Fields medicine, physics Name Gunther Hofmann | Role Surgeon | |
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Institutions Berufsgenossenschaftliche Kliniken Bergmannstrost Halle (Saale)Hospital of the Friedrich-Schiller-Universitat JenaFriedrich-Schiller-Universitat Jena Known for First transplantation of a human knee joint Education Technische Universitat Munchen, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich |
Gunther O. Hofmann (born 22 May 1957 in Landshut, Bavaria) is a German surgeon, biophysicist, and professor.
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Early life and education
Gunther O. Hofmann was born in 1957 in Landshut, Bavaria.
Hofmann attended medical school and earned a Staatsexamen and a doctorate (Dr. med.) from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. Thereafter, he moved to the Technical University Munich, wherefrom he graduated in 1984 with a Dr. rer. nat. (Doctor rerum naturalium) in physics.
Career
In 1987, Hofmann commenced work as a research fellow at the Klinikum of the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich until he started his Habilitation in 1992. During his Habilitation, Hofmann did research at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, and started to work in the hospital of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München in the same year.
In 1995, he moved to the Berufsgenossenschaftliche Unfallklinik (BG Trauma Hospital) Murnau.
Since 2004, Hofmann has been the Medical Director of Berufsgenossenschaftliche Kliniken Bergmannstrost Halle, Saxony-Anhalt and Director of Hospital for Trauma, Hand, and Reconstructive Surgery at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Thuringia.
Research interests
His major research fields are Development of implants for osteosynthesis and joint replacement, bone and joint grafting, biomaterials, biomechanics, computer-assisted surgery, infections of bones