PD Dr. med. Erhan Basad

Dr. Erhan Basad focuses on joint-preserving and arthroscopic surgery of the knee, shoulder and ankle. His other areas of focus include leg-axis corrections on the knee joint and endoprosthetics of the knee and hip joints. As a regionally exclusive provider, he relies on personalised knee joint implants – custom made for the patient. Dr. Basad personally carries out over 700 outpatient and inpatient operations per year. Joint preservation through biological-regenerative (cartilage surgery) and axis-correcting measures is at the forefront of his work. With fresh sports injuries, structure-preserving surgeries (e.g. meniscal suture, healing response, cartilage surgery) and ligament grafts (e.g. cruciate ligament surgery) are used. Since 2006, Dr. Basad has appeared in the FOCUS list of doctors “Top Doctors/ Orthopaedics” as a knee specialist. The research focus of his university habilitation was in the field of cartilage cell transplantation. He continues his university teaching as a lecturer at Goethe University Frankfurt and Justus Liebig University Giessen. Dr. Basad is the author of numerous scientific publications and an active member of national and international scientific societies and committees. As President of the German Society for Osteoarthritis Management (www.DGFAM.de) Dr. Basad keeps up to date on developments in osteoarthritis therapy. His practice at ATOS Clinic is part of the DGFAM-certified Arthrosis Centre Heidelberg. The ATOS Clinic includes the first certified regional interdisciplinary facility of this kind.