Plastic surgeon Dr. NelisseN
Dr. Nelissen is Doctor in the Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery (= protected title of plastic surgeon) with over 20 years’ experience in all aspects of aesthetic and reconstructive surgery.
He is officially registered as plastic surgeon:
- in Belgium, RIZIV number 1-18045-04-210.
- in The Netherlands, BIG number 39049118901+ registered as a plastic surgeon at the Medical Specialists Registration Commission in The Netherlands (KNMG Artsennet).
Since 2023, Dr Nelissen has been chairman of the Limburg Local Quality Group (LOK), in which the Limburg Plastic Surgeons meet at least 4 times a year to consult.
Read more about the difference between a Plastic Surgeon and an Aesthetic Doctor here.
CURRENT PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY
- Dr. Nelissen is founding owner of the private clinic Global Care Clinic. Since 2004, he runs this private clinic for plastic and aesthetic surgery, which has grown into a well-known beauty clinic, offering a complete range of surgical and non-surgical aesthetic treatments.
- Since 2011 located in Zolder (nearby Hasselt) under the name Global Care Clinic; before that (and since 2004) located in Hasselt under the name Level 4 Clinic.
- In 2017, a new branch was opened in Knokke (Belgian coast nearby the Dutch border), where patients are welcome, after appointment, for consultations, certain anti-aging and MiraDry treatments.
Read more about “Why to choose the Global Care Clinic“
TRAINING INSTRUCTOR WRINKLE INJECTIONS
As member of the scientific comittee of the Clinical Facial Anatomy (CFA) Amsterdam, Dr Nelissen annually gives training on antiwrinkle injections (fillers and wrinkle relaxing injections) to doctors coming from all over the world.
INTERVIEW WITH DR. NELISSEN
Read here about the interview in 2022 of Dr Nelissen in the Magazine Sterck.
membership professional organisations
Since 2022, Dr Nelissen is President of the provincial professional association of plastic surgeons (LOK Limburg).
Dr. Nelissen is also a member of world-wide recognised professional associations for plastic surgeons, such as:
- Royal Belgian Society for Plastic Surgery (RBSPS)
- Belgian Society for Private Clinics (BSPC)
- Dutch Association for Plastic Surgery (NVPC)
- International Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ISAPS)
- International Society of Plastic & Regenerative Surgeons (ISPRES)
- American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) (candidate - international member)
- Belgian delegated member of Network-Lipolysis.
CONTINUING EDUCATION
As part of his commitment to continuing education, Dr Nelissen travels to Plastic Surgery Conferences (see here the list of conventions and educations) throughout the world, where he meets internationally renowned plastic surgeons, to ensure his practice of plastic surgery and cosmetic surgery maintains at the forefront of current plastic surgery techniques.
He also regularly visits colleagues:
- in 2006: guest surgeon Dr Des Fernandes in Capetown, South-Africa (also known for the Environ skincare products)
- in 2006: Skintech peeling workshop at Dr Philippe Deprez, Empuriabrava, Spain
- in 2008: guest operations at Dr Hodgkinson in Sydney, Australia
- in 2008: guest operations at Dr Woffles Wu, Singapore, known for the Woffles-facelift
- in 2008: guest operation at Dr Claude Le Louarn, Paris, known for the concentric malar lift
- in 2011: guest operations at Dr. Luiz Toledo, Dubai, world name in liposuctions
- in 2011: private teaching course in E:mc2 Gent (Dr. Tonnard and Dr. Verpaele) MACS-lift & Polyurethane breast augmentation
- in 2013: workshop by Dr. Mauricio de Maio, world name for fillers and anti-wrinkle injections
- on several occasions guest at Dr Roger Khouri in the Miami Breast Center, inventor and authority on BRAVA Breast Augmentation with fat
- in 2014: guest operations in Bella Roma Medical & Aesthetic Surgery Center in Dubai.
PREVIOUS PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
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2006-2017: Head of the department plastic surgery in the public hospital Ziekenhuis Maas & Kempen (ZMK), with two campuses, Bree and Maaseik. Dr. Nelissen felt obliged to leave this position in 2017 as a result of the growth of the business in the Global Care Clinic, which had also opened a new branch in Knokke (Belgian Coast).
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2001-2004: staff member of the department plastic surgery in the University hospital azMaastricht (azM – UMC+) for reconstructive and insured care.
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2001-2004: simultaneously he also performed aesthetic surgical procedures in the following private clinics in Amsterdam: Kliniek de Lairesse by Medinova/Euroclinics; Jan van Goyen Hospital (by Body Services); Total Care Clinics.
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Until 2006 also in the Valkenhorst clinic in Valkenburg and until 2007 in the Reinaert clinic in Maastricht and Amstenrade.
education – qualifications
- 1994: Dr. Nelissen graduated in 1994 – with distinction – as ‘Doctor in Medicine, Surgery and Gynaecology’ (M.D.) at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium.
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1994-1997: Specialisation Qualification ‘General surgery’ at the University of Antwerp, Belgium.
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1997-1998: Internship plastic surgeon Dr. Jacques Vandeput, MD, Ph.D., F.A.C.S., Diplomate American Board of Plastic Surgery, member of the American Burn Foundation (Tanner-Vandeput-Boswick Price), internationally recognized for his invention of the “Tanner-Vandeput mesh dermatome”, a device widely used in treating burns and an important tool of burn treatment. During this extra year, Dr. Nelissen performed many aesthetic procedures, including as many as 250 breast augmentations.
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1998-2001: Specialisation Qualification ‘Doctor in the Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery’, University of Amsterdam in the Academic Medical Center (AMC), of which: 10 months in the Antoni van Leeuwenhoek hospital/Dutch Cancer Institute: reconstructive surgery and microsurgery with emphasis on breast and head/ neck reconstructions; 6 months in Beverwijk Burn Center: reconstructive surgery after burn wounds, general plastic and aesthetic surgery; 20 months AMC: (pediatric) plastic surgery and hand surgery.
PRESENTATIONS - PUBLICATIONS
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Biennial trainings on antiwrinkle injections (at the “Clinical Facial Aesthetic Courses for Anatomy and Injections” organized by the Clinical Facial Anatomy (CFA) Amsterdam, The Netherlands (Dr Ali Pirayesh – Amsterdam Plastic Surgery): since 2016
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Presentation on Ergonomix Breast Enlargements experience at het AMEC Congress in Monaco (in the presence of Dr. Per Heden from Akedemikliniken and Dr. Stan Constantin of S Clinic: September 2017
- Presentation on Hand Rejuvenation at het AMWC World Congress in Monaco: March 2015
- Presentation on “The dorso-nasal artery-island flap”: Lustrum NVPC 2000.
- “Considerations on anthtropometric measurements of the female breast”, Vandeput JJ and Nelissen M., Aesthetic Plastic Surgery 2002 Sept-Oct; 26(5): 348-55.
- “A review of skin meshers”, Vandeput J, Nelissen M, Tanner JC, Boswick J, Burns, 1995, Aug. 21 (5): 364-70
- “The dorso-nasal artery-island flap”, Vandeput JJ, Nelissen MRS, European Journal of Plastic Surgery January 2000, Volume 23, Issue 1, pp 12-15