Surgeon, Physio Learning instructor
A hand and upper limb surgeon in Lyon, she sits on the board of the Société française de chirurgie de la main and is a member of the Académie nationale de chirurgie. Trained at the Mayo Clinic, in New York and in Hong Kong, she directs several international wrist and elbow arthroscopy courses.
2010
Completed her medical studies, University of Lyon
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International fellowships: Mayo Clinic, Hospital for Special Surgery, Hong Kong
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International wrist and elbow surgery courses she directs
2015
Antonin-Poncet Prize from the University of Lyon for her work on the lunate
Surgery, biomechanics, research and teaching, all in the same movement. Her ground is the wrist and the elbow, her instrument of choice arthroscopy, and her underlying subject the way structures repair themselves — or fail to.
2004 to 2010 · Initial training
University of Lyon.
2010 to 2015 · Residency
Hand and upper limb surgery units in Lyon and Paris, paediatric orthopaedic surgery, digestive and vascular surgery, with certificates in microsurgery, general surgery, upper limb ultrasound, arthroscopy and hand surgery.
2015 to 2019 · Specialisation
Hand and upper limb surgery unit in Lyon, then hand surgery at the Prince of Wales Hospital in Hong Kong, at the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York and at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester.
2017 to 2019 · Research
MSc in biomechanics from the University of Lyon, graduating top of her year, followed by a first year of doctoral research in the same field.
Today · Clinical
Institut chirurgical de la main et du membre supérieur, clinique du Médipôle and hôpital privé Jean-Mermoz.
Since 2015 · Academic teaching
Co-director of the Lyon Wrist Course since 2015, of the Lyon Elbow Course since 2020 and of the IRCAD wrist courses since 2020, and director of the IRCAD elbow course since 2022.
Her work covers wrist arthroscopy, reconstruction of the scaphoid and of the triangular fibrocartilage, and wrist arthroplasty in independent older patients. Here are four references from a bibliography that runs to several dozen.
Dry Wrist Arthroscopy for Ulnar-Sided Wrist Disorders
Burnier M, Herzberg G, Luchetti R, Del Piñal F, Kakar S. Journal of Hand Surgery (American Volume), 2021.
Revision Elbow Arthroplasty Using Proximal Ulnar Allograft Triceps for Combined Ulnar Bone Loss and Triceps Insufficiency
Burnier M, Nguyen NTV, Morrey ME, O'Driscoll SW, Sanchez-Sotelo J. Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (American Volume), 2020.
Surgical management of irreparable rotator cuff tears: what works, what does not, and what is coming
Burnier M, Elhassan B, Sanchez-Sotelo J. Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, 2019.
Primary Wrist Hemiarthroplasty for Irreparable Distal Radius Fracture in the Independent Elderly
Herzberg G, Burnier M, Marc A, Izem Y. Journal of Wrist Surgery, 2015.
She sits on the board of the Société française de chirurgie de la main, the French hand surgery society, and is a member of the Académie nationale de chirurgie, of the Société française d'orthopédie, of the Société française d'arthroscopie, of the European Wrist Arthroscopy Society and of the Société française du coude et de l'épaule.
International courses: director of the IRCAD elbow course, co-director of the Lyon Wrist Course, of the Lyon Elbow Course and of the IRCAD wrist course.
Antonin-Poncet Prize from the University of Lyon (2015), for her work on morphological changes of the lunate in Kienböck's disease.
Examiner on medical thesis panels, on the clavicle, the humerus and reverse shoulder arthroplasty.
Junior European water-skiing champion four times over and French champion six times, in the cadet and junior categories.
4,7/5 · 98 % of the 60 participants recommend this course (post-course questionnaire)
The surgeon's view of the elbow, in the course she co-teaches with Tessadit Aissaoui: what has been repaired, what will hold, and what rehabilitation can ask of it — and when.
Discover the courseClear, and quick to put into practice.
Very good course, complete and very clear, both on the surgical side and on the physio side.
The strong point of the course is the content and the way things are taught and explained.
Marion Burnier is a hand and upper limb surgeon in Lyon, at the Institut chirurgical de la main et du membre supérieur. Trained in Lyon, Paris, Hong Kong, New York and at the Mayo Clinic, and holder of an MSc in biomechanics, she sits on the board of the Société française de chirurgie de la main.
She co-teaches Elbow rehabilitation with Tessadit Aissaoui, as an e-learning course.
Because elbow rehabilitation depends closely on what was done in theatre: what was repaired, with which fixation, and what that fixation will take. Her presence gives physiotherapists a first-hand reading of the surgical procedure. Our upper limb courses are gathered on the hand, elbow and shoulder page.
On wrist arthroscopy, scapholunate reconstruction, the triangular fibrocartilage and arthroplasty of the wrist and elbow. She received the Antonin-Poncet Prize from the University of Lyon in 2015 for her imaging work on Kienböck's disease.
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