Drobnic Matej PhD, MD

Dr. Matej Drobnic is a consultant in the Sports and Arthroscopy Team at the Department of Orthopedic Surgery, University Medical Center Ljubljana, Slovenia/EU. He completed his MD at the University of Ljubljana in 1999, and the residency in orthopedic surgery in 2007. His clinical work is focused on the reconstructive surgery of the knee and the foot/ankle region. Matej Drobnic has been active in the cartilage tissue engineering since 2000. He completed his MSc (2003) and PhD Thesis (2006) at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, covering the surgical aspects of cell-based cartilage therapies.

During that period he has been involved in five national and one international research project. In 2009 he was nominated an assistant professor of orthopedics at the Medical faculty of Ljubljana. He is an active member of national (CTESS, SOS-SOA) and international societies (ICRS, YSOS, ESSKA, AO Alumni). Since 2010 he has been involved in the Medical commission at the Olympic comitte of Slovenia.