Prof. Farshad is Medical Hospital Director and Chair of Orthopedics and Spine Surgery at Balgrist University Hospital, Director of the University Spine Center Zurich and Full Professor of Orthopedics at the University of Zurich. He studied human medicine at the University of Zurich and completed his residency in orthopedics mainly at Balgrist University Hospital. At the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York, Prof. Farshad specialized in spine surgery as "Chief Clinical Fellow" and rotated at Memorial Sloan Kettering Center in the field of spine tumors. In addition, he holds a Master's degree in Public Health (MPH). He then returned to Switzerland and build the largest University Spine Center nationally where he acts as Chief-Surgeon. Farshad founded also, among others, the Department of Clinical and Applied Research (UCAR) in 2014, the University Spine Center Zurich in 2018 and the University Center for Preventive and Sports Medicine in 2019. In addition, he is founder and principal investigator of SURGENT, a project of the University Medical Center Zurich, which aims to set new standards for patient-specific planning and performance of precision surgery in the field of spine and neurosurgery. Another project he initiated and founded is OR-X (Operating Room X), a national translational research and teaching center, which provides researchers and developers with an infrastructure for the efficient development and validation of new surgical technologies and innovations.