Scientific lead
OA Dr. med. Alexander Butz
Consultant Physician at Hospital of the Divine Savior
Medicine in Ober St. Veit General and Visceral Surgery
Vienna, Austria
Prof. Dr. med. Manuel E. Cornely
Senior Consultant Lymphology
Schön Clinic Düsseldorf
LY.SEARCH gGmbH
Scientific Director
Specialist for Dermatology and Venereology
Düsseldorf, Germany
OÄ Dr. med. Brigitte Obermayer, MBA
Consultant Physician
Team Leader Obesity and Metabolic Surgery
Obesity Center
Hospital of the Divine Savior
TZOU MEDICAL., Lymphology Center
General, Vein and Obesity Surgery
Vienna, Austria
Assoc.-Prof. PD Dr. med. Chieh-Han John Tzou, MBA
Associate Professor at Sigmund Freud University Vienna
Head of Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
Hospital of the Divine Savior
TZOU MEDICAL., Lymphology Center
Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery
Vienna, Austria
Chairs and Speakers
Dr. med. univ. Evelyn Auer, BSc
Resident Representative
Department of Radiology
Salzburg University Hospital
University Institute of Radiology, PMU
5020 Salzburg, Austria
Jean-Paul Belgrado, PhD
Professor
Lymphology Research and Rehabilitation Unit
Université libre de Bruxelles,
808 route de Lennik CP 640,
1070 Bruxelles – Belgium
Scientific Collaborator:
Lymphology Clinic Santorso – Asiago
USSL 7 Veneto, Italy
Lymphology Dpt Vasc Med Montpellier, France
Honorary Professor: Vasil Levski
University – Bulgaria
Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Dieter Blottner
Professor (Assoc.) in Anatomy
Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin Campus Mitte (CCM)
Integrative NeuroAnatomy and Berlin Center of Space Medicine (ZWMB)
Head Neuromuscular Group
10115 Berlin, Germany
Prim.a Dr. med. Silvia Brandstätter
Director
Institute for Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation & Physikoverbund
Austrian Health Insurance Fund
Mein Hanusch-Krankenhaus
1140 Vienna, Austria
Ao. Univ. Prof. Dr. med. univ. Erich Brenner, MME (Bern)
Specialist in Anatomy
Institute for Clinical and Functional Anatomy
Medical University of Innsbruck
6020 Innsbruck, Austria
Mag. Christina Buder
Massage Therapist, MLD-Therapist, Breathing Therapist
Wittlinger Therapiezentrum GmbH
6344 Walchsee, Austria
OÄ Dr. med. Tina Deutinger, PhD, FEBOPRAS
Consultant Physician
Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Hospital of the Divine Savior
Private Practice
Dr. Tina Deutinger, PhD, FEBOPRAS
MedQuarters
Specialist in Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery
Vienna, Austria
Edburg Edlinger, BSc
Dietitian
6020 Innsbruck, Austria
Felicitas Froitzheim, B. Sc.
Physiotherapist
N&C Physiotherapy
52074 Aachen, Germany
Ahmed M. Gad, MD, PhD
Professor of Plastic Surgery
Ain Shams University
Cairo, Egypt
More information about me
What led you to specialise in your field, and what do you find most inspiring about it?
Early in my training, I kept seeing patients — often breast cancer survivors — who had beaten their cancer but were left with chronic swelling and recurrent infections that reshaped their daily lives. What struck me was that this was a problem surgery could actually fix, or at least dramatically improve, yet so few patients even knew these options existed.
Why is this event special to you, and what motivates you to share your knowledge as part of it?
For me, this is a unique meeting, which gathers all the personnel involved in lymphedema management, to speak and listen to each other for better service improvement. It is a very elegant symposium, and I am very happy and honored to participate and share my knowledge with the world-class doctors and technicians.
What is the key message you would like your audience to take away?
As a super-micro-surgeon in a low-income country, we still have some obstacles and we keep struggling with the authorities and personnel. Surprisingly, we are able to achieve reasonable results.
Prim. Dr. med. Arik Galid
Head of Department Gynecology
Head of Department Breast Cancer Unit, Hanusch Hospital
1090 Vienna, Austria
Prof. Dr. med. Emre Gazyakan, MSc, FEBOPRAS, FEBHS
Senior Consultant
Department of Hand, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
Burn Center, Department of Hand and Plastic Surgery, Heidelberg University, BG Clinic Ludwigshafen
67071 Ludwigshafen, Germany
Prof. Kristiana Gordon, MBBS, FRCP, MD(Res), CLT
Professor of Dermatology and Lymphovascular Medicine, St. George’s Hospital
London, England
PD Dr. med. Epameinondas Gousopoulos, MSc, PhD
Attending Surgeon and Head of Research
Department of Plastic and Hand Surgery
University Hospital Zurich
8091 Zurich, Switzerland
Walter Grünwald
MLD-Therapist
Wolfsberg Lymphology Clinic at the LKH Wolfsberg, Rehabilitation Clinic for Lymphangiology, with Acute Care Unit
9400 Wolfsberg, Austria
Louis Habbema, MD
Dermatologist at Lipology Clinic, Amsterdam
Founding Member and Vice President of the International Society of Tumescent Anesthesia Liposuction
Past Chairman Domain Cosmetic Dermatology of the Dutch Society of Dermatology and Venerology
Past President of the International Society for Dermatologic Surgery
Past President of the World Academy of Cosmetic Surgery
Board Certified by the International Division of the American Academy of Cosmetic Surgery
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Dr. rer. nat. Dr. med. René Hägerling
Specialist in Human Genetics
Charité – Universitätsmedizin, Berlin
Institute for Medical and Human Genetics
Berlin Institute of Health @ Charité
Lymphovascular Medicine
10117 Berlin, Germany
Nobumitsu Hamanaka
Bethel South Shinjuku Clinic
Tokyo, Japan
Akitatsu Hayashi, MD, PhD
Professor of Surgery
Program Director of Lymphedema Center, Kameda Medical Center
Kamogawa, Japan
Christine Hemmann-Moll
Master Bandagist
74906 Bad Rappenau, Germany
Joon Pio Hong, MD, PhD, MBA
Professor of Plastic Surgery
Asan Medical Center University of Ulsan
Seoul, Korea
More information about me
What led you to specialise in your field, and what do you find most inspiring about it?
Trying to help patients who have not had any surgical solutions before. To give them hope that it can become better.
Why is this event special to you, and what motivates you to share your knowledge as part of it?
It is one of the best multidisciplinary platforms for surgeons, physicians, technicians, therapists, nurses and industry to find a solution for lymphatic disease.
What is the key message you would like your audience to take away?
This is a new and evolving field that needs an open mind, and at the same time, to be constructively critical. We need to build this future together.
OÄ Dr. med. Nina Hüttinger, FEBOPRAS
Consultant Physician, Deputy Head of Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Hospital of the Divine Savior
Ordination Hüttinger
Specialist in Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery
Vienna, Austria
Manuela Jovic
RN, Certified Wound Care Manager
Wound Care Outpatient Clinic, Mein Gesundheitszentrum Floridsdorf, Austrian
Health Insurance Fund (ÖGK)
Independent Wound Care Manager
Vienna, Austria
Prof. Dr. Dr. med. Elisabeth A. Kappos, FMH(Plast)
Associate Professor
Department of Plastic, Reconstructive, Aesthetic and Handsurgery, University Hospital Basel
4031 Basel, Switzerland
Dr. med. Markus Killinger
Specialist in General and Family Medicine, Lymphological Consultation
6320 Angerberg, Austria
Elisabeth Kleinpaul
Massage Therapist, MLD-Therapist
Vienna, Austria
Rainer H. Kraus
Chairman of the Registered Association for the Advancement of Lymphoedema Therapy
91154 Roth, Germany
Cornelia Kügele, MSc Med
MLD-Therapist
Wolfsberg Lymphology Clinic at the LKH Wolfsberg, Rehabilitation Clinic for Lymphangiology with Acute Care Unit
9400 Wolfsberg, Austria
Prof. Dr. med. Nicole Lindenblatt, MBA
Deputy Director
Department of Plastic and Hand Surgery, University Hospital Zurich
8091 Zurich, Switzerland
Dr. rer. nat. Katharina Loibnegger-Traußnig, MSc
Clinical Psychologist
Psychological Practice
1140 Vienna, Austria
Meadbh Mac Sweeney, RGN, MPH
Lymphoedema Nurse
Consultant & Clinic Director, TLC The Lymph Clinic, Centre of Excellence for Lymphoedema & Lipoedema
Cork, Ireland
Katrin Männel-Emra
Physiotherapist
Dr. Vodder CDT Teacher
92318 Neumarkt, Germany
Irmgard Mayr
Bandagist
85244 Röhrmoos, Germany
Dr. med. Aaron Antaeus Metz
Resident
Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Hospital of the Divine Savior
1170 Vienna, Austria
Balázs Mohos, MD
Plastic Surgeon
Heart and Vascular Center, Faculty of Medicine Semmelweis University Budapest, Hungary
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Surgical Center, County Hospital
Veszprem, Hungary
Fiorella Mondelli
Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro
Bari, Italy
More information about me
What led you to specialise in your field, and what do you find most inspiring about it?
I chose lymphology because it forces you to look deeper than what is visible.
What inspires me is transforming complexity into something we can truly understand and use to help patients change.
Why is this event special to you, and what motivates you to share your knowledge as part of it?
This event brings together people who are shaping the future of lymphology. I am excited to share a project born from a simple clinical question: Can we measure our patients better?
What is the key message you would like your audience to take away?
A body is more than a number.
3D scanning can help us see where change happens, how much it changes, and how it evolves over time.
Michaela Moser
Massage and MLD-Therapist
Outpatient Physical Therapy Clinic, Kurinstitut Wörgl
6300 Wörgl, Austria
Dung Nguyen, MD, PharmD, MBA, FACS
Clinical Professor
Director of Microsurgery
Director of Breast Reconstruction
Director of Adult Plastics, Aesthetic and Reconstructive Clinics, Division of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, Stanford University
Stanford, USA
Dr. Deirdre O’Mahony
Consultant Medical Oncologist
Department of Medical Oncology, Bon Secours Hospital
Cork, Ireland
Prim. Priv.-Doz. Dr. med. Matthias Paireder, MBA, FACS
Head of Department of Surgery
Hospital of the Divine Savior
1170 Vienna, Austria
Univ.-Prof. PD Dr. med. Peter Panhofer, MBA, MSc
Professor of Complementary Medicine
with a focus on Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM)
Center for General Medicine and Evidence-Based Methods, Faculty of Medicine, Sigmund Freud Private University Vienna, Austria
Specialist in Visceral Surgery with a focus on Metabolic Bariatric Surgery, Department of Surgery, Hospital of the Divine Savior
Vienna, Austria
Prim. a Dr. med. Berit Payer
Specialist in Internal Medicine
Director Wolfsberg Lymphology Clinic at the LKH Wolfsberg, Rehabilitation Clinic for Lymphangiology with Acute Care Unit
9400 Wolfsberg, Austria
Prof. Dr. med. Claus C. Pieper
Head of the Division for Minimally-invasive Lymph Vessel Therapy
Specialist in Radiology and Neuroradiology, Clinic for Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Hospital Bonn
53105 Bonn, Germany
Gemma Pons, MD, PhD
Head of the Microsurgery Unit
Department of Plastic Surgery, Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
08041 Barcelona, Spain
PD Dr. med. Anett Reißhauer
Head of the Physical Medicine Department, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Corporate member of Freie Universität Berlin and Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
10117 Berlin, Germany
OÄ Dr. med. Julia Roka-Palkovits
Consultant Physician
Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Hospital of the Divine Savior, Med Vienna Center, Joint Practice
Specialist in Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery
Vienna, Austria
Thomas Saupe
Physiotherapist
Instructor of MLD, Wittlinger Therapy Center, Dr. Vodder Academy International
6344 Walchsee, Austria
Ann-Katrin Schimmele
Physiotherapy
4313 Sandnes, Norway
OA Dr. med. Johannes Steinbacher
Consultant Physician, Deputy Head of Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Hospital of the Divine Savior Vienna, Austria
Ordination STEINBACHER
Specialist in Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery
3002 Purkersdorf, Austria
Velika Stoichkova
Researcher
Lymphology Research and Rehabilitation Unit, Université libre de Bruxelles, 808 route de Lennik CP 640
1070 Brussels, Belgium
Eva-Maria Streicher
Physiotherapist
CDT Teacher, Physiotherapy practice, Lymph Centre Großhadern
81375 Munich, Germany
OÄ Dr. med. Ines Tinhofer
Consultant Physician
Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at Hospital of the Divine Savior
Specialist in Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery, Medicine in Neuwaldegg
Vienna, Austria
Florian Türmer, BSc
MLD-Therapist
Wolfsberg Lymphology Clinic at the LKH Wolfsberg, Rehabilitation Clinic for Lymphangiology, with Acute Care Unit
9400 Wolfsberg, Austria
emer. Prim. Dr. med. Christian Ure
Specialist in Internal Medicine and Angiology
Emeritus Director Wolfsberg Lymphology Clinic at the LKH Wolfsberg, Rehabilitation Clinic for Lymphangiology with Acute Care Unit
9400 Wolfsberg, Austria
Tertius H.J. Venter, MBChB, FCS(SA), MMed
Specialty Consultant
Director Department of Reconstructive Plastic Surgery, MV Africa Mercy and MV Global Mercy, Mercy Ships Global
Garden Valley, Texas, USA
Wilfried Vollrath
Specialist in Internal Medicine
Mossy Foot Germany
10247 Berlin, Germany
Andreas Wittlinger, PT
CEO Dr. Vodder Academy International
Chief of Therapy Department, Lymphedema Clinic Wittlinger
6344 Walchsee, Austria