Felix Eckstein 

Director
Institute for Anatomy, Salzburg
Paracelsus Private Medical University of Salzburg
Austria

Doctor Orthopaedics
Biography

Acceptance into the German Academy of Natural Sciences Leopoldina and into the National Academy of Sciences. Board Member of the Board of Directors of the Society of Osteoarthritis Research Society International (OARSI). Secretary General of the Osteoarthritis Research Society International (OARSI). Professor of Anatomy, Director Institute of Anatomy and Musculoskeletal Research, Paracelsus Private Medical University, Salzburg, Austria. Cofounder of "Chondrometrics GmbH - medialdata processing", a company specialized in providing image analysis service for research and pharmaceutical industry. Focus: Quantitative analysis of articular cartilage morphology from magnetic resonance images. President of the German Society of Biomechanics.

Research Intrest

Anatomy

List of Publications
Culvenor AG, Felson DT, Niu J, Wirth W, Sattler M, Dannhauer T, Eckstein F. Thigh Muscle Specific‐Strength and the Risk of Incident Knee Osteoarthritis: The Influence of Sex and Greater Body Mass Index. Arthritis Care & Research. 2017 Aug 1;69(8):1266-70.
Burda B, Steidle-Kloc E, Dannhauer T, Wirth W, Ruhdorfer A, Eckstein F. VARIANCE IN INFRA-PATELLAR FAT PAD VOLUME: DOES THE BODY MASS INDEX MATTER? DATA FROM OSTEOARTHRITIS INITIATIVE PARTICIPANTS WITHOUT SYMPTOMS OR SIGNS OF KNEE DISEASE. Annals of Anatomy-Anatomischer Anzeiger. 2017 May 25.
Boeth H, MacMahon A, Eckstein F, Diederichs G, Schlausch A, Wirth W, Duda GN. MRI findings of knee abnormalities in adolescent and adult volleyball players. Journal of experimental orthopaedics. 2017 Feb 21;4(1):6.