Michael Blauth, M.D.
Professor and Director
Department of Trauma Surgery
MedicalUniversityInnsbruck
A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria
+43-512-504-22821
+43-512-504-22824
Born 16.07.1954in Kaiserslautern, Germany, as one of three children of Prof. Walter Blauth, former Director of the Orthopaedic Department, University of Kiel, Germany, and his wife Hildegard Anna Luise Blauth
Married with the Internist Almut Blauth
3 boys, born 1986, 1989 and 1992
Academic Studies
19751976Chemistry: Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, Germany
19761983Human Medicine: Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, Germany
1983Doctoral Thesis: Examinations of strain of the human patella. Institute for Anatomy, Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel (Director: Prof. Dr. med. B. Tillmann).
Over all rating „Excellent”
Professional Training and Career
19832000Department of Trauma Surgery, HannoverMedicalSchoolHannover, Germany (Director: Prof. Dr. med. H. Tscherne).
1989Orthopaedic Department Kantonsspital St.Gallen, Switzerland (Director: Prof. Dr. med. F.Magerl)
1992Postdoctoral Teaching Thesis for Trauma Surgery (Assistant Professor, Habilitation)
„Injuries of the thoracolumbar spine. A biomechanical and clinical study”.
1992Senior Consultant (Oberarzt)
1997Travel Scholarship German Trauma Society: Mayo-Clinic, Rochester, U.S.A. (Prof. Dr. B. Morrey)
1997Appointment as Senior Lecturer („außerplanmäßiger Professor”)
1996-2000Executive Vice-Chairman Department of Trauma Surgery, Hannover (Stellvertretender Klinikdirektor)
since 2000Professor and Director Department of Trauma Surgery
MedicalUniversityInnsbruck, Austria
Medical Specialist (Consultant)
07.03.1990General Surgery (Germany)
24.10.1992Trauma Surgery (Germany)
19.10.1994Emergency Medicine (Germany)
01.08.2000Trauma Surgery (Austria)
01.07.2001Sports Traumatology (Austria)
Publications
Original papers145, 69 as first author
Book Editor3
Book Chapters20, 15 as first author
Supplements50
Scientific Lectures351
Scientific Societies
since 1984German Trauma Society
1986-2000Emgergency Medicine North Germany
since 1987Founding Member Society of Spine Surgery (Germany)
since 1989Society of Surgery (Germany)
since 1994Founding Member and Vice-Chairman Working Group Spine Surgery, German Trauma Society
19942000Advisory Board of the German Trauma Society
1995-2003Working Group Guidelines, German and Austrian Trauma Society
since 2000AmericanAcademy of Orthopedic Surgeons
since 2000Advisory Board of the Austrian Trauma Society
since 2006European Society forTrauma and Emergency Surgery (Austrian Delegate)
2007President of the Austrian Trauma Society
since 2006Austrian Society of Emergency Medicine
since 2008International Society of Fracture Repair
since 2010AOTrauma International
since 2010Center for Applied Biotechnology and Molecular Medicine, University of Zurich
AO Foundation
1993Member Working Group Spine, German Section
since 1998Chairperson and Co-Chairperson of numerous AO-Courses und Symposia
1999-2001Member Spine Expert Group
2001-2004Member AO TK
2002Member Executive Committee Section Austria (AOÖ)
seit 2005Chairman of the AO Intramedullary Nailing Working Group
since 2005Chairman of the International AO Clinical Priority Program Fracture Fixation in Osteoporotic Bone
since 2006Chairman AO Trauma Course: Fragility Fractures and Co-Management, Davos
since 2009Chairman AOTrauma Austria Masters Course, Innsbruck
since 2009President AOTrauma Section Austria
since 2010President AOTrauma Austria
since 2010International Program Editor AOTrauma Orthogeriatrics Program
Journals
1997Editorial Board „Orthopedics and Traumatology” (Operative Orthopädie und Traumatologie), Germany
since 1998Editorial Board „Der Unfallchirurg”, Germany
since 2001Editor in Chief „Archives of Orthopedic and Trauma Surgery”
since 2001Editor in Chief „Orthopedics and Traumatology” (Operative Orthopädie und Traumatologie), Germany
since 2002Editorial Board „Der Chirurg”, Germany
2002-2007Editorial Board „European Spine Journal”