Max Aebi MD, PhD, DHC, FRCSC

Dr. Max Aebi was born in 1948 and raised in Switzerland. Graduated from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Bern in 1974/75. After working as a young surgeon in Ethiopia, he completed residency and fellowships for Board certification as General Surgeon FMH 1982 and Orthopedic Surgeon FMH 1983 in Switzerland.

He is FRCSC Board certification in Canada from the Royal College in 1993, and AMP Diploma from INSEAD, Fontainebleau, Paris in 1999. He is the Founder and Chief of the first Swiss University Spine Unit, at the University Hospital in Bern, Switzerland from1983 in 1991. Professor and Chair Emeritus of the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at McGill University and Orthopedic Surgeon‐in‐Chief at McGill University Health Center (MUHC) in Montreal, Canada from 1991 to2002. Founder, Professor, and Co‐Director Emeritus of the MEM Orthopedic Research Center, the University of Bern till 2011.