Ortho Day : 26th April 2024

Welcome to the second edition of the Ortho Day!

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Lilianna Bolliger

Project Manager | Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM) | University of Bern

PhD Christian Brand

Statistician | SwissRDL | University of Bern
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Christian Brand is the methodologist and statistician of the Swiss National Arthroplasty Registry SIRIS. He is also a member of the SIRIS Scientific Advisory Board and the SIRIS Expert Group. He works as a research fellow at the Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine (ISPM), University of Bern. Before he moved to Switzerland in 2018, he was affiliated with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) as an assistant professor. He served as methodologist of the National Oesophago-Gastric Cancer Audit at the Clinical Effectiveness Unit (Royal College of Surgeons). Previous affiliations include the National Centre for Early Interventions in Munich, Germany, and the Personal Social Services Research Unit at the University of Manchester, where he spent several years in the field of old age mental health services research. Christian Brand originally trained in social statistics (PhD University of Manchester) before gravitating more and more to medical statistics.


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Dr. med. Alec Cikes

FMH Specialist in Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology | Clinique de Genolier
nwagner@genolier.net +41 22 366 97 72
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PD Dr med Thomas Giesen

FMH Specialist in Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology | Clinica Ars Medica | Swiss Stem Cells Biotech AG
segreteria@sosmano.ch +41 78 200 03 09
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Dr. med. Philippe Glasson

Deputy Chairman
pglasson@genolier.net +41 79 200 40 03
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Philippe Glasson studied medicine in Geneva and is a qualified specialist in internal medicine and nephrology. A member of various specialist medical organizations, he has been working for the Clinique de Genolier since 1984. At Swiss Medical Network he is Chairman of the Medical Coordination Group and delegate for the medical affairs.

Dirk Schmidt

Physiotherapeut Fachbereich Untere Extremität, Dipl.MDT | Schulthess Klinik
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Dirk Schmidt has been a physiotherapist and state-certified sports and gymnastics instructor since 1996.
He has been working at Schulthess Klinik since 2009, initially in the Spine and Sports Physiotherapy department and for the past two years in the Lower Extremities department. In 2018, he obtained a diploma in MDT (McKenzie Concept) and has been a certified Medical Athletic Coach since 2020.
His professional interests lie in the field of evidence-based physiotherapy / best practice.

Dr. med. Jean-Marie Schnyder

Chief Medical Officer | Luzerner Höhenklinik Montana

Dr. med. Elisabeth Stamm

Specialist in General Internal Medicine | Clinique Bois-Cerf
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Dr. med. Ivan Tami

FMH Specialist in Hand surgery, Orthopaedic surgery and Traumatology | Clinica Ars Medica
ivan.tami@hin.ch +41 91 612 24 84
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PD Dr med Nicolas Theumann

Google Global Principal Cloud Architect | Google
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A seasoned veteran in applying technology, data, AI and GenAI for healthcare and life sciences to drive towards better healthcare outcomes. He is passionate about generating a positive impact for patients through accelerating innovative assistive technologies such as AI as a Healthcare and Life Sciences Field-CTO.

PD Dr med Victor Valderrabano

FMH Specialist in Orthopaedic surgery and Traumatology, Sports Medicine SEMS / GOTS | Swiss Ortho Center, Schmerzklinik Basel, Privatklinik Obach
vvalderrabano@swissmedical.net +41 61 295 88 80
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Dr. med. Beat Wirthmüller

Anaesthesiology | Insel Gruppe AG
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