Adjunct Professor Dr Stefan Fickert, MD

1990 -1996:
Studies in Medicine at the Bavarian University of Würzburg (Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg) and at Campus Benjamin Franklin or CBF (Universitätsklinikum Benjamin Franklin) at FU Berlin (Freie Universität Berlin). Awardance of a research fellowship from the German Rheumatism Research Centre Berlin (Deutsches Rheumaforschungszentrum Berlin or DRFZ)

1994:
Clinical traineeship at the University of South Australia in Adelaide, Australia

1997:
Practical year at the University of Bern (Universität Bern) in Switzerland and at Campus Benjamin Franklin or CBF (Universitätsklinikum Benjamin Franklin) at FU Berlin (Freie Universität Berlin). PhD from the Faculty of Medicine at FU Berlin (Freie Universität Berlin); Title of PhD thesis: "Expression of Cytokines, Growth Factors and Metalloproteinases in Osteoarthrosis of the Hip and Knee"

1998-1999:
Department of Orthopaedics at Ulm University Hospital (Universitätsklinikum Ulm) under Professor Dr W. Puhl, MD

1999-2000:
Department of General, Vascular and Thoracic Surgery at Campus Benjamin Franklin or CBF (Universitätsklinikum Benjamin Franklin) at FU Berlin (Freie Universität Berlin) under Professor Dr H. Buhr, MD

2000:
Research fellow, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York under Dr T. Sculco, MD

2000- 2002:
Department of Orthopaedics at Ulm University Hospital (Universitätsklinikum Ulm) under Professor Dr W. Puhl, MD

2002 - 2006:
Department of Orthopaedics at the University Hospital Gustav Carus Dresden (Universitätsklinik Carl Gustav Carus) at TU Dresden (Technische Universität Dresden) under Professor Dr K.P. Günther, MD) and Head of the Laboratory of Experimental Research in the Department of Orthopaedics

2004:
Orthopaedic Specialist

2006:
Additional qualification in Sports Medicine

2006-2007:
Senior Physician, Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery Centre, Mannheim University Hospital (Universitätsmedizin Mannheim) under Professor Dr H.P. Scharf, MD

2007- 2012:
Head of the Orthopaedics Business Unit and Lower Extremity Trauma Surgery of the Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery Centre, Mannheim University Hospital (Universitätsmedizin Mannheim)

2009:
Orthopaedics and Trauma Surgery Specialist

2011:
Postdoctoral position in orthopaedics at the Mannheim Medical Faculty at Heidelberg University (Universität Heidelberg); Postdoctoral thesis title: "Isolation, Characterisation, and Differentiation Potential and Histological Evidence of Human Mesenchymal Stem Cells in Various Joint Compartments"; Bestowal of a higher education teaching qualification for orthopaedics and nomination as an Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Medicine

2012:
AGA Smith & Nephew- Lecture Shadowing of Hip Arthroscopy

2012:
A partner at sporthopaedicum in Straubing and Regensburg as well as Klinik St. Wolfgang since July of 2012