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Yechiel Gotfried M.D. M.S. (Orthop.) - Director R&D
Dr. Yechiel Gotfried was until 2005 Senior Orthopedic Surgeon, Bnai Zion
Medical Center (Rothschild), Haifa , Israel and since then senior Orthopaedic Adviser.
Dr. Gotfried completed his internship and residency in orthopaedic surgery at Bnai Zion (Rothschild) University Hospital in Haifa , Israel . Additional training included Microsurgery of the Spine at the Neurochirurgische Universitatsklinic, in Homburg/Saar, Germany , Microsurgical Research Fellowship at the Johns Hopkins University , School of Medicine , in Baltimore , Maryland , a Post Doctoral Associate (Spine) at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis, USA and a Spinal Fellowship at the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital in Oswestry, England, which he completed with distinction.
Dr. Gotfried published on bone transplantation (JBJS-AM, Book chapter), spine (JBJS-AM, spine), fracture fixation (JOT, CORR, Orthopaedics) and biomechanics (JOT).
He has lectured across the globe, among them are the following:
• Intertrochanteric Hip Fractures: Different Understanding, Different Handling. An integrated approach to the Prevention & Treatment of Osteoporotic Fractures, Dublin , Ireland .
• A Percutaneous Compression Plate for Pertrochanteric Fractures: Theory and Clinical Material. La Frattura Pertrochanterica, Milan , Italy .
• The Reasons of the Gotfried system, mini-invasive and advantageous, biomechanical point of view. 1st European Congress on Geriatric Orthopaedic and Traumatology, Milan , 2005, Italy .
• The Orthopaedic Trauma Association annual meeting,2004, USA .
• Elderly Trauma Patient international meeting, Elba ,2005, Italy ;
• Florida Orthopaedic Scientific Annual meeting, 2005, USA .
• Hip 2005 Congress, Toulouse , 2005, France .
• The Russian-Israeli Trauma meeting, 2005 Haifa , Israel .
In 1993 Dr.Gotfried established a family company named EFRATGO Ltd. To develop, manufacture and market orthopaedic implants based on his new ideas and concepts (never me-too products) to improve surgical results
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