Dr. med. Igor Pona

Curriculum Vitae - CV of
Dr. med. Igor Pona

Focus areas

• Aesthetic and reconstructive facial surgery (tumor removals with reconstruction, facial paralysis (facial palsy), face and neck lift, upper and lower eyelid correction)
• Breast surgery (breast augmentation, breast reduction, breast lift, correction of congenital malformations, correction of asymmetries, lipofilling, gynecomastia...)
• Tightening procedures (abdominal, upper arm, thigh lifts...)
• Hand surgery / nerve surgery (Dupuytren's contracture, trigger finger, ganglion, nerve compression syndromes...)
• Burn surgery (acute burns, as well as scar corrections after burns...)
• Liposuction / Lipofilling
• Microsurgery (nerve surgery, free flap procedures...)

Education & professional activities

Professional activity	Period
Cooperating physician at JUVENIS	since 2016
Senior physician and deputy head of the outpatient clinic for reconstructive and aesthetic facial surgery at the Department of Plastic, Aesthetic and Reconstructive Surgery, University Clinic for Surgery, AKH Vienna	2014 to February 2020
Hospital stays abroad in Taiwan and Japan (lymphatic surgery)	2014
Specialist training at the Department of Plastic, Aesthetic and Reconstructive Surgery, University Clinic for Surgery, AKH Vienna, as well as at the Meidling Trauma Hospital	2007 to 2014
Internship at the Evangelical Hospital Vienna	2005 to 2007
Doctorate at the Medical University of Vienna	November 2004

Languages

• German, English, Ukrainian, Russian

...what does attractiveness mean to you?

For me, attractiveness is not only related to external qualities like "beauty", but especially to inner qualities such as character and charisma. A person who feels comfortable with themselves and their body has an attractive radiance that anyone can perceive!

I see my work as helping people feel comfortable in their bodies through plastic, aesthetic, and reconstructive surgery!