Prof. Dr. med. Peter Messmer

Practice in Zurich

Attending physician with trauma surgery practice at Hirslanden Klinik St. Anna, Lucerne Attending physician with trauma surgery practice at Hirslanden Klinik St. Anna, Lucerne

Chief Medical Director, Swiss Middle Eastern Alliance (Lebanon) s.a.r.l., Beirut, Lebanon

Head of Traumatology, Hirslanden Klinik St. Anna, Lucerne

Chief Medical Director Swiss Middle Eastern Alliance GmbH "SwissMEA", Zug, Switzerland

Chief Physician, Trauma Centre, University Hospital Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

Consultant and Director of Orthopaedic Trauma and Research, Orthopaedic Department (Dr A. Al Suwaidi), Sheikh Khalifa Medical City, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates

Consultant Trauma Surgeon, Emergency and Trauma Center, Ortho Trauma Department (Prof. B. Claudi, Dr J. Al Mulla), Rashid Hospital, Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Senior Physician and Deputy Clinic Director, Department of Trauma Surgery (Prof. O. Trentz), University Hospital Zurich; Jun.- Oct. 2005: Visiting Lecturer Harvard University, Medical School, Boston, MA, USA

Surgery Cantonal Hospital / University Hospital (Prof. F. Harder), Basel
Since 1997 as 1st Senior Physician (Senior Consultant) Traumatology Department and Deputy to Prof. P. Regazzoni (Head of Traumatology), since 1995 as regular Senior Physician, from 1.1.95, 2000 as Senior Physician Surgical Intensive Care Unit (PD Dr. H. Pargger I ProÍ. D. Scheidegger), 1996 as Senior Physician Surgical Intensive Care Unit (Prof. K. Frede/Prof. D. Scheidegger), 1994 as Assistant Physician Surgical Intensive Care Unit (Prof. K. Frede/Prof. D. Scheidegger)

Registrar General and Vascular Surgery (Mr M.C. Pietroni, Consultant Surgeon FRCS and Mr S. Brearly, M. Chir. FRCS, Consultant Surgeon), Whipps Cross Hospital, London, United Kingdom

Resident in Surgery, Davos Hospital (Prof. P. Matter), Davos

Resident in Surgery, Cantonal Hospital Basel (Prof. F. Harder), Basel

Resident in Surgery, St. Claraspital (Prof. P. Tondelli), Basel

Resident in internal medicine, (Prof. H. Kummer), Bruderholz Cantonal Hospital, BL

Resident at the Institute of Pathology (Prof. W. Wegmann), Liestal

Surgery resident, St. Claraspital (Prof. P. Tondelli), Basel

Practice replacements in 2 general practices

ATLS instructor, since then active as an instructor

ATLS Provider

Titular professorship: "Professor of Surgery", University of Basel

Rehabilitation, University of Zurich, specialising in general surgery and trauma surgery

Habilitation: "Computer-aided three-dimensional osteosynthesis planning and simulation on the basis of two-dimensional X-ray images and their significance for training", University of Basel

Specialist in surgery

Dissertation "Relationship between the course of multiple sclerosis and gamma globulins in the cerebrospinal fluid" with Prof. R. Wüthrich, Faculty of Medicine, University of Basel

Studied human medicine at the Medical Faculty of the University of Basel