Maria Rydevik Mani
Sweden
NAME: Maria Rydevik Mani
DATE OF BIRTH: November 11th 1974
CITIZENSHIP: Swedish
CURRENT POSITION: Consultant Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon
Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
Director of Microsurgery Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
Uppsala University Hospital, Uppsala, Sweden
RESEARCH: Research group leader and mentor of three PhD students and member of the Research and Development Committee of the Department
ONGOING RESEARCH WITHIN BREASTRECONSTRUCTION, LYMPHOEDEMA AND CLEFT-, LIP AND PALATE
FORMER EMPLOYMENTS
• Director of Specialized Training, Plastic Surgery, Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Uppsala
University Hospital 2015-2018
• Locum Chief of Department, Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Uppsala University Hospital
Jan – Feb 2016.
• Microsurgical Fellow, Charing Cross Hospital, London 2012
• Wellington Aesthetic Fellowship, Wellington Hospital, London 2012
• Honouree Fellow: Royal Brompton Hospital, London 2011-12 (parallel employment to below)
• Microsurgical Fellowship and post-doc research studies: Royal Marsden Hospital, London, 2011-12
• Specialist Plastic Surgeon (Junior Consultant), Uppsala University Hospital, Oct 2009- July 2010
• Plastic Surgery registrar training, Uppsala University Hospital March 2004 – Sept 2009
HIGHER PROFESSIONAL AND UNIVERSITY QUALIFICATIONS
• Associate Professor in Plastic and Reconstructive surgery, Uppsala university 2018 and Senior
Lecturer position since 2019
• Specialist in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, registered with the Swedish board of health and
welfare, September 2009 and with the British General Medical Council Specialist Register (GMC)
in 2010 (for GMC paying member until 2013).
• Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Plastic and Reconstructive surgery, Uppsala university 2010
• Pedagogics of Higher Educational Training – Part time compulsory courses as part of career to
apply for associate professorship at Uppsala University, 2015
• Registered medical practitioner, December 2002, Sweden
• Medical Degree, Lund University, Faculty of Medicine, Sweden, Jan 2001
Exchange period during medical studies: Pediatrics at Université Paris V, Paris
• Lund Biomedical School of Research, Lund university: one year full-time research education and
full-board scholarship Feb 1997 – Jan 1998
• Studies in clinical pedagogics, business and leadership, social sciences and languages (French and
Spanish) at Lund university, Uppsala university, Bordeaux university and in Guatemala, 1995-2015
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
• Director of the Nordic course on trauma and wound (a one-week international post-graduate course
in plastic surgical management of trauma and wound) in 2018 and 2019
• Organising committee and teacher at the Scandinavian Flap course Uppsala 2013, 2014 and 2015
• Organising committee of Scandinavian Plastic Surgery Meeting (SCAPLAS)
• Organiser Workshop “Efficiency in microsurgical breast reconstruction” – invited speakers Stefan
Hofer and Venkat Ramakrishnan, SCAPLAS June 2016
• Medical and scientific expert of the webbased homestudy course in plastic and reconstructive
surgery 2015- ongoing
• Faculty Facial Reconstruction Course, Uppsala and Vienna, 2016 and 2019
• Invited faculty at “National Oncoplastic Course”; talks and interactive teaching sessions on
autologous breast reconstructions, choice of reconstructive method, tips and tricks etc. 2016
• Invited speaker at National politicians and stakeholders meeting – “What will future of
breastcancer care in Sweden look like?”, Stockholm, 2016
• Invited faculty at Sahlgrenska Breast Reconstructive Symposium Gothenburg (2015)
• Invited speaker at National State of The Art Breast Cancer meeting, 2014 Stockholm (Immediate
reconstructions), 2016 Umeå (Prophylactic mastectomies and reconstructions) and 2018
Gothenburg (Microsurgy and Lymphoedema)
• Organiser of Breast Reconstruction Awareness day, Uppsala 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019
• Invited faculty at national Trauma Academy for orthopaedics, Stockholm, 2016
• Invited faculty at national course on Infections in orthopaedics, Krusenberg 2016
• Lecturer and organiser at ABC meeting (multidisciplinary for specialities involved in breastcancer
treatment at Uppsala Hospital as well as patient representatives) 2013
• Co-responsibility of the teaching programme, including examination, of medical students in plastic
surgery 2006 – 2009 and 2012-2014
• Faculty at International course on oncoplastic surgery, Royal College of Surgeons, London, 2011
• Lecturer and tutor for medical students and registrars, Surgery and Plastic surgery, Sept 2003 –
ongoing
• Supervisor of medical students and nursing students research projects and master programmes
(more than 15 since 2008).
• Regular lecturer during Junior House Officers introduction programme; “Burn care”, 2006 – 2010
• Lecturer at the orthopaedic department and orthopaedic national meetings; “Soft tissue trauma”,
2008, 2009 and 2015
• Author and co-author of medical information internet-site for doctors: internetmecicin.com.
Subheadings; “Craniofacial trauma”, “Soft tissue injuries of the face” and “Cleft lip and palate”
• Assistant teacher, Department of Pathology, Lund University, Feb 1997 – Dec 1999
LANGUAGES
Fluent in Swedish, English and French. Good German and Spanish. Limited Persian.
