Docteur PD Timo Michael Ecker

Specialist in
Orthopaedic surgery and traumatology
Interdisciplinary focuses
Spine Surgery
Languages
French, German, English, Spanish

Core competencies

  • Complex spinal surgery (deformities, revisions)
  • Minimally invasive spinal surgery
  • Navigated spinal surgery (computer-assisted)
  • Spine trauma (including geriatric trauma)
  • Trauma to the pelvis, hip and femur
  • General orthopaedic trauma

Professional career

2018 - 2022
Senior doctor, spinal surgery centre, CHUV, Lausanne, Switzerland
2016 - 2018
  • Senior doctor, spinal surgery, orthopaedics and traumatology, Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Prof. Dr KA Siebenrock, University Hospital Bern, Switzerland
  • Senior doctor, spinal surgery, orthopaedics and traumatology, FMI Hôpital Interlaken, Switzerland
2013 - 2016
Senior doctor, spinal surgery, orthopaedics and traumatology, Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Prof. Dr KA Siebenrock, University Hospital of Bern, Switzerland
2012 - 2013
Senior doctor, emergency University Centre, Prof. A Exadaktylos, University Hospital Bern, Switzerland
2009 - 2012
Assistant doctor, spinal surgery, orthopaedics and traumatology, Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Prof. Dr KA Siebenrock, University Hospital of Bern, Switzerland
2008 - 2009
Assistant doctor, emergency centre, Prof. A Exadaktylos, University Hospital Bern, Switzerland
2005 - 2007
Research assistant, Research Fellowship, computer-assisted surgery of the hip, Dr Stephen Murphy, New England Baptist Hospital, Boston, US

Schools, university & degrees and diplomas

2021
Certificate of in-depth interdisciplinary training in spinal surgery, ISFM
2018 - 2022
Lecturer, Faculty of Medicine and Biology, University of Lausanne
2017
Lecturer, Faculty of Medicine, University of Bern
2014
Specialist in orthopaedic surgery and traumatology of the musculoskeletal system, FMH
2008
Doctorate in medicine, University of Bern
2005
Diploma in Medicine

Practices at

Memberships and partnerships

  • Swiss Orthopaedics
  • Acute Care Committee, ANQ
  • AO Spine
  • EuroSpine
  • Swiss Medical Association, FMH
  • Association suisse des médecins-assistants et chefs de clinique, ASMAC

Publications & videos

Events & lectures

Secondary activities

2021 - to date
Groupe d'experts rachis Swiss Orthopaedics (membre)
2021 - to date
Medtronic (consultant)
2022 - to date
Spineart (consultant / R&D)
2023 - to date
NuVasive (consultant)