Prof. Dr. med. Günter Germann

Prof. Dr. med. Günter Germann

FOUNDER, MEDICAL DIRECTOR AND PLASTIC SURGEON – A LIFE FOR MEDICINE

Prof. Dr. Günter Germann has been working as a specialist in plastic and aesthetic surgery for over 30 years. He is the founder and Medical Director of the ETHIANUM Clinic in Heidelberg and is involved in the academic training of future surgeons. Today, Prof. Dr. Germann is regarded as a specialist in hand surgery, a recognised scientist and an excellent microsurgeon.

For Prof. Dr. Germann, the field of surgery is a combination of art and craft. He always endeavoured to combine both to perfection. He laid the foundation for his impressive career with a degree in human medicine. This was followed by numerous other positions in Germany and abroad, where he expanded and refined his knowledge and skills. Finally, in 1989, Prof. Dr. Germann became managing senior physician at the Clinic for Plastic Surgery in Cologne-Merheim. Two years later, he moved to the Clinic for Plastic Surgery at the BG University Hospital in Bochum as a senior consultant. In 1993, Prof Dr Germann took over the position of Chief Physician in the Clinic for Hand Surgery, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the Berufsgenossenschaftliche Unfallklinik Ludwigshafen. Over the following eleven years, he helped the Trauma Clinic achieve its excellent international reputation and developed it into one of the ten largest surgical clinics in the world.

Prof. Dr. Germann can now look back on more than 12,000 operations, particularly in the fields of plastic surgery, reconstructive surgery and hand surgery. His clients particularly appreciate his extraordinary empathy as well as his immense wealth of experience.

Prof. Dr. Germann became involved in national and international committees, working groups and societies at a very early stage. Until 2010, he was President of the German Society of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgeons (DGPRÄC) and a member of the Executive Committee of the German Society of Surgery (DGCH). He was treasurer of the largest global association of microsurgeons, the American Reconstructive Microsurgery (ASRM), until 2017. He was appointed Vice President in 2018 and finally elected President in early 2020, the first non-American to do so, in recognition of his lifetime achievements as a surgeon.

During his career, Prof. Dr. Germann developed the vision of a clinic. “It was to be a clinic with top medical expertise and surgical excellence,” he says today. “I wanted to make cutting-edge medicine by doctors for people possible.” This dream was also to be fulfilled in 2008: With the founding of the ETHIANUM Clinic Heidelberg, Prof Dr Germann now heads one of the most modern clinics in Europe as Medical Director.

Previously Treasurer and, from 2018, Vice President of the largest global association of microsurgeons, Prof Germann was elected President of the American Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery (ASRM) in early 2020 in recognition of his life’s work – the first non-American ever to do so.

In 2024, Prof Germann was awarded the Buncke Lectureship (after the founding father of American microsurgery), with a keynote speech at the ASRM General Assembly. This is the first time a German has been awarded this honour.
2024 Awarded the Buncke Lectureship of the ASRM (for the first time to a German surgeon)
2020 Elected President of the ASRM (American Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery), the world’s largest association of microsurgeons

Prof. Dr. Germann is married and has three children.

Career

• 2024 Award of the Dieffenbach Medal of the DGPRÄC
• 2024 Award of the Buncke Lectureship of the ASRM (for the first time to a German surgeon)
• Since 2010 Stem cell research in the ETHIANUM Clinic Heidelberg’s own laboratory
• 2008 Foundation of the ETHIANUM Clinic Heidelberg, Medical Director Since 1999 Professor of Plastic Surgery and Hand Surgery at the University of Heidelberg
• 1993 to 2010 Chief Physician at the Clinic for Hand Surgery, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the Berufsgenossenschaftliche Unfallklinik Ludwigshafen
• 1991 Senior consultant at the Clinic for Plastic Surgery at the BG University Hospital “Bergmannsheil” Bochum
• 1989 Managing Senior Physician at the Clinic for Plastic Surgery in Cologne-Merheim Four years as senior physician at the Clinic for Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery in the Hand Surgery Centre at the Cologne-Merheim Clinic
• Year abroad at the Department of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, Southern Illinios University, Springfield
• Assistant at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University Frankfurt, Centre for Surgery in the Departments of Thoracic, Cardiovascular Surgery, Trauma and Hand Surgery and Urology
• Medical assistant at Heidelberg University Hospital
• 1979 Clinical studies and doctorate at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz
• 1972 Studied human medicine at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf

Areas of specialisation

• All modern hand surgery procedures
• Complex reconstructive surgery
• Reconstructive microsurgery
• Facial rejuvenation through facelift (including SMAS lift), eyelid lift
• Breast surgery specialising in breast reconstruction, breast lift and breast augmentation
• Secondary aesthetic surgery

Prof. Dr. med. Günter Germann

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