Balz Aklin

Educational course

Study of Human Medicine, University of Bern

• 2001 promotion
  “In Vitro Model for the Study of Necrosis and Apoptosis in Native Cartilage” Institute of Pathology, University of Bern
• 2001 — 2003
  Postdoctoral Cartilage Surgery, “Osteoarticular Research Group”, Institute of Pathology, University of Bern
• 2003 — 2005
  Orthopaedic University Hospital Basel
• 2005 — 2006
  Münsingen Hospital, Münsingen Orthopaedic Center
• 2006 — 2010
  Orthopedic Clinic, Aarau Cantonal Hospital, Senior Physician, Head of Hip Team
• 2010 — 2013
  Deputy Chief Physician Orthopedic Center Münsingen, Head of Orthopedic Sports Center Münsingen/Swiss Sport Clinic
• Septembre 2013
  Opening of the Salem Hospital Bern practice, takeover of Dr. med. Bernhard Huber

Publications

• Grogan SP, Aklin B, Frenz M, Brunner T, Schaffner T, Mainil-Varlet P. In vitro model for the study of necrosis and apoptosis in native cartilage. J Pathol. 2002 Sep; 198 (1) :5-13.
• Brehm W, Aklin B, Yamashita T, Rieser F, Trüb T, Jakob RP, Mainil-Varlet P. Repair of superficial osteochondral defects with an autologous scaffold-free cartilage construct in a caprine model: implantation method and short-term results. Osteoarthritis Cartilage. 2006 Dec; 14 (12) :1214-26.

Abstracts and posters

• Aklin B, Rieser F, Trueb T, Grogan SP, Winkelmann V, Jakob RP, Mainil-Varlet P. Articular Cartilage Repair using DENOVO-T™: a scaffold-free cartilage-like implant. 5^th ICRS meeting, Ghent, 2004, abstract 805, 17.
• Brehm W, Aklin B, Yamashita T, Rieser F, Trueb T, Mainil-Varlet P. Cartilage repair using DENOVO-T™ in a caprine superficial osteochondral defect model. 5^th ICRS Meeting, Ghent, 2004, abstract, poster 806, 100.
• Aklin B, Brehm W, Mainil-Varlet P. Periosteal flap loosening rate in a caprine chondral defect model, 8^th WC OARSI, Berlin, 2003, Vol. 11, Suppl A, 107.
• Brehm W, Aklin B, Mainil-Varlet P. Subchondral bone remodeling in a caprine cartilage defect model 8^th WC OARSI, Berlin, 2003, Vol 11, Suppl A, 28.
• Aklin B, Wang X, Kohler I, Grogan SP, Rieser F, Trueb T, Schaffner T, Mainil-Varlet P. Compartmental repair of osteochondral defects: a preliminary study in rabbits. DKF. Clinical Research Day, University of Bern, 2002.
• Brehm W, Aklin B, Wang X, Trueb T, Jakob RP, Mainil-Varlet P. Novel Technologies to Repair Cartilage Defects. SGO, Switzerland Med Forum, 2003, Suppl 15, 29p.
• Grogan SP, Aklin B, Frenz M, Schaffner T, Mainil-Varlet P. Rapid Evaluation of Cell Viability and Apoptosis in Intact Cartilage via Confocal Microscopy, 47^th Annual Meeting ORS, San Francisco, 2001, abstract 34.