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R I S I N G S T A RAn interview with Dr. Bouraoui KottiDr. Biggs: Congratulations on being chosen as ourRISING STAR for this issue of the <strong>IPRAS</strong> Journal. Asyou know, we select someone under the age of 45, whohas shown great promise in their pursuit of excellence inPlastic Surgery. Tell the readers a bit about yourself. Beginby telling us your background and your education.Dr. Kotti: I was born in 1977 in Tunisia, a country of11 million people and 80 plastic surgeons. My primaryeducation was undertaken there, as well as my medicaleducation. I graduated in June, 2000, from the MedicalSchool of Tunis and followed that by a broad medical/surgical internship for one year.From 2002 to 2006 I did a residency in Plastic Surgeryand completed a dissertation on “Plastic Surgery for theManagement of Pressure Sores”. I graduated SummaCum Laude from the Tunisian Public Health Departmentand the Tunisian Higher Education, Scientific researchand Technology Department in Plastic Reconstructive &Aesthetic Surgery (October 2007) and made the decisionto move to France, where I continued my studies. Iworked in Nice and Paris in services including breastreconstruction, maxillofacial surgery, head and necksurgery, and general Plastic Surgery, including AestheticSurgery. I spent most of last year (to February, 2009)with Dr. Claude Lassus in Nice. My studies and workin France allowed me to be Certified from the FrenchCollege of Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery(November 2007) and, in May 2008, by the EuropeanBoard of Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery.Dr Biggs: And then you returned to Tunisia ?Dr. Kotti: Yes, and in 2009 I joined the “Salah Azaiz”institute (an anti-cancer centre) and have become Headof the unit of Plastic Surgery in the Surgery Department.Dr. Biggs: What Societies do you belong to?Dr. Kotti: Tunisian Society of Plastic, Reconstructive,Maxillofacial, and Aesthetic Surgery (STCPRMFE),ASPS, SOFCPRE, and ISAPS of which I’m NationalSecretary.Dr. Biggs: I looked over your list of publications andpresentations, over twenty in all, and fifteen posters.I noticed you have run the table on topics from digitalreattachment to abdominoplasty and blepharoplasty,breast reduction and reconstruction, to extensivemaxillofacial reconstructions, and to burns. That’s a lotof production for a young man and very impressive.Dr. Kotti: And there is a lot more to doDr. Biggs: Tell me about that. What do you predict andwhere do you see yourself in five years?Dr. Kotti: I see myself still in pursuit of better ways to domore for people. My interest lies more in reconstruction,but with an increased attention to its aesthetic aspects.My great hope is that the political situation in Tunisia willbe such, that I can expand my research capabilities andimpart progress made there into clinical applications.Dr Biggs: Thank you Dr. Kotti. Your great hope isshared by members of our Plastic Surgery family aroundthe globe and this is why I so often say that “the bondsthat unite us are greater than the borders, boundaries, andlanguages that divide us”Again, congratulations on being chosen our “RISINGSTAR”.Issue 7 www.ipras.org <strong>IPRAS</strong> Journal 23
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