Awards

Here you find a selected list of awards recieved for our research:

Date Award
November 2017
1. Codon Poster Award 
German Knee Society (DKG) Meeting, Cologne
for Filippo Schiapparelli, Felix Amsler, Michael T. Hirschmann
Medial parapatellar approach leads to internal rotation of
tibial component in total knee arthroplasty
November 2017  2. Codon Poster Award
German Knee Society (DKG) Meeting, Cologne
for Filippo Schiapparelli, Felix Amsler, Michael T. Hirschmann
The stem fixation technique does influence postoperative tibial
alignment in revision total knee arthroplasty
August 2017
Award of Excellence of Basel University for best doctoral thesis  
Raffael a`Wengen "Symptomatic versus asymptomatic knees after bilateral total 
knee arthroplasty- what is the difference in SPECT/CT?"
June 2017
EFORT Poster Award for Slevi O, Amsler F, Hirschmann MT
"No correlation between coronal alignment of total knee arthroplasty and clinical
outcomes: a prospective clinical study using 3D-CT"
May 2016 ESSKAR Achievement Award PD Dr. Michael Hirschmann
ESSKA Congress, Barcelona, Spain
March 2016

Award of Excellence for Scientific Exhibit SE13 "Findings from a specialised knee clinic for painful knee arthroplasty - what have we learned?" at AAOS 2016, Orlando, Florida

November 2015

Best Alwin Jäger Poster Award, Swiss Society of Nuclear Medicine, for "Meniscal extrusion and meniscal lesions correlate with increased bone tracer uptake in SPECT/CT", Hirschmann A et al.

June 2015

Best Poster Award, Swiss Society of Nuclear Medicine, for "Meniscal extrusion and meniscal lesions correlate with increased bone tracer uptake in SPECT/CT", Hirschmann A et al.

June 2015

1. Poster Award GOTS 

"Meniscal extrusion and meniscal lesions correlate with increased bone tracer uptake in SPECT/CT", Hirschmann MT et al. 

September 2014 Best Paper Award Basel Jubilee Congress 2014 for Stephan Schoen et al. "Assessment of in vivo loading history of the patellofemoral joint- a study combining patellar position, tilt, alignment and bone SPECT/CT tracer uptake/distribution patterns "
September 2014 2nd SFA poster award for clinical research at 31 AGA congress in Innsbruck, Austria for our research group "Effect of high tibial osteotomy on joint loading in symptomatic patients with varus aligned knees- a study using SPECT/CT" Hirschmann MT1 , Mucha A1, Dordevic M1, Rasch H2, Testa EA1
June 2014 EFORT Poster Award: "A New Standardized Algorithm To Evaluate Tibio-Talar Osteochondral Lesions Using SPECT/CT", Hassink G, Testa E, Leumann A, Hügle T, Rasch H, Valderrabano V, Hirschmann MT; EFORT London, UK
19.-21.09.2013 AGA SFA 2. Poster Award "Das Patellofemoralgelenk im SPECT/CT: Biologie folgt der Mechanik!", Schön S, Arnold MP, Afifi F, Rasch H, Amsler F, Hirschmann MT; AGA 2013, Wiesbaden, Germany
18.07.2013 Young Investigator Award of European Association of Nuclear Medicine “4D-SPECT/CT including assessment of TKA component position, alignment and tracer uptake distribution in patients with painful total knee arthroplasty”, Testa EA, Rasch H, Forrer F, Hirschmann MT
12.06.2013

1. Award Technology Section, 5th Swiss Quality Award, Basel, Schweiz; Hirschmann MT, Rasch H, Bernard A, Wagner C, Henckel J

25.04.-27.04.2013

3rd Young Investigator Award, “Clinical value of 4D-SPECT/CT including assessment of TKA component position, alignment and tracer uptake distribution in patients with painful total knee arthroplasty”, Testa EA, Rasch H, Forrer F, Hirschmann MT; 3rd ECOSEP Congress Frankfurt, Germany

24.11.-30.11.2012

Certificate of Merit „Multimodality assessment of metal-on-metal hip arthroplasties: never miss a diagnosis again on plain radiographs, MARS MRI and SPECT/CT“,Sabah S, Henckel J, Salchithanada K, Khan S, Barwick T, Hirschmann MT et al.; RSNA Chicago, USA

22.06.2012

3rd neurotech® GOTS Young Investigator Award 2012 Keller Leonie, Hirschmann MT; Salzburg, Austria

05.05.2012 ESSKA Basic Science 1st Poster Award, 2012, Genf, Switzerland
September 2011-Oktober 2011

European Arthroscopy Fellowship of AGA- Deutschsprachige Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Arthroskopie for Hirschmann MT

June 2011

2nd neurotech® GOTS Young Investigator Award 2011 Mathis D, Hirschmann MT, Munich, Germany

December 2010 ESSKA-APOSSM Fellowship Asia 2012, Hirschmann MT
April 2010 Young Investigator Grant Klinische Forschung University Basel, 50.000 CHF, Hirschmann MT
02/2010 EFORT Visiting Fellowship Tampere, Finnland 2010; Hirschmann MT
01.01.2009-31.12.2009

Research scholarship PROMOTIO Stiftung für Biomechanische Forschung, Basel; Hirschmann MT