PD Dr. med. Philippe A. Federspil
Director of the Division of Oncological ORL Surgery at the University Hospital Heidelberg.
PD Dr. med. Philippe A. FEDERSPIL received his medical training at the Medical School of the University of Saarland in Homburg/Saar, Germany, as well as at the University College Dublin in Ireland and at the University Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg, France within a scholarship of the ERASMUS Program by the European Community. During his studies, he was working as a scientific instructor in the course of macroscopic anatomy at the University of Saarland. He graduated in 1993 from Medical School, and began his residency in the Department of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology at the University Hospital of Saarland in Homburg/Saar, Germany. He received board accreditation in 1998. In 2004, he received the qualification “plastic surgery” as well as “special oto-rhino-laryngological surgery”. Since October 2004, he is Attending Surgeon at the Department of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology at the University Hospital Heidelberg, Germany under the chairmanship of Prof. Dr. P.K. Plinkert. In 2008, he received the qualification „medical tumor therapy“. His scientific work on automated robotic surgery with ultrasound navigation was granted for six years by the German Research Foundation DFG within the research cluster SPP 1124. Since 2010 Dr. Federspil is Assistant Professor (Habilitation) in Oto-Rhino-Laryngology. In 2017, he was appointed the director of the Division of Oncological ORL Surgery at the University Hospital Heidelberg.
Dr. Federspil’s main interest is head & neck tumor surgery as well as reconstructive plastic surgery including microvascular free tissue transfer. A special focus is in the facial area including implantation for bone-anchored craniofacial prostheses. Since 2012, he was elected President of the International Association for Surgical Prosthetics and Epithetics IASPE. In 2013, he received the J.N. Kidd-Award for the best achievement in prosthetic implantology, and in 2015 the Mount Vermont Award for the best clinical practice by the Institute of Maxillofacial Prosthetists and Technologists IMPT (UK). In 2018, Dr. Federspil was given an honorary membership of the Institute of Maxillofacial Prosthetists and Technologists IMPT.
