Prof. Dr. Dr. André Eckardt

Prof. Dr. Dr. André Eckardt graduated from the Dental School,
Hannover Medical University, in 1983. In 1987 he also qualified
in Medicine from Hannover Medical School. After a fellowship
in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the University of California,
San Francisco, he started his formal residency training at the
Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Hannover Medical
University. Following residency training he continued to work in
Hannover as Senior resident and finally as Assistant Professor.
In 2000 he was promoted as Associate Professor of the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery at the same university.
His main clinical and research interest focuses on Head and Neck Oncology. With his surgical background he is particularly interested in oncologic and reconstructive surgery of the head and neck region. Numerous clinical trials on preoperative chemo-radiation for advanced head and neck cancer have been conducted by Prof. Eckardt as principal investigator. In 1999 he received the Konrad-Morgenroth-Award in recognition of his clinical work in relation to intraarterial chemotherapy of advanced oral cancer. He holds memberships in numerous national and international scientific societies, and presently serves as General Secretary of the German-Austrian-Swiss study group on maxillofacial tumours (“Deutsch-Österreichisch-Schweizerischer Arbeitskreis für Tumoren im Kiefer- und Gesichtsbereich” (DÖSAK) ). He lectured extensively both nationwide and internationally mostly on topics related to head and neck oncology.