Edgar Biemer

Edgar Biemer (born October 31, 1940 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German specialist in plastic and aesthetic surgery . From 1986 to 2007 he headed the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the Klinikum rechts der Isar at the Technical University of Munich .

Life

Edgar Biemer studied medicine at the Universities of Frankfurt, Vienna, and London and passed the state examination in 1966 again in Frankfurt, where he also received his doctorate a short time later. After training as a specialist in surgery at the Klinikum rechts der Isar of the Technical University of Munich under Georg Maurer , he joined the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery in 1973 - under the direction of Ursula Schmidt-Tintemann .

He received further training at plastic surgical centers in Scandinavia, the United Kingdom and the United States, among others. In December 1977 he completed his habilitation. In 1985 he was appointed Professor of Plastic Surgery.

In 1986, Biemer was appointed as the successor to Schmidt-Tintemann on the board of the department for plastic and reconstructive surgery and as associate professor of the medical faculty of the Technical University of Munich at the Klinikum rechts der Isar.

Since 2001 he has built up a transplant team, which then carried out the world's first double-arm transplant in July 2008. He headed the department at the Klinikum rechts der Isar until his retirement in November 2007.

Today he works in the joint practice of a practice clinic in Munich.

Awards and memberships

• "Cave needle" of the Association of German Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons
• Erich Lexer Prize of the German Society for Surgery
• Dieffenbach medal for services in German plastic surgery
• Appointment as Fellow ad hominem by the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
• Heinz Maier Leibnitz Medal from the Technical University of Munich
• Aachen and Munich Prize for Technology and Applied Natural Sciences from the Carl Arthur Pastor Foundation (1993)
• Appointment as TUM emeritus of excellence

He is a founding member and first secretary of the "DAM German-speaking Working Group for Microsurgery of Peripheral Nerves and Vessels". 1981–1985 he was secretary and 1993–1995 president of the “International Society of Reconstructive Microsurgery”, now “World Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery”. 1994–1995 he was president of the "Association of German Plastic Surgeons", now the " German Society of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons " (DGPRÄC). He is a founding member and first president of the "Association of German Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons" VDÄPC. For several years he was a member of the Executive Committee of "IPRAS" and "ISAPS".

He is also an honorary member of many national and international societies, such as B. the "American Society of Reconstructive Microsurgery", the "Indian Association of Surgeons", the "Argentina Association of Orthopedics and Traumatology".

Web links

• Official website of Edgar Biemer