Dr Tom Decates received his medical degree at the Academic MedicalCenter, affiliated with the University of Amsterdam, before pursuing plastic surgery and specialising in aesthetic medicine in 2010. Since 2016 he has been conducting research into the complications of fillers at the Amsterdam UMC and the ErasmusMC in Rotterdam. In 2021 he received his PhD on the thesis: ‘The Origin of Soft Tissue Filler Adverse Events’. He is the head of the SOCG (Cosmetic Medicine Training Foundation), the training institute affiliated with the Dutch Association of Cosmetic Medicine (NVCG).

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