The Times Higher Education World University Rankings provide the definitive list of the world’s 800 best universities, evaluated across teaching, research, reputation and more. These rankings are trusted by governments and universities and are a vital resource for students, professors and patients. Dr. Dalia Tobbia is excited to see that her home universities scored excellent in those rankings:
The University of Toronto, where she received the first two years of her plastic surgery training, scored a superb 11th place of all medical universities worldwide and scored in the top 10 in teaching, research and citations. The second half of her plastic surgery training she spent at the University of Göttingen, which scored an excellent 78th place worldwide and finished in the top 20 in teaching and research. Her Alma Mater, Trinity College Dublin, was ranked number one in Ireland and took 160th place worldwide being in the top 10 in international outlook and in the top 20 in teaching. During her medical studies she also spent several attachments at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Swedens number one university which is ranked 13th worldwide and is placed in the top 10 in teaching, research and citations. The University of Tokyo, where Dr. Dalia Tobbia spent two visiting fellowships to deepen her knowledge in Supermicrosuregry and Lymphsurgery, is number one in Japan and is ranked in 42nd position worldwide and is in the top 10 in research and teaching.
About Dr. Dalia Tobbia
Plastische Chirurgie Am Klosterstern
- Board certification
- German Board Exams for Plastic, Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery
- Education and training
- Bachelor-Abschluss in Kunst, Trinity College Dublin
- Internship und chirurgische Grundausbildung, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
- Facharztausbildung, Universität Göttingen
- Bachelor in Medicine, University of Dublin, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland (2003)
- Doctorate of Medicine, University of Dublin, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland (2010)
- Fellowship, Department of Plastic Surgery, The University of Toronto, Post Graduate Medical Education, Toronto, Canada (2009)
- Fellowship, Microsurgical Lymphnode Transplantation, University Hospital Gent, Aalsters Stedelijk Ziekenhuis, Gent, Belgium (2012)
- Fellowship, Supermicrosurgery, University of Tokyo Hospital, Tokyo, Japan (2012)
- Fellowship, Department of Plastic Surgery, Division of Reconstructive Microsurgery, Chang Gung Memorial University Hospital, Linkou, Taiwan (2015)
- Clinical Fellowship, Reconstructive Microsurgery of the Head and Neck, Breast and Lymphedema, Chang Gung Memorial University Hospital, Linkou, Taiwan (2014–2015)
- Visiting Fellowship, Supermicrosurgery of the Lymphatic System, University of Tokyo Hospital, Tokyo, Japan (2015)
- Memberships
- Fellow, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (2007)
- Membership, The Royal College of Surgeons, Dublin, Ireland (2007)
- Awards
- Zeiss Microsurgery Award
- Research Fellowship Funding Grant, Henrietta Breast Cancer Foundation, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center (2006)
- Research Grant, Canadian Institute of Health Research (2007)
- Clinical Fellowship Grant, Wolfgang-Müller-Osten-Stiftung, German Surgical Association (2008)
- Award for best Presentation, The Canadian Breast Cancer Research Alliance (2008)
- Award for best Podium Presentation for Microsurgery, Canadian Society of Plastic Surgery Annual Meeting (2008)
- Prize for best Clinical Tutor, Adelaide and Meath Hospital, Trinity College, Dublin (2009)
- Lewis Rudin Award, New York Academy of Medicine (2010)
- Heidenreich von Siebold Research Funding, Georg-August-University, Göttingen (2011)