Prof.Dr.med. Volker Schöffl, MD, MHBA, FAWM, 

Prof.Dr.Volker Schöffl is an Adjunct Professor of Trauma and Orthopedic Surgery, University Erlangen, Germany, an Adjoint Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Colorado School of Medicine and a Visiting Professor at the School of Clinical and Applied Sciences, Leeds Becket University, UK. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Wilderness Medicine (WMS) and a German Board certified General Surgeon as well as an Orthopedic and Trauma Surgeon. He also holds Board degrees for Sports Medicine and Emergency Medicine. 

Dr.Schöffls academic focus is on extreme sports medicine, climbing injuries, biomechanics of the hand, alpine and wilderness medicine and surgery in developing countries. He is section head of the Center of Sportsmedicine at the Klinikum Bamberg, Germany and heading a medical partnership program with the Khamouane Provincial Hospital in Thakhek, Laos, where he also regularly practices. He is a member of the Medical Commissions of the UIAA and the IFSC. He is the team physician to the German Climbing Team and to the German Skimountainering Team.