Ehrengäste

Unsere Ehrengäste

Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Sport Medicine at the University Hospital of Geneva Switzerland
Director of the Swiss Olympic Medical Center Hirslanden Clinique la Colline in Geneva
Medical training at the University Hospital of Geneva and at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
Traveling fellow for the ESSKA and ASG
Specialized in knee surgery
Interested in muscle injury research effort to muscle healin

numerous high ranked publications and has published a textbook entitled «The Knee joint : Surgical techniques and strategies»
Past President of the European Society of Sports Traumatology, Knee Surgery and Arthroscopy (ESSKA)
Board Member of the Swiss Orthopaedic Surgery Society Sports Medicine
Team physician of the Geneva Servette Hockey Club
Medical director of the Ballet du Grand Thêatre Geneva
Medical director of World Pro Tour IAMcycling team for four years
worked more than 15 years in alpine skiing for Swiss Ski Federation

Professor in the Faculty of Kinesiology at the University of Calgary
Physiotherapist and epidemiologist
BSc in Physiotherapy at Queens University in 1988
MSc in Epidemiology (Community Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine) at the University of Calgary in 1999
PhD in Epidemiology (Public Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine) from the University of Alberta in 2004
Joint appointments in Pediatrics and Community Health Sciences, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary
Member of the Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute, O’Brien Institute of Public Health, Hotchkiss Brain Institute and the McCaig Institute of Bone and Joint Healt

Injury prevention in youth sport and recreation, concussion, and pediatric rehabilitation
aimed to reduce the public health burden of injury including long-term consequences (e.g. overweight/obesity, post-traumatic osteoarthritis, post-concussion syndrome)
Chair in Pediatric Rehabilitation (Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute)
Chair of the Sport Injury Prevention Research Centre at the University of Calgary (1 of 10 International Olympic Committee Research Centres in Injury and Illness Prevention in Sport)
leads “SHRed Injuries: Preventing Injuries and their Consequences in Youth Sport and Recreation” (CIHR) and “SHRed Concussions-Surveillance in High Schools to Reduce the Risk of Concussions and their Concequences: (NFL Scientific Advisor Board)
Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences and Scholar of the Royal Society of Canada