Professor Sebastian Cotofana is a world-leading voice in medical aesthetic excellence, championing patient safety and best practice through anatomy education.
Professor Cotofana grew up in Transylvania, Romania, before moving to Germany. Although none of his family had a medical background, his passion for medicine began at an early age. “For me, there was never any alternative to becoming a doctor,” he says.
His initial aspiration when he began his medical studies at the Ludwig Maximillian University of Munich, Germany in 2002 was to become a trauma surgeon. However, after qualifying, he decided to further his anatomical knowledge to become an anatomy professor at the Paracelsus Medical University in Salzburg, Austria. “My secret love is still trauma surgery and emergency medicine,” he says, “But while studying anatomy, I fell in love with facial anatomy, driven by clinicians becoming…
