid. He also completed training in Facial Rejuvenation with Chemical Peels under Dr. Philippe Deprez in Empuriabrava (2007). More recently, he completed training in Vascular and Nerve Microsurgery at the Jes\u00fas Us\u00f3n Minimally Invasive Surgery Centre in C\u00e1ceres (2014 and 2015), and in Microsurgery for Facial Paralysis under Dr. Alexandre Cardenas at the Hospital Manuel Gea Gonzalez (2024). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":9802,"parent":0,"template":"","comissao":[],"funcao":[146,139],"situacao":[150],"class_list":["post-9270","elemento","type-elemento","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","funcao-moderator","funcao-speaker","situacao-completo"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n