Frank HOFFMANN

Founder and Gynacologist at Discovering Hands Germany

A resident gynecologist in the city of Duisburg, Germany since 1993, Dr. med. Frank Hoffmann today chiefly works as the managing director of the non-for profit social enterprise "discovering hands", which implements his idea to use the superior sense of touch of blind and visually impaired people for early breast cancer detection. The model is internationally implemented in Austria, Colombia, Mexico and India. Pilot projects in Nepal and Switzerland will follow. In 2010, Frank Hoffmann was honored with the Ashoka Fellowship for his project, which has received multiple international awards. Year of this biography: 2020