Mazda Farshad

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Mazda Farshad

Mazda Farshad (born August 4, 1982 in Shiraz , Iran ) is a Swiss orthopedist and spinal surgeon .

Training and career steps

Mazda Farshad studied medicine at the University of Zurich from 2001 to 2007 , where he did his doctorate with G. Noll in 2007 on "Nitrates - a possible solution to cyclosporine induced hypertension after cardiac transplantation".

He completed his advanced training as a specialist in orthopedics as an assistant doctor in Zurich at the Triemli City Hospital and from 2009 at the Balgrist Orthopedic University Hospital under Christian Gerber . He then moved to New York for a year from 2012 to 2013, where he initially worked as a Senior Clinical Associate for Orthopedic Surgery at Weill Cornell Medical College and then specialized in spinal surgery at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York, initially as a "Clinical" Spine / Scoliosis Fellow ", later as the" Chief Fellow of Spinal Surgery ". He was also a Clinical Fellow at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York in the field of spinal tumors.

After returning to Switzerland, he initially worked from 2013 to 2014 as a senior physician in spinal surgery at the Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève (HUG). His habilitation took place in April 2013 at the University of Zurich, before he returned to the Balgrist University Hospital in 2014, where he took over the spine surgery department and headed the "Department of Clinical and Applied Research" (UCAR).

In addition, from 2009 to 2011 he completed an interdisciplinary postgraduate course in public health ( Master of Public Health , MPH) at the University of Zurich, which he completed with a master's thesis on the cost-effectiveness analysis of conservative versus surgical treatment of anterior cruciate ligament rupture at T. Szucs ("Reconstruction versus conservative treatment after rupture of the anterior cruciate ligament: cost effectiveness analysis").

Chief Physician and Medical Director

In 2017 he was appointed professor and full professor of orthopedics at the University of Zurich and at the same time succeeded his mentor Christian Gerber as director of orthopedics and medical director of the Balgrist University Clinic, the youngest director in the clinic's history. He received numerous prizes, including a. for the development of a clinical test to diagnose radical symptoms of the cervical spine .

Farshad founded the Department for Clinical and Applied Research (UCAR) in 2014, the University Spine Center Zurich in 2018 and the University Center for Preventive and Sports Medicine in 2019 . He is the founder and main person in charge of Surgent, a project of the University Medicine Zurich with the aim of developing disruptive surgical techniques for more precise surgical results using augmented reality .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sharp mind, precise scalpel . In: NZZ from July 26, 2017, accessed on May 26, 2020
  2. ^ University Council University of Zurich: Appointments from January 30, 2017. In: University of Zurich. Communication, University of Zurich, February 2, 2017, accessed on May 25, 2020 .
  3. ^ University of Zurich: Treating back problems. In: University of Zurich. Communication, University of Zurich, April 5, 2018, accessed on May 25, 2020 .
  4. ↑ University Medicine Zurich: SURGENT. In: University Medicine Zurich. University Medicine Zurich, January 31, 2020, accessed on May 25, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Farshad, Mazda
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss physician (orthopedist)
DATE OF BIRTH 4th August 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Shiraz , Iran