- Specialist physician in surgery and trauma surgery
- Faculty of the Hanover Medical School
- Medical Director ATOS Clinic Heidelberg
The Centre’s medical goal at ATOS Clinic is to specialise in the treatment of hip, knee and foot injuries and diseases in adults and children. This includes the treatment of sports injuries in recreational and competitive athletes, long-term consequences of injuries and osteoarthritis.
Through constant evaluation and monitoring of our results and continuous exchange of scientific experience, state-of-the-art surgical techniques and short hospital stays are guaranteed.
Precise post-treatment plans and experienced physiotherapists ensure the surgical results.
Range of services
Diagnostics, special foot treatment, special knee treatment, aftercare
Non-surgical therapies:
- Cartilage therapy for the treatment of osteoarthritis
- Autologous plasma therapy (ACP) with acute sports injuries
- Creation of individual physiotherapeutic treatment concepts
- Early-functional post-treatment for early integration into work and sport
Surgical therapies:
- Cartilage surgery, osteoarthritis surgery up to cartilage transplants
- Meniscus surgery (meniscus suture for meniscal maintenance to meniscal replacement)
- Patellar surgery (instability, cartilage surgery, osteoarthritis)
- Correction of leg axis and ankle joint (in case of malposition, arthrosis)
- Revision surgery (cartilage, endoprosthetics)
- Modern arthroplasty surgery for knee and foot
- Cartilage surgery, ankle & foot (up to own cartilage growth with osteoarthritis)
Clinical career
- Until 1998 Senior Physician of the Trauma Surgery Clinic of the Hanover Medical School
- Since 1993 Scientific Director of the “Foot Surgery” working group at the Trauma Surgery Clinic of the Hanover Medical School
- Since 1993 Teaching staff at the Hanover Medical School
- 15/10/1986 Admission to the Centre for Surgery of the Hanover Medical School with the following training sections:
- 15/10/1986 – 31/10/1987 Trauma Clinic (Director: Prof. Dr. H. Tscherne)
- 01/11/1987 – 30/04/1988 Interdisciplinary Intensive Care Unit of the Department of Abdominal and Transplantation Surgery (Director: Prof. Dr. R. Pichlmayr) and the Trauma Surgery Clinic (Director Prof. Dr. H. Tscherne)
- 01/05/1988 – 30/10/1988 Clinic for Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery (Director: Prof. Dr. H.-G. Borst)
- Since 01/11/1988 Trauma Surgery Clinic (Director: Prof. Dr. H. Tscherne)
- 24/01/1990 Surgical physician
- 18/09/1991 Trauma surgery physician
- 01/10/1993 Habilitation on the subject “Trauma Surgery”
- Topic: The functional treatment of fresh Achilles tendon ruptures – a clinical and experimental study
- 19/12/1994 Emergency medicine physician
- January 1993 Senior Physician at the Trauma Surgery Clinic
- 01/02/1995 – 15/03/1995 Deputy Chief Physician Johanniter KH of the Altmark Department of Trauma Surgery (Bg-emergency, § approval) Stendal
- January 1998 Apl. Professorship
- August 1998 Centre for Knee and Foot Surgery ATOS Clinic Heidelberg
