Other competencies
- Acute traumatology and multiple injury care
- Chairman Swiss VAC Days
- Many years of international and multidisciplinary basic research on soft tissue and bone infections, in particular on the application of Negative Pressure Wound Therapy and medical maggot therapy
- Vacuum dressing therapy including the use of special instillation therapy for serious (post-traumatic) infections.
Career
| 2017 | Rehabilitation with appointment as titular professor University of Zurich |
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| 2016 | Deputy Clinic Director Clinic for Traumatology |
| 2011 | Team Leader Polytrauma / Lower Extremity, Department of Traumatology, University Hospital Zurich |
| 2006 | Chair and Director, Department of Traumatology, VU Free University Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands Medical Director of the supra-regional Trauma Center North-West Netherlands |
| 1998 | Director, Department of Trauma Surgery, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, Netherlands Medical Director of the Supraregional Trauma Center West – Netherlands |
| 1997 | Attending Physician Traumatology, BG University Hospital Bergmannsheil Bochum, Germany |
| 1995 | Additional qualification in trauma surgery, Medical Association of North Rhine, Düsseldorf, Germany |
| 1993 | Specialist in Surgery, North Rhine Medical Association, Düsseldorf, Germany |
| 1992 | Doctorate Dr.med., Westfälische-Wilhelms-University Münster, Germany |
| 1987 | State Examination in Human Medicine, VU Free University, Amsterdam, Netherlands |
Most important memberships
- European Bone and Joint Infection Society
- European Tissue Repair Society
- European Wound Management Association
- European Society for Trauma and Emergency Surgery (ESTES)
- German Society for Trauma Surgery
- German Society for Surgery
- Dutch Society for Traumatology
- Dutch Society for Surgery
- International Society of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology (SICOT)
Research focus
- Post-traumatic osteomyelitis and soft tissue infections.
- Vacuum dressing technique (Negative Pressure Wound Therapy) including application of instillation technique.
Publications
PublicationsFurther
- Since 2021: Member Subspecialty Committee of Infections, International Society of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology (SICOT)
- 2008 -2015: Board Member European Tissue Repair Society
- 2011 – 2014: Scientific Recorder European Wound Management Association
- Since 1995: Organizing faculty member of many (inter)national congresses and symposia concerning the treatment of trauma patients with bone and soft tissue infections including the application of Negative Wound Pressure Therapy.