Head of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery Prof. Dr. med. Markus Scheibel
Prof. Dr. med. Markus Scheibel has a wealth of experience in shoulder and elbow surgery and is the Secretary and former President of the German, Austrian and Swiss Shoulder and Elbow Society (www.dvse.info). In addition to his clinical practice, he is also actively involved in national and international events, assuming the role of speaker and organiser.
Position and faculty
Head of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery
Specialty
- Treatment of complex injuries/fractures – shoulder girdle and shoulder joint
- Complex elbow fractures including elbow arthroplasty
- Primary and revision arthroplasty of the shoulder joint
- Treatment of post-fracture conditions
- Arthroscopic and open surgical techniques for the treatment of traumatic injuries/fractures and degenerative conditions of the shoulder and elbow
- Minimally invasive rotator cuff reconstruction and bony shoulder joint stabilization
Languages
German
English
Contact
Medical specialisation
Orthopaedics and Trauma Surgery
Additional qualification: Specialised Trauma Surgery
Certificates of proficiency
Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS), Academy for Trauma Surgery (AUC)
German, Austrian and Swiss Shoulder and Elbow Society (DVSE) certificate of expertise
Faculty member of the Society for Arthroscopy and Joint Surgery (AGA)
Certificates in Informed Content, Introduction to Research Ethics, Research Ethics Evaluation, Good Clinical Practice (GCP) from the Swiss Medical Association (FMH)
Ultrasound certificate for “Musculoskeletal Organs” from the German-speaking Societies for Ultrasound in Medicine (DEGUM – SGUM – ÖGUM)
Sonography qualification certificate, module: Musculoskeletal System (Swiss Society for Ultrasound in Medicine, SGUM)
Expertise in radiation protection (emergency diagnostics for adults and children without CT)
Curriculum
since 07/2018
Head of Upper Extremities - Shoulder and Elbow Surgery
Chair of Teaching, Research and Development Advisory Board
Schulthess Klinik Zurich
since 06/2018
Visiting Professor
Centre for Musculoskeletal Surgery (CMSC), Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin (University Hospital Berlin)
05/2010 – 05/2018
Consultant in Traumatology and Critical Care
Senior Consultant in Shoulder and Elbow Surgery
Centre for Musculoskeletal Surgery (CMSC), Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin (University Hospital Berlin)
01/2012 – 05/2018
Professor (W2) in Arthroscopy and Sports Medicine
Centre for Musculoskeletal Surgery (CMSC), Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin (University Hospital Berlin)
Center for Sports Science and Sports Medicine Berlin (CSSB), Humboldt University of Berlin
08/2008 – 04/2010
Specialist in Orthopedics and Traumatology
Centre for Musculoskeletal Surgery (CMSC), Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin (University Hospital Berlin)
07/2004 – 08/2008
Physician in further training
Centre for Musculoskeletal Surgery (CMSC), Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin (University Hospital Berlin)
12/2002 – 05/2004
Physician in further training
Clinic and polyclinic for Orthopedics and Sports Orthopedics, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technical University of Munich
05/2001 – 10/2002
Junior Doctor
ATOS Clinic Heidelberg
Education and training
2016
Additional qualification: Specialised Trauma Surgery
2009
Postdoctoral thesis and Venia legendi in orthopaedics and trauma surgery
Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
on: New aspects in the conservative and surgical treatment of shoulder instabilities
08/2008 – 04/2010
Specialist in Orthopaedics and Traumatology
Centre for Musculoskeletal Surgery (CMSC), Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin (University Hospital Berlin)
2007
Intra European Traveling Fellow
European Shoulder and Elbow Society (SECEC/ESSSE)
2002
Doctorate in Medicine
University of Leipzig
on: Analysis of surgical access routes in knee joint endoprosthetics with special consideration of the subvastus and midvastus technique
2001
Medical examination
2000
Practice year:
Department of Internal Medicine, Victoria Hospital, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Louisiana State University, New Orleans, USA
Department of Surgery, Louisiana State University, New Orleans, USA
1998
Clinical traineeships:
Department of Orthopedic Surgery, University of California, San Francisco
Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Louisiana State University, New Orleans, USA
10/1994 – 04/2001
Study of human medicine
University of Leipzig
Scientific activities
Co-editor of orthopaedic and trauma surgery journals:
- Board of Associate Editor for Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery (JBJS)
- Editorial Board Journal JBJS Essential Surgical Techniques (EST JBJS)
- Editorial Board Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery (JSES)
- Editorial Board Shoulder & Elbow (BESS journal)
- Editor of Obere Extremität; Schulter-Ellenbogen (OBEX) (EN: Upper Extremities: Shoulder –Elbow)
Reviewer of orthopaedic and trauma surgery journals:
- Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (JBJS)
- Journal of Arthroscopy and Related Research (Arthroscopy)
- The American Journal of Sports Medicine (AJSM)
- Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery (JSES)
- Archives of Orthopaedics and Trauma Surgery (AOTS)
- Unfallchirurgie (EN: The Trauma Surgery)
- Zeitschrift für Orthopädie und Unfallchirurgie (EN: Journal of Orthopaedics and Trauma Surgery)
2024
Visiting Professor/Grand Rounds Speaker
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Western University, London, Kanada
Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, USA
2022
Visiting Professor/Grand Rounds Speaker
Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Columbia University, New York, USA
Visiting Professor
Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, USA
2018
Visiting Professor/Grand Rounds Speaker
Department of Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, UConnHealth, Connecticut, USA
Memberships
President of the German Society for Orthopaedics and Orthopaedic Surgery (DGOOC) (2024)
Deputy President of the German Society for Orthopaedics and Trauma Surgery (DGOU) (2024)
General Secretary of the German, Austrian and Swiss Shoulder and Elbow Society (DVSE) (2021-2026)
President of the German, Austrian and Swiss Shoulder and Elbow Society (DVSE) (2015–2021)
Curriculum Task Force AO Recon (AO Foundation) (2018–2025)
Chair of the Qualification Committee of the European Shoulder and Elbow Community (SECEC/ESSSE) (2016–2000)
Chair of the Shoulder Committee of the Society for Arthroscopy and Joint Surgery (AGA) (2011–2014)
Member of the German Society for Orthopaedics and Trauma Surgery (DGOU)
Member of the German Society for Trauma Surgery (DGU)
Member of the German Society for Orthopaedics and Orthopaedic Surgery (DGOOC)
Member of the Professional Association for Orthopaedics and Trauma Surgery (BVOU)
Member of the German, Austrian and Swiss Shoulder and Elbow Society (DVSE)
Member of the German Society for Endoprosthetics (AE)
Member of AO Germany (AO)
Member of the Society for Arthroscopy and Joint Surgery (AGA)
Member of American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons (ASES)
Member of the European Shoulder and Elbow Community (SECEC/ESSSE)
Honorary Member of the Polish Shoulder and Elbow Society (PTBL)
Honorary Member of the French-speaking Society of Arthroscopy (SFA)
Awards and honours
Alwin Jäger Award 2024 l DVSE
A. Schlüßler, M. Scheibel. Arthroscopic posterior bone block stabilization using a tricotical autograft of the ipsilateral scapular spine
Jochen Löhr Award 2022 l DVSE
P. Vetter, M. Scheibel. The “Circle” method – the new gold standard in the assessment of acromioclavicular joint separations?
Stromeyer-Probst Medal 2021 l DGU
M. Scheibel, U. Brunner. Expertise Orthopädie und Unfallchirurgie – Schulter (EN: Expertise in Orthopaedics and Trauma Surgery of the Shoulder)
Alwin Jäger Award 2019 l DVSE
F. Freislederer, M. Dittrich, M. Scheibel. Biological augmentation with subacromial bursa in arthroscopic rotator cuff reconstruction
Best Paper Prize 2017 l DVSE
S. Pauly, C. Gerhardt, A. Trampuz, M. Scheibel. Revision procedures following shoulder arthroscopy are associated with different low-grade infection rates depending on the indication
2. National Societies Best Paper Prize l SECEC/ESSSE
A. Thierbach, S. Pauly, T. Stein, M. Moursy, M. Königshausen, M. Scheibel. Abduction-external-rotation-immobilization (30° abduction/60° external rotation) vs. arthroscopy stabilization after primary traumatic anterior shoulder dislocation
Best Paper Prize 2015 l DVSE
A. Thierbach, S. Pauly, T. Stein, M. Moursy, M. Königshausen, M. Scheibel. Abduction-external-rotation-immobilization vs. arthroscopy stabilization after primary traumatic anterior shoulder dislocation DVSE multicentre study – preliminary results
Jochen Löhr Award 2014 l DVSE
J. Wolke, DA Herrmann, A. Krannich, M. Scheibel. Influence of bony defects on the clinical preoperative condition of anteroinferior shoulder instability
Alwin Jäger Award 2012 l DVSE
N. Kraus, M. Scheibel Arthroscopic acetabular labral reconstruction with autologous bone chip graft
Alwin Jäger Award 2012 l AGA
S. Pauly, M. Scheibel Influence of age and gender on biological cell potential and clinical outcomes after rotator cuff reconstruction
Video Award 2009 l SECEC/ESSSE
M. Scheibel. Arthroscopically assisted acromioclavicular joint stabilization for chronic instability
Best Poster Award 2008 l SECEC/ESSSE
M. Scheibel, A. Kuke, C. Nikulka, B. Koch, N.P. Haas. The influence of duration of immobilization after traumatic anterior shoulder dislocation – preliminary results
Grants and stipends
Research grant 2018 l DVSE
P. Moroder, M. Scheibel. The biomechanical effect of bone grafting and bone remodeling in glenoid reconstruction surgery
Research grant 2014 l SECEC/ESSSE
N. Kraus, M. Scheibel. Biologic, biomechanic and imaging properties of acromioclavicular joint instability
Research grant 2011 l DVSE
S. Pauly, M. Scheibel. Influencing factors of growth factors on rotator cuff tendon tissue regeneration – investigation of human cell cultures
Research grant 2007 l SECEC/ESSSE
M. Scheibel, S. Pauly, C. Strobel, N.P. Haas. Influence of growth factors in local application on rotator cuff tendon tissue regeneration
Publications
>200 scientific publications listed on Pubmed
>500 presentations at international and national conferences
>30 book chapters
9 book publications, including:
- Scheibel M, Niemeier A, Brunner U. Endoprothetik der Schulter. Springer-Verlag; 2025
- Valenti P, Scheibel M, Werthel JD. Shoulder Arthroplasty – Current Concepts; 2024
- Valenti P, Scheibel M. Shoulder Arthroplasty – Current Concepts; 2022
- Scheibel M, Brunner U. Expertise Schulter: Georg Thieme Verlag; 2021
- Hardy P, Valenti P, Scheibel M. Shoulder Arthroplasty – Current Concepts; 2019
- Hardy P, Valenti P, Scheibel M. Shoulder Arthroplasty – Current Concepts; 2017
- Hardy P, Valenti P, Scheibel M. Shoulder Arthroplasty – Current Concepts; 2015
- Lill H, Scheibel M, Voigt C. Die proximale Humerusfraktur. Springer-Verlag; 2014
- Hardy P, Valenti P, Scheibel M. Shoulder Arthroplasty – Current Concepts; 2013