Clinical focus:
• Minimally invasive hip and knee joint replacement
• Computer-assisted surgical procedures
• Complex hip replacement for congenital hip joint disease
• Joint replacement in patients with complex concomitant diseases
• Treatment of serious infections in inserted artificial joints
Work Experience:
• 2020:Appointment to the Medical Director, Department of Orthopaedics and Trauma Surgery, University Clinic Heidelberg
• 2019:Appointment to the chair (W3) "Orthopaedic Surgery" at the Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg
• 2015:Call (“Primo loco”) to the chair (W3) for orthopedics at the Ruhr University in Bochum
• 2012:Appointed permanent deputy director of the Orthopedics, University Clinic Regensburg
Membership:
• 2016:Member of the Board of Directors of the German Society for Orthopedics and Orthopedic Surgery (DGOOC)
• 2014:Head of the working group "Evidence-based Medicine", German Society for Orthopedics and Trauma Surgery (DGOU)
• 2014:Chairman "Forum of Doctors of the German Society for Orthopedics and Orthopedic Surgery"
• Honorary membership in the Arkansas Orthopedic Society, USA
Commendations:
• 2018:"Dr Pro Bono", Health Foundation, Hamburg
• 2016:Science prize of the German Society for Endoprosthetics and the Foundation Endoprosthetics
• 2014:Oskar Medicine Prize, Oskar-Helene-Heim Foundation, Berlin
• 2014:Poster prize of the Association of South German Orthopedists and Trauma Surgeons