Senior Consultant PD Dr. med. Daniel Haschtmann
Position and faculty
Senior Consultant Spine Surgery
Specialty
Conservative focus
Infiltration of the lumbar spine
Surgical focus
Lumbar disc herniation / disc hernia lumbar spine
Cervical narrowed spinal canal (stenosis)
Instability of the spinal column / arthrosis
Vertebral fracture in osteoporosis
Curvature of the spinal column (scoliosis)
Languages
German
English
Contact
Medical specialisation
Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology of the Musculoskeletal System
Special Spinal Surgery
Certificates of proficiency
2022 - Radiation Protection in Orthopaedic Surgery and Musculoskeletal Traumatology (Swiss Institute for Postgraduate Education and Continuing Professional Development in Medicine, SIWF)
2021 - Spinal Surgery (Swiss Society for Neurosurgery, SGNC, and Swiss Orthopaedics, SO)
2013 - Interventional Pain Management (Swiss Society for Interventional Pain Management, SSIPM)
Curriculum
since 07/2020
Senior Consultant Spine Surgery, Schulthess Klinik
2016–06/2020
Consultant Spine Surgery, Schulthess Klinik
2012–2016
Consultant Spine Surgery, Schulthess Klinik
2012
Junior Consultant Spine Surgery, Schulthess Klinik
2010–2011
Resident Spine Surgery, Schulthess Klinik
(Dr. med. D. Jeszenszky)
2009
Resident Clinic for Surgery, Tiefenau Spital, Spitalnetz Bern
(Dr. med. S. Birrer)
2008–2009
Resident Clinic for Orthopaedics, Ziegler Spital, Spitalnetz Bern
(Prof. Dr. med. H. Nötzli)
2005–2007
Resident Spine Surgery, Salem Spital Bern
(Prof. Dr. med. M. Aebi)
2002–2004
Resident Clinic for Traumatology and Reconstructive Surgery, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Campus Benjamin Franklin
(Prof. Dr. med. W. Ertel)
Education and training
2017
Venia Docendi University of Bern
2011–2013
European Spine Course Diploma (ESCD) Eurospine Foundation
2010
Specialist in Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology of the Musculoskeletal System FMH
2004–2006
Research Fellow Maurice E. Müller Research Center for Orthopaedic Surgery, ISTB, University of Bern
(Prof. Dr. L. Nolte / Prof. Dr. S. Ferguson)
2003
Doctorate, Institute for Microbiology and Infection Medicine, Freie Universität Berlin
(Prof. Dr. med. M. Mielke)
2001
State Examination in Human Medicine, Freie Universität Berlin
Scientific activities
Teaching
Master of Science in Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Medicine, University of Bern
Scientific reviewer
European Spine Journal
Memberships
AO Spine
EUROSPINE, the Spine Society of Europe
Swiss Medical Association FMH
International Society For The Study Of The Lumbar Spine ISSLS
swiss orthopaedics
Swiss Society of Spinal Surgery SGS
Awards and honours
Best Paper Award, Computational Methods and Clinical Applications for Spine Imaging, The Fifth MICCAI CSI Workshop & Challenge 2018, Granada, Spain; Dimitrios Damopoulos, Daniel Haschtmann, Tamás Fekete, Guoyan Zheng «Automated Grading of Modic Changes using CNNs Improving the Performance with Mix-up»
EUROSPINE Best full paper award 2017; Mannion AF, Impellizzeri FM, Leunig M, Jeszenszy D, Becker HJ, Haschtmann D, Preiss S, Fekete TF. «Time to remove our rose-tinted spectacles: a candid appraisal of the relative success of surgery in over 4’500 patients with degenerative disorders of the lumbar spine, hip or knee.»
GRAMMER European Spine Journal Award 2008/2009; Haschtmann D., Stoyanov J.V., Gédet P., Ferguson S.J. «Vertebral endplate trauma induces disc cell apoptosis and promotes organ degeneration in vitro» Eur Spine J. 2008 Feb; 17(2):289-99.
Best Technical Paper Award CAOS International 2006, Montréal, Canada (sponsored by Northern Digital Inc., Waterloo, ON, Canada); Zheng G., Zhang X., Haschtmann D., Gédet P., Langlotz F., Nolte L.P., MEM Research Center for Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland «Accurate and Robust Recovery of Distal Locking Holes in Computer-Assisted Intramedullary Nailing of Femoral Fractures»
Grants and stipends
Pseudarthrosis or Successful Spinal Fusion – Do predictive Biomarkers exist?, Start-up Grant, CABBM University of Zurich, Switzerland, 2019
Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) Project 205321-157207/1: «Development of A Fully Automatic Lumbar Intervertebral Disc (IVD) MRI Segmentation Method and Its Applications in Spinal Diagnostic and Intervention Studies», ISTB University of Bern and Schulthess Klinik, Switzerland, 2015–2017
Short vs. Long Fusion for Degenerative Lumbar Kyphoscoliosis: Addressing Proximal Junction Failure in the Osteoporotic Spine, Mäxi Stiftung Schulthess Klinik, Switzerland 2015–2017
Swiss National Science Foundation (SNF) Project 31000-122105/1: «Investigation of post-traumatic intervertebral disc degeneration in a novel full-organ disc/vertebra culture model», ARTORG Center for Biomedical Engineering Research, University of Bern; Institute of Biomechanics, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, 2009–2013