Monica Hess Schmid

Qualifications

  • Medical doctor (accreditation in Switzerland)
  • Dermatologist and venereologist FMH (certified by the SGDV)
  • Specialisation in dermatosurgery including micrographic surgery since 1997


Specialties

  • Micrographic surgery in the Tübinger, Muffin and Munich technique
  • Classical dermatosurgery, including but not limited to benign and malignant tumours using reconstruction techniques like direct closure, flaps and grafts

Biography

  • Study of medicine at the University of Heidelberg (Germany) 1987-1990 and Zürich (Switzerland) 1990-1994
  • Training in Dermatology and Venereology at the Department of Dermatology, University Hospital of Zürich, Switzerland
  • Training in Plastic and Reconstructive Sugery at the Department of Reconstructive and Plastic Surgery, University Hospital of Zürich, Switzerland
  • Cohead of dermatosurgery at the Department of Dermatology, University Hospital of Zürich, Switzerland 2000-2004
  • Founder and owner of the Clinic Dufour 31, Zürich specialised in dermatosurgery and aesthetic dermatology 2004-2014
  • Founder and owner of MH, center for Dermatosurgery and aesthetic dermatology since 2015
  • Board member of the Swiss group of Dermatosurgery
  • Founding member of the Swiss Society of Micrografic surgery