Prof Dr Christoph Lohmann to become the new President of the German Society for Orthopaedics and Trauma Surgery in 2025
Director of the Orthopaedic University Hospital Magdeburg takes over the leadership of the specialist society with around 10,200 members
Prof Christoph Lohmann, Director of the Orthopaedic University Hospital at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, will take over as President of the German Society for Orthopaedics and Trauma Surgery (DGOU) from January 2025 . At the DGOU General Assembly in October 2024, Prof. Lohmann was elected to head the specialist society together with his deputy, Prof. Dr Ulrich Stöckle, Managing Director of the Centre for Musculoskeletal Surgery at Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin. The term of office starts on 1 January and runs until 31 December 2025.
Photo: Prof. Christoph Lohmann, Director of the Orthopaedic University Hospital at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, will take up the office of President of the German Society for Orthopaedics and Trauma Surgery (DGOU) for one year from 1 January 2025. Photographer: Melitta Schubert/University Medicine Magdeburg
The DGOU is an important medical-scientific specialist society with around 10,200 members, which is committed to the further development of orthopaedics and trauma surgery in Germany. It unites the aims of the German Society for Orthopaedics and Orthopaedic Surgery (DGOOC) and the German Society for Trauma Surgery (DGU ) and represents their common interests in research, teaching, training and health policy in order to improve the framework conditions for orthopaedics and trauma surgery.
About the person
Prof Dr Christoph Lohmann has been Director of the Orthopaedic University Clinic and Chair of Orthopaedics at Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg since 2010. Since 2020, he has also been Dean of Studies at the Faculty of Medicine and a founding member of the university research centre CHaMP (Center for Health and Medical Prevention).
Prof Lohmann studied human medicine and agricultural sciences at the University of Göttingen, where he also completed his doctorate. He gained international expertise through fellowships at the University of Florida and the University of Texas, among others. He began his clinical career in 2001 as a senior consultant at the Clinic and Polyclinic for Orthopaedics in Hamburg, where he was head of the Endoprosthetics and Orthopaedic Oncology departments from 2002. In 2003, he was appointed University Professor (C3) at the University of Hamburg, where he was Deputy Director of Orthopaedics. Before his appointment to Magdeburg, Prof Lohmann was Deputy Director at the Bad Bramstedt Clinic from 2006.
He is a member of numerous medical associations. As one of Germany's leading hip and knee specialists, Prof Lohmann is intensively involved in new prosthesis designs, minimally invasive surgical techniques and biomaterial research. He has already received several awards for his scientific work.