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Anne Lübbeke-Wolff
MD, MSc, DSc
Visiting Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery
- Associate Professor, Division of Orthopaedics and Trauma Surgery, Geneva University Hospitals and Geneva University, Switzerland
Anne Lübbeke-Wolff is a clinical researcher and epidemiologist in the field of orthopaedic surgery. She is nationally and internationally recognized for her expertise in hip and knee arthroplasty outcomes, registry research, comparative effectiveness evaluation and medical device epidemiology. Further work includes the impact of obesity on osteoarthritis and joint replacement as well as the use of patient-reported outcomes in registries. She has a longstanding experience with registries from her work with the Geneva Arthroplasty Registry (development and lead) since 2000 and the Swiss National Joint Registry (SIRIS) from 2016 to 2018. Since May 2024 she is the president of the International Society of Arthroplasty Registries (ISAR).
Anne Lübbeke-Wolff was educated in Marburg, Germany, where she graduated as a doctor of medicine in 1993. After two years of training in orthopaedic surgery she moved to clinical research and completed her education with a master's degree in epidemiology (Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, 2005) and a doctor of science degree in clinical epidemiology (Erasmus University Rotterdam, 2007). She obtained the title of privat-docent at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva in 2013 and was appointed assistant professor in 2017. Since March 2018 she holds a visiting professorship of orthopaedic surgery at the University of Oxford.
Key publications
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Mapping existing hip and knee replacement registries in Europe.
Lübbeke A. et al, (2018), Health policy, 122, 548 - 557
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The role of national registries in improving patient safety for hip and knee replacements.
Lübbeke A. et al, (2017), Bmc musculoskelet disord, 18
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Clinical investigations to evaluate high-risk orthopaedic devices: a systematic review of the peer-reviewed medical literature.
Lübbeke A. et al, (2023), Efort open rev, 8, 781 - 791
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Introduction of innovations in joint arthroplasty: Recommendations from the 'EFORT implant and patient safety initiative'.
Overgaard S. et al, (2023), Efort open rev, 8, 509 - 521
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Consensus recommendations on how to assess the quality of surgical interventions.
Domenghino A. et al, (2023), Nat med, 29, 811 - 822
Recent publications
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Radiographic signs and hip pain 5 years after THA with a cemented stem predict future revision for aseptic loosening: a prospective cohort study.
Lübbeke A. et al, (2024), Acta orthop, 95, 32 - 38
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Clinical investigations to evaluate high-risk orthopaedic devices: a systematic review of the peer-reviewed medical literature.
Lübbeke A. et al, (2023), Efort open rev, 8, 781 - 791
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Introduction of innovations in joint arthroplasty: Recommendations from the 'EFORT implant and patient safety initiative'.
Overgaard S. et al, (2023), Efort open rev, 8, 509 - 521
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Consensus recommendations on how to assess the quality of surgical interventions.
Domenghino A. et al, (2023), Nat med, 29, 811 - 822
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Identification of implant outliers in joint replacement registries.
de Steiger RN. et al, (2023), Efort open rev, 8, 11 - 17