Privatklinik Bethanien

PD Dr med Inga Besmens

Specialist in plastic, reconstructive and aesthetic surgery and hand surgery, member FMH

Areas of specialisation (2)

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Hospital (1)

Hand Institut Zürich
Dufourstrasse 95
8008 Zürich

Work Experience

since 2024

Consultant, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery and Hand Surgery, Privatklinik Bethanien, Zurich

since 2024

Head Physician, Hand Institut Zürich AG

since 2021

Lecturer at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW)

since 2016

Lecturer at the University of Zurich, Faculty of Medicine

2024

Head of Hand Surgery, Department of Plastic Surgery and Hand Surgery, University Hospital Zurich 

2022 - 2024

Senior Physician meV, Team Leader Limb Reconstruction, Department of Plastic Surgery and Hand Surgery, University Hospital Zurich

2018 - 2022

Senior Physician, Clinic for Plastic Surgery and Hand Surgery, University Hospital Zurich

Research

  • Reviewer for several specialist journals in plastic surgery and hand surgery
  • Instructor and speaker at national and international courses and conferences
  • Research specialisation: limb reconstruction, peripheral nerves

List of publications

Education

2024

Venia Legendi (Privatdozentin), Faculty of Medicine, University of Zurich

2024

Master in Reconstructive Microsurgery, Autonomous University of Barcelona, ES

2024

Certificate of competence for radiation protection in hand surgery

2016 - 2023

Visiting Fellowships, Gentofte Hospital (Copenhagen), Schulthess Klinik (Zurich), Buncke Clinic (San Francisco), NYU Langone (New York), Memorial Sloan Kettering (New York)

2022

Federal specialist title for plastic, reconstructive and aesthetic surgery, FEBOPRAS

2021

Certificate of competence for ultrasound of the musculoskeletal system

2018

Federal specialist title for hand surgery, FEHBS

2004 - 2011

Medical studies, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, DE

Memberships

  • Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Handchirurgie - SGH
  • Schweizerische Gesellschaft für Handchirurgie – SGH
  • Federation of European Societies for Surgery of the Hand - FESSH
  • American Society for Surgery of the Hand – ASSH
  • International Bone Research Association – IBRA

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