Education

MD                              1989 University of Kuopio Finland

Surgeon                      1995

Plastic Surgeon          1998

PhD                             2005

Thesis title “Experimental burn injury: new methods in assessing tissue damage”

Fellow, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeon of Canada, 2007

Employment

Burn Director in Finland for 10 years

Medical Director, BC Professional Firefighters’ Burn Unit, VGH 2007-

Clinical Professor, University of British Columbia

Visiting Professor

Department of Surgery, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada, 2010

Department of Plastic Surgery, Kuwait City, Kuwait,  2011.

Department of Plastic Surgery, Helsinki, Finland, 2019

Other

Reviewer/ Editorial board member in 15 different scientific journals              

Publications

50 international peer reviewed publications

22 Book chapters

100 abstracts in international conferences