Prof. Dr.

Philipp Schuster – CV

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Medical training and residency

Surgical Training and Career

Since 2019
Senior Consultant Knee Surgery | Center for Sports Orthopaedics and Special Joint Surgery | RKH Orthopaedic Hospital Markgröningen
2015 - 2019
Senior Consultant Knee Surgery | Center for Sports Orthopaedics and Special Joint Surgery | RKH Orthopaedic Hospital Markgröningen
2016
Certified knee surgeon | DKG (German Knee Society)
2015
Specialist in Orthopaedics and Trauma Surgery
2012 - 2015
Resident | Department for Sports Orthopaedics and Arthroscopic Joint Surgery | Orthopaedic Hospital Markgröningen
2009 - 2012
Resident | Department for Trauma Surgery, Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine | Barmherzige Brüder Hospital Regensburg

Academic career

2021
Associate Professor | Orthopaedics and Trauma Surgery | Paracelsus Medical University | Nuremberg | Salzburg
2019
Habilitation and Venia Docendi | Orthopaedics and Trauma Surgery | Paracelsus Medical University | Nuremberg | Salzburg
2009
Doctoral degree | University of Regensburg

Medical education and training

2002 - 2008
University of Regensburg
University of New South Wales | Sydney | Australia
University of Otago | Dunedin | New Zealand
Victoria Hospital | Mahé | Seychelles
Unfallkrankenhaus | Salzburg | Austria
700
+

Surgical procedures per year

250
+

Anterior cruciate ligament reconstructions

75
+

Revision anterior cruciate ligament reconstructions

70
+

Realignment surgeries

50
+

Patella surgeries

Spectrum

Complete spectrum of reconstructive and joint-preserving knee surgery:

  • Anterior and posterior cruciate ligament reconstructions
  • Peripheral ligament reconstructions
  • Multi-ligament reconstructions
  • Osteotomies + realignment surgeries
  • Patellar stabilizations + patellofemoral realignment surgeries
  • Cartilage surgery + autologous cartilage cell implantation
  • Menisus surgery + meniscus refixation
  • Meniscus transplantation
  • Knee injuries in children
  • Bony ligament avulusions + fractures
  • Revision surgery after previous surgical procedures
  • Complex combined surgical procedures

Awards and honors

Since 2023
Focus list of Top Doctors
Knee Surgery | Sports Orthopaedics | Trauma Surgery
Since 2023
Stern list of recommended Doctors
Cruciate ligament | Meniscus
2020
PMU Nuremberg
Paracelsus Science Award Platinum

2026 – Top doctor
Knee surgery

2026 – Top doctor
Sports orthopaedics

2026 – Top doctor
Trauma surgery

2025 – Top doctor
Knee surgery

2025 – Top doctor
Sports orthopaedics

2025 – Top doctor
Trauma surgery

2024 – Top doctor
Knee surgery

2024 – Top doctor
Sports Orthopaedics

2023 – Top doctor
Knee surgery

2023 – Top doctor
Sports Orthopaedics

2020 ‒ PMU
Scientific Award

Congresses
Lectures
Presentations

100
+

Lectures, presentations, chairmanships, discussions and live surgeries at national and international events

Scientific chair | Organization

Since 2026
ligaments+bones | Stuttgart | Germany
Since 2025
knee+ski | Fieberbrunn | Austria
2020 - 2024
30th - 38th Workshop Knee of the Center for Sports Orthopaedics and Special Joint Surgery of the RKH Orthopaedic Hospital Markgröningen | Tübingen | Germany
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Publications

PubMed overview
55
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Publications PubMed

200
+

Impact factor

10
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other publications + text book contributions

2025 – The Avalanche Concept, AOTS

Expert groups
Fellowships
Memberships

Since 2019
DKG (German Knee Society) | Osteotomy Committee | Chair from 2023 - 2025
2021 - 2024
DKG (German Knee Society) | Patellofemoral Committee
Since 2019
DKG (German Knee Society) | Head of the Official Knee Center at the RKH Orthopaedic Hospital Markgröningen
Since 2023
AGA Faculty Member | AGA Education Center | RKH Orthopedic Hospital Markgröningen
Since 2020
AGA | Osteoarthritis + Joint Preservation Committee
2019
ESSKA Osteotomy Fellowship

Clinical + scientific collaborations