Jürgen Hoffmann (Oral Surgeon)

Jürgen Hoffmann (born June 17, 1965 in Ludwigsburg ) is a German oral and maxillofacial surgeon and university professor .

Life

Hoffmann grew up in Marbach am Neckar , where he attended elementary school and high school. From 1986 to 1992 he studied human medicine and from 1986 to 1993 dentistry at the University of Tübingen , where he received his license to practice medicine and dentistry in 1993 .

He did his doctorate in Tübingen on the spectrum of germs of odontogenic abscesses and the treatment of fresh second and third degree open fractures of long tubular bones . He completed his training as a specialist in oral and maxillofacial surgery by 1997 at the Clinic and Polyclinic for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the University Hospital of Tübingen with N. Schwenzer. In 1999 he completed his habilitation at the University of Tübingen on the topic of the importance of 18FDG-PET for the assessment of the extent and proliferation behavior of squamous cell carcinoma in the mouth, jaw and face and was appointed adjunct professor there in 2005 .

In January 2010, he received the call to the Chair of oral and maxillofacial surgery at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf , which he declined. In June 2010, he was offered another professorship for this subject at Heidelberg University . Since September 2010 he has been Medical Director of the Clinic and Polyclinic for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and since June 2014 Deputy Spokesman for the Head Clinic Center at Heidelberg University Hospital .

He is Vice President of the German Society for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery and a member of the Presidium of the German Society for Surgery. He is also Section Chairman of the “Reconstructive Surgery” division of SORG (Strasbourg Osteosynthesis Research Group) and is therefore responsible for the international organization of advanced training congresses. He is a member of the advisory board of the interdisciplinary working group for head and neck tumors (German Cancer Society) and the German interdisciplinary working group LKG columns.

Hoffmann is married and has four children.

Focus of work

His work focuses on complex reconstructive plastic surgery and the treatment of tumor diseases. It is also designated for the treatment of malformations in children (cleft lip and palate) and vascular tumors of the head and neck area.

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