Professor Sailer, who is President of the Swiss Stem Cell Board, has been conducting treatment in the field of adipose tissue and using adipose mesenchymal stem cells for over 25 years. He is the founder and chief physician of the clinic bearing his name. He is one of the most experienced facial surgery experts in the world. Over the past 30 years, he has gained unparalleled levels of experience in the field of oral and maxillofacial surgery by carrying out thousands of complicated operations.
Academic titles
Full Professor for Maxillofacial Surgery and Pathology of the Masticatory System (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
Dr. med. (University of Erlangen, Germany)
Dr. med. dent. (University of Erlangen, Germany)
Dr. med. et chir. h. c. (University of Naples, Italy)
Dr. med. dent. h. c. (University of Athens, Greece)
Dr. sc. h. c. (University of Chennai, India)
Dr. med. et pharm. h. c. (University of Timisoara, Romania)
Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England h. c.
Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh h. c.
Professor of the Scuola Internazionale di Odontoiatria, University of Rome
Consultant titles
Consultant for maxillofacial and oral surgery and plastic surgery (Germany)
Consultant for maxillofacial surgery FMH (Switzerland)
Consultant dentist for oral surgery (Switzerland)
Current role
Since 2001, Prof. Sailer has been running his own private clinic, “Klinik Professor Sailer”, in Zurich. During this time, he has continued to develop his surgical method intended to cure “obstructive sleep apnoea”. This surgery has since become a routine surgery at Klinik Professor Sailer and not only cures sleep apnoea, but also prevents the associated health issues such as heart attacks, stroke, Type 2 diabetes, dementia etc.
He has also developed further operation methods for other diseases.
Professional career (summary)
1972 - 2014 368 scientific publications
2013 Founded the Cleft Centre in Lahore, Pakistan
2013 Founded Klinik Prof. Sailer in Bad Ragaz
2012 Founded the new Cleft Clinic in Kerala, India
2012 Humanitarian Life Time Achievement Award (ICPF – International Cleft Lip and Palate Foundation)
2009 Honorary doctorate, University of Timisoara, Romania
2007 Honorary doctorate, University of Chennai, India
2001 Founded Klinik Prof. Sailer in Zurich, Switzerland
2000 Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
1999 Member of the Armenian Academy of Medical Sciences
1996 Member of the German Academy of Natural Sciences, Leopoldina (oldest scientific organisation in the world)
1996 Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England
1995 Honorary doctorate, University of Naples, Italy
1994 Honorary doctorate, University of Athens, Greece
1989 - 1994 Medical Director of the University of Zurich’s School of Dentistry (ZZM)
1987 Full professor and clinic director at the Clinic for Maxillofacial Surgery at the University Hospital of Zurich
1985 Associate professor at the University of Zurich
1985 Swiss consultant specialist in maxillofacial surgery
1983 - 2006 16 honorary academic memberships
1981 Facial plastic surgery, Boston, USA
1980 Higher-education teaching qualification, University of Zurich
1979 Wassmund Prize from the German Society of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
1978 German consultant specialist in maxillofacial surgery
1976/77 Research Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England
1972 - 2001 Clinic for Maxillofacial Surgery at the University Hospital of Zurich
1971 - 1972 General surgery and traumatology, University of Würzburg
1968 - 1971 Degree in dentistry, University of Erlangen
1962 - 1968 Degree in medicine, University of Erlangen
Special awards
1994 Doctor h. c., University of Athens
1995 Doctor h. c., University of Naples
1996 Fellow of Dental Surgery of the Royal College of Surgeons of England (FDSRCS) h. c.
1996 Professor of the Scuola Internazionale di Odontoiatria, University of Rome
1996 Member of the German Academy of Natural Sciences, Leopoldina (oldest scientific organisation in the world)
1998 Member of the Swiss Academy of Medical Science
1999 Member of the Armenian Academy of Surgical Science
2000 Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (FRCS) h. c.
2003 Honorary member of the Spanish organisation OMS
1983 - 2006 16 additional honorary memberships
2007 Dr. sc. h. c., University of Chennai, India
2009 Dr. med. et pharm. h. c., University of Timisoara, Romania
2012 Humanitarian Lifetime Achievement Award (ICPF)
2014 European CEO Award for the Best Private Medical Health Care Provider in Europe
2017 Doctor sc. h. c., Nitte University, Mangalore, India
Additional awards
1979 Wassmund Prize from the German Society of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
1979 Scientific award from the German Association of Dental Medicine for the best publication
Invited to give 180 honorary lectures
Honorary lectures
President's Lecture: British Dental Association 1979
American Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons 1988
President's Lecture: British Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons 1991
President's Lecture: International Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons 1995
Osborn Memorial Lecture 1995, Iowa, USA
Charles Tomes Lecture of the Royal College of Surgeons 2000
Ginwalla-Oration of the Society of OMFS of India 2001
President's Lecture: Asian Congress of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery 2002, Mumbai
President's Lecture: European Congress of Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery 2006, Barcelona
President's Lecture: Association of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeons of India 2006, Calcutta
Invited to give 180 honorary lectures
Publications
407 publications in all fields of cranio-maxillofacial surgery
Monograph: Transplantation of Lyophilized Cartilage in Maxillofacial Surgery: Experimental Foundations and Clinical Success.
Karger, Basel 1983
Atlas der Oralen Chirurgie [Atlas of Oral Surgery]
Thieme, Stuttgart 1996
(Co-author: Dr. G. Pajarola)
(Editions: German 1996, Italian 1997, Spanish 1997, English 1998, Portuguese 1998, Greek 2000, Turkish 2004)
2009: Second edition
Academic editing
Editorial Section Editor Journal of Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery
Editorial Board Member American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopaedics
Editorial Board Member Zeitschrift für Mund-, Kiefer- und Gesichtschirurgie [Journal for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery]
Editorial Board Member Odontoiatria Oggi
Editorial Board Member of Rev. Española de Cirugia Oral y Maxillofacial
International Consultant American Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
Editor of the yearbook for the Swiss Society for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
Other roles
Treasurer of the European Association for Cranio-Maxillo-Facial Surgery 1980–1994, again since 1997
President of the Swiss Society for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery 1987-1991
General Secretary of the Swiss Society for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery 1991-1997
President of the European Association for Cranio-MaxillofaciaI Surgery 1994–1996
Founding president of the Swiss Society for Orofacial Laser Medicine
Founder of the Swiss Society for Cleft Lip and Palate Treatment and Orofacial Anomalies 1997
President of the 1st World Cleft Congress (Cleft 2000) July 1–5, Zurich, Switzerland
Co-founder of the Swiss Society for Oral Surgery and Stomatology
President of the International Cleft Lip and Palate Foundation, later Cleft-Children International (CCI)
Established five clinics to treat facial anomalies (2001-2008) in India, one in Romania (2006), three in Africa (since 2011)
International Consultant of Medical One for training of plastic surgeons (2005–2007)
Established the Cleft-Kinder-Hilfe Professor Hermann Sailer Stiftung GmbH charity, Hanover, 2005