About doctor Clayton Nolan Kraft
Clayton Nolan Kraft leads the direction of orthopedics at the Helios Clinic Concern. He received a specialization in hand surgery – the highest achievement in orthopedics. That is why he easily cope with operations on the hip joint, knee, ankle, shoulder and others.
Specialization and interests:
- Replacement of large joints without cutting muscles and ligaments (endoprosthetics of the hip, knee, ankle, shoulder, elbow joints),
- Hand surgery,
- Foot surgery,
- Trauma surgery,
- Sports Traumatology,
- Arthroscopy and ligament surgery,
- Chest surgery,
- Spinal Curvature Surgery,
- Surgery of hernias of the cervical and lumbar spine.
Education and work experience:
- In 1996 – Candidate of medical sciences,
- From 1997 to 2005 – Senior doctor in the orthopedics department of the University Hospital Bonn,
- 2005 – 2007 – Deputy Director of Orthopedics at the University Hospital Dusseldorf. The most complex operations were carried out with his participation,
- Since 2007 – Director of the Orthopedics Clinic Helios Krefeld,
- 2015 – Head of the Department of Orthopedics of the Concern of Helios Group clinics,
- Professor provides surgeries, issues scientific publications and trains young doctors at the Medical University of Bonn.
Scientific activity:
- He has a doctorate and he is a professor,
- He has published 72 articles with h-index 17.