Andreas Dietz

Since April 2004, Prof. Dr. Andreas Dietz is Chair of the ENT University Clinic Leipzig. He is full-trained ENT and head and neck surgeon and has special qualification in plastic surgery and Oncology. His scientific work is reflected in numerous studies and translational projects on head and neck cancer.

He is internationally known as an expert in this field. He was President of the German Society for ENT - Head and Neck Surgery (DGHNO-KHT) from 2019 to 2020 and is speaker of the interdisciplinary group of Head and Neck Cancer of the German Cancer Society (IAG-KHT).

He holds visible positions on numerous international committees like membership of the Board of Directors of the European Head and Neck Society. He is speaker of the board of the Innovation Center for Computer-Assisted Surgery (ICCAS) Leipzig. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Global Online Fellowship Initiative at Sloan Kettering Memorial Cancer Center in New York and conference president of ECHNO 2027 in Berlin.

He is honorary member of the Royal Belgian, the Austrian, Hungarian, Czech ENT Society and the Indian Head and Neck Foundation. Andreas Dietz is author/co-author of more than 600 pub-med listed publications (h-index 58). He coordinates the German S3-Guideline for oropharyngeal and hypopharyngeal cancer. Andreas Dietz was honored with the DGHNO-KHC Medal of Merit, the Order of Merit of the Free State of Saxony in 2022 and with the EHNS Award in 2023.