Home Collections The Visits The Visits The “The British Microsurgical Travellers Club” made trips to six units in five countries. Surgeons and Units Visited Ljubljana- Marco Godina. Hamburg - Dieter Buck Gramco Munich - Edgar Biemer Innsbruck - Hans Anderl Beijing & Hong Kong - Chen Chung Wey and surgeons at Princes Margaret Hospital HK Each host organised a programme of lectures and operative demonstrations in theatre. They learnt more about microsurgical free tissue transfer for soft tissue cover of open lower limb fractures from Marco Godina in Lubijana. Edgar Biemer in Munich was an early pioneer in finger and limb replantation, and Hans Anderl in Innsbruck had experience with cross facial nerve transfer for the treatment of facial nerve palsy. Munich 1978. The BMTC with their German colleagues. Edgar Biemer is in the white coat, 7th from left. On the visit to Munich, the visitors even made a side trip to Schaffhausen near Lake Constance (Bodensee) home to the instrument works of Messers Springler and Tritt. “S&T” were pioneers in the development of both microsurgical instruments and sutures, thereby making microsurgery a routinely practical technique. Image to right of Bill Reid, Martyn Webster, and Edgar Biemer Share Back to the Museum Collection Highlights 1920 Gillies in America Shortly after the First World War, in November 1920, Harold Gillies made his first of several... Learn More 1925 A First International Congress of Plastic Surgery It is said that the “First International Congress of Plastic Surgery” took place in Stockholm in... Learn More 2012 BFIRST The British Foundation for International Reconstructive Surgery and Training (BFIRST) is a UK... Learn More 1987 BAPS Certification Training Scheme In 1987 BAPS introduced a three-year training scheme in plastic surgery for overseas graduates not... Learn More 1916 Paula Victoria Knaibl Paula V. Knaibl was Uruguay's first female Plastic Surgeon, and became BAPS' first female Latin... Learn More 1916 The New Zealand Section The New Zealanders arrived at Sidcup in 1918 after transfer of their No.2 Hospital, under the... Learn More 1871 The Dunedin Connection New Zealand may be able to lay claim to being responsible for the establishment of organised... Learn More 1917 The Canadians At Sidcup Chief amongst the contributors to plastic surgery development at the Queen’s Hospital Sidcup during... Learn More