Main Emphasis
- Endoprosthetics: joint replacement hip, knee, shoulder, elbow, wrist
- Minimally invasive artificial hip joint
- change operations
- Pelvic osteotomies (pelvic adjustment, transfer osteotomy)
- Hand surgery
Research activities
- Minimally invasive implantation activities on the hip joint
- Development of modular, individualized hip endoprosthesis systems
- More than 200 publications in the research areas: operative rheumatology, minimally invasive surgery on the hip joint, modular implants on the hip and knee joint, navigation and robotics
Career
Born
23.07. 1955
Since June 2001 head
attending physician at the clinics Harthausen, Bad Aibling, specialist in orthopedics, rheumatology, physical and rehabilitation medicine
July 1996 - May 2001
Chief Physician and Medical Director Orthopedic Clinic and Clinic "Berchtesgadener Land"
July 1997 - May 2001
Medical Director Orthopedic Clinic Munich-Harlaching
1992 - June 1997
First senior physician at the orthopedic clinic at the University of Ulm
Oct. 1985 - May 1992
Senior Physician, Orthopedic Clinic at the University of Ulm Davor, Assistant Physician, Orthopedic Clinic, Rheumatism Center, Bad Abbach, Surgical District Hospital, Bad Mergentheim
Teaching activity
Medical Faculty of the University of Ulm - Department of Orthopedics
PROF. DR. R. WETZEL IS A MEMBER OF:
- German Society for Orthopedics and Trauma Surgery, DGOU
- Association of South German Orthopedists (VSO)
- Professional association for orthopedics and trauma surgery (BVOU)
- Association for Rheumatism Orthopedics (ARO)
- German Society for Rheumatology (DGRH)
- European Society for Rheumatism Surgery (ERASS)
- Society for Orthopedics and Orthopedic Sports Traumatology (GOTS)
- German Association for Orthopedic Sports Traumatology (DVOST)
- American Association for Orthopedic Surgery (AAOS)
