WELCOME

Whether you are Local, come as a Tourist to Dubai or work as an Expat in Dubai - I will be available for you as an orthopedic surgeon.
The aim of my practice is to offfer the highest standard of orthopedic treatment and individual care.
Whether you come as an athlete or normal person - I will will try to do everything medically possible for your satisfaction.
Due to my continuous medical education you will always receive a treatment using the latest technology.

 

EDUCATION

1974	High School and College Degree, Berlin, Germany
1975 - 1980	Study of Medicine at the "Freie Universitaet Berlin", Germany
1980 - 1981	Study of Medicine at the " Albert - Ludwigs Universitaet Freiburg", Germany
1981	Licence as a Doctor of Medicine
1981 - 1990	Residency in General and Trauma Surgery at the "Staedtische Kliniken Villingen-  Schwenningen",  Germany
1984	Doctor of Medicine (Ph.D)
1985	Specialist in Emergency Medicine
1987	Specialist in General Surgery
1990	Specialist in Trauma and Orthopedic Surgery
1990	Specialist in Chirotherapy (Chiropractic)
1995	Instructor for Arthroscopic Surgery (AGA - Instructor), Germany

                                                                                                                                                                                   

 

 

 

 

  

 

   

   WORK        

1991 - 2005	Director and Senior Surgeon "Praxisclinic Muellheim" Institute for Outpatient Surgery Consultant for Orthopedic Surgery at Helios Clinic Muellheim and Helios Clinic Breisach Instructor for Arthroscopic Surgery at Helios Hospitals, Germany
2006 - 2013	Consultant for Orthopedic Surgery  at the American Hospital Dubai, UAE
2013 - 2014	Chairman of the Orthopedic Department American Hospital Dubai, UAE
Since 2014	Orthopedic Surgeon at Burjeel Hospital for Advanced Surgery Dubai, UAE

 

Continuous Medical Education (CME) 1990 - 2000     

1996	1st World Congress Sports Injuries in Palma de Mallorca , Spain
1996	2nd World Congress Sports Injuries in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, USA
1996	Course „autologe Chondrozytentransplantation “ in  Amsterdam, NL
1997	Course Kneesurgery (AOSSM) Lake Buena Vista,  Florida, USA
1998	Advances in Hip and Knee Arthroplasty in Oxford,  England
1999	Hands-on Training in Shoulder Surgery in Naples,  Florida, USA
2000	Course  Repicci Minimalinvasive Knee Surgery, Dueren, Germany
2000	Course Knee Arthroplasty in Munich, Germany
2000	Special Course in Orthopedic Surgery Kantonsspital Bruderholz, Basel, CH

 

Continuous Medical Education (CME) 2001 - 2010

2002	Course BICONTACT Hip Surgery, Aachen, Germany
2002	AOSSM 28.th Annual Meeting, Orlando, Florida, USA
2003	TKA  training ( Innex)  Dr. Drobny, Schulthess-Clinic , Zurich, Switzerland
2003	Course ACL - Reconstruction, Bad Griesbach, Germany
2003	AGA 20th Congress - Dresden, Germany
2004	ESSKA 11 Congress, 4th World Congress on Sports Trauma, Athens, Greece
2004	Instructor: 2nd Arthroscopy Course Breisach, Germany
2004	Symposium for Rheumatology (Morbus Bechterew),  Bad Gastein, Austria
2004	AGA 21th Congress - Lucerne, Switzerland
2005	Innovations in Minimally Invasive Joint Surgery,  Barcelona, Spain
2006	Specialty Course Arthroscopic Surgery, Naples, USA
2007	6th ISAKOS Congress, Florence, Italy
2008	ESSKA 13 Congress,Porto, Portugal
2008	The Knee, Our Universe, Frankfurt, Germany
2009	Arthromunich Conference, Munich, Germany
2009	South African Knee Symposion, Johannisburg, South Africa
2009	German Trauma- and Orthopedic Conference, Berlin, Germany
2010	6th Middle East Orthopedic Conference, (Arab Health), Dubai, UAE
2010	Synthes Regional Tomofix Knee Osteotomy Course Dubai, UAE
2010	27th AGA - Congress, Vienna, Austria
2010	ISTA`s 23rd Annual Congress, Dubai, UAE
2010	AO Trauma Regional Course - Foot and Ankle, Dubai, UAE

 

Continuous Medical Education (CME) 2011 -2015

2011	7th Middle East Orthopedic Conference (Arab Health), Dubai, UAE
2011	ISAKOS 8th Congress, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
2011	AO Trauma Master Course - Lower Extremity, Dubai, UAE
2011	Trauma and Wound Training Course OPED, Munich, Germany
2012	8th Middle East Orthopaedics Conference, Dubai, UAE
2012	International Congress for Joint Reconstruction , Dubai, UAE
2012	15th ESSKA Congress, Geneva, Switzerland
2012	Shoulder Reconstruction Wet Lab Training Arthrex, Naples, USA
2012	Trauma and Wound Training Course OPED, Munich, Germany
2013	9th Middle East Orthopedic Conference, Dubai, UAE
2013	Advances in the Knee, Toronto, Canada
2013	ISAKOS 9th Congress, Toronto, Canada
2013	30th AGA Conference, Wiesbaden, Germany
2014	IAOC Conference, Dubai, UAE
2014	ICJR  Conference Middle East, Dubai, UAE
2014	16th ESSKA Congress, Amsterdam, NL
2014	ICJR Conference, Cairo, Egypt
2015	International Advanced Orthopeadic Congress, Dubai, UAE
2015	ISAKOS and FIFA, Issues and Challenges in Safety and Health in Soccer, Lyon, France
2015	ISAKOS 10th Congress, Lyon, France
2015	ICJR Conference, Dubai, UAE

 

Faculty Instruction

1981 - 1990	Teacher at the Nursing Schools of the Hospitals in Villingen - Schwenningen, Germany
1991 - 2005	Authorization for Education in General and Orthopaedic  Surgery in Germany
2004	Instructor: 2nd Arthroscopy Course Breisach, Germany
2005	Instructor: Arthrex Workshop Shoulder and Knee, International Training Center  Munich,  Germany
2008	Instructional Course Primary- and Revision TKA, Dubai, UAE
2009	Lectures : Sports Injuries Shoulder and Knee, Dubai and Abu Dhabi, UAE
2010	Lecture: Acute Ruptures of the Achilles Tendon, Dubai
2011	Moderator: Arthroscopic and Minimal Invasive Procedures Upper Extremity, Arab Health, Dubai
2011	Lecture: Minimal Invasive Treatment of Acute Acromioclavicular Joint Dislocations, Dubai, UAE
2012	Lecture: PRP in Orthopaedics - Does it really help?, Dubai, UAE
2012	Lecture: Ankle Injuries: Role of the VACOped in the United Arab Emirates, Munich,        Germany
2013	Moderator: Innovations in Orthopeadics (Arab Health), Dubai, UAE
2013	Lecture: PRP Treatment for Tendon Disorders (Arab Health) Dubai, UAE
2014	Lecture: OA after ACL Tear and ACL Reconstruction, IAOC, Dubai, UAE
2014	Lecture: Results of ACL Reconstruction using Hamstring versus BTB, ICJR, Dubai, UAE
2014	Lecture: AMIC and PRP - New perspectives in Cartilage Repair, Cairo, Egypt
2015	Lecture: Proximal Bicepstendon Rupture - Does it need to be treated? Dubai, UAE
2015	Lecture: ACL Augmentation, Dubai, UAE
2015	Moderator ICJR: Shoulder: SLAP and Biceps Pathology, Dubai, UAE
2015	Moderator ICJR: ACL Surgery, Dubai, UAE

   

Memberships 

Founder member of the „Deutschen Gesellschaft für Arthroskopie" (AGA)

European Society for Knee Surgery and Arthroscopic Surgery (ESSKA)

International Cartilage Repair Society (ICRS)

AO Trauma Member (Silver Status)

ISAKOS Member