He is the current Chairman of the Department of Orthopedics at the University of Zürich, Switzerland.
In 1992, he was appointed chief of the Department of Orthopedics in Fribourg and since 1995 he has worked in the Balgrist University Hospital in Zürich, where he holds the position of medical director and Chairman of the Department of Orthopedics.
Christian Gerber created the RESORTHO foundation[1] for research and education in musculoskeletal disorders to support the academic development of residents and junior staff.
He also established the Balgrist Campus,[2] a privately funded musculoskeletal research and development institution based in Zürich.
Beside his continuous clinical activity, he has also described novel surgical procedures such as the latissimus dorsi transfer[3] for a pseudoparalytic shoulder and he has described several important pathologies, such as the isolated rupture of the subscapularis tendon.