For over 25 years Dr. Ian L. Matheson has practiced plastic and reconstructive surgery in the greater Tampa Bay area. Dr. Matheson has performed literally thousands of surgical procedures at local hospitals and at his Tampa facility.

Dr. Matheson is board certified by the American Board of Plastic Surgery. This certificate signifies the standard of excellence and ensures complete training in both cosmetic and reconstructive plastic surgery. (See below).

In addition to his M.D., Dr. Matheson has also been awarded the prestigious Master of Surgery degree from Queen’s University in Canada. He completed his internship at the Montreal General Hospital, McGill University. Post-graduate training included: The Royal College of Surgeons, London, England, four years of general surgery at Charlotte Memorial Hospital, and his plastic surgery residency in New York.

In order to assure that he stays on the cutting edge of the latest techniques and advances in surgery and skin care, Dr. Matheson attends several post-graduate courses both within and outside the United States each year.

Dr. Matheson lives in Tampa with his wife Eve. They are the proud parents of two daughters - Dr. Solveig Ruppel, a cosmetic dentist in Tampa, Florida, and Dr. Tracy Halme, a radiologist at St. Joseph’s Women’s Hospital in Tampa, Florida.

Dr. Ruppel and her husband Dr. Cory Ruppel live in Tampa with their three children. Dr. Halme and her husband Matt Halme, Esq. also live in Tampa with their three children.

American Board of Plastic Surgery

Mission Statement:

The Mission Statement of The American Board of Plastic Surgery, Inc. is to promote safe, ethical, efficacious plastic surgery to the public by maintaining high standards for the education, examination, certification, recertification and maintenance of certification of plastic surgeons as specialists and subspecialists.

Description of Plastic Surgery:

Plastic surgery deals with the repair, reconstruction, or replacement of physical defects of form or function involving the skin, musculoskeletal system, craniomaxillofacial structures, hand, extremities, breast and trunk, external genitalia or cosmetic enhancement of these areas of the body. Cosmetic surgery is an essential component of plastic surgery. The plastic surgeon uses cosmetic surgical principles both to improve overall appearance and to optimize the outcome of reconstructive procedures.

Special knowledge and skill in the design and surgery of grafts, flaps, free tissue transfer and replantation is necessary. Competence in the management of complex wounds, the use of implantable materials, and in tumor surgery is required. Plastic surgeons have been prominent in the development of innovative techniques such as microvascular and craniomaxillofacial surgery, liposuction, and tissue transfer. Anatomy, physiology, pathology, and other basic sciences are fundamental to the specialty.

Competency in plastic surgery implies an amalgam of basic medical and surgical knowledge, operative judgment, technical expertise, ethical behavior, and interpersonal skills to achieve problem resolution and patient satisfaction.