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In light of the current situation, this year’s Federation of European Societies for Surgery of the Hand Congress was held online this autumn: with over 1,100 participants coming together from 61 countries. The highlight were the live operations, which were broadcastlive online.

Our hand surgery study on trapeziometacarpal osteoarthritis received the «2019 JHSE Editors’ Award». The award was presented by the «Journal of Hand Surgery (European Volume)». The winning study deals with the question what level of pain and limitation of hand function is it best to operate on patients with trapeziometacarpal osteoarthritis in order to get the best possible result.

On 30.01.2020, Dr. med. Daniel Herren, Head of Hand Surgery, implanted the 300th CapFlex prosthesis into a patient here at our clinic. The artificial finger joint was developed at the Schulthess Klinik and has been used over 1000 times worldwide.

Our team from Hand Surgery and Research came out victorious for another year at the national SGH/SGHR Hand Surgery Congress in Interlaken. Our former Assistant Physician Dr. Lea Estermann was presented with the Greatest Future Clinical Application Award for a joint study with our Hand Surgery team.

This year’s allianz q Innovation Prize was awarded to Dr. med. Daniel Herren for his efforts in promoting validated measurements of medical benefit in patients.