Schmerzklinik Basel

Prof. Dr. med. Frank-Martin Häcker

Specialist in paediatric surgery, FEAPU, member of the FMH

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Schmerzklinik Basel
Hirschgässlein 11-15
4010 Basel

info@schmerzklinik.ch

+41 61 295 89 89

Competences

Specialised consultation hours for chest wall deformities
Clinical work in the entire field of paediatric surgery, specialising in paediatric urology

Work Experience

Head physician and deputy head physician, University Children's Hospital Basel (UKBB), Basel (CH)

Development and management of specialisation in thoracic wall deformities at UKBB

Head of paediatric urology at UKBB

Visiting professor Hospital Privado de Ninos, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Head a.i. of paediatric surgery at UKBB in the dual management system

Visiting professor Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters, Norfolk/VA, USA

Specialist in Paediatric Surgery at the UKBB, Prof. Mayr

Senior Consultant Paediatric Surgeon at the UKBB, Prof. von Schweinitz

Clinic for General and Paediatric Surgery, Stadtklinik Baden-Baden (D), Prof. Berger

Research assistant, Department of Paediatric Surgery, University Hospital Tübingen (D), Prof. Schweizer

Memberships

Swiss Society for Paediatric Surgery
Swiss Association for Paediatric Urology (SwissPU)
Federatio Medicorum Helvetcorum (FMH)
Basel Medical Society
German Society for Paediatric Surgery
German Society for Paediatric Surgery
Paediatric Urology Working Group of the German Society for Paediatric Surgery
Southern German Society for Paediatric Surgery
European Society for Pediatric Urology (ESPU)
European Pediatric Surgical Association (EUPSA)
Chest Wall International Group (CWIG)
IPEG (International Pediatric Endosurgery Group)

Awards

2007: Poster Award of the German Society for Paediatric Surgery 2007
2011: Best Article Award JCAM 2011
2012: Poster award UKBB Research Day 2012

Education

Fellow of the European Association of Pediatric Urology (FEAPU)

Advanced course Videosurgery in Pediatric Urology

Masterclass in subureteral deflux injection

Pediatric operative laparoscopy

Specialist in paediatric surgery

State examination

Studied human medicine at the Universities of Bochum and Tübingen (Germany)

Studied musicology at the University of Freiburg/Breisgau

Apprenticeship

Paediatric surgery subject teaching/interactive case presentation for the 6th year course

Lectures on paediatric visceral surgery in the gastroenterology block and paediatric urology in the kidney and urinary tract block

Regular teaching in paediatric surgery for nursing staff (operating theatre staff, intensive care, Basel Health Education Centre)

Invited faculty Advanced Pectus Course, Mayo Clinic, Phoenix/USA

Invited faculty Annual Pectus Course, Norfolk/USA

Titular professorship for paediatric surgery

Major Clinical Medicine 2nd year course Bachelor Paediatric Surgery Noftall & "Fast-track" Paediatric Surgery

Case presentation - bedside teaching for the 4th year course

Habilitation

Student teaching at the bedside (weekly internships), University of Tübingen

Publications

1992: Dissertation "Sonographic spleen sizing: Diagnostic value in lymphoma of the spleen"

2007: Habilitation "Molecular biology and molecular genetics in Wilms' tumour"

Current book chapters:
2016: Non-surgical treatment for pectus excavatum and carinatum. In : Kolvekar SK, Pilegaard HK: Chest wall deformities and corrective procedures. Springer International Publishing Switzerland
2017: The vacuum bell treatment. In: Saxena A: Chest wall deformities. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
2017: Perioperative antibiotic prophylaxis in paediatrics and paediatric surgery. In: Handbook of the German Society for Paediatric Infectiology, 7th edition. Thieme-Verlag Stuttgart

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