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Dr. med. René Spalinger

Head physician, Clinic for Surgery

Spital Zollikerberg
Klinik für Chirurgie
Trichtenhauserstrasse 20
8125 Zollikerberg

Specialist title

Specialist in surgery, especially general surgery and traumatology

Work Focus

  • Colorectal surgery and proctology (surgery of the colon and rectum)
  • Hernia surgery
  • Laparoscopic surgery (minimally invasive surgery of the abdominal cavity)

Career Path

  • 2004
    Specialised in general and trauma surgery
  • Since 2003
    Head of Surgery, Zollikerberg Hospital
  • 2002 - 2003
    Registrar Department of Colorectal Surgery, Singapore General Hospital
  • 1999
    Specialist in Surgery
  • 1998
    Senior Consultant Surgeon, Zollikerberg Hospital
  • 1994
    Dissertation, University of Zurich
  • 1993 - 1998
    Assistant doctor at various surgical clinics
    (Richterswil Hospital, Männedorf District Hospital, Zimmerberg Hospital, Zurich University Hospital)
  • 1986 - 1992
    Medical studies, University of Zurich

Memberships

  • Medical Association of the Canton of Zurich (AGZ)
  • Swiss Medical Association (FMH)
  • Swiss Society for General Surgery and Traumatology (SGACT)
  • Swiss Society for Visceral Surgery (SGVC)
  • European Society of Coloproctology (ESCP)

Publications

Single-Incision and Natural Orifice Translumenal Endoscopic Surgery in Switzerland

Adamina M., Brunner W., Keerl A., Lamm S.H., Nocito A., Scheiwiller A., Spalinger R., Steinemann D. C., Vorburger St.A., Zerz A., 2017

Medium

World J Surg

Page

Feb; 41(2), S. 449–456

Single-Incision and Natural Orifice Translumenal Endoscopic Surgery in Switzerland

Steinemann D. C., Zerz A., Adamina M., Brunner W., Keerl A., Nocito A., Scheiwiller A., Spalinger R., Vorburger St.A., Lamm S.H., 2016

Medium

World J Surg

Page

2017 Feb;41(2), S. 449-456 (online first 2016:DOI 10.1007/s00268-016-3723-7)

Die koloku­tane Fistel – eine seltene Komplikation der perkutanen endoskopischen Gastro­stomie

Heuss L.T., Spalinger R., 2012

Medium

Dtsch Med Wochenschau

Page

Oct;137(40), S. 2043–6