MD and PhD. General Surgeon, Plastic Aesthetic and Reconstructive Surgeon. American Board Diploma for Lasers in Aesthetic Surgery.
Dr. Mario Trelles is a general surgeon and plastic, aesthetic and reconstructive surgeon practising at Vilafortuny Medical Centre on Al Wasl Road, Jumeirah 3, Dubai. He is president of the European Society of Laser Aesthetic Surgery (ESLAS), the Spanish Laser Society (SELMQ) and the European Laser Association (ELA), and a board member of the Laser Aesthetic Society of Cosmetic Surgeons (US).
On the academic front, Dr. Trelles is a professor at the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Rome for postgraduate diplomas in Lasers in Dermatology, a visiting professor at the Department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, School of Medicine, University of Masaryk, Brno, Czech Republic, and director of the Master programmes on Lasers in Medicine at the College of Physicians, Barcelona, Spain.
Dr. Trelles is the author of over 250 peer-reviewed articles, various books and numerous textbook chapters, and is international editor of the Dermatologic Surgery Journal in the US. He is president of the board of trustees of the Foundation Antoni de Gimbernat, a non-profit organisation dedicated to research in medicine, and director of the Instituto Médico Vilafortuny in Cambrils, Tarragona, Spain, a centre for academic work in medical lasers in Europe.
