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Dr. med. Jacek Kotas
Hand Surgery

Dr. med. Jacek Kotas

Chief Physician Hand Surgery

Clinical Focus & Subspecialties

  • Hand injuries and their consequences
  • Reimplantations
  • Contractures and deformities of the fingers (e.g. Dupuytren's contracture)
  • Compression of the peripheral nerves taking into account the endoscopic process (e.g. carpal tunnel syndrome, Sulcus ulnaris syndrome etc.)
  • Rheumatic hand
  • Painful hand joint including endoscopic method
  • Tumors on the hand
  • Congenital deformities of the hands (in cooperation with the Hospital of Pediatric Surgery at the Center of Pediatric Hand Surgery)

Curriculum Vitae

1978 – 1984 Studied Medicine in Breslau, Poland
1987  Promotion at the University in Zurich, Switzerland
1987 – 1995  Medical specialist examination for orthopedics and traumatology in Warsaw, Poland
1991  Head of department in the special clinic for diseases of the musculoskeletal system in Kamienna Gora, Poland
1991 – 1993  Head of Department in the clinic for hand surgery, in Bad Neustadt
1994 – 1999
Practiced medicine in several hopitals either as head of department or assistant chief physician
1995  Acknowledgement for hand surgery in Munich, Bavaria
1999  Chief physician for the department of hand surgery at the Helios Hospital Schwerin