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Moshe Kon, MD, PhD
Moshe Kon was born in Amsterdam on the 14th of May, 1949. He studied Medicine in Amsterdam and got his M.D. in 1974. After one year of training in Pathology he entered a Surgery residency where he trained from 1975 to 1979. He wrote his Ph.D. thesis about Perichondrial Transplantation and defended his thesis on the 17th of May 1979. He was trained in Plastic Surgery at the Free University Hospital in Amsterdam and was Board Certified on April 1st, 1982. From 1983 till 1985 he worked as a Plastic Surgeon and Hand Surgeon in the Department of Plastic Surgery of the Soroka Medical Center in Beer Sheva after being Board Certified in Israel on March 11, 1983. From 1985 till 1986 he was a Deputy Chief in the Department of Plastic Surgery and Burns Unit of the Chaïm Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, Israel. He returned in 1986 to the Netherlands to become a member of the staff in the Department of Plastic, Reconstructive and Hand Surgery of the Academic Hospital Utrecht (present name University Medical Center Utrecht). In 1990 he became Deputy
Chief and in 1991 he was appointed Professor and Head of
this department. His main interest is reconstruction of
congenital (microtia) and acquired ear deformities. Besides being a member
of many National and International Organizations, he is
president of the Jewish National Fund in the Netherlands,
Secretary General of the European Association of Plastic
Surgeons (EURAPS) and Head of the Plastic Surgery Research
Laboratory in Utrecht. The latter has a sister lab
collaboration with the Plastic Surgery Research Laboratories
(Head: John H. Barker) at the University of Louisville,
Kentucky, USA, where he has held a Clinical Professorship
position from 2002. |
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