A PLASTIC surgeon has invested a six-figure sum to launch a private surgery clinic in Aberdeen.
Thanassi Athanassopoulos will open the Alpha Clinic in Albyn Terrace, where he will create a consulting clinic with minor surgery procedure rooms and a surgical theatre for day case operations.
The business will be the first privately-owned plastic surgery clinic north of the central belt and will create up to eight jobs, including anaesthetists and nurses.
Mr Athanassopoulos, who studied at Oxford University and Kings College in London, has been a practising plastic surgeon for more than a decade, and has worked in the UK, the Netherlands, Austria and New Zealand.
As well as running the private clinic, Mr Athanassopoulos will continue to work as an NHS consultant at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary (ARI) and the Children’s Hospital, as well as BMI Albyn Hospital.
He said: “This is a market that has grown in the central belt but not in the north of Scotland, therefore, there is a gap in the market to offer people additional access to a private plastic surgeon trained in cosmetic surgery and hair transplantation.”
Alpha Clinic, which will open next month, has started booking consultations.
