Foot and Ankle Sports Orthopaedics

Professor Valderrabano performed his medical studies in Zurich, Switzerland. He received his MD degree for the experimental work “Structural Adaptations of the Pars Convoluta of the Distal Tubulus of the Mouse Nephron under Thiazide Treatment” at the Institute of Anatomy in Zurich. He then completed his residency in Orthopaedics & Traumatology with achievement of the “Swiss Medical Degree for Orthopaedics and Traumatology”. Subsequently, he performed his curriculum in Sports Medicine with achievement of the “Swiss Federal Sports Medicine Medical Degree” in 2005. Professor Valderrabano obtained his Ph.D. (Dr. phil.) in Biomechanics at the Human Performance Laboratory at the University of Calgary in Canada in 2009.  From 2009 to 2014 he was elected as Chairman and Director of the Orthopaedic Department at the University Hospital of Basel, Basel, Switzerland. He is currently Chairman of the SWISS ORTHO CENTER in Basel and Professor for Orthopaedics and Trauma Surgery at the University of Basel in Switzerland. Professor Valderrabano is author of numerous scientific papers and was honoured by several international scientific and clinical awards.