Gemma Pons

Gemma Pons MD, PhD is a certified plastic surgeon from Barcelona, Spain. Currently, she is Head of the Microsurgery Unit of the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Hospital de Sant Pau in Barcelona and Associate Professor of the Department of Surgery at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona since 2018. She graduated from medical school at the Universitat de Barcelona (Hospital Clínic) and completed her residency in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Hospital de Sant Pau, Barcelona. She completed abroad her training in microsurgery: Plastic Surgery Department Universitair Ziukenheis Gent, Belgium (Prof. P. Blondeel), East Cooper Medical Center, Charleston, US (Dr. R.J. Allen) and The University Tokyo Hospital, Japan (Prof. I. Koshima). Later, she obtained her PhD from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona with the thesis entitled: “Pre-operative Planning of Lymphatico-venous Anastomosis: the use of Magnetic Resonance Lymphangiography as a complement to Indocyanine Green Lymphography” Her clinical expertise focuses on reconstructive and aesthetic breast surgery, lymphedema surgery and supermicrosurgery. She is author and co-author of multiple peer-reviewed articles and book chapters and regularly presents her work at international meetings. She is member of several scientific associations and was awarded the EURAPS Best Paper 2022 for her work entitled “Immediate Lymphatic Reconstruction with Targeted Lymphatic Axillary Repair (TLAR).” She is actively involved in basic and clinical research projects, as well as in undergraduate and post-graduate teaching, and serves being part of the educational board of the Reconstructive Microsurgery European School. Publications: Masia J, Al Sakkaf AM, Hong JP, Neligan P, Pons G, Rovnaya A, Martínez-Jaimez P. Barcelona consensus paper on Reconstructive lymphedema surgery: A Delphi study. Plast Reconstruir Surge. 2026 Jan 1;157(1):193-203 Pons G, Martínez-Jaimez P, Condrea S, Masia J. Immediate lymphatic reconstruction with targeted lymphatic axillary repair. J Plast Reconstruir Aesthet Surg. 2025 Feb;101:134-140 Campos JL, Pons G, Al-Sakkaf AM, Lusetti IL, Pires L, Vela FJ, Ramos E et al. Lymphatic regeneration after popliteal lymph node excision and implantation of aligned nanofibrillar collagen scaffolds: an experimental animal model. J Funct Biomater 2024 Aug 21;15(8):235 Campos JL, Suominen S, Pons G, Al-Sakkaf AM, Lusetti IL et al. Lymphatic patterns in the superficial circumflex iliac artery perforator flap. J Reconstr Microsurg. 2025 Mar;41(3):209-218 Campos JL, Pires L, Vela FJ, Pons G et al. Lymphaticovenous anastomosis in rabbits: a novel live experimental animal model for microsurgical training. J Plast Reconstr Aesthet Surg. 2024 Jun;93:290-298 Abdelfattah U, Pons G, Masia J. Evaluating the impact of immediate lymphatic reconstruction for the surgical prevention of lymphedema. Plast Reconstruct Surg. 2023 Mar 1;151(3):522e-523e Pons G, Abdelfattah U, Sarria J, Duch J, Masia J. Reverse lymph node mapping using indocyanine green lymphography: a step forward in minimizing donor-site morbidity in vascularized lymph node transfer. Plast Reconstruct Surg. 2021 Feb 1;147(2):207e-212e