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We cover the following medical areas:
orthopedics and traumatology, vascular disease, neurosurgery, cardiac surgery, visceral surgery, urology.

Our specialists for orthopedics and traumatology


Prof. Dr. med. Markus P. Arnold
Specialist for orthopedic surgery and traumatology
Hirslanden clinic Birshof
PD Dr. Norman Espinosa
Specialist
for orthopedic surgery
Fussinstitut Zürich
Prof. Dr. Carol-Claudius Hasler
Chief physician orthopedics (paediatric orthopaedic)
Specialist for orthopedic surgery
Universitäts-Kinderspital beider Basel
PD Dr. med. Sandro Kohl
Specialist
for orthopedic surgery and traumatology
Trauma Zentrum Hirslanden
PD Dr. Fabian Krause
Team leader foot and ankle
University hospital for orthopedic surgery and traumatology
Inselspital Bern
PD. Dr. med. Gábor Puskás
Shoulder and elbow surgery
Specialist for orthopedic surgery and traumatology
Orthopädie Rotes Schloss

Prof. Dr. Constantin Schizas
Specialist
for spine surgery
Clinique Cecil
Prof. Dr. Karl Stoffel
Team leader hip and pelvis
Clinic for orthopedic surgery and traumatology
Universitätsspital Basel
Dr. Patrick Sussmann
Specialist
for orthopedic surgery and traumatology
Rotes Schloss
Dr. Michael Wettstein
Specialist for orthopedic surgery and traumatology
Department for traumatology and orthopedic surgery
Clinique de Genolier

Prof. Dr. med. Matthias Zumstein
Team leader shoulder, ellbow and sport
Orthopaedics and traumatology
Sonnenhof Hospital

PD Dr. med. Philipp Honigmann
Head physician hand surgery
Clinic for orthopedic surgery and traumatology
Kantonsspital Baselland

Our specialists for vascular diseases

Prof. Dr. Florian Dick
Head physician
Clinic for vascular surgery
Kantonsspital St. Gallen

Prof. Dr. Lorenz Gürke
Head physician
Division of vascular surgery and kidney transplant
Universitätsspital Basel

Prof. Dr. Jürg Schmidli
Associate clinic director and head physician
Vascular surgery at university hospital for cardiac and vascular surgery
Inselspital Bern

PD Dr. Matthias K. Widmer
Chief physician for vascular surgery
University hospital for cardiac and vascular surgery
Inselspital Bern

Our further specialists

Prof. Dr. Daniel Candinas
Director Department and head physician
University hospital for visceral surgery and medicine
Inselspital Bern
Prof. Dr. Thierry Carrel
Medical director
University hospital for cardiac and vascular surgery
Inselspital Bern

Prof. Dr. Andreas Raabe
Director and head physician
University hospital for neurosurgery
Inselspital Bern

Prof. Dr. med. George Thalmann
Director and Chairman
Urological university clinic
Inselspital Bern

Dr. med. Bernhard Waibl
Orthopaedic Surgery (FMH)
Cartilage Care Bern

PD Dr. med. Frédéric Birkhäuser
Specialist in Urology FMH
Hirslanden clinic St. Anna

PD Dr. med. Pascal Zehnder
Specialist in Urology FMH
Hirslanden clinic St. Anna

Prof. Dr. Friedrich S. Eckstein
Head physician cardiac Surgery
Universitätsspital Basel

Dr. med. Urs M. Mutter
Specialist in Spine Surgery and Neurosurgery
Hirslanden clinic St. Anna

Dr. med. Thomas Hunger
Specialist in surgery, especially general surgery, traumatology and visceral surgery
Lindenhofgruppe Bern

Prof. Dr. med. Sacha P. Salzberg
Specialist in cardiac and thoracic vascular surgery
Heart & Rhythm Center Hirslanden Zurich

Prof. Dr. med. Mazda Farshad
Head physician orthopedics and head physician spine surgery
Balgrist University Hospital Zurich

PD Dr. med. Patrick Zingg
Head of Hip and Pelvic Surgery
Balgrist University Hospital Zurich
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