Prof. Dr. med. Markus Loew

Medical specialist for orthopedics, rheumatology, orthopedic surgery, physical medicine, manual medicine, sports medicine

e-mail: loew@atos.de

Curriculum vitae:

• 1983
  Resident in the department of Surgery in Neunkirchen / Saar
• 1984
  Research assistant of the anatomical institute of the university Saarland
• 1985
  Research assistant at the surgical clinic of the Ludwig-Maximilian-University Munich
  (Prof. Dr. L. Schweiberer)
• 1987
  Medical specialist training for orthopedics at the university hospital of Heidelberg
  (Prof. Dr. H. Cotta)
• 1990
  Chief of  the shoulderambulance
• 1991
  Ward physician of the section arthroplasty and rheumatology, senior physician of oncological and septic orthopedics
• 1993
  Senior physician of the orthopedic section, focusing hip and knee arthroplasty and shoulder surgery
• 1994-2001
  Chief of the interdisciplinary hemophilia consultation
• 1995
  State doctorate at the Ruprecht-Karls-University, Heidelberg
• 1997-2008
  Chief of the orthopedic section for the shoulder and the elbow
• 2001-2004
  Senior physician at the orthopedic university hospital.
• 2008
  Medical specialist training for orthopedics and trauma surgery
• 2009
  Chief of the upper extremities, shoulder-, elbow- and hand surgery section at the orthopedic university hospital

Member of the following specialist associations:

1996
Member of the external scientific advisory committee of the orthopedic university hospital

• 1997
  Chief of the DGOT working committee "Stoßwellentherpie (Shock wave therapy)
• 1998
  Adviser for the journal "Zeitschrift für Orthopädie und ihre Grenzgebiete", reviewer for the "Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery"
• 2000
  Scientific adviser for the Academy of German Orthopedics
• 2003-2009
  President of the German Society for Orthopedics and Orthopedic Surgery (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Orthopädie und Orthopädische Chirurgie - DGOOC)
• 2005
  Corresponding Member American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons (ASES)
  Member of the arthroplasty working committee (AE)
• 2006
  Co-founder and editor of the german journal "Obere Extremität Schulter - Ellenbogen - Hand (Upper Extremity Shoulder - Elbow - Hand)
  Member of the scientific advisory committee for the journals "Zeitschrift für Orthopädie (Journal of orthopedic) and "Archives of  Orthopaedic and Trauma surgery