Obituary: Daniel Fritschy (1947–2021)

[摘要] Dear EFORT Members, Colleagues and Friends,With profound sadness we announce the passing ofProfessor Daniel Fritschy. He unexpectedly died on 2ndAugust 2021, while vacationing in Sweden. He was 74years of age.Daniel Fritschy was born on 12th May 1947, in St Imier,a town located in the Swiss Jura. Enthused by sports at anearly age, especially soccer, he naturally focused on themusculoskeletal system. After medical school in Geneva,he embraced orthopaedics. Daniel accomplished his training at the University Hospital of Geneva, obtained a doctorate in 1977 and completed two fellowships, the first in1978 in Paris, at the Cochin and Trousseau Hospitals andthe second, later on in 1990, in San Diego with Dale Daniel at the Kaiser Permanente. The latter was a sports medicine research fellowship awarded to Daniel by the SwissSociety of Orthopaedics. Upon his return in 1985, hejoined the staff in the Orthopaedic Department in Geneva,obtained a Privat-Docent in 1990 and began his 23-yearcareer as a faculty member of the Department of Surgeryof the University Hospital of Geneva where he rose to therank of Associate Professor in 1999 and Chief of the Surgical Outpatient Department.

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