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Dr
Pascal RIPPSTEIN
is an orthopaedic surgeon who specialises in foot & ankle
surgery and is a previous president of the Swiss Foot and
Ankle Society and has been a member of its board for
many years. He completed his fellowships in the USA with
Sigvard Hansen in Seattle and in France with Samuel Barouk
(Bordeaux) and Bernard Valtin (Paris). Back in Switzerland,
he founded the Department of Foot and Ankle Surgery at the
Schulthess Clinic in Zürich in 1995. The unit includes 8
physicians covering every aspect of foot and ankle
pathologies and their treatment. The department has a
special interest in total ankle arthroplasties (TAA) having
experience from implanting over 700 replacements and
developing the Mobility TAA with DePuy. |
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