Hans-Ulrich SteinauApril 27, 1946 – February 26, 2025 On February 26, 2025, after a long illness, Hans-Ulrich Steinau passed away peacefully at the age of 78, surrounded by his family in Bochum, the place where he had served as the long-time director of the Department of Plastic Surgery and Severe Burns at the Bergmannsheil University Hospital. Many students owe their......
26 February, 2025
Kob WintschOctober 13, 1931 – February 3, 2025 Kob Wintsch was born to Swiss parents on October 13, 1931, on the island of Borneo in the then Dutch colony of Indonesia. His father’s job as a surveying engineer for the Dutch Shell company meant frequent relocations; the family also lived temporarily on Sumatra and Java. The Japanese occupation during World......
03 February, 2025
One of the great pioneers of microsurgery in Sweden died at Sahlgrenska Hospital in Gothenburg on October 19, 2024 at the age of 83 years after a courageous battle with pancreatic cancer. Ingemar was born in Blekinge in the south of Sweden on September 29, 1941 and maintained his connection with the region for his entire life. His father was......
19 October, 2024
Viktor E. MeyerMarch 5, 1937- October 18, 2024 Viktor Meyer was born in 1937. He graduated at the University of Bern, Switzerland, in 1966. His surgical education was mainly at the Academic Medical Center of the University of Zurich and at the Institute for Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, New York University Medical Center, USA. He was Board certified in General......
18 October, 2024
Eric Auclair, passed away November 4, 2023 at the age of 66 due to heart failure. Although he wanted to become an architect, personal circumstances, the sudden death of his father, a doctor, when he was 17 years of age, a family tradition that committed him to take over, and friends who were already enrolled in the faculty, influenced him......
04 November, 2023
Hans Anderl, Emeritus Professor of the department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the Medical University Innsbruck, Austria, from 1986 to 1998, passed away on October 23rd, 2023 at the age of 93 years. His passion and creativity in the field of plastic surgery brought him fame in his country and internationally. He was known for his dedication to his......
23 October, 2023
Andrej Banič, our dear friend, colleague, teacher and mentor passed away on January 13, 2023 after a long battle with illness. Andrej was born December 5, 1947 in Ljubljana, Slovenia. He studied medicine and got his training in Plastic Surgery at the department of Plastic Surgery and Burns at the University Hospital in Ljubljana. In 1983 he left Slovenia for......
13 January, 2023
Dear EURAPS members, We find ourselves once again in an uttermost unfortunate historical context, barely -if already- leaving Covid behind. The war in Ukraine leaves no one untouched and also causes great concern within our association, along with a warm wave of solidarity. We advocate broad solidarity with all those who are victims of this horrific military invasion. This current......
07 March, 2022
Saturo Nagata, medical director of NAGATA Microtia and Reconstructive Plastic Surgery Clinic, passed away from sudden cardiac death on January 2, 2022 at the age of 71 years. He was one of the founders of modern microtia reconstruction and the two stage Nagata method is used worldwide as the state of art technique in ear reconstruction. Nagata was born on......
27 January, 2022
Bryant Alexander Toth, M.D. died on Sunday, October 3rd, 2021 at the age of 71, in Italy, the country he loved dearly. Bryant attended Brown University’s Program in Medicine and received his degree in 1976. He married Jill Sifton Henderson, the love of his life, in 1977 and they moved to Boston where Bryant began his six-year residency in General......
03 October, 2021