Meet Elena Your Breast Surgeon
Ms Elena Prousskaia
MD, FRCS (Plast), FEBOPRAS
Ms Elena Prousskaia has been carrying out cosmetic and plastic surgery procedures for more than 17 years. As an NHS Consultant Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon at Southmead Hospital she dedicated several years to complex microsurgical reconstruction and general plastic surgery.
During this time at North Bristol Trust she particularly enjoyed rebuilding patients who suffered from breast cancer giving them their body and confidence back. At present Ms Prousskaia runs her own successful private practice performing full range of plastic and cosmetic surgery for face, body and breast.
After completing eight years of training in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Elena successfully undertook three years of one of the UK’s most prestigious Fellowships in Microsurgical Breast Reconstruction and Breast Oncoplastic Surgery at Guys and St Thomas Hospitals in London, Manchester University Hospital, Broomfield Hospital in Chelmsford and The Queen Victoria Hospital in East Grinstead.
This was followed by a further nine months of travelling fellowships abroad, in a number of world-renowned centres, including: The University Hospital in Ghent (Belgium), Sant Pau Hospital in Barcelona (Spain), Ganga Hospital in Coimbatore (India), The European Institute of Oncology in Milan (Italy) and The University Hospital in Tokyo (Japan), where she learnt about the latest, international advances in Plastic Surgery.
Elena holds many international awards and certificates, specializing in Microsurgery, Breast, Lymphoedema and all aspects of Cosmetic Surgery.
“The one thing that matters most to me when I am with a patient is empathy.
It is only when you are able to identify and understand your patients’ problems that you can begin to help resolve them satisfactorily. A good surgical outcome is not the only thing that matters. Everything that you do and say to a patient has to come from your heart.
I consider myself very lucky to be able to share my passion for what I do and hopefully bring a bit more happiness into my patients’ lives.
I look forward to meeting you.”
Mrs Prousskaia holds many international awards and certificates. She is a Board Certified UK Consultant Plastic Surgeon.She is on the UK GMC Specialist Register for Plastic Surgery and holds the UK (CCT) Certificate of Completion of training in Plastic Surgery.
Mrs Prousskaia is a member of the British Association of Plastic Surgeons (BAPRAS), Royal College of Surgeons, London (FRCS Plast) and European Board of Plastic Surgeons (EBOPRAS).
International Award for the best oral presentation:
Foot perforator flaps: Challenge and Possible Solutions
Congress: Ibero Latinoamerican Plastic Surgery Federation (FILACP), Panama, June 2010.
National Award for the best oral presentation:
Foot perforator flaps: Challenge and Possible Solutions
Congress: Spanish Society of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery (SECPRE) National Congress, Spain, June 2009.
Crisvi Anatomy Award for the best experimental work:
Clinical – Experimental study on the critical perfusion zone of perforator flap
Congress: Spanish Society of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery (SECPRE) National Congress, Spain, June 2008.
Regional Award for the best oral presentation:
Scalp replantation
Congress: Plastic Surgery Society of Basque-Navarro-Riojano-Aragon, Spain, November 2008.
Breast reconstruction in locally-advanced cancer
Congress: Oncoplastic and reconstructive surgery of the breast, VII European Conference, 2013, Milan, Italy.
Pharyngostomy reconstruction with supraclavicular flap (Poster)
Congress: SECPRE National Congress, 2012, Mallorca, Spain.
Foot perforator flaps: challenge and possible solutions
Congress: XVIII Ibero Latinoamerican Plastic Surgery Federation Congress (FILACP) 2010, Panama.
Receptor vessels in microsurgical breast reconstruction
Congress: SECPRE National Congress, 2010, Gerona, Spain.
Complex facial trauma with severe frontal substance loss, clinical case
Congress: SECPRE National Congress, 2010, Gerona, Spain.
Purpura fulminans caused by Capnocytophaga canimorsus treated in burns unit
Congress: SECPRE National Congress, 2010, Gerona, Spain.
Extensor digitorum brevis muscle flap for distal foot defects coverage
Congress: SECPRE National Congress, 2010, Gerona, Spain.
Squamous cell carcinoma of the scalp – different surgical options
Congress: SECPRE National Congress, 2010, Gerona, Spain.
Facial anaplastic large cell lymphoma management
Congress: SECPRE National Congress, 2010, Gerona, Spain.
Fasciocutaneous flaps for sacrum and sciatic areas coverage
Congress: Plastic Surgery Society of Basque-Navarro-Riojano-Aragon (SVNRA), 2009, San Sebastian, Spain.
Prousskaia E, Zayas P, Samaniego F, Jauregui M, Gabilondo J, Bilbao, Spain.
Integra applications in burn sequelae
Congress: Plastic Surgery Society of Basque-Navarro-Riojano-Aragon (SVNRA), 2009, San Sebastian, Spain.
Clinical-Experimental study on the critical perfusion zone of the perforator flap
Congress: 1 st European Plastic Surgery Research Council, 2009, Hamburg, Germany.
Super-microsurgical ear replantation
Congress: 5th Congress of the Society for Reconstructive microsurgery, 2009, Okinawa, Japan.
Foot perforator flaps
Congress: 5th Congress of the Society for Reconstructive microsurgery, 2009, Okinawa, Japan.
Scalp replantation
Congress: SECPRE National Congress, 2009, Cadiz, Spain.
Different applications of Integra
Congress: SECPRE National Congress, 2009, Cadiz, Spain.
Foot perforator flaps: challenge and possible solutions
Congress: SECPRE National Congress, 2009, Cadiz, Spain.
Scalp replantation
Congress: Plastic Surgery Society of Basque-Navarro-Riojano-Aragon (SVNRA), 2008, Logrono, Spain.
Different applications of Integra
Congress: Plastic Surgery Society of Basque-Navarro-Riojano-Aragon (SVNRA), 2008, Logrono, Spain.
SCIP flap study
Congress: Euromicro, 2008, Turku, Finland.
Clinical – Experimental study on the critical perfusion zone of perforator flap
Congress: SECPRE National Congress, 2008, Zaragoza, Spain.
Progressive complexity of microsurgical free flap training in the rat model
Congress: SECPRE National Congress, 2008, Zaragoza, Spain.
Clinical-experimental study on the superficial circumflex iliac artery perforator flap
Congress: SECPRE National Congress, 2008, Zaragoza, Spain.
Refinements in the SCIP flap
Congress: European Workshop of advances in Plastic Surgery, 2008, Norway.
Modification to the MACS-lift
Congress: AESAPS, 2008, Australia.
Free inguinal flap in the rat – a model for microsurgical training
Congress: SVNRA XX anniversary, 2007, Victoria, Spain.
Reconstruction of the lower extremity for femoral osteoblastic sarcoma
Congress: SECPRE National Congress 2007 Valencia, Spain.
Techniques and refinements for better breast symmetry
Congress: SECPRE National Congress, 2007, Valencia, Spain.
Treatment of facial lipoatrophy in AIDS patients
Congress: National SECPRE Congress, 2007, Valencia.
Oncological reconstruction of lower lip defects greater than 50% in size
Congress: National SECPRE Congress, 2007, Valencia.
The repetitive administration of Extasis (3,4- metilenadioximetanfetamina) reduces the survival of neural precursors in gyrus dentatus of rat hypocampus
Congress: XI National Congress of Spanish Neuroscience Society, 2005, Malaga, Spain.
The aesthetic unit of the nasal base, columella and lip
Congress: XXXIX SECPRE Congress, XV FILACP Congress, 2004, Sevilla.
Cephalic vein inconsistency in autologous breast reconstruction salvage.
Powel C, Prousskaia E, Wilson S. Journal of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery J Plast Reconstr Aesthet Surg. 2014 Oct 16. pii: S1748-6815(14)00612-3. doi: 10.1016/j.bjps.2014.10.019
Algorithm for the treatment of nasal burns based on analysis of 150 cases.
Prousskaia E, El-Muttardi N, Philp B, Dziewulski P, Shelley O., Annals of Burns and Fire Disasters (in print).
Aesthetic reconstruction of bilateral iatrogenic lateral thigh defects with posteromedial thigh perforator free flaps. Prousskaia E.
Van Landuyt K. European Aesthetic Plastic Surgery Journal, Vol. 4: No 1 January-June 2014.
Audit on pain relief in breast surgery.
Prousskaia E, Johnson R, Gandhi A, Harvey J.
Part 1 Presented at Audit meeting UHSM July 2013
Part II Loop closed at Audit Meeting UHSM September 2013
Audit on continuity of care and consenting process for breast reconstruction and mastectomy
Prousskaia E, Blackburn A, Farhadi J.
Part 1 Presented at Audit Meeting St Thomas Hospital September 2012
Part II Loop closed at Audit Meeting St Thomas Hospital March 2013
Breast reconstruction Audit. Alamouti R, Blackburn A, Constantinides J, Prousskaia E, Vamadeva S.
Artificial dermis applications to prevent and treat hypertrofyc scars and skin retractions.
Ferreiro I, Gabilondo Z J, Prousskaia E.
Cirugía Plástica Ibero-Latinoamericana January-March 2012, Vol 38- N1, 61-67.
Foot perforator flaps: problems and possible solutions. Prousskaia P E, Salvador J, Gabilondo Z J.
Cirugía Plástica Ibero-Latinoamericana, April-June 2010, Vol 36 N2, 89-96.
Clinical-Experimental Study on the Critical Perfusion Zone of the Perforator Flap.
Prousskaia E, Teo T C, Gabilondo Z J.
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, August 2009, Vol. 124, Issue 2S-p685.
European Plastic Surgery Research Council – Abstracts Supplement.
Facial ritidectomy. Rodrguez-Camps Devs S, Prousskaia E.
Journal of Spanish Association of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery 2003; 1; 6-9.
