Christian Candrian

Professor Dr. med. Christian Candrian is the head of the Traumatology and Orthopaedics Unit of the Ospedale Regionale di Lugano (Civico e Italiano), and consultant for orthopaedic surgery at the Ospedale Regionale di Locarno.

Professor Dr. med. Christian Candrian took is Master degree in Medicine at the University of Zürich in 1998 and has obtained the FMH for surgery in 2004 and for orthopaedics in 2007.

From 2015 he has obtained the Venia docendi at the University of Basel, from 2019 has become Professor and from 2024 full Professor at the University of Lugano (USI), Faculty of Biomedical Sciences. He is also lecturer for the Superior technical school for professional care of Lugano and at the Superior medico-technical school of Lugano.

Professor Dr. med. Christian Candrian has a great interest in the ortho-trauma research; he contributed to the foundation of the laboratory for “Tissue Engineering of the locomotor system of southern Switzerland” and founded the Clinical Research group of the Orthopaedics and Traumatology Unit at the Regional Hospital of Lugano.

He is member of many orthopaedics societies such the Swiss Society of Orthopaedics (SGO), the Swiss Society of Surgery and Traumatology (SGACT), the Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Arthroskopie (AGA), the International Cartilage Repair Society (ICRS) and the Società Ortopedia del Ticino (SOTI). He is the Swiss delegate of Trauma Educational Committee of EFORT (European Federation of National Associations of Orthopaedics and Traumatology). He is author of more than 50 publications, many of them on high impact scientific journals such as AJSM, KSSTA, Osteoarthritis Cartilage, Arthritis Rheum. and Advanced Drug Delivery Reviews.