Mentor: Prof. Fritz Hefti, MD

Fritz L. Hefti, MD, retired as Chief of the Paediatric Orthopaedic Department at the Children’s Hospital, University of Basle, Switzerland, and Professor at the Medical School of the University of Basle in 2010, since which time he has been a Senior Consultant at the unit. Prof. Hefti graduated from Medical School in Basle in 1972. After specializing in Orthopaedic Surgery and working as Attending Surgeon at the Paediatric Orthopaedic Unit and the Unit for Traumatology at the University of Basle, he was appointed Head of the Paediatric Orthopaedic Unit at the Children’s University Hospital in Basle in 1988. He went on to become Chief of the new, independent Paediatric Orthopaedic Department in 1994. Prof. Hefti has been the recipient of several awards, including the Carl Rabl Award of the German Orthopaedic Society and the Hans Debrunner Award of the Swiss Orthopaedic Society, both presented for the book “Pediatric Orthopedics in Practice”. From 2004 to 2010 he has been President of the EPOS Scientific Committee. Since 2010 Prof. Hefti has been Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Children’s Orthopaedics. He is the author of 90 publications in peer-reviewed journals as well as numerous articles in books and review articles in journals.