Medical Studies

Medizinische Hochschule Hannover
University of Cologne

State Examination

30 November 1992

Entry on Medical Register as Physician

1 July 1994

Doctorate

Subject : “Lumbal spinal stenosis in three-dimensional   computer tomography”
Viva voce : Medizinische Hochschule Hannover 18 October 1993

Habilitation

Subject: Free derma-lipoflap plasty (perforator-flap plasty) on the basis of perforating vessels of major truck arteries.

Venia Legendi:

05.03.2004, Heidelberg

Chair

22.05.2007, Heidelberg

Jan. 1993 - July 1994
(Internship)

Plastic Surgery (Prof. R.R. Olbrisch)
Krankenanstalten Florence Nightingale
Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf

July 1994 - July 1995
(Assistant Physician)

Surgery (Prof. W. Stock)
Marienhospital Düsseldorf
Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf

July 1995 - Feb.1999
(Assistant Physician)

Plastic Surgery  (Prof.G.Ingianni)
Klinikum Wuppertal
Universität Witten-Herdecke

March 1999 - Sept. 2001
(Consultant for Plastic Surgery )

Clinic for Hand, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Severe Burns Centre 
(Prof. G. Germann)
Berufsgenossenschaftliche Unfallklinik Ludwigshafen,
Plastic and Hand Surgery at the University of Heidelberg

Oct. 2001 - Sept. 2002

DFG Research Scholarship, Duke University Medical Center,
Division of Plastic, Reconstructive, Maxillofacial and Oral Surgery, Durham, North Carolina, USA
(Prof. LS Levin, MD)

Oct. 2002 - 30.04.2007
(Senior Physician)

Clinic for Hand, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Severe Burns Centre 
(Prof. G. Germann)
Berufsgenossenschaftliche Unfallklinik Ludwigshafen,
Plastic and Hand Surgery at the University of Heidelberg

May 2007 - 31.12.2007
(Senior Physician)

Clinic for Plastic Surgery, Reconstructive Surgery and Hand Surgery , Frankfurt am Main
(PD. K. Exner)

Since  01.01.2008

Aesthetic-Plastic Surgery in the Camparihaus
Group Practice with Prof. Feller, Munich

February 1999

Boards Plastic Surgery

September 2000

Member of the German Society of Plastic Surgeons (VDPC)

April 2006

Member of the German Society of Surgeons (DGCH)

2008

Member of the German Society of Senology 

2008

Member of the  European Association of Plastic Surgeons

Publications:

Over 60 book contributions and publications in national and international scientific journals.

Lectures:

Over 100 lectures at national and international symposia and congresses .

May 2007

Scholarship: Travel fellowship Euraps/ ASPS, 3 months

June 2003

Best Scientific Paper: WSRM II. Congress, Heidelberg.
Sutureless anastomosis of a vein graft using magnets

Jan. 2003

Scholarship: Euraps Young Plastic Surgeon Scholarship 2003 of the European Association of Plastic Surgeons. Location: Canniesburn, Glasgow, UK; Dr. David Soutar

Oct. 2002

Video Theater Award- Best Video of the American Society for Surgery of the Hand, 57^th Annual Meeting, Phoenix Arizona. Title: Intrinsic Flaps in Hand Surgery- Anatomical Studies and Clinical Application

Oct. 2001 - Sept. 2002

Research Scholarchip of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Subject: Perforating vessels of major trunk arteries. Location: Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC, USA, Prof. LS Levin

Oct. 1998

Lecture Prize of the Vereinigung der Deutschen Plastischen Chirurgen (VDPC) Oct 1998, Bochum

Sept 1997

Travel scholarship of the Vereinigung der Deutschen Plastischen Chirurgen (Prof. R. Allen - New Orleans, Lousiana USA) within the framework of the 29th Annual Conference of the Vereinigung der Deutschen Plastischen Chirurgen (VDPC) Sept. 1997 in Würzburg

Feb. - June 1992

Participation as exchange student (DAAD) - USA (Mayo Clinic Rochester)

Oct. 1988 - Nov. 1992

Scholarship for medical studies from preliminary medical examination to state examination awarded by the Bischöfliche Studienstiftung Cusanuswerk (Episcopal Student Foundation)