Per Hedén
Qualified medical doctor Karolinska Institutet 1978
Specialist competence Plastic surgery 1982
Doctoral thesis 1988
Associate Professor of Plastic Surgery Karolinska Institutet 1990
After specialising in plastic surgery, Per Hedén spent some time in Australia, where he trained in microsurgery - a new technology that gradually revolutionised plastic surgery. Back in Sweden, he pioneered microsurgery in the early 1980s in Stockholm. The technology provided new opportunities to perform advanced reconstructive surgery - an area in which he is still very involved, particularly in the repair of facial paralysis.
In the early 1990s, he set up Akademikliniken with his colleague Jan Jernbeck, where he was active and a driving force for about 25 years. The clinic developed into the largest private clinic in Europe with more than 5,000 surgical procedures and more than 50,000 non-surgical treatments per year.
Per var en av de första plastikkirurgerna i världen som använde muskelavslappnande injektioner och hyaluronsyrafillers (HA). Han var delaktig i introduktionen av den första icke-djurbaserade HA 1996 och har sedan dess agerat som sakkunnig specialist för olika företag inom detta område. Han är internationellt välkänd för sina icke-kirurgiska ansiktsföryngringstekniker, vilka han demonstrerat och föreläst om runt om i världen.
Per is active in a large number of international plastic surgery associations. He has served as an adjudicator, supervisor and faculty opponent on several medical theses, is a regular referee for scientific articles and is a member of the editorial board of two of the more reputable international journals; Aesthetic Plastic Surgery Journal and Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Journal.
He has written a book with patient information, Plastikkirugiboken, published in Swedish in 1996 and later translated into English and Russian. The book has sold over 20,000 copies. He has published numerous book chapters in medical textbooks on breast augmentation, facial paralysis and non-surgical facial rejuvenation with injectable drugs, published more than 100 peer-reviewed medical articles, developed several new surgical techniques, held numerous international workshops and lectures, and performed surgical demonstrations of his techniques in countries all over the world. He is a frequent lecturer and moderator at international medical congresses.
In 2002, as initiator, organiser and chairman, he started the international plastic surgery conference "Beauty Through Science", which is held every year in Stockholm. From 2021, this conference will also have an annual meeting in New York, USA. The BTS conference is now the largest aesthetic medicine conference in Northern Europe, attended by nearly 1,000 participants from 60 countries in 2019.
Per has a scientific commitment and is involved in the development of new products and technologies. He holds several patents on new technologies in the field of medical technology and is a founder and co-owner of companies working in the medical technology industry.