Privatklinik Bethanien

PD Dr med Stefan Rahm

Specialist in orthopaedic surgery and traumatology of the musculoskeletal system,
Member FMH

Languages
DE FR EN IT

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Hospital (1)
Gelenkzentrum Zürich
Toblerstrasse 51
8044 Zürich

Work Experience

since 2022

Practice partner at the Zurich Joint Centre, Privatklinik Bethanien

since 2014

Lecturer at the medical faculty of the University of Zurich

2020 - 2021

Senior Physician Hip and Pelvic Surgery, Balgrist University Hospital (Prof Mazda Farshad)

2014 - 2019

Senior consultant in orthopaedics (teams: knee, shoulder/elbow and since 2016 hip) Balgrist University Hospital (Prof Christian Gerber, Prof Mazda Farshad)

2014 - 2018

Lecturer at Careum AG training centre for healthcare professions

2015

Clinical sports surgery fellowship with Prof Pascal Boileau
Chairman, Dpt of Orthopaedic & Sports Surgery, University Institute of Locomotion and Sports, Nice, France

2014

Specialist title for orthopaedic surgery and traumatology of the musculoskeletal system

2013 - 2014

Resident in orthopaedics and traumatology, St. Gallen Cantonal Hospital (Prof. Bernhard Jost)

2010 - 2013

Resident in orthopaedics, Balgrist University Hospital (Prof. Christian Gerber)

2009 - 2010

Traumatology, Cantonal Hospital Winterthur (Prof Marco Decurtins / PD Dr Kurt Käch)

2007
Military doctor / troop doctor at the Brugg barracks; served as a lieutenant

Memberships

  • Medical Association of the Canton of Zurich, AGZ
  • Association of Swiss Assistant and Senior Physicians, VSAO
  • Swiss Society for Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Swiss Orthopaedics
  • Association of Swiss Physicians

Education

2019

Habilitation and venia legendi in orthopaedics and traumatology of the musculoskeletal system, University of Zurich

2015

"Clinical sports surgery fellowship with Prof Pascal Boileau
Chairman, Dpt of Orthopaedic & Sports Surgery, University Institute of Locomotion and Sports, Nice, France"

2011

Doctorate in Medicine, University Hospital Zurich
"Risk Profile and Incidence of Pacemaker Implantation after Mitral Valve Replacement. Retrospective Analysis USZ and STZ (1990 - 2003)" Prof. Dr M. Genoni, Faculty of Medicine Zurich

2007

State examination, University of Zurich

2000 - 2007

Medical studies at the University of Zurich

Competences

Hip prosthetics and revision prosthetics:

  • Total hip prosthesis minimally invasive, anterior approach for hip osteoarthritis
  • Total hip prosthesis via all other lateral or trochanteric osteotomy approaches for hip osteoarthritis with complex deformities or previous operations
  • Revision / replacement of total hip prostheses (if possible also via a minimally invasive approach) for worn total hip prostheses, periprosthetic fractures, total hip prosthesis infections or other complications

Sports surgery:

  • Hip arthroscopy with labral surgery for hip impingement (femoroacetabular impingement)
  • Osteotomies (targeted bone cuts) for certain hip deformities or unhealed fractures
  • Tendon refixations for tendon tears (hip abductor tendons, hamstrings)

Cartilage and labrum surgery:

  • via the so-called surgical hip dislocation

Trauma surgery:

  • Osteosynthesis (surgical fracture treatment) for all fractures around the hip joint

Second opinion

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Dr. med. Kourosh Modaressi

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