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Spine surgery
Prof. Constantin Schizas
Orthopedic surgeon and traumatology specialist
Spine surgery
Constantin Schizas, an orthopedic surgeon specializing in the spine, trained at internationally renowned institutions such as the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital and the Schulthess Clinic. After working for several years as a senior physician in London (Whittington Hospital), he moved to Switzerland in 2003 where he established adult spinal surgery within the Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology at the University of Lausanne (CHUV).
From December 2013, he practiced at the Clinique Cecil in Lausanne in collaboration with the neurosurgery team.
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2012
Associate Professor at the University of Lausanne
2008
Head of the Spine Surgery Sector in the Department of the Musculoskeletal System at CHUV
2006
Assistant physician at CHUV, lecturer and researcher and private lecturer at the University of Lausanne
2003
2000 – 2003
Consultant at the Whittington Hospital, London
Consultant at Queen Mary's Hospital, London
1996 – 2003
Lecturer at the University of London
2000
Elected “Fellow” of the Royal College of Surgeons in London
1996
Postgraduate Diploma in Biomechanics from the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow
1995
Thesis from the University of Lausanne
1994
Master of Science in Orthopaedics from University College London
1986
Graduated in medicine from the Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium
Federation of Swiss Doctors (FMH)
Swiss Society of Orthopedics and Traumatology (SSOT)
Swiss Society of Spine Surgery (SGS), secretary
Royal College of Surgeons (United Kingdom)
AOSpine (former president)
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