Anschließend war sie als Fachärztin im Universitätsklinikum St. Pölten und auch bei den Barmherzigen Brüdern in Salzburg tätig. Seit Anfang 2021 ist sie wieder im Team an der Medizinischen Universität Wien. Bei Prof. J. Masià hat sie das Masterstudium in Reconstructive Microsurgery absolviert.

L. Scott Levin, MD, FACS, is the Paul B. Magnuson Professor of Bone and Joint Surgery (with tenure), Chair of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, and Professor of Surgery (Plastic Surgery). He also serves as Vice President
and Associate Dean for Resource Development at Penn Medicine. Dr. Levin is Board-certified in Orthopaedic Surgery and has a Certificate of added Qualification in hand surgery. In addition, he is Board-certified in Plastic Surgery.

As an accomplished clinician, his expertise focuses on surgery of the hand and upper extremity, reconstructive microsurgical techniques for extremity reconstruction and limb salvage. His research interests focus predominantly on extremity soft tissue reconstruction and vascularized composite allotransplantation. In 2022 he was awarded the Kappa Delta Elizabeth Winston Lanier Award from the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgery. This award is the highest honor awarded for achievement in Orthopedic research. Working collaboratively with colleagues across medical disciplines, Dr. Levin established and was the Director of Duke’s Human Tissue Laboratory and also directed the Anatomic Gifts Program. He also established a Human Tissue Laboratory at Penn which opened in May 2011. The Human Tissue Laboratory acts as a teaching tool and a research facility benefiting students, residents and CME participants. Dr. Levin heads the Vascularized Composite Allotransplantation (VCA) Program at Penn and directed the teams that performed bilateral hand and arm transplants, one in September 2011 and two international patients, one in August 2016 and then February 2019. In 2015, as Director of the Pediatric Hand Transplantation Program of Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, he led the team that performed the world’s first bilateral hand transplant in a child.

As a committed educator, Dr. Levin has been recognized for his commitment to teaching with the 2007 Master Clinician/Teacher Award for his accomplishments in both clinical care and education at Duke and in 2014 was awarded the I.S. Ravdin Master Clinician Award, a Penn Medicine
Award of Excellence at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. In 2015, he was named Individual Innovator of the Year at the Philadelphia Business Journal Healthcare Innovator Awards. He was inducted in 2018 into the Academy of Master Surgeon Educators of the American College of Surgeons.

Widely published with more than 445 peer-reviewed journal articles, 99 book chapters and 12 books, Dr. Levin also actively participates in senior leadership activities of many international and national professional societies and associations including serving as Board of Regents Chair (2020-2021) and Orthopaedic Regent of the American College of Surgeons, Past President of the American Society for Surgery of the Hand, Past Chair of the VCA Transplantation Committee of the United Network for Organ Sharing, President of the World Society of Reconstructive Microsurgery, President of the American Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery, member-at-large of the American Society of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeons, President of the American Society for Reconstructive Transplantation and member of the Board of Directors of the American Board of Plastic Surgery. In addition, Dr. Levin has been honored as a North American Traveling Fellow, the American British Canadian Traveling Fellow by the American Orthopaedic Association and the Sterling Bunnell Traveling Fellow by the American Society for Surgery of the Hand. In 2015, he was awarded the Andrew J. Weiland Medal by the American Society for Surgery of the Hand. He has served as the Orthopaedic Trauma Association’s Landstuhl Scholar, caring for our war-injured soldiers in Germany.

Dr. Levin is responsible for developing the field of „Orthoplastic Surgery“ and currently is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Orthoplastic Surgery (Elsevier).

Danach schloss er sich dem Klinischen Labor für Bionische Extremitätenrekonstruktion an der Medizinischen Universität Wien an, wo er im Rahmen seines Doktoratsstudiums der Klinischen Neurowissenschaften an implantierbaren neuroprothetischen Systemen arbeitet. Derzeit ist er Assistenzarzt an der Abteilung für Plastische, Rekonstruktive und Ästhetische Chirurgie der Medizinischen Universitätsklinik in Wien. Sein persönliches und wissenschaftliches Interesse gilt der rekonstruktiven und peripheren Nervenchirurgie.

Sein Forschungsschwerpunkt sind implantierbare Schnittstellen zur Verbesserung der Prothesenkontrolle für Menschen mit Amputation der oberen Extremität. Darüber hinaus führte er grundlegende anatomische Studien zu Perforatorlappen sowie verschiedene klinische Projekte zum Thema rekonstruktive Mikrochirurgie durch. Nach Abschluss seiner Promotion und der klinischen Basisrotation arbeitet Clemens Gstöttner nun als Assistenzarzt an der Abteilung für Plastische und
Rekonstruktive Chirurgie der Medizinischen Universität Wien.

Anschließend zog Philipp zurück nach Wien und setzte seine Ausbildung als Assistenzarzt an der Universitätsklinik für Plastische und Rekonstruktive Chirurgie der Medizinischen Universität Wien fort, während er gleichzeitig an einem klinischen PhD-Programm in Neurowissenschaften unter der Leitung von Prof. Aszmann teilnahm. Derzeit absolviert Philipp im Rahmen seines letzten Ausbildungsjahres eine Rotation an der Abteilung für Plastische Chirurgie an der BG Unfallklinik Murnau in Bayern, Deutschland.

Nach Abschluss des PhD Studiums 2017 erlangte er 2021 die Lehrbefugnis (venia docendi) für das Fach Plastische Chirurgie. Seine Fachtarztausbildung absolvierte er an der Universitätsklinik für Plastische und Rekonstruktive Chirurgie am AKH Wien. Seit 2020 ist Stefan Salminger im Unfallkrankenhaus Lorenz Böhler in Wien tätig und zuständig für die Rekonstruktion von Weichteil- und Knochendefekten sowie Chirurgie der peripheren Nerven.