Department of Plastic and Hand Surgery

Inselspital Bern

In its current structure, the Department covers the entire spectrum of plastic, reconstructive and aesthetic surgery, hand surgery, and peripheral nerve surgery. As a so-called tertiary treatment center, the Department receives complicated cases from other hospitals for further treatment.

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Profile

  • Conducting clinical and basic research in the fields of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, under the lead of Prof. Mihai Constantinescu, and Hand Surgery and Surgery of the Peripheral Nerve, under the lead of Prof. Esther Vögelin
  • Focus of the Plastic Surgery clinical research: implementation of 3D models of aesthetic tissue reconstruction, innovative strategies for the diagnosis and treatment of critical ischemic tissue and malignant skin tumors, innovations and outcome analysis in free tissue transfer
  • Focus of the Hand surgery research: development of mini-invasive treatment modalities using arthroscopy in carpal injuries and evaluation of innovative modalities in the repair of peripheral nerve injuries
  • Conducting several basic research projects in the field of vascularized composite allotransplantation (VCA) as well as in ischemia and reperfusion injury
  • Investigating the possibility of innovative nanoparticle-based modalities for the treatment of surgical complications
  • Teaching programs for students of Medicine, Biomedical Science and Molecular Life Science, involved in outreach activities for the education of young students, such as the Swiss Youth in Science program and the mentoring of Matura Projects of the Swiss Academy of Science

External Partners

Department of Pharmaceutical Technology, Institute of Pharmacy, University of Jena, Germany; Department of Plastic Surgery and Hand Surgery, University Hospital Zurich, University of Zurich, Switzerland; Department of Plastic Surgery and Hand Surgery, University Hospital Basel, University of Basel, Switzerland; Institut de Recherche Expérimentale et Clinique (IREC), Université catholique de Louvain, Brussels, Belgium; Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine (inStem), Bangalore, India; Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zurich, Switzerland.; Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology, St. Gallen, Switzerland; Department of Orthopaedics and Surgery, Université libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium; Swibrace Ltd, Fribourg, Switzerland; Department of Mechanical Engineering, HES-SO University of Applied Sciences Fribourg, Switzerland.