Profile Dr. Gorana Kuka Epstein

Dr. Gorana Kuka Epstein

Medical doctor

• Plastic, reconstructive and aesthetic surgeon
• Diplomate of the American Board of Hair Restoration Surgery
• PhD candidate at the University of Novi Sad Medical School
• Founder and Director of the FoundHair training programme
• Founder of the Women’s Center for Hair Loss
• Director of the research department at the Miami Foundation for Hair Restoration
• Founder of the Dr. Gorana Kuka Foundation

PROFESSIONAL RESUME
Dr. Gorana Kuka was born in Belgrade where she attended primary and then high school, after which she graduated from the Belgrade University Medical School. After graduating she completed her obligatory internship at the Dragiša Mišović University Hospital Center and then started working at the Dr. Colić Hospital for Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery. She specialized in plastic and reconstructive surgery.

She received training in hair transplantation and hair loss treatment under the mentorship of leading world experts from the US, at private clinics in New York, Dallas, San Francisco and the University of Miami. She is currently studying for a doctorate at the Faculty of Medicine in Novi Sad in the area of clinical studies, and is close to completing her PhD thesis. In 2014 she moved to the US and joined the Foundation for Hair Restoration and Plastic Surgery.

She is the founder and director of the FoundHair training program in Miami, which provides training for physicians wanting to specialize in hair transplantation. She has also founded a specialized centre for the treatment of hair loss in women, with clinics in Miami, New York and Belgrade. She is a diplomate of the American Board of Hair Restoration Surgery. She is involved in research work, and has conducted a number of clinical studies in the field of hair loss treatment, including a US study into the use of stem cells. She lives and works in Miami but regularly goes to New York and Belgrade where she performs procedures and consults with patients.

EXPERT IN HAIR TRANSPLANTATION
Dr. Gorana Kuka Epstein began her work in aesthetic surgery immediately after completing her internship, working in a private aesthetic surgery practice alongside her residency training. In addition to cosmetic facial and body procedures, Dr. Kuka Epstein began working on what was then a new method of hair transplantation – FUE (Follicular Unit Excision).

She is one of the pioneers of this technique, not only in Serbia but internationally, having used the automated FUE method from the very beginning. She has traveled all over the world in order to perfect this method under the world’s leading experts, with her most important training gained in the US.

With more than 3000 FUE transplantations to her name in the years since she has been performing them, she is numbered among the world’s leading experts and authorities in this field of medicine. The E-system hair transplantation device, which is used all over the world, was devised by Dr. Kuka. She is a regular speaker at international conferences on the topic of hair transplantation, and also conducts training for physicians and medical nurses wishing to learn this surgical procedure.

In addition to hair transplantation she has further specialized in eyebrow transplantation and beard transplantation. She also frequently carries out corrective procedures on previous hair transplantations which did not give natural or desired results. She also applies reconstructive methods to correct scars in the scalp or facial hair regions, and her original techniques for reconstruction of scars using a combination of fatty tissues and grafts has been published in the professional literature.

She also uses the Body Hair Transplantation – BHT method whereby hair from the body can be used for transplantation if the donor region on the back of the head is small or insufficient. One very popular method is IFT (Individual Follicular Trim) – a hair transplantation method that does not require shaving of the donor site. Thanks to her well-practiced and trained team of assistants she frequently carries out procedures exceeding 2000 grafts.

Her years of experience in aesthetic surgery, and her constant striving for improvement in the area of hair loss, hair loss treatment and hair transplantation, have numbered Dr. Gorana Kuka Epstein among that small group of physicians who are able not only to provide their patients with a completely natural appearance to their hair after transplantation, but also to inform them wherever there are limitations to transplantation and to advise them of the advantages of treatment over transplantation.

In order to become a diplomate of the American Board of Hair Restoration Surgery (ABHRS), the only diplomate in the region, Dr. Gorana Kuka Epstein had to undergo a detailed evaluation of her work, her knowledge and her ethical practices in order to receive this prestigious accreditation.

MEMBERSHIPS

• Serbian Medical Chamber (SLK)
• Serbian Society for Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery (SRBPRAS)
• International Society for Hair Restoration Surgery (ISHRS)
• American Board of Hair Restoration Surgery (ABHRS)
• American Hair Research Society (AHRS)
• International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (ISAPS)
• American Academy for Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery (AAFPRS)
• International Society for Plastic and Regenerative Surgeons (ISPRES)
• International Federation for Adipose Therapeutics and Science (IFATS)