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Education

• Approbation and Promotion J.W.Goethe University; Frankfurt 
• Habilitation (postdoctoral thesis) Ruhr-University

Licensure and Certification:

• Approbation (German Medical License)
• Board Certification in General Surgery
• Board Certification in Plastic Surgery
• Board Certification in  Hand Surgery

Academic Appointments:

• Junior Instructor in Anatomy, Goethe University, Frankfurt
• Instructor in Surgery, Hannover Medical School Research Fellow in Plastic Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston
• Instructor in Plastic Surgery Ruhr-University Bochum
• Associate Professor in Plastic Surgery Ruhr-University Bochum since 2001 Full Professor and Chief of Plastic Surgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover

Fellowships 1991-1994

• Research Fellow in Plastic Surgery, Brigham and Womens Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA Prof. Dr. E. Eriksson

Awards and Honors:

Personal awards

• Research Grant Award, Plastic Surgery Educational Foundation, Chicago, USA
• Joseph E. Murray Resident Award, New England Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons, Newport, RI, USA
• Langenbeck Award, German Society of Surgery, Germany
• Travel Award German Society of Surgery, Munich
• Edgar Ungeheuer Award, Geraman Surgical Society
• Best paper award, ASPS, USA

Memberships, Offices and Committee Assignments in Professional Societies:

• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Chirurgie             
• Deutsche Transplantationsgesellschaft
• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Unfallchirurgie
• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Plastische- und Wiederherstellungschirurgie
• Chirurgische Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Onkologie
• Berufsverband der Deutschen Chirurgen
• The Wound Healing Society
• The New York Academy of Sciences
• American Association for the Advancement of Sciences
• Vereinigung der Deutschen Plastischen Chirurgen
• Deutsche Gesellschaft f. Plastische und Wiederherstellungschirurgie
• Plastic Surgery Research Council
• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Handchirurgie

Plastic and roconstructive surgery using autologous tissue

• after defect injuries
• after burns
• after tumor surgery, including the female breast

Peripheral nerve surgery of the extremities, including brachial plexus
Functional restoration in case of nerve paralysis
Hand surgery, incl. congenital malformations
Aesthetic surgery

• Wound healing
• Tissue Engineering
• Regenerative Biology
• Clinical trials
• Burns

• American Association of Plastic Surgeons
• American Society of Plastic Surgeons
• Berufsverband der Deutschen Chirurgen
• Deutsche Gesellschaft der Plastischen, Rekonstruktiven und Ästhetischen Chirurgen
• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Chirurgie
• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Unfallchirurgie
• Deutschsprachige Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Mikrochirurgie und Handchirurgie
• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Handchirurgie
• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Senologie
• Deutsche Gesellschaft für Verbrennungsmedizin (Beirat)
• European Academy of Sciences and Arts
• European Association of Plastic Surgeons
• European Burn Association
• Federation of International Plastic, Reconstructive and Aethetic Surgeons (Delegate) 
• International Society for Burn Injuries
• Plastic Surgery Research Council, USA

1992 
Grant Award, Plastic Surgery Educational Foundation, Chicago, USA

1993
Joseph E. Murray Resident Award, New England Society of Plastic and Reconstuctive Surgery,
Newport, Rhode Island, USA

1994

Langenbeck Award, German Society of Surgery, Germany

1999
Travel Award, German Society of Surgery, Munich

2007

National Biotechnology Award and Award for Innovations in Academic Research

2010
Edgar Ungeheuer Award, German Surgical Society

2014

Mowlem Lecture of the British Association of Plastic Surgeons und
European Association of Plastic Surgeons, Edinburgh

• Harvard Medical School Boston
• University of Baku
• MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston
• Al-Baptain Center of Plastic Surgery, University of Kuwait
• Shriner’s Burn Center, University of Texas, Galveston
• University of California, Irvine

Here you will find links to the available publications:

• Publikationen
• ResearchGate
• Wikipedia
• AMERICAN SOCIETY OF PLASTIC SURGEONS
• American Association of Plastic Surgeons