Highlights: Honours, Awards and Promotions

Prof. Gerber and his Shoulder and Elbow Surgery Team have received the following honours, awards and promotions since the foundation of ResOrtho:

• 2011:
  The property development contract with the cantonal government was signed. The pre-project for the Balgrist campus was awarded to the architects Daniel Wentzlaff (Nissen & Wentzlaff Architekten BSA SIA AG in Basel). In September 2011, a second Ragtime event took place at which the ResOrtho Foundation presented information on the progress of the new Professorship in Muscle Biology and the "Balgrist Campus" project, and the procurement of the funds for the Balgrist Campus continued to forge ahead.
  
  Images of this Ragtime event.
  
  
• 2010:
  The newly created double Professorship in Muscle Biology for the benefit of the university and the Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich was established at University Hospital Balgrist. The bestowal contract between the ResOrtho Foundation and the University of Zurich was signed on 16.12.2010 and incorporated by the university board into the regular professorship plan (2011/2012). The ResOrtho Foundation and the Balgrist Association founded Balgrist Campus AG. The purpose of Balgrist Campus AG is to develop a building for musculoskeletal research and development in the area of land directly in front of University Hospital Balgrist. The board of directors of Balgrist Campus AG is composed of representatives of the ResOrtho Foundation as well as of the board of the Balgrist Association. President of Balgrist Campus AG is Dr. J. Rappold, foundation council member of the ResOrtho Foundation.
  
  
• 2009:
  During a Ragtime event, ResOrtho initiated the procurement of funds for a new professorship in muscle biology and was able to secure the required funds of CHF 7 million by the end of the year. In connection with the procurement of funds for the professorship in muscle biology, a well-known sponsor has declared itself willing to provide the ResOrtho Foundation with the funds for a new musculoskeletal research centre.
  
  Images of this Ragtime event.
  
  
• 2007:
  
  Kappa Delta OREF Clinical Research Award (C. Gerber): "Rotator Cuff Disease: From Scientific understanding to Patient Care."
  More Links: Kappa Delta Background / Kappa Delta Winners / OREF Grant Recipients / Kappa Delta
  
  Charles S. Neer Award: "Reversion of Structural Muscular Changes caused by chronic rotator cuff tendon tearing using continuous musculotendinous traction..." (C. Gerber, M. Zumstein, E. Frey, B. von Rechenberg, H. Hoppeler, B. Jost, D. Meyer)

• 2006:
  
  1. Marathon-Award of the Swiss Society of Orthopaedics (SGO): "Loss of the subchondral sclerosis on ap radiographs of the shoulder...." (L. Jankauskas, H.A. Rüdiger, C.W.A. Pfirrmann, B. Jost, C. Gerber)
  Links: SGO / SGO Awards
  
  3. Marathon-Award of the Swiss Society of Orthopaedics (SGO): "Evolution of non-operatively treated supraspinatus tears" (A.L. von Roll, B. Jost, S. Fucentese, C.W.A. Pfirrmann, C. Gerber)
  
  

• 2005:
  
  Science Award of the Swiss Society of Sports Medicine: "MRI findings in throwing shoulders" (B. Jost, M. Zumstein)
  Link: SGSM
  
  Certificate of Merit (1. Preis für bestes Video) of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons: "Latissimus Dorsi Transfer" (C. Gerber)
  Link: AAOS
  

• 2004:
  
  C. Gerber: "Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons" of Edinburgh

• 2003:
  
  C. Gerber: Honorary Member of SOFCOT "Société Française de Chirurgie Orthopédique et Traumatologie"
  
  
• 2002:
  
  Marathon-Award of the Swiss Society of Orthopaedics (SGO): "Prävalenz und Relevanz von pathologischen MRI-Befunden bei Wurfsportlern" (B. Jost, M. Zumstein)