GERBER Christian
Christian Gerber, MD, FRCS(hon) is an orthopaedic surgeon specialized in shoulder and elbow surgery.
Born and raised in Switzerland, he completed Medical School at the Universities of Berne Yale and San Diego. He then underwent postgraduate training in Neurology, Internal Medicine, and General Surgery in Switzerland. His orthopaedic education took place at the University of Berne, started under Maurice E. Müller to ultimately be dominated by his teacher and mentor Reinhold Ganz. After a Shoulder Fellowship with Dr. C.A. Rockwood in San Antonio, he had the privilege to work as a ”médecin résident étranger under Marcel Kerboull, Bernard Toméno and Henri Carlioz in Paris. This period got him acquainted with French orthopedics and led to a lasting relationship with French role models and friends such as Alain Gilbert, Alain Masquelet Gilles Walch or Daniel Mole. After several years as a junior staff member at the University of Berne, He was appointed Professor and Chair at the State Hospital Fribourg in 1992 and was subsequently offered the position of Professor and Chairman of the Department of Orthopaedics at the University of Zürich in October 1995,a position which he held until July 2017.
He received numerous honors such as membership of honor from the Western Orthopaedic Society, the Spanish Shoulder and Elbow Society, the French Society of Orthopaedic Surgery, Swiss Orthopaedics, the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences and the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. His more than 420 peer-reviewed publications are quoted over 23’000 times and have resulted in a H-index of currently 91. He is the only four-time winner of the Charles S. Neer Award of the American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons, winner of the Didier Patte Award of SECEC, the first non-American winner of the Kappa Delta Award of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons and recipient of the Arthur Steindler Award of the Orthopaedic Research Society. In the year 2000 he founded the ResOrtho Foundation for Orthopaedic Research and Education which supports the development of young academic careers and created an Institute called “Balgrist Campus”, a novel research and development institution for the advancement of musculoskeletal medicine, which has become recognized as a Center of National Relevance for Research by the Swiss government in 2016. He continues to practice in the Balgrist university Hospital and to pursue his research in the Balgrist Campus. Prof.
Gerber is married and has three adult children.