Prof. Leila Harhaus-Wähner

Special functions

Leader of Hand-and Plastic Rehabilitation and Burn-Rehabilitation, RehaZentrum, BG Trauma Center Ludwigshafen

Leader of the division “Peripheral Nervsurgery and Surgery of the brachial plexus

Leader of the Medical Quality Management of the department 

Education and Employment Record

06/2019 European Diploma in Hand Surgery (FESSH), best exam award

07/2017 Professorship for Plastic and Aesthetic Surgery at Ruprecht-Karls University Heidelberg 

since 09/2016 Senior Consultant, Dpt. of Hand-, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Burn Center, BG – Trauma Hospital Ludwigshafen, Dpt. of Plastic and Hand Surgery of Ruprecht-Karls University Heidelberg (Director: Prof. Dr. U. Kneser)

03.02.2016 Certificate of Handsurgery (german: Zusatzbezeichnung Handchirurgie)

2015-2016 Part-time studies in health economics, SRH Hochschule Riedlingen, Degree: Health Economist (SRH / HB), overall grade 1.7 

09/2014 Obtaining the Venia legendi for Plastic and Aesthetic Surgery at Ruprecht-Karls University Heidelberg 

07/2014 Certificate of Medical Quality Management

Since 06/2013 Consultant, Dpt. of Hand-, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Burn Center, BG – Trauma Hospital Ludwigshafen, Dpt. of Plastic and Hand Surgery of Ruprecht-Karls University Heidelberg (Director: Prof. Dr. U. Kneser)

05/2013 Certificate of Plastic and Aesthetic Surgery (german. Facharztbezeichnung) 

06/2012 – 05/2013 Microsurgical Fellowship, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital Taipeh, Taiwan (Prof. Fu-Chan Wei, Prof. Ming-Huei Cheng, Prof. Chieh-Hung Lin, Prof. David Chuang)

10/2009 – 05/2013 Residency Dpt. of Hand-, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Burn Center, BG – Trauma Hospital Ludwigshafen, Dpt. of Plastic and Hand Surgery of Ruprecht-Karls University Heidelberg (Director: Prof. Dr. U. Kneser)  

(before: Prof. Dr. med. M. Lehnhardt, Prof. Dr.med. G. Germann)

01/2007 - 09/2009   Residency, Dpt. of Trauma Surgery, Plastic-, Reconstructive and Handsurgery, Georg-August-University of Göttingen (Director: Prof. Dr.med. K.M. Stürmer)

09/2006 - 01/2007  Residency, Dpt. of Trauma Surgery, Orthopaedics, Reconstructive and Handsurgery, Klinikum Maria Hilf GmbH (Directors: 

Prof. Dr.med. U. Baranowski, Dr. med. J. Roedig)