DEPARTMENT HEAD
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18.12 .08 – Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology
Solothurn Hospital

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
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2021 Adjunct Professor University of Zurich
2012 Venia legendi University of Zurich (senior lecturer)
1998- Lecturer University of Zurich

FELLOWSHIP AND INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCES
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2016 Knee Surgery, Instituto Galleazzi, Milano, Sergio
Romagnoli,
01.07.06 – 30.06.07 Clinical trauma fellow, Department of Orthopaedics,
Vancouver General Hospital, University of British
Columbia, Canada

CONSULTANT
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01.07.04 – 30.11.08 Department of Orthopaedics, University of Zurich,
Uniklinik Balgrist, Zürich, CH, (Prof. C. Gerber)
01.03.03 – 31.03.04 Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology,
University of Basel, Basel, CH, (Prof. W. Dick,
Prof. P. Regazzoni)
01.10.01 – 28.02.03 Department of Traumatology, University of Zurich,
Zürich, CH (Prof. O. Trentz)
01.01.01 – 30.09.01 General Surgery and Traumatology
Limmattalspital, Zurich, CH (Prof. O. Schöb, Dr.
Th. Hug)
01.01.97 – 30.09.98 General Surgery and Traumatology Männedorf,
Zurich, CH (Prof. A. Hollinger, Dr. A. Vollenweider)

RESIDENCY
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01.04.04 – 30.06.04 Orthopaedics, University of Zurich,
Uniklinik Balgrist, Zürich, CH (Prof. C. Gerber)
2000 Research, Institute for clinical chemistry
University of Zurich, Zurich, CH (Prof. F.E. Maly)
01.10.98 – 31.12 00 Traumatology, University of Zurich,
Zurich, CH (Prof. O. Trentz)
01.06.95 – 31.12.96 Traumatology, University of Zurich,
Zurich, CH (Prof. O. Trentz)
01.04.94 – 01.05.95 General surgery Hôpital de Montreux, Montreux,

RESEARCH/PATENTS/REFERENCE CLINIC
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Main investigator of a unicompartiemntel Knee Prosthesis
Patent for the base plate fixation of an uncemented UKA (FR 3008605A1)
Developer of single use instruments for TKA (Market entry 2013)
Developer of patient specific instruments for total knee arthroplasties (Market entry 2009)
Developer of surgical instruments for minimal invasive total hip arthroplasty by a direct anterior
approach
Host center for fellows in knee and hip arthroplasty EFORT foundation 2012 „MEDACTA visiting
fellowship“
Reference surgeon for Hip and Knee (Medacta, Mathys)
Long time chairman and Instructor for the AO since 1998
Memberships/Reviewer
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Swiss medical association
Swiss society of surgery
Swiss society of orthopaedics and traumatology
Swiss society of trauma and insurance medicine
AO Trauma
AO Alliance with visits to Ethiopia, planned to Tanzania and Sri Lanka in 2019
Reviewer for Clinical orthopaedics and related research
Reviewer for Archives Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery