Bernd Kladny has been chief physician of the Department of Orthopaedics and Trauma Surgery at the Herzogenaurach Specialist Clinic since 1996. He is active in numerous professional societies and sections, including chairman of the Rehabilitation Section of the DGOU from 2009 to 2013. In 2009 he was president of the Association of South German Orthopaedists (VSO). In 2013 he was president of the DGOOC and vice president of the DGOU. He has been general secretary of the DGOOC since 2015 and general secretary of the DGOU since 2018.