Wassim Raffoul is a board-certified physician in both plastic and reconstructive surgery and in surgery of the hand and peripheral nerves. Raffoul is the head of the plastic and reconstructive surgery department and the head of all activities in this sector for the National Burn Center in Lausanne. His principal areas of research centre on wound healing and reconstruction of the skin with new cellular therapies and regeneration of peripheral nerves. He is a founding member of Flavie, the national association for burn victims in Switzerland, and co-director of the Swiss Military Major Burn Disaster Management Plan. His expertise in reconstruction of all tissues is central to traumatology management and the exploration of innovative tissue engineering therapeutics.