Getting to know: Florian Thieringer

AO CMF Community Development Commission Vice Chairperson Florian Thieringer discusses the clinical division’s growing social medial presence—today at more than 17,000 followers and counting.

Where are you now and what do you do?

I am senior consultant CMF Surgeon at the University Hospital Basel (USB), head of both the Medical Additive Manufacturing research group (Swiss MAM) and the Smart Implants research group at the Department of Biomedical Engineering of the University of Basel, and cofounder and codirector of USB’s 3D Print Lab. I am editor in chief of our open access journal, Craniomaxillofacial Trauma & Reconstruction Open (CMTRO), AO CMF Community Development Commission vice chair, and a member of the AO CMF Europe and Southern Africa Board.

Where are you now and what do you do?

I am senior consultant CMF Surgeon at the University Hospital Basel (USB), head of both the Medical Additive Manufacturing research group (Swiss MAM) and the Smart Implants research group at the Department of Biomedical Engineering of the University of Basel, and cofounder and codirector of USB’s 3D Print Lab. I am editor in chief of our open access journal, Craniomaxillofacial Trauma & Reconstruction Open (CMTRO), AO CMF Community Development Commission vice chair, and a member of the AO CMF Europe and Southern Africa Board.