Dr. Verpaele has been a plastic surgeon since 1997. He is a graduate of the Sint Barbara College in Ghent and earned his medical degree from Ghent University in 1988. Next, he studied to become a general surgeon at Ghent University and did internships in the fields of vascular surgery, intestinal surgery, and heart surgery. After obtaining his General Surgeon degree, Dr. Verpaele proceeded to the plastic surgery program, which initially took him to Norwich (United Kingdom) for a year and subsequently concluded with another two years at Ghent University under the guidance of Professor Stan Monstrey. He earned his degree as a specialist in plastic, reconstructive, and aesthetic surgery in 1997.

In 2015, he earned a doctoral degree (PhD) from the Faculty of Medicine of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel with research into “Minimizing Face-Lift Stigmata and Complications with the MACS-lift”. Together with his associate Dr. Patrick Tonnard, he has published dozens of articles in prominent international scientific journals, and he has given hundreds of international lectures on aesthetic surgery of the face, eyelids, and breasts. Recently, he has mainly been involved in research into the regenerative properties of fat transplants (“nanofat”).