Prof. Dr. med. Carsten Perka (Medical Director of the Center for Musculoskeletal Surgery)

🔹1985–1991 human medicine at the Charité of the Humboldt University in Berlin, graduating in human medicine with the distinction magna cum laude
🔹1989 diploma thesis: The myosin light chains - a marker in myocardial infarction diagnostics. , Note 1
🔹1994 Doctorate: Changes in mechanically induced articular cartilage defects after transplantation of allogeneic embryonic chondrocytes.
🔹1995 Awarded the Robert Koch Prize
🔹2000 Habilitation: The reconstruction of cartilage and bone defects. Investigations into the strategic possibilities of tissue engineering in orthopedics. Filed 8/1999
🔹1991–1996 Specialist training in the Orthopedics Clinic at the Charité University Hospital, Director: Prof. Dr. med. H. Zippel, specialist examination in orthopedics
🔹1996 Appointed senior physician at the Charité Orthopedics Clinic
🔹1996–2003 Senior physician at the Charité Orthopedics Clinic, head of the endoprosthetics department
🔹Since 2000 member of the board of the AE-German Society for Endoprosthetics
🔹Since 2003, Deputy Director of the Center for Musculoskeletal Surgery at the Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Head of the Orthopedics Clinic
🔹Since 2005 Adjunct Professor of Orthopedics
🔹2006 appointment to the W3 endowed professorship for endoprosthetics and regenerative medicine at the Charité, Berlin
🔹2008 President of the North German Orthopedic Association
🔹2009 appointment to the W3 for orthopedics at the Charité
🔹Since 2010 Chairman of the North German Association of Orthopedists and Trauma Surgeons
🔹2012 American Hip Society Presidential Guest Speaker
🔹2013 Presidential Guest Speaker of the American Hip Society
🔹2015 1st Vice President of the German Society for Endoprosthetics
🔹Since 2015 Medical Director of the Center for Musculoskeletal Surgery at the Charité University Medicine, Berlin
🔹Since 2015 Head of the Educational Board of AORecon
🔹Member of the AORecon Steering Board since 2015
🔹Since 2015 Spokesman of the Executive Committee (EC) of the German Endoprosthesis Register (EPRD)
🔹2016 President of the AE – German Society for Endoprosthetics
🔹Since 2018 Secretary General of the German Society for Endoprosthetics
🔹2019 President of the German Society for Orthopedics and Orthopedic Surgery (DGOOC) and Deputy President of the German Society for Orthopedics and Trauma Surgery (DGOU)