Wieser Karl
Dr. med. Karl Wieser is Professor at the University of Zurich and Head of the Shoulder and Elbow Unit at the Balgrist University Hospital in Zurich, Switzerland.
Despite his clinical work as a highly specialized shoulder and elbow surgeon Dr. Wieser has a strong scientific interest in rotator cuff disorders and its associated myotendinous degeneration, shoulder instability and reverse total shoulder arthroplasty. In cooperation with the different research departments of the Balgrist Campus he is also highly interested and active in the translation of cutting-edge technologies like patient specific instrumentation and Augmented Reality into the clinical use. He authored over 80 clinical and basic science publications, mainly in the field of shoulder surgery, acquired multiple research grants from national and international societies and was selected for the European Asian SECEC Traveling Fellowship in 2015.