Professor Manfred Frey MD PhD
Educational and professional Background:
1968 - 74: Studies of medicine at the University of Vienna. Graduation to Doctor of Medicine 12.07.74
1971 - 74: Instructor at the Institute of Topographic Anatomy, University of Vienna (Prof. Dr. W. Krause)
1974 - 75: II. Institute of Anatomy, University of Vienna (Prof. Dr. W. Zenker)
1975 - 80: Training in general surgery at the 2nd Surgical University Clinic in Vienna (Prof. Dr. J. Navràtil),
specialized in general surgery in 1980
1979 - 82: Training in plastic and reconstructive surgery at the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
(Prof. Dr. G. Freilinger) at the 2nd Surgical University Clinic in Vienna, specialized in Plastic and
Reconstructive Surgery 1982.
1975: Surgical Clinic, Kantonspital Olten / Switzerland (Dr. Laube)
Since 1976: Participation in the replantation service.
1976: Surgical Clinic, Kirchdorf an der Krems (Prim. Hofrat MR. Dr. E. Wayand)
1978: Department of Plastic and Maxillofacial Surgery, Canniesburn Hospital,Glasgow (Prof. T. Gibson)
Department of Hand Surgery, B.U.K. Hamburg (Prof. Dr. D. Buck-Gramcko)
1979: Department of Maxillofacial Surgery, Kantonspital Basel (Prof. Dr. B. Spiessl)
1980: Department of Maxillofacial Surgery, AKH Linz (Prof. Dr. R. Fries)
1984: Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Canniesburn Hospital Glasgow (Prof. Dr. McGregor)
1986: Department of Physiology, Univ. of Edmonton (Prof. Dr. T. Gordon),
Hand- and Reconstructive Microsurgery, Toronto, General Hospital (Prof. Dr. R. Manktelow)
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Univ. of Illinois, Springfield (Prof. Dr. B. Russell)
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester / Minn., (I.T. Jackson, B.G. Arnold)
1984: Assistant Professor of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the University of Vienna (Thesis: "Free
Muscle Transplantation with Microneurovascular Anastomosis")
1984: Theodor Billroth Prize of the Austrian Society of Surgery.
1987: Professor of Hand- and Microsurgery at the Faculty of Medicine at the RWTH Aachen, Germany
1988: Head of the Section Head, Neck and Trunk at the Division of Hand-, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery,
Department of Surgery, University of Zurich, Medical School.
1989: Assistant Professor of Plastic Surgery at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Zurich
1992: Professor of Plastic Surgery, University of Zurich.
1993: Georg-Friedrich-Götz-Prize by the Medical Faculty of the University of Zurich
1996: Professor of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Vienna.
Head of the Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, University Clinic, Vienna.
Main topics of research work: Muscle transplantation, nerve regeneration, functional electro stimulation, quantitative assessment of movements in the face, breast reconstruction, reduction mammaplasty.
Memberships in professional societies
- Oesterreichische Gesellschaft für Chirurgie (1976)
- Oesterreichische Gesellschaft für Plastische, Ästhetische und Rekonstruktive Chirurgie (1983) (Council member)
- Gesellschaft der Chirurgen in Wien (1983)
- Oesterreichische Gesellschaft für Chirurgische Forschung (foundation member) (Member of Council)
- Oesterreichische Gesellschaft für Handchirurgie (foundation member)
- Oesterreichische Gesellschaft für Senologie (foundation member)
- Österreichische Forschungsgesellschaft für Geschlechtsdysphorie (Gründungsmitglied – 2000)
- Schweizer Gesellschaft für Plastische, Wiederherstellungs- und Ästhetische Chirurgie (1989)
- Schweizer Gesellschaft für Handchirurgie (1989)
- Zuercher Aerztegesellschaft (1991)
- World Society of Reconstructive Microsurgery (1985)
- International Society of Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery (1993) (IPRAS, Congress president 2003)
- Sir Charles Bell Society (foundation member)
- Sunderland Society (1995)
- European Association of Plastic Surgeons (1993) (EURAPS, National delegate of Austria)
- Deutschsprachige Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Handchirurgie (DAH)
- Deutschsprachige Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Mikrochirurgie der Peripheren Nerven und Gefäße (DAM), (foundation member) (Council member)
- Internationale Mediziner Arbeitsgemeinschaft IMA (1970) (Past President)
- Austrian Research Society for Gender Dysphoria (Council member)
- International Editorial Committee of Rivista Italiana di Chirurgia Plastica (2000)
- International Editorial Committee of The Romanian Journal of Plastic Surgery (2001)
- Verein zur Förderung von Wissenschaft und Forschung (Vizepräsident seit 2005)
