Dr. Hans Gschnitzer studied medicine at the Leopold-Franzens University of Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria, earning his doctorate in 1998. He subsequently completed military service with additional training as an army doctor in Vienna and Innsbruck.

During his specialization in trauma surgery (1999–2006), he gained cross-disciplinary experience in general surgery, neurosurgery, orthopedics, forensic medicine and plastic surgery at the University Hospital of Innsbruck. He continued his training as a trauma surgery specialist in Bludenz, Innsbruck and St. Johann in Tyrol.

From 2006 he worked as a senior consultant at the Department of Trauma Surgery at the District Hospital of St. Johann in Tyrol, becoming leading senior consultant from 2009 to 2017.

Between 2012 and 2016 he pursued additional training in manual medicine in Ulm, Damp, Bad Häring (Germany) and Graz (Austria). In 2015 he established his private practice. Dr. Gschnitzer is an experienced trauma surgeon and manual medicine practitioner. In 2024 he received a diploma in phytotherapy by the Austrian Medical Association (ÖÄK).