Vita

Surname

• Dr. med. Christian Gatzka
• Specialist in orthopedics and trauma surgery
• Special orthopedic surgery
• Special trauma surgery

Specialist Training

• Internship: University of Cologne (trauma, hand and reconstructive surgery)
• Research Fellow: AO Research Center (Davos, CH)
• Resident: University of Hamburg (trauma, hand and reconstructive surgery)
• Resident physician: Klinikum Eilbek Academic teaching hospital of the University of Hamburg (orthopedics and trauma surgery), Hamburg

Focus Formation

• Senior Physician: Park Hospital Leipzig, Orthopedic Traumatology Center (OTZ)
• Consultant: Focus: partial joint prosthetics, joint maintenance and sports injuries) Leipzig Park Hospital, Orthopedic Traumatology Center (OTZ)
• Orthocentrum Hamburg / Park Clinic Manhagen

• Hamburger Hüftmanufaktur - Dr. Gatzka & Colleagues

Additional Designations

• Certification of autologous cartilage cell transplantation (ACT)
• Certified ENDO CERT / CLAR CERT expert
• ATLS (Advanced Trauma Life Support) provider
• Expertise in radiation protection
• Expertise in manual medicine
• Participation in the course curriculum "Medical Quality Management" (Saxony Chamber of Physicians)
• Advanced training certificate (Saxony Chamber of Physicians)
• Examiner “Special Orthopedic Surgery” (Hamburg Chamber of Physicians)
• Certified "knee surgeon" (German Knee Society)

Working Groups

• German Hip Society (Deutsche Hüft Gesellschaft - DHG) - board member
• German-speaking working group for arthroscopy (AGA) - hip committee
• Working group for osteosynthesis questions (AO Trauma)
• Member of the "Pelvic Group" of the German Society for Trauma Surgery (2000-2003)

Scholarships

2012

Mentorship program , B. Braun Aesculap Foundation

2014/2015

Leadership program , B. Braun Aesculap Foundation

Scientific Activities

Doctoral thesis:

"Medium-term follow-up results of the cementless CLS total hip endoprosthesis system"
07/1996 ("magna cum laude")
Prof. Dr. E. Kuner, Department of Trauma Surgery, University Clinic Freiburg i. Br.

Third-party Funding (08/2000)

AO/ASIF-Fork grant (2000/G 64) “The influence of low intensity pulsed ultrasound on fluid displacements in bone” (58.000 SFr.)

Third-party Funded Study

• Norian SRS Study - University of Cologne
• Celecoxib Study - University of Hamburg

Publications

• 6 first authorship (view pub-med)
• 6 co-authorships
• 5 contributions (review "What's new in hip surgery?")
10 poster contributions
• 21 citable abstracts
• 27 invited lectures (see under Memberships)
• 67 lectures (see under Memberships)
• 6 supervised dissertations
• More information on pub-med

Reviewer for Scientific Journals

• Strategies in Trauma and Limb Reconstruction (Springer Journals)
• Hip International (Elselvier Journals)

Cooperations

• Anatomical institutes of the university hospitals in Halle, Hamburg and Leipzig
• AO Research Center (Working Group for Osteosynthesis Questions), Davos

Own Scientific Courses

2009 - 2013

Establishment 1st - 5th "Leipzig Joint Symposium"

2012 - 2017

Establishment 1st - 5th "Leipzig hip arthroscopy workshop"

2013

Establishment of the 1st "Leipzig Joint Academy" in co-op. with Dr. ing. h.c. F. Porsche

Memberships and Courses

• German Hip Society (DHG) - board member
• Society for Arthroscopy and Joint Surgery (AGA) - Hip Committee
  • AGA Academy courses hip (Leipzig, Basel, Salzburg - speaker, instructor & organization)
  • AGA symposium (hip / knee / OSG), Graz (speaker & instructor)
• Professional Association for Arthroscopy (BVASK) - DART Committee
  • BVASK annual congress, Düsseldorf (speaker)
• Working Group for Osteosynthesis Questions (AO)
  • AO 1st Cologne AO ​​workshop (organization and instructor)
  • AO basic and advanced course, Davos (instructor)
• Endoprosthetics Working Group (AE)
  • AE joint-preserving hip surgery (speaker & instructor)
• Society for Orthopedic Traumatological Sports Medicine (GOTS)
  • GOTS annual congress - together with the Olympic Sports Association, Hamburg (speaker)
• German Society for Trauma Surgery (DGU)
• German Society for Surgery (DGC)
• Professional Association for Surgery (BDC)
  • FA Compendium Orthopedics / Trauma Surgery, Hamburg (speaker)
• Professional Association for Orthopedics and Trauma Surgery (BVOU)
• European Hip Society (EHS)
• The Hip Preservation Society (ISHA)
• Alumni of the University Medical Center Hamburg Eppendorf (UKE)
• German knee society (DKG)

Speaker & Instructor

• Charité Hip Course, Berlin (speaker & instructor)
• Complex hip surgery, München (speaker)
• Berlin Sports Symposium, Oberwiesenthal (speaker & instructor)
• Lower Rhine hip arthroscopy course, Essen (speaker & instructor)
• QKG Meeting, Regensburg (speaker)
• NOUV, Dortmund (speaker)
• Successful attendance European AO Coursefor Acetabular- and Pelvic fractures

Training

• Observations of hip arthroscopy
  • Dr. M. Philippon (Steadman/Philippon Institute, Vail, USA)
  • Dr. J. O`Donell (Melbourne, AUS)
  • Dr. R. Herzog (Wolhusen Hospital, CH)
  • Prof. Dr. M. Dienst (OCM Practice Clinic Munich, D)
  • Prof. Dr. F. Laude (Paris, F)
• Observations of open joint-preserving hip surgery
  • Prof. Dr. K. Siebenrock (University Hospital Bern "Insel", CH)
  • K. Kalchschmidt (City Clinics Dortmund, D)
  • Prof. Dr. K. Søballe (Aarhus University Clinic, DK)
  • Prof. Dr. J. Witt (University College London, UK)
  • Prof. Dr. G. Wassilew (University Clinic Greifswald, D)
• Observations minimally invasive hip TEP (DAA access - with and without extension)
  • Dr. A. Ottersbach (Brig, CH)
  • Prof. Dr. F. Laude (Paris, F)
• Internship in pediatric orthopedics and cartilage surgery
  • Frau Prof. Dr. C. Chiari (University Hospital Vienna, AUT)
• Since 2011, learn triple pelvic osteotomy from Klaus Kalchschmidt