Curriculum Vitae (2010) /
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

19751976Chemistry: Christian-Albrechts-University Kiel, Germany

19761983Human 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

19832000Department 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

19942000Advisory 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”