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Doctor Alexander De Smet

Spécialiste en chirurgie de la main, membre FMH

Diplômé de la Faculté de Médecine de Genève

Spécialiste FMH en Orthopédie et Traumatologie

Interests:

  • Osteoarthritis and thumb prostheses
  • Compression syndromes and peripheral nerve injuries
  • Traumatology of the wrist and hand

Experience and training:

  • Hand, wrist and peripheral nerve surgeon, Clinique Hirslanden, La Colline, Geneva, CH. 2016-2025
  • Former consultant surgeon for the Hand and Wrist Surgery Unit, Centre Médico-Chirurgical CMC Nyon, CH. 2016-2019
  • Head of Clinic, “CH8” Center for Hand Surgery and Therapy, Geneva, CH. 2014-2016
  • Former member of the organizing committee of the Swiss Congress of Hand and Wrist Surgery SSCM. 2014-2016.
  • Head of Clinic, Hand and Peripheral Nerve Surgery Unit, Geneva University Hospitals HUG, CH. 2012-2014
  • Internist training in Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology HUG Geneva – with rotations in hand and wrist surgery CH. 2009-2012
  • Internist in Plastic, Reconstructive and Hand Surgery, Sierre Hospital, Valais, CH. 2008-2009
  • Internist in Visceral Surgery, CHUV, CH. 2005-2007
  • Internist, then Senior Registrar in General Surgery and Traumatology, Montreux Hospital, Vaud; concurrently on call as SMUR doctor, CH. 2002-2005
  • Internist in Orthopedic Surgery and Traumatology, Hôpital de Fribourg, CH. 2001-2002
  • Swiss Federal Medical Diploma, Faculty of Medicine, Geneva 2001
  • Swiss high school diploma, Collège Calvin Geneva 1994

Member:

  • Geneva Association of Hand Surgeons
  • Swiss Society of Hand Surgery (SSCM)
  • American Society for Surgery of the Hand (ASSH)
  • Geneva Doctors’ Association (AMGe)
  • Swiss Medical Association (FMH)

Languages spoken:

  • French
  • English
  • German
  • Dutch
  • Spanish

Téléphone:

+41 22 595 08 08