Our doctors

1964-68
Primary school, Furtwangen

1968-76
Classical high school, Furtwangen

1976-82
University of Freiburg Medical School, Clerkship in London and Sri Lanka

1981 - 82
Internship Municipal Hospital, Lörrach/Germany

1982
Diploma and Licence of Medicine (State) "Promotion" (M.D. thesis) "magna cum laude", University of Freiburg

1982 - 89
Surgery Residency, University of Bonn/Germany

1984
Visa Qualifying Examination (ECFMG), USA

1985-86
Research Fellowship (NATO-Scholar); Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, University of Pittsburgh/USA (Chief: J. W. Futrell, M.D.)

1986
Resident Prize, Ohio Valley Society of Plastic Surgery

1988
Federal Licensure Examination (FLEX)

1989
Boards in General Surgery (Germany)

1989-90
Resident, Division of Plastic Surgery, Tulane University, New Orleans/USA, (Chief: W.M. Swartz, M.D.)

1990
Resident Prize of the Surgical Society of Louisiana and Louisiana Chapter of the American College of Surgeons (ACS)

1990
1990 "Habilitation" (similar to Ph.D.) in surgery, University of Bonn/Germany

1990-93
Attending, Dept. of Plastic, Hand and Reconstructive Surgery and Burn Center, Cologne Hospital (largest German Burn Center): Clin. Assist. Prof. of Surgery (Privat-Dozent), University of Bonn/Germany

1991
Boards in Plastic Surgery (Germany)

1991
Visiting Professor at LSU/New Orleans, TulaneUniversity/New Orleans and University of Pittsburgh

12/1993
1st Professor of Plastic and Hand Surgery, University of Freiburg

01/1994
Chief of the newly founded Section of Plastic and Hand Surgery, University of Freiburg Medical Center/Germany

5/1995
Visiting Professor, Dept. of Plastic Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Boston

11/1995
Chairman of the Baden-Württemberg State Chapter, Association of German Plastic Surgeons (VDPC)

4/1996
Professor and Chairman elect, Dept. of Burn and Plastic Reconstructive Surgery, University of Aachen/Germany (not accepted)

5/1996
Visiting Professor, Dept. of Plastic and Maxillofacial Surgery, University of Pittsburgh

4/1996
Forum Prize German Society of Surgery (Coauthor)

10/1996
Guest-Professorship, Second Military Medical University, Shanghai, PR of China

1997
Chairman, Department of Plastic and Hand Surgery, University Medical Hospital Centre, Freiburg, Germany

1997/98
BioValley-Universities Partnership Award First Prize of the BioValley-Initiative

10/2001
now Acting Director, Surgical University Hospital Freiburg

2002
Summons at C4-Profession for Plastic and Hand Surgery, University Medical Hospital Center, Freiburg, Germany

2002
Körber-Award for the European Science 2002: Scarfree Wound Healing Using Tissue Engineering (Scientist group: Hubbel Jeffrey A, Ferguson Mark W, Kielty Cay M, Stark G. Björn, Walker Michael G), Presentation 6. September 2002/Hamburg/Germany

2002
Scientific Chairman of the Annual Conference of the Tissue Engineeriring Society International (TESi) and Founding Conference of the European Tissue Engineeing Society (ETES)

2003
Scientific Chairman of the Annual Conferences of the Association of German Plastic Surgeons (VDPC) and Association of German Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (VDÄPC)

2004
ESAO (European Society of Artificial Organs) Innovation Award

2004
Scientific Chairman of the Annual Convention of the German Breast Society (DGS)

2005
Speaker of the Competence Centre for Biomaterials State of Baden-Württemberg

2007
Scientific Program Chairman, 14th International Congress of The International Conferderation for Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery (IPRAS)

Board Certifications:
Surgery 1999
Surgery/Plastic Surgery 1991
Plastic Surgery 1995
Hand Surgery 1995
Special Intensive Care in Plastic Surgery 1995
Spezial Laboratory Qualification for Plastic Surgery 1995

Journal Board Membership:
European Journal of Plastic Surgery
J. of Tissue Engineering
Cells Tissues Organs CTO
Journal of Wound Healing
Zentralblatt für Chirurgie

Member Steering Committee ANational Research Project NRP 46 (Implantats and Transplantats)@, Swiss National Science Foundation, since2002

Society Membership:
Berufsverband Deutscher Chirurgen (BDC)
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Chirurgie (DGC)
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Plastische und Wiederherstellungschirurgie
Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Gentherapie (DAG-GT)
Deutsch-chinesische Gesellschaft für Medizin e.V.
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Senologie
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Verbrennungschirurgie
Deutsche Sektion der AO International
European Club for Pediatric Burns (ECPB)
Gesellschaft Deutschsprachiger Lymphologen
International Burn Society (IBS)
International Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery (IPRAS)
International Society for American Plastic Surgery (ISAPS)
Plastic Surgery Research Council in USA (PSRC)
Residents'Affiliate Group of the ASPRS
Society of Surgical Research
Tissue Engineering Society (TES)
Vereinigung der Deutschen Plastischen Chirurgen (VDPC)
Vereinigung der Deutschen Ästhetischen Plastischen Chirurgen (VDÄPC)