PD DR. MED. LISA BODE
PD Dr. med. Lisa Bode
Consultant in Orthopaedics and Trauma Surgery
Additional qualification in paediatric and adolescent orthopaedics
Team doctor of the German women’s national football team (DFB)
Head of medical services for women’s and girls’ football, SC Freiburg
Areas of practice
Modern, individual and sport-specific treatment of injuries and overuse damage – for children, adolescents and adults, from recreational to elite sport.
- Sports injuries in children, adolescents and adults
- Foot and ankle surgery
- Knee surgery and modern joint treatment
- Treatment of tendon injuries (Achilles, patellar and quadriceps tendon)
- Apophyseal injuries during growth
- Guided growth and paediatric orthopaedics
- Treatment of overuse complaints in sport
- Sex- and gender-specific sports orthopaedics
- Return-to-sport and prevention programmes for competitive athletes
Curriculum vitae
Medical training
2008 – 2015 Studied human medicine at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
2011 Admitted to the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes (German Academic Scholarship Foundation)
2011 – 2012 Study period at the Université de Lausanne
June 2015 Medical licence (Approbation) at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
July 2023 Board certification as Consultant in Orthopaedics and Trauma Surgery
March 2026 Additional qualification in paediatric and adolescent orthopaedics
Professional career
Since 09/2015 Registrar at the Department of Orthopaedics and Trauma Surgery, Universitätsklinik Freiburg (Prof. Dr. N. P. Südkamp / Prof. Dr. H. Schmal)
Since 04/2017 Team doctor for the women’s first team (1. Fußball-Bundesliga), the women’s second team and the U15 to U17 sides, SC Freiburg
Since 01/2023 Lead team doctor for the SC Freiburg men’s U23 side, the women’s section and the youth academy
Since 09/2023 Team doctor for the DFB junior women’s squads
Since 10/2024 Head of the medical department for the women’s and girls’ section and the youth academy, SC Freiburg
Since 02/2026 Team doctor of the German women’s national football team (DFB)
Academic career
Doctorate (2015) „Biomechanische Testung verschiedener Stabilisierungsverfahren mittels Fixateur externe zur Behandlung suprakondylärer Humerusfrakturen bei Kindern“, Universitätsklinik Freiburg
Habilitation (11/2023) „Die valgisierende mediale open-wedge Osteotomie – Entwicklung eines individualisierten Therapiealgorithmus“. Venia legendi in experimental orthopaedics and trauma surgery, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Publications Author and co-author of more than 50 scientific publications.
Prizes & research funding
- Best Abstract Award, GOTS congress 2017
- AO Trauma early career award 2018
- DKG research funding 2022: prevention of knee injuries in professional women’s and girls’ football
- Research funding 2022 under the KaNeF programme of the Faculty of Medicine of the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
- ESSKA research funding 2026 for the prevention of knee injuries in competitive youth football
Memberships & reviewing
- GOTS – member of the committees for paediatric sports orthopaedics and for sex- and gender-specific sports medicine
- ESSKA-ESMA – Board Member
- DFB – member of the expert group on football medicine and of the committee for medicine and health
- AO Trauma
- DGOU – German society for orthopaedics and trauma surgery, working group on sex- and gender-sensitive medicine
- AGA – society for arthroscopy and joint surgery
- DKG – German Knee Society
Reviewing Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Sports Orthopedics and Traumatology; reviewer for PLoS One, BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, BMC Pediatrics, The BMJ and KSSTA