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Open Access Journal of Sports Medicine

ISSN: 1179-1543


Prof. Dr. Imhoff

Prof. Dr. Imhoff

Professor Andreas B. Imhoff graduated from Basel University in 1980. He started his residency in General Surgery and Traumatology in Davos, and in General surgery, Traumatology and Knee surgery on the University Hospital Bruderholz-Basel under the guidance of Professor Werner Müller in 1982. He completed his Orthopedic Residency at the Balgrist University Hospital, University of Zurich (Proff. Adam Schreiber, Hans Zollinger, Christian Gerber) between 1983 and 1996, after 1987 as a head of different departments for knee, shoulder and sports medicine.

Professor Imhoff was elected as a Professor of Orthopedic Surgery and Arthroscopy at the faculty Medical school and faculty School of Sport Science and Health, Technical University Munich to serve as director and chairman of the Department of Orthopedic Sports Medicine from 1. April 1996 – 1.4.2022. He is an active member of the AGA (German Society of Arthroscopy and Joint Surgery) which now has 5000 members. He was a founder of the society in 1983, congress chairman 1999, president 2000-2003, general secretary and now still member of the executive board. He also was again congress chairman 2017.

He serves as an editor of journals like Arthroscopy, Operative Orthopaedics and Traumatology (OOT), Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery (JSES), Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy (KSSTA), American Journal of Sports Medicine (AJSM) and Open Access Journal of Sports Medicine (OAJSM) as an Editor-In-Chief. Publications since 1979 until March 2022: he edited 39 books and published over 544 journal articles, cited in PubMed (Research Gate: 902 publications, RG Score 49.30, h-index 60). 

Professor Imhoff was on the board of directors of the DGOOC (German Society of Orthopaedics), and the DGOU (German Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology). He is also a member of several societies including ISAKOS (International Society of Arthroscopy, Knee Surgery and Orthopedic Sports Medicine) started as founding member of IAA/ISK in October 1994, now member of the board and different committees since 1996. Actually he was chairman and past chairman of the ISAKOS shoulder committee 2015-2021, ESSKA (European Society of Sports Traumatology, Knee Surgery and Arthroscopy), SESEC (European Society for Surgery of the Shoulder and the Elbow), AOSSM (American Orthopedic Society for Sports Medicine), and DVSE (German Society for Shoulder and Elbow). AFOR (Association of Orthopedic Research) member of the board since 2010, DKG (German Knee Society) member of the board since 2012.

Since 1999 he got a lot of awards all over the world in different countries:
He is honorary member of the Arthroscopy Association of North America AANA 2004, Miembro Honorario Sociedad Argentina de Cirurgia de Hombro y Codo 2006, Malaysian Federal Honorary Award 2010 (“DATUK” (Honorary-Award given by His Majesty Tuanku Mizan, up to 200 living at any one time), Honorary member of German Society of Arthroscopy and Joint Surgery (AGA) 2013, Honorary member of Indian Arthroscopic Society IAS 2014, OTIF Award 2019 of Orthopaedic Legends (Stephen Snyder, John Garrett, David Altchek, Andreas Imhoff), Naples 20.1.2019.
Honorary member and MEM Lecture lifetime in Orthopaedics by SGO (Swiss Society for Orthopaedics) 24.6.2021.
“Goldene Ehrennadel” for a lifetime in Orthopaedics and Sportsorthopaedics DGOOC (German Society of Orthopaedics) 25.10.2021. 


Editorial Board

Professor Julien S Baker Ph.D, D.Sc, FPhysiol, FRSoBiol, FHBiolAssoc, FITEI, FInClinR, C.Biol, C.Sci., Faculty of Social Sciences, Director, Centre for Health and Exercise Science Research, Head, Department of Sport, and Physical Education, Hong Kong Baptist University, Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong.

Henning Boecker, Professor and Head, Division of Functional Brain Imaging, University of Bonn, Germany.

Malcolm Collins, Professor Department of Human Biology, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.

Devon A. Dobrosielski, Assistant Professor, Department of Kinesiology, Towson University, Towson, MD, USA.

Mark R. Hutchinson, Distinguished Professor of Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine - Sports Medicine (tenured), Department of Orthopaedics, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

Professor Deiary F Kader MBChB, FRCS, FRCSEd, FRCSGlas, FRCS (Tr & Orth) MFSEM (UK), Consultant Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgeon, Knee Surgeon Arthroscopy, Arthroplasty and Sport Injuries, Academic Unit SW London Elective Orthopaedic Centre, Epsom, Surrey, United Kingdom.

Jon Karlsson, Professor, Sahlgrenska Academy at Göteborg University, Department of Orthopaedics, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Sweden.

Vikas Khanduja MA (Cantab), MSc, FRCS (Orth), PhD, 2021 Royal College of Surgeons Hunterian Professor, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon & Research Lead (Elective) | Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, UK.

Beat Knechtle, Professor in Primary Care Medicine, Institute of Primary Care, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.

Pantelis Theodoros Nikolaidis, Department of Occupational Therapy, School of Health and Caring Sciences, University of West Attica, Athens, Greece.

Robert T. Rubin, MD, PhD, Psychiatry Faculty, Community Memorial Health System/Ventura County Medical Center, and Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

Kristian Samuelsson, MD, PhD, Sahlgrenska Academy at University of Gothenburg, Department of Orthopaedics, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Sweden.

Kerry Stewart, Professor of Medicine, Director, Clinical and Research Exercise Physiology, John Hopkins University School of Medicine, MD, USA.

David Wales MSc BSc(Hons) MCSP, Consultant Physiotherapist, North London Physiotherapy, London, UK.