PD Dr. Med. Thomas Giesen

Specialist in Hand Surgery

Specialist in orthopedics and musculoskeletal trauma

I was born in Berlin, Germany, but I grew up and studied in Italy where I graduated at the University of Milan in 2001.

During my apprenticeship years in orthopaedic and musculoskeletal system surgery, while still in Milan, I became fascinated with an incredible instrument, the hand, one of the keys to human evolution. From the third year onwards, I joined fellowships aimed at learning this detailed and precise surgery that since 2003, after graduating in Orthopaedics and Traumatology in 2006, and until 2010, made me visit and perform surgeries in some of the most important hand surgery clinics in the world.

The “Ganga Hospital” in India, the “St'Andrew's Centre for Plastic Surgery and Burns” near London and the “Kleinert Institute” in the United States, are some of the experiences I had that I found the most beneficial, which also left me with friendships, in the professional space and outside of it, that still last to this day.

In 2010 I started working as a head physician and Team Leiter of Hand Surgery at the USZ, until 2017, when I graduated as a Privatdozent of Hand Surgery at the University of Zurich.

Since 2018 my main focus has been contributing to this complex and magnificent discipline, in Ticino.

Dr. Nikolin Poci

Following my medical licensure in Rome, Italy, in 2020, I relocated to Switzerland to initiate my clinical career within the hospital network of the German-speaking cantons. I completed an initial internship before expanding my scope as a resident across orthopaedics, general surgery, and traumatology. Throughout these engagements, my duties spanned emergency medicine, outpatient clinics, and inpatient ward management, enabling me to build a versatile clinical and surgical foundation.

Over the course of my practice, I cultivated a dedicated focus on hand and reconstructive surgery, a domain I actively pursued due to its intricate complexity, micro-surgical precision, and profound capacity to restore patient quality of life.

Driven to advance my surgical proficiency toward specialized certification in hand surgery, I embarked on my current clinical engagement in May 2026 under the supervision of PD Dr. Thomas Giesen.