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Thomas Boerger

MD FRCSI (TR&ORTH) CONSULTANT ORTHOPAEDIC & TRAUMA SURGEON

Dr. Boerger is a recognised specialist in Hip Replacement, Knee Replacement, (Bilateral) Partial Knee Replacement, Knee Ligament Reconstruction, and Trauma Surgery. With an international career spanning three decades, Dr. Boerger is fully licenced and registered in the UK & Gibraltar as well as Spain.

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Medical Registrations

Dr. Thomas Boerger is a fully licensed doctor and specialist orthopaedic surgeon. He maintains a valid license to practice in the UK & Gibraltar, through annual appraisal and re-validation. Dr. Boerger also maintains specialist registration as an orthopaedic surgeon in Spain.

  • General Medical Council (UK) Registration Number: 3703423 (on the GMC specialist register since 2005)
  • Spanish Registration 292910222

When choosing a surgeon, it is important that they are not only registered, but also have a valid, current license.

Experience

Dr. Thomas Boerger has worked as a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon since 2006, specialising in Hip and Knee Replacement, and Ligament Reconstruction – with comprehensive experience in Berlin, Germany and London, UK.

PAs a junior doctor, working under Dr. Paul Aichroth at London’s Westminster Hospital, Dr. Boerger was so inspired by the life changing benefits of hip and knee surgery, and how patients were able to return to pain-free mobility, that he knew that was to be his specialism.

  • Substantive Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon since 2006
  • Performs approximately 150 knee / hip replacements per year.
  • Performs approximately 150 soft tissue / arthroscopy surgeries per year

Qualifications

Dr. Thomas Boerger’s expertise and specialism in Hip and Knee Replacement has been achieved through prestigious international Training, Qualifications, and Fellowships.

Dr. Boerger offers a holistic approach, from the initial in-depth consultation, comprehensive treatment plan, world-class surgery techniques and accelerated recovery protocols.

  • State Examination Medicine, Berlin Germany (1990)
  • Medical Doctorate, Berlin Germany (1992)
  • FRCSI, Dublin (1997)
  • FRCS (Trauma & Orthopaedic) Intercollegiate Exam. (2003)
  • CCST / UK Board Certified Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgery (2005)
  • GMC Registered since (1992), on specialist register for Trauma & Orthopaedics since (2005)
  • Annual revalidation
  • Maintains GMC License to Practice
  • British Orthopaedic Association member since (2000)
  • ISAKOS and ESSKA member since (2006)

Dr Boerger qualified from the Free University of Berlin in 1990. He gained his medical doctorate through a basic research thesis in 1992 and moved to London the same year. After basic surgical training and well-published orthopaedic research work, he gained access to specialist trauma orthopaedic training at North West Thames / Imperial College, London.

Dr. Boerger completed his subspeciality orthopaedic fellowship training in Hip and Knee Replacement and Soft Tissue/Ligament Reconstruction in Florence, Italy, Canberra, and Sydney, Australia.

In 2006 Mr Thomas Boerger was appointed substantive Consultant Hip and Knee surgeon at St Bernard’s Hospital, Gibraltar.  He has despite institutional adversity developed the orthopaedic department into a modern and successful unit. His reputation for excellence is recognised throughout Gibraltar and Southern Spain.

He has subsequently developed his private operative practice at HC International Hospital, Marbella where he treats patients from Gibraltar, Southern Spain and elsewhere.

Mr Thomas Boerger has introduced accelerated recovery after hip and knee surgery. This means that his hip and knee replacement patients regularly get up on the day of surgery; his ACL reconstruction patients go home on the day of surgery. Mr Boerger has considerable experience in bilateral partial knee replacement surgery.