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Hospital Universitari i Politècnic La Fe, Valencia.
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Plastic, Aesthetic and Reconstructive Surgery
Dr Elena García Vilariño
Specialist in Plastic, Aesthetic and Reconstructive Surgery
Plastic surgery with technical precision, an aesthetic eye and a firm reconstructive grounding.
Medical Council · ICOMV 46/4624503
Associate Lecturer · Universitat de València
Corresponding Academician · RAMC
ORCID 0000-0002-0229-6162
SCPRECV profile
Clinical and scientific authority
Scientific publications
95
catalogued documents
PubMed
32
publications under her own name
Book chapters
11
documented authorship
First authorships
4
on PubMed
Professional profile
Clinical practice, university teaching and research
Dr Elena García Vilariño trained as a specialist at the Hospital Universitari i Politècnic La Fe in Valencia. Her career brings together reconstructive and aesthetic surgery with teaching and a body of research centred on microsurgery, burns, complex wounds and reconstruction.
She is an associate clinical lecturer in Health Sciences in the Department of Surgery at the Universitat de València. She works privately at ICPM and is part of the Plastic Surgery team at Vithas Valencia Turia.
Her approach to the specialty starts with a full assessment: listening, explaining clearly, and designing treatment in proportion to each patient’s anatomy, needs and expectations.
Career highlights
Training, clinical practice and teaching
Clinical practice
Reconstructive and aesthetic surgery in both hospital and private settings.
University teaching
Associate clinical lecturer in the Department of Surgery at the Universitat de València.
Academic distinction
Premio Francesc Salvà i Campillo, and corresponding academician of the Reial Acadèmia de Medicina de Catalunya.
International rotations
Miami Plastic Surgery Institute, and Hospital Ángeles del Pedregal with Dr Fernando Molina.
Complex reconstruction
Clínica Cavadas and the Reconstructive and Hand Surgery Unit of A Coruña.
Areas of practice
A complete view of plastic surgery
Her clinical and scientific experience lets her approach aesthetic and reconstructive surgery from a technical, individual and multidisciplinary standpoint.
Breast augmentation
Individual planning of breast volume, shape and proportion.
Breast lift with implants
Lifting and reshaping the breast together with implants, where they are indicated.
Breast reconstruction
Reconstructive options matched to the diagnosis, the tissues and each patient’s own preferences.
Otoplasty
Correction of ear shape, projection or asymmetry while keeping the result natural.
Upper lip lift
Treatment of lip proportion and the lower third of the face.
Female genital surgery
Individual surgical assessment with particular attention to function, anatomy and wellbeing.
Research and publications
Science behind the clinical work
Author or co-author of 95 catalogued scientific publications, among them articles, case reports, letters, reviews, clinical images and published abstracts.
95 publications 32 on PubMed 11 chapters Microsurgery and burns
First author. Scientific letter on furuncular myiasis, indexed under the abbreviated signature García E. PMID 30314678.
First author. Reconstruction after forequarter amputation, thoracic resection and a giant oncological ulcer. PMID 30157126.
First author. Limb salvage with free flaps to avoid above-the-knee amputation. PMID 32367929.
First author. Thenar reconstruction combining opponensplasty with a free gracilis flap. PMID 32367932.
Co-author of 10 chapters on treatment, wound cover, rehabilitation and the overall management of the burns patient. Editorial CEISAL · 2020 · ISBN 978-84-09-22523-1.
Co-author of chapter 79: «Replantation, implants and transplants in the limbs. History and medical techniques». Editorial Médica Panamericana · 2025 · ISBN 978-84-1106-332-6.
See the full bibliography, record by record, with PMID and DOI
Distinctions and institutions
Academic recognition and a teaching vocation
The prizes sit alongside her teaching and research to build a picture of clinical authority, rather than standing on their own as a list of honours.
Premio Francesc Salvà i Campillo for her work on tension haematomas in anticoagulated patients.
Admitted as a corresponding academician of the RAMC on the strength of that award.
Hospital Universitari i Politècnic La Fe, 2021.
Clinical teaching in the surgical area and Department of Surgery.
Second author of the work on the intensive rehabilitation protocol for the burns patient.
In the press
Conversations about surgery, explained plainly
The interviews are chosen for their direct bearing on her areas of practice, and because they give useful context to patients weighing up an operation.
ABC Salud · 2026. (in Spanish)
La Vanguardia · 2026. (in Spanish)
ABC Salud · 2025. (in Spanish)
Las Provincias · interview on when it is indicated, and on quality of life. (in Spanish)
La Razón · the clinical work of the Unit at Hospital Doctor Peset. (in Spanish)
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Permanent scientific identifier. It gathers her indexed publications and tells her signature apart from similar ones.
Her institutional record at the university. (in Spanish)
Her profile at the hospital group where she also works. (in Spanish)
Her record at the regional society for the specialty. (in Spanish)
Record for the book «Trasplantes», in which she writes chapter 79. (in Spanish)
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Profile and sources updated · July 2026
