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Tuesday, 21 July 2009 16:59 |
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 Professor René Zellweger (MD, FRACS, FACS) is a specialist in trauma surgery and a speaker of international reputation. In recent years he has become particularly interested in the development and future of trauma around the world.
René Zellweger is a Clinical Professor within the School of Surgery and Pathology at the University of Western Australia. He works as a Consultant at Royal Perth Hospital in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Trauma and is actively involved in research, mainly in bone metabolism and immunology. Previous to this he worked for two years at Michigan State and Brown University in the USA and as a Consultant and Trauma-Teamleader for over 10 years at the University Hospital in Zurich, Switzerland. René also worked as a trauma surgeon for the International Red Cross in the civil war in Sudan and spent two years in Cape Town, working as a Consultant in the extremely busy Trauma Unit at the Groote Schuur Hospital.
He has gained personal experience on several disaster scenes, such as the earthquake in Kobe and at the Tsunami in Banda Aceh. Professor René Zellweger is a fellow/member of several international associations, such as the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons, the American College of Surgeons, American Association for the Surgery of Trauma, International Society of Surgery, and the European Trauma and Shock Society. He has written more than 60 publications, and contributed to many textbooks in a variety of languages.
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