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Professional background

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  • 2024 Associate doctor at Berit Clinic, Spine Center, Speicher, AR

  • After liquidation of Polymedes AG in 2022, start of practice in the Granata Pain Center in Zurich in 2023

  • Since 2020 independent practise in Melide (TI) and Polymedes Pain Center Zurich

  • Since 2016 medical examiner and expert for various health and accident insurance companies in German-speaking Switzerland and Ticino

  • 2016 Associate doctor at the Lindberg Private Clinic, Winterthur, ZH

  • 2015 Associate doctor at the Paracelsusklinik, Richterswil, ZH

  • 2015 - 2020 Independent practise at Bahnhofpraxis Horgen, ZH

  • 2013 - 2015 Senior Physician Surgery, Spital Oberengadin, Samedan, GR

  • 2012 - 2013 Head Doctor, Emergency Unit, Klinik Gut, St Moritz, GR

  • 2011 - 2012 Locum medical activity

  • 2011 Intensive medical training, Trauma Center Klinikum Nordfriesland, Niebüll, Dr. J. Klima

  • 2009 - 2010 Sports orthopedics, practise of Drs. Schwartz / Behrend, Hamburg

  • 2008 - 2009 Pediatric orthopedics, Altona Children's Hospital Hamburg, (University of Hamburg) Prof. R. Stücker, spine surgery Dr. P. Kunkel

  • 2007 - 2008 Orthopedics, Rheumatism Clinic Bad Bramstedt, (University of Hamburg), Prof. W. Rüther, spine surgery Prof. T. Ernstberger

  • 2006 - 2007 Trauma Surgery, Pinneberg District Hospital (BG Clinic Hamburg-Boberg), Spinecenter Prof. B. Rischke

  • 2005 - 2006 Spine Surgery, Scoliosis Center, Neustadt / Holstein Clinic, (University of Lübeck) Prof. H. Halm

  • 2004 - 2005 Surgery in the Department of Thoracic and Vascular Surgery, Altona General Hospital, Hamburg, Prof. H. Kortmann

  • 2004 Orthopedics - AiP, Klinik Dr. Guth, Hamburg

  • 2004 Assistant Traumatology, Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa

  • 2003 Internal Medicine Assistant, SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn / NY, U.S.A.

  • 2002 Internship in Orthopedics and Traumatology, Katutura Hospital Windhoek, Namibia

  • 2002 Internship in Surgery and Traumatology, Universidad de la Frontera, Temuco, Chile

  • 2002 Internship Cardiology, ESCORT Heart and Research Center, New Delhi, India

Qualifications

  • 2018 Certified Medical Reviewer (SIM)

  • 2016 Certificate in Sonography of the Musculoskeletal System (SGUM)

  • 2015 Cantonal professional license for independent professional practise in the Canton of Zurich

  • 2015 Radiation Protection Certificate (CH)

  • 2014 Certificate in Interventional Pain Therapy (SSIPM)

  • 2014 Cantonal professional license for independent professional practise in the cantons of Friborg and Ticino

  • 2013 Certificate in Manual Medicine (SAMM)

  • 2012 Cantonal approval for independent professional practise in the cantons of St Gallen, Appenzell AR and Graubünden

  • 2012 Acupuncture Diploma (DGfAN)

  • 2011 Specialist certification “Orthopedics and Trauma Surgery”

  • 2011 Emergency Medicine Certificate

  • 2010 Certificate in Sonography of the Skeletal System and Infant Hip (DGUM)

  • 2009 Radiation Protection Certificate (D)

  • 2006 additional qualification in travel and tropical medicine

  • 2001 - 2013 dissertation "Comparison of liver cell hyperplasia after contralateral portal vein ligation or embolization on a large animal model"

  • 1997 - 2004 study of medicine, University of Hamburg

  • 1996 - 1997 study of medicine, Georg August University of Göttingen

Memberships

  • Swiss Medical Association FMH

  • Medical Association of the Canton of Zurich (AGZ)

  • Ordine dei Medici del Cantone Ticino (OMCT)

  • Swiss Society for Interventional Pain Management (SSIPM)

  • Swiss Medical Association for Manual Medicine (SAMM)

  • Swiss Society for Ultrasound in Medicine (SGUM)

  • Sport & Exercise Medicine Switzerland (SEMS)

  • German Society for Ultrasound in Medicine (DGUM)

  • German Society for Acupuncture and Neural Therapy (DGfAN)

  • German and Swiss Section of International Doctors for the Prevention of Nuclear War and Physicians for Social Responsibility  (IPPNW-PSR)

  • New York Academy of Science

Languages

  • German

  • Italian

  • English

  • Basic knowledge of Russian and Spanish

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