Dr.
Placido Bartolone is an orthopedic surgeon, specialist in hip and knee surgery and trauma in Geneva.
He obtained a medical degree from the Faculty of Medicine in Messina, Italy, in 2009.
Dr Bartolone has worked in different hospitals: from 2009-2011 in Neuchâtel , from 2011-2012 at the Center Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois in Lausanne and from 2012-2017 and in Geneva at the Center Hospitalier Universitaire de Genève .
In 2017, he left for a fellowship in Canada at the Ottawa Hospital in hip replacement and hip preservation.
he received Maurice E Muller Preis Swiss Orthopedics June 2014, Saint Gallen (CH), Dual vs. Mono-mobility cup for dislocation prevention following revision THA
Dr Bartolone is also a member of the Swiss Medical Association FMH. .
Career Timeline
Medical Diploma, Medical School of Messina, Italy.
Hopital Neuchateloise de La Chaux de Fonds, Neuchatel, Switzerland.
Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland.
Fellowship in hip arthroplasty and hip preservation, Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, Canada.
Hip and knee surgeon at Hirslanden Clinic la Colline, Geneva, Switzerland.
Residency program
- FMH Swiss Medical Association
- Neuchatel and Lausanne, 2009-2012 [vascular surgery, plastics surgery, urology, visceral surgery, emergency, trauma and orthopaedics], obtained Certificate of Completion of basic surgical training (examen de base 2012).
- FMH Swiss Medical Association.
- Geneva, 2012-2017 [trauma and orthopaedics] Specialist in Orthopaedic surgery and Traumatology from November 2015.
Prizes and awards
Maurice E Muller Preis Swiss Orthopaedics Juin 2014, Saint Gallen (CH), Dual vs. Mono-mobility cup for dislocation prevention following revision THA.