Maria Siemionow

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Maria Siemionow (born May 3, 1950 ) is a Polish surgeon . She is currently Professor of Surgery in the Department of Surgery at Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine and Director of Plastic Surgery Research and Head of Microsurgery Training at Cleveland Clinic. In December 2008, she headed the medical team in a 22-hour operation, the first face transplant in the United States carried out, were transplanted into the 80% of the face. Siemionow graduated from the Medical University of Poznan in Poland in 1974 with a doctorate in microsurgery .

She is an external member of the Polish Academy of Learning (PAU) in Cracow .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Christina Berndt: The face of the other. (No longer available online.) In: sueddeutsche.de . December 18, 2008, archived from the original on May 11, 2009 ; Retrieved May 6, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sueddeutsche.de
  2. ↑ Maria Siemionow, MD, Ph.D. ( PDF ; 247 kB) Cleveland Clinic, accessed on May 24, 2009 (English, biography).
  3. ^ Members of the PAU - Section V: Medicine. Polska Akademia Umiejętności, accessed June 16, 2017 (Polish).
personal data
SURNAME Siemionow, Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish surgeon
DATE OF BIRTH May 3, 1950