- Chief Physician, Endoprosthetics Hip & Knee
Prof. Zilkens is an expert in joint preservation and minimally invasive joint replacement of hip and knee joint. For five years he was deputy director and chief medical officer of the Orthopaedic University Hospital Düsseldorf as well as head of the local endoprosthetics centre for maximum care.
His clinical focus is the selective classification and stage-appropriate therapy of cartilage damage to the hip and knee joint. For diagnostics, he uses state-of-the-art biochemically sensitive MRI procedures, for therapy, among other things, conversion operations and arthroscopic cartilage cell transplantation.
In the event of a necessary endoprosthesis treatment, he has many years of experience with tissue-sparing surgical procedures, individual and partial endoprostheses on the knee joint, as well as with bone-sparing short shaft prostheses on the hip joint.
Range of services
Total range of prevention, joint preservation and joint replacement as well as complex revision endoprosthetics of hip and knee joint, in particular:
- Hip arthroscopy
- Arthroscopic and open treatment of femoroacetic impingement (FAI)
- Surgical hip joint dislocation
- Treatment of hip dysplasia and late damage (pelvic osteotomies)
- Chondrocyte transplantation
- Labrum seam / reconstruction of the joint lip
- Femoral, acetabular, tibial remodelling osteotomies
- Partial arthroplasty of the knee joint
- Partial endoprosthesis of the hip joint
- Individual endoprosthetics of the knee joint
- Short-shaft endoprosthesis of the hip joint
- Minimally invasive, tissue conserving surgical procedures (DAA / AMIS)
Education
Education
- 1996-2003 Studies in human medicine at the University of Cologne
- 11/2002-10/2003 Praxis year at the University of Cologne and the Université Lariboisière, Paris
PhD
Department: Institute of Pathology, University of Cologne, Prof. Schirmacher
Topic: “Mutation and Expression Analysis of the Beta-catenin Gene in Hepatocellular Carcinogenesis”
PhD received: 11/02/2004 with the grade “magna cum laude”
Habilitation and Venia Legendi
Department: Clinic and Polyclinic for Orthopedics, University Hospital of Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Topic: “Biochemically Sensitive Cartilage Imaging on the Pre-arthritically Altered Hip Joint”
Habilitation received: 16/05/2013 with Venia LegendiBrucker
Clinical career
- 01/2004–10/2004 Physician internship at the Clinic and Polyclinic for Surgery, BG Universitätsklinikum Bergmannsheil, Bochum, Director: Prof. Dr. med. G. Muhr
- 10/2004–10/2006 Academic Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery, HG University Hospital Bergmannsheil, Bochum, Director: Prof. Dr. med. G. Muhr
- 10/2005–05/2006 Clinical and Research Fellowship, Orthopaedic Department, Children’s Hospital Bosto Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA, Director: Prof. Michael B Millis
- 11/2006–05/2011 Academic Assistant Professor, Orthopaedic Clinic and Polyclinic, University Hospital Düsseldorf, Director: Prof. Dr. med. R. Krauspe
- 05/2010 Appointment as specialist in orthopaedics and trauma surgery
- 05/2011 Appointment as Senior Physician of the Clinic
- 07/2013 Appointment as Senior Physician, Appointment as Deputy Hospital Director Orthopaedic Clinic and Polyclinic University Hospital Düsseldorf
- Since 2013 Establishment, coordination and management of the Maxillofacial Endoprosthetic Centre Orthopaedic Clinic and Polyclinic of the University Hospital Düsseldorf
- Since 01/2019 Chief Physician Endoprosthetics, ATOS Orthopark Clinic, Cologne
