Active in the field of surgery, Professor Jian Farhadi has built a career with a distinctly international flavour. After completing his medical studies at the University of Basel and Pitié Salpetrière University Hospital in Paris, he undertook several years of surgical training at the Berthoud regional hospital and the Inselspital in Bern. He subsequently obtained a fellowship that enabled him to embark on a research residency at Yale University in the US. He completed his specialist training in plastic, reconstructive and cosmetic surgery in 2005 at the University Hospital of Basel. During his specialist training, he completed a further year of research in the field of tissue engineering at the
Department of Biomedicine. Professor Jian Farhadi qualified in 2007. In 2016, he was appointed adjunct professor at the University of Basel. To develop his interest in breast surgery and deepen his expertise in the field, he undertook a placement at Guy’s and St. Thomas’ Hospital in London. He was later made a consultant, becoming a chief physician in 2012. During his tenure, he turned the department of plastic and reconstructive surgery into one of the largest in Europe, comprising 24 chief physicians, 18 clinical directors and 14 assistant physicians.
During this period, Professor Farhadi trained numerous specialists in cosmetic and reconstructive breast surgery. Some of these former trainees now work in renowned Swiss plastic surgery centres.
After returning to Switzerland, he did setup the Plastic Surgery Group in Zürich and became a principal partner of the Brust-Zentrum in Zürich. He is co-director of the European Master’s in breast surgery, an university qualification that enables breast and plastic surgeons to deepen their expertise in all aspects of cosmetic and reconstructive surgery in ten European centres.