Name and title: Jari Salo, MD, PhD, Professor, Chief Surgeon at Mehiläinen Helsinki
Special areas of expertise: Joint cartilage problems, surgery and diagnostics
Additional expertise: Special expertise in bone and cartilage biology; more than 10,000 operations
Quote: “An elite-level career needs elite-level care.”
Education and work history:
- MD, Oulu, Finland, 1994; PhD, Oulu, 2002
- Specialist in Orthopaedics and Trauma Surgery, Helsinki, 2002
- Innovator in bringing Cone Beam CT (CBCT) imaging into orthopaedic surgery
- Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Chief Surgeon, Mehiläinen Helsinki, 2013–
Patients include: Numerous national team players from different disciplines, EuroLeague and NBA basketball players, UEFA footballers and many individual athletes, e.g. MotoGP and FIA drivers.
Procedures per year: 300
Contact with sports clubs: Consultant to Helsinki Seagulls, Zenit St. Petersburg and many other teams, as well as to several sports agencies in football and basketball. FIM-licensed Chief Medical Officer.
Memberships:
- Finnish Medical Association
- Finnish Orthopaedic Association
- International Cartilage Regeneration and Joint Preservation Society (ICRS)
- American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine (AOSSM)
- Royal Society of Medicine
- Co-founder of European Society for Tissue Regeneration in Orthopaedics and Traumatology (ESTROT)
Contact information: jari.salo@sportshospital.com