AO FOUNDATION - Key Persons


Aisling Byrne

Job Titles:
  • Project Manager Clinical Operations

Alain Rickli

Job Titles:
  • Senior PM Platforms & Implementation

Aleksandra Hodor

Job Titles:
  • Senior Project Manager Clinical Operations ( CMF and Trauma )

Aleksandra Vidakovic

Job Titles:
  • Senior Project Manager

Alexander Joeris

Job Titles:
  • Head

Alexandra Wentscher

Job Titles:
  • Product Owner / Education Design

Alix Frischknecht

Job Titles:
  • Project Manager Clinical Operations

Amanda Coffin

Job Titles:
  • PM Curriculum Designer

Amber Parkinson

Job Titles:
  • PM Medical Editing

Amon Ferry

Job Titles:
  • Orthopedic Surgeon and Sports Medicine, Arizona Sports Medicine Center / Scottsdale, United States

Ana Moreno

Job Titles:
  • PM Platforms & Implementation

Andrea Montali

Job Titles:
  • Manager Development Incubator

Anita Appelman

Job Titles:
  • Study Assistant

Anita Ignatius

Job Titles:
  • R & D

Antonio Machado

Job Titles:
  • Regional Director / Latin America
  • Regional Manager / Latin America

AO Center Davos


AO CMF

AO PEER is constantly evolving. AO PEER profits from the wealth of expertise available within the AO-through a commitment to best practices and excellence in research and education. AO PEER leverages these trusted resources, which were developed and evaluated by the AO PEER task force consisting of distinguished surgeon-researchers with the support of the AO Education Institute (AO EI), the AO Research Institute Davos (ARI), and the AO Innovation Translation Center (AO ITC).

AO ITC

Job Titles:
  • ITC Assistant
  • ITC Coordinator

AO PEER

Job Titles:
  • Membership
The AO Program for Education and Excellence in Research (AO PEER) is a knowledge platform especially designed for health care professionals who want to learn and improve their clinical research skills.

AO Spine

Job Titles:
  • Director AO Spine
  • Regional

Arisa Wada

Job Titles:
  • ITC Coordinator

Artem Gubanov

Job Titles:
  • Senior Project Manager Statistical Programming

Barbara Niederée

Job Titles:
  • Product Owner

Benjamin Bretzinger

Job Titles:
  • Project Manager Clinical Operations

Bettina Bolliger

Job Titles:
  • Expert Group Manager

Bettina Ruff

Job Titles:
  • Student

Carl Lau

Job Titles:
  • Manager Medical Editing

Carolina Salenius-Stanek

Job Titles:
  • PM Medical Editing

Chao Xie


Chiara Cianciolo

Job Titles:
  • Project Manager Medical Writing

Chitra Subramaniam

Job Titles:
  • Manager of the AO Trauma North America Board

Christian Reus

Job Titles:
  • Senior Product Owner

Christoph Heidt

Job Titles:
  • Project Manager Medical Affairs

Christoph Katthagen

Job Titles:
  • Senior Physician, Universitätsklinikum Münster / Münster, Germany

Christoph Lindenmeyer - CEO

Job Titles:
  • CEO
  • Vice - Chairman

Christoph Volz

Job Titles:
  • Regional Manager / Europe and Southern Africa

Claas Albers

Job Titles:
  • Executive Director

Clara de la Horra Roda

Job Titles:
  • Community Development

Claudia Barblan

Job Titles:
  • Manager Administrative Services

Corina Honney

Job Titles:
  • Study Assistant

Cynthia Sob

Job Titles:
  • Project Manager Clinical Operations

Daisy Kudre-Schnyder

Job Titles:
  • Product Owner

Daniela Vögtli

Job Titles:
  • Product Owner

Dimitri Hauri

Job Titles:
  • Project Manager Medical Statistics

Dr Esther Wehrle

Job Titles:
  • Focus Area Leader

Dr Jan Buschbaum

Job Titles:
  • Focus Area Leader: Concept Devel Op Ment / Profile Page

Dr Nunzia Di Luise

Job Titles:
  • Gender Equality Officer

Dr Peter Varga

Job Titles:
  • Deputy Program Leader

Dr Stephan Zeiter

Job Titles:
  • Program Leader

Dr T Fintan Moriarty

Job Titles:
  • Focus Area Leader Infection Biology
  • Principal Investigator and Leader of the Musculoskeletal Infection Team at the AO Research Institute Davos
  • Research Institute Davos, CH
Dr Fintan Moriarty is Principal Investigator and Leader of the Musculoskeletal Infection team at the AO Research Institute Davos in Switzerland. He has extensive expertise in the application of preclinical in vivo models to address clinically relevant questions on the problem of fracture-related infection (FRI). Particular interests have been the development of prophylactic and therapeutic strategies against FRI, including those caused by antibiotic resistant pathogens. He has published over 60 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters, and has served as editor of a book on biomaterial associated infection. He is a scientific editor of the eCM Journal, co-organiser of the eCM conference on orthopedic infection, and guest lecturer at the Department Health Science and Technology (D-HEST) of the ETH Zurich.

Dr Tiziano Serra

Job Titles:
  • Focus Area Leader: Sound Guided Tissue Regeneration / Profile Page

Eberhard Denk

Job Titles:
  • Director AO Trauma

Elena Spadini

Job Titles:
  • Product Owner

Ernst Mäder

Job Titles:
  • Finance Expertise

Esther Segessenmann

Job Titles:
  • Executive & Governance Support

Felix Thomas

Job Titles:
  • Senior Clinical Research Associate

Florian Gebhard

Job Titles:
  • Immediate past - President

Franziska Dingendorf

Job Titles:
  • Product Owner

Ginesa Aviles

Job Titles:
  • Education Commission Manager
  • Head of Eduation Portfolio - CMF / Spine / VET
  • Head of Education Portfolio - CMF / Spine / VET

Gowrishankar Muthukrishnan


Graziella Fopp

Job Titles:
  • ITC Coordinator

Géraldine Pozzan

Job Titles:
  • Senior Manager ITC Operations

Hani Awad


Irene Contreras

Job Titles:
  • Project Manager

Iris Tobler

Job Titles:
  • Executive & Governance Support

Isabel van Rie

Job Titles:
  • Product Owner

Isabella Wong

Job Titles:
  • Regional Manager / Asia Pacific

James P. Stannard - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
  • Chairman, University of Missouri Department of Orthopaedic Surgery / Columbia, United States
James P. Stannard, MD, is a clinician-scientist with an active orthopedic surgical practice. Along with his busy medical practice in Columbia, Missouri, United States, he holds advanced leadership roles across the University of Missouri academic health system, including chairman of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Hansjörg Wyss Distinguished Chair of Orthopaedic Surgery, and medical director of the Missouri Orthopaedic Institute, where he is chief medical officer for procedural services.

Jan Puetzler

Job Titles:
  • University Hospital Muenster, DE

Jane Wiedler

Job Titles:
  • Head of Faculty Development, Education Research, Accreditation & Partnerships

Janik Hilse

Job Titles:
  • Senior Project Manager Clinical Data

Janneke Loomans

Job Titles:
  • Senior Project Manager Clinical Operations ( Spine )

Jayr Bass

Job Titles:
  • Community Development Commission Manager
  • Director AO Spine

Jecca Reichmuth

Job Titles:
  • PM ELearning

Jiwu Chen

Job Titles:
  • Senior Consultant, Executive Director of Sports Medicine, Raffles Hospital

Joanne Leung

Job Titles:
  • Regional Manager / Asia Pacific

Joelle Kägi

Job Titles:
  • Clinical Research Associate

Julia Gujan

Job Titles:
  • Senior Imaging Research Associate

Karen L de Mesy Bentley


Karsten Schwieger

Job Titles:
  • Expert Group Manager

Katalin Fekete

Job Titles:
  • PM Medical Editing

Kate de Boer

Job Titles:
  • Senior Project Manager

Kathryn Schoefert

Job Titles:
  • Senior Product Owner

Katrin Doerner

Job Titles:
  • Head of AO Technical Commission

Katrin Simioni

Job Titles:
  • Deputy Head of Clinical Operations

Kokeb Andenmatten

Job Titles:
  • Senior PM Curriculum Designer

Krishna Premdas

Job Titles:
  • PM Video Production

Ladina Hofmann-Fliri

Job Titles:
  • Project Manager

Linus Haller

Job Titles:
  • Apprentice

Luca Forgione

Job Titles:
  • Project Manager Medical Statistics

Lyndsey Kostadinov

Job Titles:
  • Project Manager Medical Writing

Maio Chen

Job Titles:
  • Senior Project Manager Medical Writing

Marc Stal

Job Titles:
  • Head Education Portfolio - Focus Programs Manager VET Education Commission

Marcel Erismann

Job Titles:
  • PM Illustrations

Marco Senteler

Job Titles:
  • Expert Group Manager

Marcus-Oliver Schupp

Job Titles:
  • Project Manager Clinical Data

Maria Giner

Job Titles:
  • Clinical Research Associate

Mariana Cabeleira

Job Titles:
  • Assistant

Marina Meuwly

Job Titles:
  • Senior Study Assistant

Mark Markel

Job Titles:
  • President - Elect

Martin Jäger

Job Titles:
  • Head of Shoulder Surgery, Department of Orthopaedics and Trauma Surgery University Hospital / Freiburg, Germany

Martina Stykova

Job Titles:
  • Project Manager

Matthias Schmidt

Job Titles:
  • Head of Education Design

Maurick Scholten

Job Titles:
  • Project Coordinator

Michael Cunningham

Job Titles:
  • Manager Curriculum Design

Michael Henke

Job Titles:
  • Senior PM Platforms & Implementation

Michael Redies

Job Titles:
  • Education Commission Manager
  • Head of Education Portfolio - Trauma / Recon /

Mohamed Said

Job Titles:
  • PM Platforms & Implementation

Monica Ghindelli

Job Titles:
  • Manager Education Research, Accreditation & Partnerships

Niccole Germscheid

Job Titles:
  • Research Commission Manager

Nicola Bauer

Job Titles:
  • Product Owner

Nicole Braun

Job Titles:
  • Executive Assistant

Nils Diethelm

Job Titles:
  • Expert Group Manager

Nora Goudsouzian

Job Titles:
  • Deputy Program Leader

Oliver Bader


Peter Däscher

Job Titles:
  • Senior PM Platforms & Implementation

Philipp Büscher

Job Titles:
  • Research Commission Manager

Prof Boyko Gueorguiev-Rüegg

Job Titles:
  • Vice Director
  • Program Leader

Prof Martin Stoddart

Job Titles:
  • Program Leader

Prof Mauro Alini

Job Titles:
  • Emeritus Research Advisor

Prof R Geoff Richards

Job Titles:
  • Director AO Research Institute Davos

Rachel Thibodeaux

Job Titles:
  • Product Owner

Ramona Ritzmann

Job Titles:
  • Head of Clinical Operations

Reece Diener

Job Titles:
  • ITC Assistant

Regina Brun

Job Titles:
  • Executive Assistant AO ITC

Robert Mooney


Robin Greene

Job Titles:
  • Manager Video Production

Roland Herzog

Job Titles:
  • Head of Technology Transfer

Rudolf Elmer

Job Titles:
  • Manager Platforms and Implementation

Russell Jones

Job Titles:
  • Senior PM Curriculum Designer

Saeed Al Thani

Job Titles:
  • Orthopedic Surgeon, Orthocure Medical Center / Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Samia Hossfeld

Job Titles:
  • Senior PM Platforms & Implementation

Samir Metha


Sandipan Chatterjee

Job Titles:
  • Senior PM Curriculum Designer

Sarah Kempf

Job Titles:
  • ITC Coordinator

Sergei Nikokoschev

Job Titles:
  • PM Video Production

Seth Sherman

Job Titles:
  • Orthopedic Surgeon, Stanford Sports Medicine Clinic / Redwood City, United States

Shiyi Chen

Job Titles:
  • Chairman, Orthopedic Sports Medical of Huashan Hospital, Fudan University / Shanghai, China

Simona Giger

Job Titles:
  • Regional Manager / Europe and Southern

Soujanya Vallur

Job Titles:
  • Project Coordinator

Stefano Crespan

Job Titles:
  • Senior Project Manager

Steven Gill


Thomas Kolitzus

Job Titles:
  • PM Medical Editing

Thomas Lopatka

Job Titles:
  • Senior PM Video Production

Thomas Welte

Job Titles:
  • Regional Manager / Middle East and Northern Africa

Tiara Ratz

Job Titles:
  • Senior Project Manager Medical Statistics

Tim Pohlemann - President

Job Titles:
  • President

Tobias Hüttl

Job Titles:
  • Executive Director Education Institute

Tracy Zhu

Job Titles:
  • Project Manager Medical Affairs

Ulrich Bentz

Job Titles:
  • Quality Management and Procurement

Urban Lanker

Job Titles:
  • Manager Preclinical Facility

Ursi Styger

Job Titles:
  • Expert Group Manager

Vanessa Schenk-Boner

Job Titles:
  • Expert Group Manager

Vidula Bhoyroo

Job Titles:
  • PM Medical Editing

Viola Grünenfelder

Job Titles:
  • Clinical Research Associate

Viola Huschauer

Job Titles:
  • Quality Manager

Volker Timme

Job Titles:
  • Project Manager Statistical Programming

Willem-Jan Metsemakers


William Smith

Job Titles:
  • PM Medical Editing

Yu Jin Ressel

Job Titles:
  • Study Assistant

Yves Acklin

Job Titles:
  • Site Manager, Bethesda Spital, and Team Leader, Sports / Knee Orthopedics, University Hospital Basel / Basel, Switzerland