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