Introduction

Dina Reem Matzen is a specialist in plastic surgery. She has many years of experience in plastic surgery and breast surgery and has trained at Rigshospitalet and Herlev Hospital, among others. Dina continuously participates in international courses and congresses and has taught doctors and nurses at various plastic surgery departments around Denmark. She has also previously started a course series for patients with melanoma in Region Zealand.

Dina has a broad scientific interest which has resulted in several scientific publications especially in the areas of breast implant related diseases, breast corrections, skin cancer and wound care.

Dina values good patient contact and performs her work with a high level of professionalism and compassion so that the patient feels heard, safe and in good hands from the first meeting to the end of the treatment. She is committed and dedicated to her work and has an eye for the small details. Dina always strives to keep the patient happy and satisfied and aims for an aesthetic, precise, well-proportioned and natural-looking result.

Dina has also participated in voluntary charity work and has been deployed with a British plastic surgery organization, Interplast UK, to Kashmir and Uganda, where she operated on burn victims, children with cleft lip and palate, acid damaged women and patients with large keloid scar formation. She has also spent time in Jordan, where she shadowed a renowned plastic surgeon.

Dina lives in Hellerup with her husband and their three young children: four-year-old twins and a five-year-old brother.

Education and training

2022: Specialist in Plastic Surgery

2012: Master's degree in medicine (cand.med) - University of Copenhagen

Experience

From 2023: Specialist at Capio Privathospital in Hellerup

2022-2023: 1st resident physician at Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Department of Plastic Surgery

2020-2022: 1st resident physician at Rigshospitalet, Clinic for Plastic Surgery and Burns

2019-2020: 1st resident physician at Rigshospitalet, Department of Breast Surgery

2019-2020: 1st resident at Nordsjællands Hospital, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and at Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Gastro Unit, Surgical Department

2016-2017: Resident at Herlev and Gentofte Hospital, Department of Plastic Surgery

2015-2016: Resident physician at Rigshospitalet, Clinic for Plastic Surgery, Breast Surgery and Burns.

2014-2015: Resident at Zealand University Hospital, Department of Plastic Surgery and Breast Surgery

2013-2014: Resident at Aalborg University Hospital, Department of Plastic Surgery

2012-2013: Intern at the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Bispebjerg Hospital & Vesterbro Lægehus

Other information

Professional memberships

- Member of the Danish Medical Association

- Member of the Danish Society for Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

- Member of the charity Interplast UK (England)

Pricing

Won "Best Paper Award" for the article "Release and Reconstruction of a Postburn Deformed Breast in a Young Woman" published in the American plastic surgery journal Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery

Scientific publications

D. R. Matzen, L. Jørgensen, K. Finnerup, L. Birk-Sørensen

Complications in skin grafts when continuing antithrombotic therapy prior to cutaneous surgery requiring skin grafting: a systematic review

Journal of Plastic Surgery & Hand Surgery, 7:1-6, 2014

C. S. Mikkelsen, H. Holmgren, D. R. Matzen, A. Nybo, G. L. Gunnarson

Cutaneous primary malignant melanoma - Monthly journal for general practice. Article number: 10928, Number of pages: 6, Year: 2014

C.S. Mikkelsen, H. Holmgren, K.B. Arvesen, D.R. Matzen, G.L. Gunnarson

Severe scratcher-reaction: an unknown health hazard?

Dermatology reports - 2015 Mar 27;7(1):5816

D. R. Matzen, M.S. Mowinckel, N. Behrendt, S.H. Matzen

Merkel cell carcinoma is an aggressive neuroendocrine skin tumor

Ugeskr Laeger. 2015 Nov 9;177(46). pii: V06150535.

D. R. Matzen, S.H. Matzen

Status article: Anaplastic large cell lymphoma associated with breast implants

Ugeskr Laeger. 2015 Nov 23;177(48). pii: V07150625.

D. R. Matzen, B. T. Crewe, S. H. Matzen

Post-bariatric abdominoplasty resulting in wound infection and dehiscence - Conservative treatment with medical grade honey: A case report and review of literature

International Journal of Surgery Case Reports, Volume 20, 1-3, 2016

R. D. Matzen, S. H. Matzen

Release and Reconstruction of a Postburn Deformed Breast in a Young Woman

Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Global Open, Volume 4, Issue 3, p e643, March 2016.

J.S. Øregaard, D. R. Matzen, A. Venzo, B. Jemec

Cover Image: Unique presentation of a subungual malignant melanoma in situ

British Journal of Dermatology, Volume 174, Issue 4, page 935, April 2016

D. R. Matzen, L. B. Hansen, S. H. Matzen

A fast-track referral system for skin lesions suspicious of melanoma: Population-based cross-sectional study from a Plastic Surgery Center

Plastic Surgery International, vol. 2016, Article ID 2908917, 5 pages, 2016

D. R. Matzen, J. Leth-Espensen, T. Jansson, D.S. Nielsen, M.N. Lund, S.H. Matzen

The Antibacterial Effect In Vitro of Honey Derived from Various Danish Flora Dermatology Research and Practice, Vol. 2018, 7021713, 2018.

L. Jørgensen, D.R. Matzen, E. Albertsdottir, L. Birk-Sørensen

Complications in skin grafts when continuing antithrombotic therapy prior to cutaneous surgery requiring skin grafting: an observational study

Journal of Plastic Surgery & Hand Surgery. 2020 Dec;54(6):352-357.