Clinical position
Consultant mbF Technical and Neuro Orthopedics
Team
Technical und Neuro-Orthopedics
Academic position
Privatdozent, Lecturer at the University of Zurich, Faculty of Medicine
Specialisation
Orthopedic Surgery
Languages
German, French, English, Italian
Graduate
- 2012: North America Travel Fellowship Program Intiative'93 Technische Orthopädie (Travel Marshall)
- 2011: Board certification of the FMH (Federation of Swiss Doctors) in Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology of the Musculoskeletal System
- 2001: Thesis (MD) at the University of Basel
- 1999: Graduation in Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Basel
Postgraduate
- 2014: Deputy Team Leader, Technical Orthopaedics, Balgrist University Hospital
- 2011: Staff member, Technical Orthopaedics, Balgrist University Hospital (Prof. C. Gerber)
- 2010–2011: Resident, Klinik für Orthopädische Chirurgie, Kantonsspital Winterthur (Dr. M. Pisan)
- 2009–2010: Staff member, Service d'Orthopédie et de Traumatologie de l'Appareil Moteur, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève (HUG), Genf (Prof. P. Hoffmeyer)
- 2009: Harvard Research Fellow, International Research Arthroplasty Fellowship Program (6 months), Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston (USA) (Prof. R. Scott)
- 2007–2008: Fellow, Adult Joint Reconstruction, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago (USA) (Prof. A. Rosenberg)
- 2002–2007: Resident, Service d'Orthopédie et de Traumatologie de l'Appareil Moteur, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève (HUG), Genf (Prof. P. Hoffmeyer)
- 2002: Resident, Abdominal Surgery (6 months), Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois (CHUV), Lausanne (Prof. M. Gillet)
- 2001–2002: Resident, Surgery, Spital Menziken (AG) (Dr. med. Balz Kirchhof)
Grants
- 2009: Johnson & Johnson / De Puy Educational Grant for the Participation in the Harvard International Research Arthroplasty Fellowship Program, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston (USA) (Prof. R. Scott)
- 2008: Margarethe und Walter Lichtenstein Stiftung, Basel, Educational Grant for the Participation in the Adult Joint Reconstruction Fellowship Program, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago (USA) (Prof. A. Rosenberg)
- 2007: Swiss Society for Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Educational Grant for the Participation in the Adult Joint Reconstruction Fellowship Program, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago (USA) (Prof. A. Rosenberg)
- 2007: Margarethe und Walter Lichtenstein Stiftung, Basel, Educational Grant for the Participation in the Adult Joint Reconstruction Fellowship Program, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago (USA) (Prof. A. Rosenberg)
- 2007: Theodor Engelmann Stiftung, Basel, Educational Grant for the Participation in the Adult Joint Reconstruction Fellowship Program, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago (USA) (Prof. A. Rosenberg)
Memberships
- FMH (Foederatio Medicorum Helveticorum)
- SGOT (Swiss Society for Orthopaedics and Traumatology)
- AO (Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Osteosynthesefragen)
- VSAO (Association of Swiss Residents and Registrars)
- ISPO (International Society for Prosthetics and Orthotics), current president of the Swiss section
- Fellows Initiative'93 Technische Orthopädie
Disclosure of outside professional activities and interests
- Topadur Pharma AG, Schlieren: Consiliary order
- Foot and Shoe Association: Training of Swiss orthopedic shoemaker masters