Dr. Gerber is the Professor and Chairman Emeritus of the Department of Orthopaedics at the University of Zürich in Switzerland.
Dr. Gerber is an orthopaedic surgeon-scientist known for his extensive work on traumatic and atraumatic pathologies of the shoulder. He has authored over 450 scientific articles and has been cited over 50’000 times according to Google Scholar. His H-index of 118 is a testimony of his substantial contributions to the field of Orthopaedic Surgery. He is a four-time winner of the Charles S. Neer Award of the American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons, the first non-American winner of the Kappa Delta Research Award of the AAOS and a recipient of the Arthur Steindler Award of the Orthopaedic Research Society. He is an honorary member of multiple national societies among them Swissorthopaedics and the French Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology (SOFCOT).
In 2000 Dr. Gerber created the ResOrtho Foundation for Orthopaedic Research and Education to propel musculoskeletal research and support young academic careers. ResOrtho also created the prestigious Meyer Award for Discovery, Innovation and Disruption in Orthopaedics. The award is given every three years and endowed with 100’000 Swiss Francs. Through ResOrtho he is the initiator and founder of Balgrist Campus, a novel musculoskeletal research and development campus in Zürich, Switzerland.
Dr. Gerber holds an MD from the University of Berne, Switzerland and an Honorary Doctor of Philosophy of La Sapienza University in Rome, Italy. He is an Honorary Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Dr Gerber remains involved in patient centered basic and clinical research related to acute and chronic shoulder pathologies