Dr. Stahs Pripotnev graduated from Western University with a Bachelor of Medical Sciences degree (Dean’s Honor Roll, Western Scholar, With Distinction) and completed his Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery Residency at the University of British Columbia. Following completion of his residency, he obtained additional specialty training with a Hand, Nerve and Microsurgery fellowship at Washington University in St. Louis.

Dr. Pripotnev has received several awards in recognition of his academic and research contributions, publishing and presenting consistently on the topics of surgical flaps, hand surgery, and nerve injury. 

Dr. Pripotnev is now an assistant professor at Western University with a clinical practice at the Roth McFarlane Hand and Upper Limb Centre at St. Joseph's Health Care in London. His elective practice involves all aspects of hand, wrist, peripheral nerve, and soft tissue reconstruction.