Phillip Blondeel is an internationally leading expert on aesthetic and reconstructive breast surgery and one of the pioneers in the so-called “perforator flap” surgery. He is Professor of Plastic Surgery and chairman of the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the University Hospital Gent, Belgium, as well as an attending Plastic Surgeon at Clinique Montchoisi in Lausanne, Switzerland.

A native of the United States of America, Phillip Blondeel received his medical degree from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Medical School in Leuven, Belgium. He underwent postgraduate training in plastic surgery in the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Universitaire Ziekenhuizen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven as well as at Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany and earned his Doctor in Medical Sciences (PhD) degree at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Gent in 1998.

Prof. Blondeel is a fellow of the Collegium Chirurgicum Plasticum (Belgian Boards) and a diplomate of the European Board of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery. He is full member of the Belgian Society of Plastic Surgery and an honorary member of the Swiss, South-African, Canadian and Kyrgyz Society of Plastic Surgery. He holds membership in numerous international scientific societies, among them the American Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery, the European Association of Plastic Surgeons and the American Society for Plastic Surgery.

A world-renowned expert in the field of aesthetic and reconstructive breast surgery, Prof. Blondeel is a much sought after speaker and teacher who has also authored and co-authored numerous books, book chapters, peer-reviewed articles and abstracts. He currently sits on the editorial boards of the Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery and the Journal of Reconstructive Microsurgery. He was the president of the European Association of Plastic Surgeons (EURAPS) from 2021-23 and is the present past-president.

At the end of 2011, Prof. Blondeel led the team that performed the first face transplant in Belgium (#19 worldwide) and is the Chairman of the Vascularized Composite Tissue Allagraft Program at the University Hospital Gent.