Zurich April 20-24

Arrived Zurich and were picked up by Professor Jose Romero—off we went to Appenzelle

Appenzelle tour. Old village in the Swiss mountains.

Homes with individualized paintings

Welcoming sign with our names on it! And tour of the hofweissbad facility. Interesting concept of rehab hospital, hotel and spa. Successful model for 30 years. Great care for post op patients, excellent food and daily therapy

The clinic in the hotel/rehab/spa. They have a doctor on duty 24/7. Addition of new wing with more rooms and rehab space recently

Outside space for inpatients very nice. They stay for 2-3 weeks after surgery for recovery. Patients in general healthy ASA 1 category.

Dinner with music from the region at the rehab hospital

Dinner with Jose Romero and Charly Giesinger. We stayed the night here.

Snowing the next morning.

Our St Gallen/Zurich hosts. Prof Jost, Giesinger and Romero

Trolley ride to top of mountain

Lunch on rotating platform

Dan’s snow man. Requested by his daughters.

Snowy day!

Then off to St Gallen for a historic Abbey library tour

As usual beautiful woodwork and art. Old books and a mummy from Egypt.

Dinner in a cool restaurant. Old train station. Residents and faculty. Sub specialties in knee, shoulder, sports, tumor and trauma.

OR day! Picked up at 640 and off to the OR for a variety of complex cases with Charly and Prof Jost

Tour of the new hospital. Expansion of adult and pediatric care and research

Off to Zurich where we are met by Dr med Lucas Jud at the train station. We walked to the hotel Stella and were off to dinner.

Dinner with the team from der Balgrist. A group of residents, fellows and future ASG fellow just notified of the honor! Laki (Lazarus gray sweater) Vlachopoulos

Post prandial Zürich tour and walk back to hotel from dinner.

Morning session cases presented by residents and fellows and presentations by ASG AOA BOA fellows

Daniel Burchette on the podium talking cement over rescue sleeve experience in the UK for complex periprosthetic fractures

Tour of Balgrist with Prof Sandro and Laki (future ASG fellow!)

Post Presentation group pic! With Sandro, Jose and Laki

OR day. Great cases with arthroplasty robots and vascularized bone grafts for keinbocks

Incredibl lenresearch by Laki on corrective osteotomy for malamutes fractures of tibia and femur. Modeling and guides done in-house with engineer collaborations.

Great views and tour of the new research facility and hospital

Zurich walking tour with our host Jose Romero

Dinner at a classic historic restaurant in old Zurich

Last stop! Jose Romero office and his team

Off to Baden Baden!! Train management and strategy

Excited for Baden Baden!!