Dr. Bernd Wiedenhöfer

• Since 2018 Chief Physician "The Spine - Center for Spine Surgery" at the ATOS Clinic Heidelberg
• 2015 -2017 Chief Physician of the Department of Spinal Surgery of the Schön Klinik Lorsch
• 2009 -2015 Spokesman of the interdisciplinary Spine Center of the University Clinic Heidelberg
• 2008 - 2015 Head of the Department of Spinal Surgery, Department of Orthopedics, Traumatology and Paraplegiology, University of Heidelberg; Director Prof. V. Ewerbeck
• 2007 - 2008 Senior Consultant of the Orthopedic University Hospital Heidelberg, Department of Orthopedics II; Director: Professor dr. HJ Gerner
• 2005 - 2007 Senior Physician of the Orthopedic University Hospital Heidelberg, Department of Orthopedics II; Director: Professor dr. med. HJ Gerner
• 2004 - 2005 Specialist in Orthopedics, Cerebral Palsy and Technical Orthopedics, Foundation Orthopedic University Hospital Heidelberg, Department of Orthopedics II; Director: Professor dr. med. HJ Gerner
• 2002 - 2004 Medical Assistant and Research Assistant at the Chair of Orthopedics and Orthopedic Surgery of the Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen - Nuremberg at the Waldkrankenhaus St. Marien Erlangen; Director: Prof. Dr. med. med. R. Forst
• 1998 - 2002 Assistant Doctor, Department of Orthopedics, St. Josef Hospital Bonn; Chief Physician: Dr. med. med. N. moss
• 1996 - 1998 Internship, Department of General and Trauma Surgery, Ev. Hospital Bonn; Chief Physician: Professor med. DW Schröder and Department of Orthopedics, St. Josef Hospital Bonn; Chief Physician: Dr. med. med. N. moss

• Is Total Disc Replacement a Cost Effective Treatment for Cervical Degenerative Disc Disease? Clinical spine surgery.
• Management of Pharyngeal Fistulas After Anterior Cervical Spine Surgery: A Treatment Algorithm for Severe
• Complications. Clinical spine surgery.
• Osteointegration and Resorption of Intra- and Extravertebral Calcium Phosphate Cement. Clinical spine surgery.
• Clinical long-term outcome, technical success, and cost analysis of radiofrequency ablation for the treatment of osteoblastomas and spinal osteoid osteomas in comparison to open surgical resection. Skeletal radiology 44 (7):981-993.
• Do overhead sports increase risk for rotator cuff tears in wheelchair users? Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation 96 (3):484-488.
• [Evaluation of the sagittal profile in patients with thoracic adolescent idiopathic scoliosis Lenke type 1 following posterior correction]. Der Orthopade 42 (3):150-156.
• [Radiological diagnostics of spinal tumors. Part 2: special diagnostics of intradural tumors and tumor-like lesions]. Der Orthopade 41 (8):608-617.
• [Vertebral stability in management of spinal metastases. Criteria and strategies for operative interventions]. Der Orthopade 41 (8):623-631.

Dr. Wiedenhöfer has been working for more than 20 years in the field of orthopedics and trauma surgery with a focus on spine therapy, since 1998 conservative and operating for more than 15 years. For more than ten years, he has worked as senior Senior Physician, Section Head, and Chief Physician of specialized spine departments. It covers the entire spectrum of spine surgery from minimally invasive surgery to complex deformity. The treatment of deformities (scoliosis and kyphosis) in children, adolescents and adults has always been a major focus of his work alongside the treatment of wear-related disorders. As a speaker, instructor and organizer of continuing education courses of the DWG, the DGOOC and other institutions, he is regularly active and is in constant technical exchange with national and international specialists in spine surgery.