Biography

Ben Hugo, MD is an experienced plastic surgeon who has undertaken extensive international training and has been practicing aesthetics for many years in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Having been born in South Africa, Dr. Hugo practiced plastic surgery in Johannesburg prior to relocating in 1992 to the Hampton Roads area and setting up a successful practice which serves worldwide patients.

Dr. Hugo graduated with a medicine degree from the University of Cape Town School of Medicine. He completed an internship program in general surgery in South Africa and England and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. He later received training in plastic surgery from different institutions including South Africa, the Hospital for Sick Children in London and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

He has been involved in major innovations in microsurgery throughout his career. While working as a surgical resident back in Cape Town in 1976, Dr. Hugo acted as co-surgeon in one of the first free flap transfers conducted through microsurgery. In 1977, he was involved in the first ever microsurgical replantation of severed digits in Western Pennsylvania while training in Pittsburgh.

Education

Medical School
– University of Cape Town Medical School

Residency

– Groote Schuur Hospital / University of Cape Town Medical Center / Mansfield General Hospital / St Thomas’ Hospital, Surgery
– Hospital for Sick Children / Brenthurst Clinic / University of Stellenbosch Medical Center / University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, Plastic Surgery

Certifications

– American Board of Plastic Surgery, Plastic Surgery

Memberships

– Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
– American Society of Plastic Surgeons
– American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery
– International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery
– Association of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons of Southern Africa
– American Society for Laser Medicine and Surgery
– Lipoplasty Society of North America
– Virginia Society of Plastic Surgeons
– Medical Society of Virginia
– American Association for Accreditation of Ambulatory Surgery Facilities 

Practice Locations

328 Louisa Avenue, Virginia Beach, Virginia