Handbook of Burns Volume 2

Univ. Professor Dr. med. Lars-Peter Kamolz is a professor and director of the Division of Plastic, Aesthetic and Reconstructive Surgery, Department of Surgery, LKH- University Hospital Graz- Medical University Graz, Austria. He is also head of the Research Unit for Safety in health at the Medical University Graz, Austria and Director of COREMED-Centre for Regenerative Medicine, Joanneum Research Forschungsgesellschaft, Austria.Professor Dr. Marc Jeschke received his MD from the Eberhard-Karls-University, Tübingen,  Germany, in 1994 and is PhD in experimental surgery (molecular biology) from the University of Regensburg, Germany, in 2002. Dr. Jeschke was appointed director of the Ross Tilley Burn Centre (Sunnybrook Health Science Centre) in 2010. Currently, he holds appointments in the department of surgery, Division of Plastic Surgery, department of Immunology. He holds the chair of burn research and is a professor of surgery at the University of Toronto, Canada.Raymund E. Horch is a professor and director of the department of Plastic and Hand Surgery and of the Laboratory for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, at the University Hospital Erlangen, Germany.Markus Küntscher received his medical degree from the Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg, Germany, in 1998. Since 2010, he has been the head of the Department Plastic and Hand Surgery and head of the Reconstructive Breast Center at the Evangelische Elisabeth Klinik, Berlin, Germany. He has authored more than 50 scientific articles in national and international journals and given more than 100 talks at medical conferences.Professor MUDr. Pavel Brychta graduated from the University J.E. Purkyne, Brünn, Czech Republic. He is the head of the Department of Burns and Reconstructive Surgery, University Hospital Brno, Czech Republic.