2.5 Million for Transatlantic Capacity Building in Orthopedic Sports Medicine

The Claudine and Hans-Heiner Zaeslin-Bustany Foundation supports transatlantic capacity building in orthopedic sports medicine between the DBE/USB and Duke University’s School of Medicine as well as between DBE/USB and University of Toronto/Sunnybrook Health Science Center.
This generous engagement by the Claudine and Hans-Heiner Zaeslin-Bustany Foundation boosts DBE’s efforts to encourage and facilitate mutual learning and development, to strengthen international ties between leading academic and medical research institutions, and to thus trigger the cross-pollination of ideas across disciplines, perspectives, and continents.
The DBE will invite surgeons from Duke University and Sunnybrook to Basel to immerse themselves in an environment that is renowned for its cutting-edge surgical techniques and innovative research in Orthopedic Sports Medicine, like nose-to-knee, laser osteotome, Virtual Reality and others. Fellows visiting Basel can also participate in the annual, well established Basel International Elbow Course which has trained surgeons in complex elbow surgery around the globe for more than one decade.
In turn, PhD students and postdocs from DBE and USB will be funded to participate in projects and programs in Durham NC and Toronto to acquire the cutting-edge research and clinical practice in the leading institutions of our partners.
The program also includes annual think tank retreats that will address selected topics/challenges in small groups of leading experts from Basel, Durham, Toronto, and beyond within a collegial and intellectually stimulating setting. By bringing together diverse groups of experts these retreats are supposed to help shape the future of orthopedic surgery, to drive improvements in patient care, and to advance the state of the art in surgical techniques.