Academic/Medical Instructors

We are committed to bring the best available instructors to you in our training program. In the advanced courses for therapists, the theory lectures are given by lymphologists and physicians who are experts in the field. Our academic faculty changes from course to course, depending on availability and location. Please contact us if you wish to know which instructor will be attending a particular course.

Dr. Georg Kettenhuber.
A practicing physician since 1992 and medical director of the Dr. Vodder Schule in Austria since 2002, Dr. Kettenhuber has a wealth of experience working with lymphatic disorders. He has travelled extensively around the world teaching in the Dr. Vodder program and is an energetic, humorous teacher who inspires his students and is easily approachable.

Professor Neil Piller.
Neil is Professor in Lymphology and is the Director of the Lymphoedema Assessment Clinic, in the Department of Surgery, at the Flinders University Medical Centre in Adelaide, South Australia. He is a senior member of a team of clinical and experimental research investigators in the Microcirculation and Microcirculatory Laboratories. Neil is a course coordinator of the Graduate Entry Medical Program in the School of Medicine at Flinders University. He has presented and published over 300 works and is an internationally-renowned lymphologist. Neil is the president of the 22nd International Congress of lymphology to be held in Sydney in 2009, an Executive member of the International Society for Lymphology, a Board Member of the Union
Internationale Phlebologie and a member of the consensus committee on lymphoedema and lymphatic malformations and a member of the International Advisory Board Lymphoedema Framework He is Australasian Editor of the Lymphatic Research and Biology (USA), and a member of the editorial boards of The Journal of Lymphoedema (UK), Lymphology (USA) and US-China Journal of Lymphology and Oncology. His commitment to empowering students with a sound understanding of the anatomy, physiology and pathophysiology of lymphatic system and disorders and his energetic and lively classes have inspired many Dr. Vodder therapists. He and his team's widely published clinical trial studies of lymphoedema treatments and literature reviews brings a very wide perspective to the area of lymphoedema.

Prof. Dr. Horst Weissleder.
A distinguished professor of radiology and physician from Freiburg University, Germany, Professor Weissleder is also a world-renowned lymphologist. He has published and presented more than 350 articles and papers worldwide and is the co-author of the text, Lymphedema Diagnosis and Therapy as well as contributor to many other texts. Professor Weissleder is the past editor of the journal, Lymphologie in Praxis und Forschung (Lymphology in Practice and Research). He has served on the executive of organisations such as the International Society of Lymphology (general secretary) and German Society of Lymphology (president). His calm and patient teaching style, along with a good sense of humor have encouraged many Dr. Vodder therapists to gain an expert understanding of lymphatic anatomy, physiology, pathophysiology and pathology.