Prof. Dr. med. Henry F.H. Halm is Senior Physician of the Spinal Surgery Clinic, including the Scoliosis Centre and Thoracic Wall Deformity Centre, at the hospital in Neustadt/Holstein.

Following his degree in medicine at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf and his doctorate in 1986, Prof. Halm initially worked as a staff physician. Starting in 1987 he trained as a orthopaedic specialist in the Department of Thoracic and Vascular Surgery at the Hemer Lung Clinic, the Spinal Centre of the Werner-Wicker Clinic in Bad Wildungen, and at the Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf and the Westphalian Wilhelm University in Münster.

After further training at the universities in New York City, Kansas City, Minneapolis and San Francisco and at the Spinal Centre "Institut Calot" in Berck sur Mér, Prof. Halm qualified as an orthopaedic specialist in 1994.

In 1997 he qualified to lecture in Orthopaedics with a paper on the subject of "Biomechanical and clinical investigations aimed at optimising form correction and stabilising cases of idiopathic scoliosis" and participated in the development of numerous corrective and stabilising ventral and dorsal instrumentation systems for optimising form correction and/or stabilising the spine, and in relevant demonstration operations in Germany and other countries.

Prof. Halm was Chief Senior Physician and permanent deputy to the director of the Clinic and Outpatient Department for General Orthopaedics at the Westphalian Wilhelm University of Münster until 28 February 2000, when he was appointed Senior Physician of the Spinal Surgery Clinic and Scoliosis Centre at the hospital in Neustadt/Holstein.