1992 – 1999
Medical studies, Leopold Franzens University, Innsbruck, Austria (title: Doctor of Medicine)

2012 – 2014
Executive MBA program, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland (title: Executive MBA HSG)

2019
EBSQ exam, September 14, 2019, Copenhagen, DENMARK (degree: Fellow of the European Board of Surgery)

2000 – 2006
Specialist training, general and visceral surgery, Department of Visceral, Transplant, and Thoracic Surgery, Medical University of Innsbruck, Austria (title: Specialist in Surgery)

2006
Senior Physician, Department of Visceral, Transplant, and Thoracic Surgery, Medical University of Innsbruck, Austria

2006
Venia Docendi – Habilitation, Medical University of Innsbruck, Austria (Title: Associate Professor)

2006 – 2007
Research Fellow, Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), Pittsburgh, PA, USA

2007
Assistant Professor of Surgery and Director, CTA Program Pittsburgh, Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Division of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), Pittsburgh, PA, USA

2008 – 2010
Staff Surgeon, Transplant Surgery (25 %), Department of Surgery, VAPHS University Drive, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

2010 – 2014
Visiting Associate Professor of Surgery, Department of Plastic Surgery, Johns Hopkins Medical University, Baltimore, MD, USA

2008 – 2014
Co-Director, Transplant Surgery, University Clinic for Visceral, Transplant, and Thoracic Surgery, Medical University of Innsbruck, Austria

2014 – 2022
Deputy Director, Head of Transplant Surgery, Head of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Ward Manager

2019 – 2022
Professor of Transplant Surgery, University Clinic for Visceral, Transplant and Thoracic Surgery, Medical University of Innsbruck, Austria

seit 2022
Director of the University Clinic for Visceral, Transplant, and Thoracic Surgery, Medical University of Innsbruck, Austria

1998
Workshop and training, handling laboratory animals in experimental research, Central Animal Testing Facility, Medical University of Innsbruck, Austria

1999
HESPERIS Official training course of the European Society for Organ Transplantation (Fundamentals of Transplantation Immunology and Clinical Transplantation), Madrid, Spain, and Lyon, France

2004
Training as a coach for problem-oriented learning in medicine, Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria

2005
Basic course in medical didactics training and continuing education, Innsbruck, Austria

2007
Course in scientific management and leadership, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

2014
Advanced laparoscopic liver course, June 13 – 14, 2014, Ghent, Belgium

2015
European Association for Liver and Intestinal Transplantation, Split Liver Course, September 11 – 12, 2015, Ghent, Belgium

2002 – 2004
Organ transplantation, main lecture

2003 – 2006
General surgery, medical studies

2004 – 2006
Dealing with sick people, medical studies

2005 – 2012
Problem-oriented learning, medical studies

2006 – 2016
Dissertations (9 completed, 2 in progress), theses (6 completed)

2009
Internship, general surgery, medical studies

2010
Research Training Seminar (working group, medical studies)

2010
Module 3.24: Clinical skills and abilities in surgical subjects and anesthesia: special surgical subjects and anesthesia, medical studies

2010
Module 3.24: Surgical subjects and anesthesia: special surgical subjects and anesthesia, medical studies

2012
2.19: PKGU Small group instruction on Module 2.15: Kidney and urinary tract, medical studies

2014
Compulsory module 3.19: KPJ – Surgical subjects – Mentor seminar, medical studies

2015
Module 3.19: KPJ – Surgical subjects – Advanced training, medical studies

2015
Molecular oncology special lectures: Tumor pathology and clinical oncology (KF), postgraduate

2015
Doctoral seminar (DS), medical studies

2017
Module 2.37: PKGU Small group instruction on Module 2.30: Tumors, medical studies

2017
Promotion of scientific work, medical studies

2018
Current results of the Comprehensive Center for Infection and Transplantation (CIIT) (elective)

seit 2022
General surgery, main lecture

Transplantation

Hepatobiliary surgery

Clinical: Liver transplantation, ischemia-reperfusion injury

Clinical: Oncology: Primary liver tumors

Clinical: Hand transplantation

Experimental: Translational research in transplantation: Ischemia/reperfusion

Experimental: Limb transplantation

American Society for Reconstructive Transplantation

American Society for Transplantation

European Surgical Association (ESA)

The Transplantation Society (TTS)

International Society for Hand and Composite Tissue Transplantation

Austrotransplant

Austrian Society for Surgery

German Transplantation Society

2005 – 2013
Board member, International Hand and Composite Tissue Allotransplantation Society (IHCTAS), The Transplantation Society

2005 – 2013
Board member, Advisory Committee of the CTA, American Society of Transplantation (AST)

2008 – 2012
Founder and first president, American Society for Reconstructive Transplantation (ASRT)

2008 – 2016
Scientific Advisory Board of the American Society for Reconstructive Surgery (ASRT)

2009 – 2011
Board member, European Society for Organ Transplantation (ESOT)

2009 – 2011
Founder and Chair of the Committee on Composite Tissue Transplantation, European Society for Organ Transplantation (ESOT)

2011 – 2013
Board Member, European Society for Organ Transplantation (ESOT) Foundation

2011 – 2016
Treasurer of the European Society for Organ Transplantation (ESOT)

2011 – 2016
Board member, Committee for Composite Tissue Allotransplantation, European Society for Organ Transplantation (ESOT)

2013 – 2016
Secretary, Foundation of the European Society

2014 – 2016
Representative for the Western Region; Transplantation Advisory Board of the Austrian Society for Organ Transplantation (GÖG/ÖBIG)

2014
Permanent Advisory Board Member, Austrotransplant

2014 – 2016
Member of the Pancreas Working Group, Austrian Breast & Colorectal Cancer Study Group (ABCSG)

2014 – 2016
Board member, Green Ribbon Initiative

2015 – 2017
President-elect, European Society for Organ Transplantation (ESOT)

2017 – 2019
President, European Society for Organ Transplantation (ESOT)

2019 – 2021
Immediate Past President, European Society for Organ Transplantation (ESOT)

ISI Web of Science-listed original works
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2001
Biotest E.S.O.T. (European Society for Organ Transplantation) Research Award

2002
Biotest Austrotransplant Award

2004
Young Investigator Award, American Transplant Congress 2004 (co-author)

2004
Roche Austrotransplant Prize

2004
“Tyrolean of the Future” Prize in Medicine and Science

2005
Prize for Young Researchers, American Transplant Congress

2006
Biotest Austrotransplant Prize (co-author)

2006
Roche Austrotransplant Prize (co-author)

2008
Best Basic Scientific Research (co-author), American Association for Hand Surgery (AAHS), Beverly Hills, CA

2008
Austrotransplant Award

2009
Best Paper Award, Austrian Society for Surgical Research (senior author)

2009
Best Scientific Basic Paper, 14th Congress of the European Society for Organ Transplantation (ESOT) (co-author)

2009
Award for Excellent Research, American College of Surgeons (ACS) (co-author)

2009
American Society of Transplantation (AST), Distinguished Fellowship for Excellent Research in Transplantation (Co-author)

2009
Biotest Prize for Basic Research, European Society for Organ Transplantation (Co-author)

2010
ASRT Achievement Award

2011
Wolfgang Denk Prize 2011 (Co-author)

2013
Rudolf Pichlmayr Prize