Dr. A.Farid Safi

Academic title

  • Privatdozent (Habilitation) for oral and maxillofacial surgery, University of Bern, Switzerland
  • Dr. med. habil. (Habilitation), University of Cologne, Germany
  • Dr. med., University of Cologne, Germany
  • Dr. med. dent., University of Cologne, Germany

 

Board certifications

  • Board certified in oral and maxillofacial surgery, Germany
  • Board certified in oral surgery, Germany
  • Board certified in oral and maxillofacial surgery, FMH, Switzerland

 

 

Professional career

2011 - 2015 Deputy course instructor "Macroscopic Anatomy for Dentists" and research associate at the Institute of Anatomy & Neuroanatomy, University of Bonn, Germany
March 2013 Fellowship at the Tokyo Medical and Dental School (Japan) in the Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery
September 2013 Fellowship at the Cleveland Clinic (USA) in the Department of Head & Neck Surgery
2016 - 2018 Resident and research associate at the Department of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, University Hospital of Cologne, Germany
2017 - 2018 Research associate at the Institute for Experimental Surgery at the University Hospital of Cologne with focus on "Microvascular Surgery and Facial Transplantation Models"
2019 - 2020 Fellowship with focus on patients with face and arm grafts in the Divison of Plastic Surgery, Department of Surgery at Brigham and Women`s Hospital/ Harvard Medical School (USA)
2020 - 2021 Resident at the University Clinic for Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery of the Inselspital Bern, Switzerland
Since June 2021 Consultant under Professor Dr. Dr. H. F. Sailer Dr. h.c.mult., Klinik Professor Sailer AG, Zurich, Switzerland
Since June 2021 Curriculum Sleep Medicine” of the German Society for Sleep Medicine (DGSM)
From October 2021 Master of Science of Sleep Medicine (University of Oxford)

Publications

 

Book chapters

  • First author: Future of Face Transplantation in "Masters of Microsurgery" (main editor Fu-Chan-Wei, Taiwan) (in press)

 

Scientific Editor

  • Associate editor in the journal Frontiers of Oral Health and section head of Oral Cancer
  • Reviewer for numerous journals, including Oral Oncology, Laryngoscope, Surgical Oncology, Burns, and Plastic and Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery

 

Lecture activity

Numerous lectures at international congresses as well as annual meetings of the following societies:

  • German Society for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
  • European Association of Cranio-, Maxillo-Facial Surgery
  • Global Annual Oncologists Meeting

 

Awards and innovations

  • Invention of an animal model for simplified learning of microvascular suturing techniques and corresponding validation and publication in several international journals
  • Cologne-Fortune Grant on the topic of odontogenic tumors in the mandible
  • Cleveland Clinic Fellowship at the Department of Head and Neck Surgery
  • Fellowship of the German Research Foundation (DFG) on the topic of facial transplantation at Harvard Medical School

 

Memberships

  • FMH
  • German Society for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (DGMKG)
  • Working Group for Osteosynthesis (AO)
  • Swiss Society for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (registered)
  • European Association of Cranio-Maxillo-Facial Surgery (EACMFS)
  • International Association of Vascularized-Composite-Allotransplantation (ISVCA)
  • European Society for Sleep Research (ESRC)