Docteur Olivier Borens

Specialist in
Orthopaedic surgery and traumatology
Languages
French, German, English

Core competencies

  • Primary and revision prosthetic surgery on lower limbs
  • Septic surgery (infections) after prosthesis and fractures, diabetic foot and amputations
  • Pelvis and acetabulum trauma
  • Lower limb trauma

Professional career

2017 - 2022
Associate Professor of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, University of Lausanne
2013 - 2017
Chief Orthopaedic Trauma Unit, University Hospital Lausanne, CHUV
2007 - 2022
Chief Septic Surgical Unit, University Hospital Lausanne, CHUV

Schools, university & degrees and diplomas

2020
Good clinical practice (incl. promoter-investigator programme)
2017
Micro-MBA, institutional programme in administration, CHUV, Lausanne
2016
Associate Professor, University of Lausanne and CHUV
2013
Lecturer, University of Lausanne
2006
MER 1 (teaching and research), University of Lausanne
2001
Specialist title for Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Swiss Society for Orthopaedics and Traumatology (swiss orthopaedics)
1994
Doctor title, University of Basel

Practices at

Memberships and partnerships

  • Swiss Orthopaedics
  • European Bone and Joint Infection Society, EBJIS
  • AOTrauma Switzerland
  • AOTrauma World
  • Société Vaudoise de Médecine, SVM

Publications & videos

Events & lectures