Reinhard Windhager

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Reinhard Windhager (born September 13, 1957 in Linz ) is an Austrian orthopedist .

Career

Reinhard Windhager received his doctorate in medicine from the University of Innsbruck in 1981 and, after completing his training at the Linz General Hospital and the University Clinic for Orthopedics in Vienna, became a specialist in orthopedics in 1988.

In 1986, Windhager received the Michael Jäger Prize for his work The Status of the Ossicle and Therapy by M. Osgood Schlatter .

From 1988 to 1997 Windhager worked at the University Clinic for Orthopedics in Vienna, the Children's Clinic in Glanzing and the St. Anna Children's Hospital, with different emphases in the field of orthopedics.

In 1995, Reinhard Windhager completed his habilitation in orthopedics and orthopedic surgery and in 1997 was appointed full professor for orthopedics and head of the clinical department for orthopedics and orthopedic surgery at the surgical university clinic of the Karl Franzens University in Graz . Windhager set up the University Clinic for Orthopedics at the Karl-Franzenz-University and was appointed its head of the clinic in 2001.

In 2002 and 2003 Windhager was President of the Austrian Society for Orthopedics and Orthopedic Surgery (ÖGO) and Vice President in the two following years. In 2006 Windhager was the President of the Central European Orthopedic Congress . In addition, Windhager is on the board of the Society of Doctors in Vienna . From 2014 to 2015 Windhager was President of ISOLS (International Society of Limb Salvage).

He is currently head of the University Clinic for Orthopedics at the Vienna General Hospital.

Publications (selection)

So far (as of 2013) Windhager has contributed to around 200 scientific publications. Windhager is also involved in a patent filed in 1999 for the restoration of vertebrae.

  • Birgit Kulterer, Gerald Friedl, Anita Jandrositz, Fatima Sanchez-Cabo, Andreas Prokesch, Christine Paar, Marcel Scheideler, Reinhard Windhager, Karl-Heinz Preisegger, Zlatko Trajanoski: Gene expression profiling of human mesenchymal stem cells derived from bone marrow during expansion and osteoblast differentiation . In: BMC Genomics . tape 14 , 1996, pp. 2225–2232 , doi : 10.1186 / 1471-2164-8-70 (English).
  • Windhager R, Groszschmidt K, Tsuboyama T, Siegl H, Heinzl H, Seidl G, Plenk H jr: Recorticalization after bifocal internal bone transport in the double-plated sheep femur . In: J Orthop Research . tape 15 , no. 8 , 1997, pp. 94-101 , doi : 10.1002 / jor.1100140116 (English).
  • Kinov P, Leithner A, Radl R, Bodo K, Khoschsorur GA, Schauenstein K, Windhager R: The role of free radicals in aseptic loosening of hip arthroplasty . In: J Orthop Res. Band 24 , 2006, pp. 55–62 , doi : 10.1002 / jor.20013 (English).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b o.Univ.-Prof. Dr. med. univ. Reinhard Windhager. Retrieved November 9, 2013 .
  2. ↑ Reinhard Windhager is President of ISOLS. Retrieved November 9, 2013 .
  3. ^ Committees. Retrieved November 9, 2013 .
  4. ↑ Robioneck et al: Reconstruction system for vertebra . In: United States Patent . No. 6106557 , July 22, 1999 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Windhager, Reinhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian orthopedist and scientist
DATE OF BIRTH September 13, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Linz , Austria