Awards and honours
2018 Honorary member of Spine Society of Europe - EUROSPINE
2017 Honorary member of ISAKOS
2015 AFC Presidential Award
2010 Honorary Member of Czech Medical Association
2009 Universitas Carolina Pragensis / Nummum Memoriatem Argentum
2009 First Marathon-Prize Swiss Orthopaedic Society
2009 NCAA Research Award
2008 Spine Society of Europe: Best Podium presentation
2007 Spine Society of Europe Award for clinical science
2007 Spine Society of Europe Award for Basic Science
1999 Volvo Award for Spine Research of the International Society for Study of Lumbar Spine
1998 Carl Rabl award of the South German Orthopaedics Association
1997 Knoll-BASF Award for Manual Medicine
1994 Award of the Swiss Neurological Society (Functional evaluation of the spinal cord by MRI in patients RA and atlantoaxiale instability)
1986 Neuro-orthopaedic Award (Rotatory instability of the upper cervical spine), Germany
1986 Resident’s Award of the North American Cervical Spine Research Society (Functional anatomy and biomechanical properties of the alar and transverse ligaments)