Work Experience:
• Since 2011, Director of the Department of Hand Surgery, Plastic Surgery and Aesthetic Surgery at the Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich on the City Center and Großhadern Campus
• 2007-2010 Senior Physician at the Clinic for Plastic Surgery and Hand Surgery, Klinikum rechts der Isar of the Technical University of Munich
• 2001-2010 Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, (Board until 11/2007: Prof. E. BIEMER), Surgical Clinic of the Technical University of Munich)
• 2000-2001 Senior Physician in the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the University of Vienna (professor: Prof. M. FREY), General Hospital Vienna General Hospital, Austria
Awards:
• FOCUS List of TOP DOCTORS in“ Hand Surgery”
• Karl Max von Bauernfeind Medal for the worldwide first transplantation of two arms at Klinikum rechts der Isar, TU Munich
Membership:
• Since 2017, President of the German Society for Plastic, Reconstruction and Aesthetic Surgery ( DGPRÄC )
• 2015-2017 Vice President of the German Society for Plastic, Reconstruction and Aesthetic Surgery ( DGPRÄC )
• Full Member of the Society of German Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons DGPRÄC
• Active Member of the American Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery ( ASRM )
• Board Member of the Association of German Plastic Surgeons ( VDPC )
• Full Member of the German Society for Hand Surgery ( DGH )
• Full Mmember of the German Society for Surgery ( DGC )
• Full Member of the World Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery ( WSRM)
Editorial Board:
• Journal Editor of Hand Surgery Microsurgery Plastic Surgery
• Hand of the American Association for Surgery of the Hand ( ASSH )