Dr. Weiguo Hu is Professor of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery at Brest University and Chief of the Department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, Micro-and Hand Surgery of  Brest University Medical Center (CHU de Brest) in France since 2006. He is one of the academicians of the prestigious French Academy of Surgery (FAS) and currently serves as Past-President of the French Society of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery. 

Dr. Hu completed his plastic surgery residency at Bordeaux University Medical Center (CHU de Bordeaux) under the direction of his tutor, Professor Jacques Baudet, European pioneer of reconstructive microsurgery, and received his postgraduate degree with Diploma of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery from Bordeaux Medical University in 1991 and the Certificate of the French College of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery achieving the rank of Major of his promotion in 1992. 

From 1993 to 1995, Dr. Hu was appointed as an Assistant Professor of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery at the Bordeaux Medical University and was considered as one of the major elements of Professor Baudet’s team. At the end of 1995, Dr. Hu leaved Bordeaux to join Brest University Medical Center (CHU de Brest).  He was promoted early as Associate Professor in 1999 and then the first Chair and full Professor of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery at Brest University in 2006. 

As professor of plastic, reconstructive and aesthetic surgery and academician of the French Academy of Surgery, Dr. Hu has very well-rounded clinical skills in almost all aspects of plastic surgery especially in hand and micro- reconstructive surgery, breast surgery, cosmetic surgery, and transgender surgery. He has made many contributions in upper and lower-extremity reconstruction, breast plastic surgery, transgender surgery and other areas of plastic, reconstructive and aesthetic surgery. Dr. Hu has more than one hundred scientific publications in numerous peer-reviewed journals and has published a great number of books chapters.