Christof Radler MD

Dr. Christof Radler is a consultant surgeon and director of the Clubfoot clinic at the Department for Pediatric Orthopedics in the Orthopaedic Hospital Speising Vienna. He was one of the first in the German-speaking countries to introduce the Ponseti method after having trained with Dr. Herzenberg, Dr. Ponseti, and Dr. Morcuende and published the first German paper on the Ponseti method. As a member of Austrian Doctors for Disabled, he initiated a clubfoot project in Bamako, Mali in 2006, where a busy clubfoot clinic is now treating about 200 patients each year. He is a member of the VKO (German-speaking Society of Pediatric Orthopedics) and EPOS and has been involved in many Ponseti courses and teaching activities worldwide over the last eight years. His second focus of clinical practice and research is limb lengthening, deformity correction, and reconstruction. He has been faculty and co-director of the Vienna Ilizarov and TSF courses for many years.