Doctors
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