Dr Michael T Hirschmann
Michael Hirschmann finished his medical school from the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany in 2003. As a former athlete it was his wish to become an orthopaedic surgeon. After his common trunk residency in surgery at the University Hospital of Basel, Switzerland he started his orthopaedic residency at Kantonsspital Bruderholz, Switzerland, under the leadership of Prof Niklaus Friederich. During his residency he specialised in knee surgery (reconstructive and arthroplasty) and achieved his board certification as an orthopaedic surgeon. Mr Hirschmann went on numerous fellowships such as a clinical and research fellowship at Imperial College in London, UK with Prof Justin Cobb and Prof Andrew Amis and a clinical sports medicine fellowship (AOA) with Dr John Bartlett in Melbourne, Australia. Other clinical fellowships took him to Tampere, Finland and Auckland, New Zealand. Since August 2013 he has served as the head of knee surgery at Kantonsspital Baselland (Bruderholz, Laufen, Liestal). This unit offers the entire variety of knee surgery from reconstructive to arthroplasty and revision surgery. From the beginning of his career he has been interested in clinical and experimental research, in particular imaging related research. In his residency he founded a research unit at Kantonsspital Bruderholz, which focuses on the improvement of orthopaedic related imaging and imaging analysis as well as clinical outcome studies. Mr Hirschmann is an internationally renowned orthopaedic surgeon and researcher having published over 90 peer-reviewed publications in international journals. He is active board member of numerous societies as well as editorial boards. His research is supported by national and international grant authorities. One major research focus lies in the investigation of the clinical applicability and value of SPECT/ CT for orthopaedic imaging. For this work his research group was awarded the Swiss Quality Award 2013 and the EANM Young Investigator Award 2013 for their contribution in SPECT/CT imaging in unhappy knee arthroplasty.