Best Surgery Doctors Abroad

Dr. Rafał Marszałek serves as Head of the General Surgery Department at Legionowo Hospital. This facility is affiliated with the Military Medical Institute in Poland. He specializes in laparoscopic surgery for bariatric, oncologic, and general conditions. Dr. Marszałek centers his practice on minimally invasive techniques to speed up recovery.

• Leads a department that performs a high annual volume of surgical procedures.
• Performs gastric sleeve and metabolic surgery for long-term weight loss.
• Treats inguinal and umbilical hernias using laparoscopic repair methods.
• Provides surgical treatment for thyroid, breast, and gallbladder diseases.

Professor Lee Seok-gu is a leading liver transplant surgeon at Myongji Hospital. He has performed about 2,000 liver transplants. He achieved Korea’s first transfusion-free liver transplant. He performed hepatocyte transplantation in a one-month-old infant. He led the first clinical use of a bioartificial liver for acute liver failure. He also performed living-donor transplants in Egypt and trained teams in Vietnam.

He is Professor of Surgery at Myongji Hospital and former Director of the Organ Transplantation Center at Samsung Medical Center. He earned his MD and MSc from Seoul National University and his PhD from the Catholic University of Korea. He completed a fellowship at Boston Children’s Hospital/Harvard and transplant training at Johns Hopkins. He served as president of three national societies in transplantation and pediatric surgery. His honors include the Chong Kun Dang Award, the Pfizer Clinical Medicine Award, and the Astellas Investigator Award. He has 447 publications and 13 book chapters.

Dr. Ik-beom Shin is a breast and thyroid surgeon at Seoul Miz Hospital. He is a recognized specialist in thyroid and endocrine surgery. Dr. Shin authored a pioneering study on gasless BABA robotic thyroidectomy. This research was published in the journal Surgical Endoscopy. He holds dual fellowships from Haeundae Paik Hospital and Seoul National University Hospital.

• Certified in breast and thyroid ultrasound by the Korean Society of Surgical Ultrasound.
• Expert in BABA robotic thyroidectomy and ultrasound-guided diagnostics.
• Lifetime member of the Korean Thyroid Association and the Korean Surgical Society.
• Regular member of the Korean Breast Cancer Society.

Dr. Dr. med. Bernhard Moser is a double board-certified surgeon at JUVENIS Medical Center in Vienna. He is a specialist in plastic and aesthetic surgery and in oral, maxillofacial, and facial surgery. He also holds additional qualifications in hand, plastic, and microsurgery, and a DEGUM Level 1 diagnostic ultrasound certificate.

He completed residency training at UKSH Kiel from 2014 to 2016. He became a specialist in oral and maxillofacial surgery in 2017 and in hand, plastic, and microsurgery in 2017 at UKSH. He qualified as a specialist in plastic and aesthetic surgery in 2021. He served as a senior physician at Agaplesion Diakonieklinikum Rotenburg from 2018 to 2021. He was lead physician at Bergman Clinics Germany from 2021 to 2023. He joined JUVENIS in 2024.

He has been active in microsurgical research at Kiel University since 2015. He founded flaplab.org in 2018. His clinical focus includes rhinoplasty, hand and nerve surgery, and microsurgery. He also performs aesthetic and reconstructive facial, breast, and body-contouring surgery, burn surgery, and liposuction and lipofilling. He treats patients in German, English, Russian, and Spanish.

OA Dr. med. Peter Guglia is a specialist in orthopaedics and orthopaedic surgery at JUVENIS. He is also a senior physician at the Spine Centre, Orthopaedic Hospital Speising, Austria’s leading orthopaedic hospital. He has over 30 years of experience. His work focuses on non-surgical diagnosis, pain therapy, and movement and posture assessment.

MD 1991. General medicine training 1994–1997. Specialist diploma in orthopaedics and orthopaedic surgery 1997–2003. This dual training enables a whole‑patient assessment.

Career: Resident, University Department of Orthopaedics, AKH Vienna (2002–2003). Senior physician and deputy head, SKA Zicksee (2003–2012). Senior physician, Speising Spine Centre (2012–present). JUVENIS (2012–present). Clinical focus includes conservative orthopaedics, classical and complementary pain medicine, movement and posture analysis, preventive exams, and insurance medicine, including independent assessments. He also provides independent second opinions on the need for spine surgery.

Dr. Zeynep Civelek is a general surgeon. She treats benign perianal diseases, including hemorrhoids (with laser), anal fissure, fistula, condyloma, and pilonidal disease, and performs rubber band ligation. She also manages breast disease and cancer, skin cancers, laparoscopic cholecystectomy, and hernias. She worked full-time at Bayindir Levent Medical Center from 2010 to 2025. Earlier, she served at Şişli and Gayrettepe Florence Nightingale Hospitals. She completed her general surgery training at SSK Okmeydanı from 2000 to 2006. She earned her MD from Marmara University, ranking 12th in her class. She also trained in GI surgery for inflammatory bowel disease at the University of Florence in August 2000.

Her research focuses on prognostic factors in breast and colorectal cancer. She wrote a melanoma thesis in 2006 and co-authored papers in Cancer (2005), Breast (2006, 2014), Annals of Surgical Oncology (2008), The Breast Journal (2011), ISRN Oncology (2011), Japanese Journal of Clinical Oncology (2012), World Journal of Surgery (2013; 2,151 patients), International Journal of Surgery (2014), and Journal of Gastrointestinal Cancer (2017).

I'm the Director of Clínica San Clemente and of the GenderMedic Unit, based in Zaragoza. I specialize in plastic, reconstructive and aesthetic surgery, performing breast surgery, facial and body procedures, hair restoration, and aesthetic medicine — the full spectrum of what a patient's journey may require, under one roof and one standard of care.

I trained through the MIR program at Hospital Universitario Miguel Servet in Zaragoza, and I'm a full member of the Spanish Society of Plastic, Aesthetic and Reconstructive Surgery (SECPRE) and of SUNRA. What I care about most isn't just the technical result — it's building a team capable of handling every case with the same rigor, whether it's a straightforward procedure or a complex, multidisciplinary journey.

That same commitment is why I founded Fundación Sigo Adelante, through which I personally perform reconstructive surgical missions in countries with limited medical access — because excellence should reach further than a clinic's walls. I lead the same standard of honesty, safety and personalized care at GenderMedic, where I coordinate a multidisciplinary team dedicated to gender affirmation.

Your wellbeing and your confidence in the results are, and will always be, my responsibility.