Letter from the President, Dr B Willem Schreurs
Dear All,
We are proud to announce that the guest society at our upcoming congress in the Hague 20-22nd September 2018 will be the Argentinian Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons (ACARO). We are really looking forward to welcoming them to our meeting – EHS will offer them the podium to present the view on hip orthopaedics from South America. There are a lot of connections between orthopaedic societies in South America and Europe, and this invitation is a confirmation of the lively contacts. In the next issue we will also confirm the symposia that will be part of our meeting.
As EHS, we have just seen what an invitation as a guest society can bring. As already announced in the previous newsletter, EHS was the guest society of the AAHKS meeting in Dallas. Luigi Zagra, our SciCom chairman, and I were impressed with the very high standard of presentations at this meeting.
The newest insights in Orthopaedics were presented in a very stimulating environment with a critical audience and vivid discussion. Very interesting was a session on the future of Orthopaedics with new digital tools that can help orthopaedics to deliver better care. There was also an award winning paper on local administration of antibiotics in obese patients.
Together with the Colombian Hip Society, we were recognized by AAHKS, as can be seen from our photo gallery of the event. Eduardo Garcia-Rey, the EHS guest fellow of AAHKS, reports on his month-long experience below. Please find also an introduction from Eleftherios Tsiridis to the MAST Course in Thessaloniki, co-organized by EHS, and the announcement of the WAC congress by Luigi Zagra. Finally, we have updated our Hip Meetings webpages with reports from Stanislav Bondarenko on his Kharkiv (Ukraine) congress and from Evert Smith on his Bristol (UK) meeting.
Best wishes,
Your EHS President, B Willem Schreurs
Letter from the Secretary General, Associate Prof Eleftherios Tsiridis
Dear Members,
Thank you to all our applicants for the EHS Travelling Fellowship 2018, which will take place in a European member country during Spring next year. We will carefully consider all the applications now, with the EduCom, and reveal the two selected surgeons in the New Year.
Meanwhile, we would like to wish a very warm welcome to two new Full Members of EHS: Prof John Skinner (pictured below left) and Mr Ronan Treacy (below right), both from UK. Gentlemen, we are delighted you have joined us.
Next week is the MAST 4 Course in Thessaloniki – an EFORT-approved event that is co-organized by EHS. Saturday 2nd December is the absolutely packed Hip Arthroplasty Day, and we will kick off proceedings with the “MIS THA: Video Steps for Success”, where the Chairs are: EHS President, B Willem Schreurs, EHS President Elect, Jean-Alain Epinette, EHS member Søren Overgaard and S Sturridge. EHS Past President George Macheras will lecture on MIS Direct Anterior and I myself on MIS Direct Superior.
Next on the programme is “Total Hip Arthroplasty: Modern Era of Hip Surgery”, chaired by Dr Macheras and colleagues, where lectures will include: Robotic Navigation MAKO-plasty THA current concepts, by Lazaros Poultsides; Monoblock Vitamin E sockets for primary THA, by Efstathios Chronopoulos; VR training in MIS THA the way forward, by Efstathios Kenanidis – all members of EHS.
Following on is the very interesting “Revision Total Hip Arthroplasty: Removing Implants & Dual Mobility Concept”, where lectures will include Dual mobility in young patients and revision cases by Jean-Alain Epinette; and I will reveal Tricks to remove the socket.
Then is the “Revision Total Hip Arthroplasty: Reconstruction Techniques TM vs Graft” where lectures will include Reconstruction of the femur: IG or Uncemented long from Prof Schreurs.
Still before lunch is the “THA Complications & Registry Data”, where Jean-Alain Epinette will talk on Immunoallergy and ALVAL in modularity; Prof Schreurs will lecture of course on Dutch Registry Results (Hip); Søren Overgaard will take to the stand twice, once for Risk factors for deep infection in THA and the prognosis and again for Danish Registry Results (Hip) and Efstathios Kenanidis will enlighten us on Arthroplasty Registry Thessaloniki – Registry Results.
The afternoon is then taken up with four simultaneous workshops:
- Customised Spacers Course: Stage I Infection Revision
- THA Revision Course: Augments, Cup-Cage, ETO, Modular Tapered Stems, Impaction Grafting, Figure of 7
- TKA Revision Course: Augments, CCK, stem & offset
- Virtual Reality: THA & TKA Course
I very much look forward to welcoming you all to Thessaloniki, Hellas for this, our 4th MAST course, this year focusing on MIS Arthroplasty and related techniques and technologies and introducing for the first time our international virtual reality training course, “VITRO 1” (Virtual Training Orthopaedics 1), where we offer participants the unique opportunity to train in hip (& knee) arthroplasty surgery.
EHS Secretary General, Associate Prof Eleftherios Tsiridis
Letter from the Chairman of the EHS SciCom, Luigi Zagra
Dear Members,
The second World Arthroplasty Congress will be in Rome on 19-21st April 2018. It will feature a 3-day interactive agenda with international faculty and including podium and ePoster presentations from abstracts submission that was closed on 30 October. More than 600 abstracts have been submitted that are now under review.
This great event is organized by the European Knee Society (EKS), the International Congress for Joint Reconstruction (ICJR) and for the first time it is officially supported by the European Hip Society.
The first edition of the Congress took place in Paris in 2015 and was a great success with over 1,200 attendees representing over 68 countries throughout Africa, Asia, Europe, Middle East, North America, Oceania, Russia and South America.
The Meeting is dedicated to the exchange of surgical innovation, cutting-edge science and practical knowledge related to joint arthroplasty. With today’s surgical environment being impacted by societal, political, and economic constraints, this congress aims focus on the common goal of advancing the field of arthroplasty and improving patient care.
The Course Directors are Jean-Noël Argenson, Andrea Baldini, Arlen Hanssen and Norman Scott.
It is my privilege to be Vice Chairman of the Hip Program on behalf of EHS. Our Society is actively participating with eminent members being part of the Faculty and with a lot of our members that submitted abstracts.
The location is the Ergife Palace Hotel located nearby the city center of Rome in via Aurelia. Vatican City is only 4 km from the hotel.
All the updated information including the Invited Faculty and the Scientific Program can be followed at www.WAC2018.org
We hope you will join us in Rome!
Luigi Zagra
Head of the Hip Department, Istituto Ortopedico Galeazzi IRCCS, Milan Italy
Chairman of the Scientific Committee of the European Hip Society
Immediate Past President of the Italian Hip Society
President of the European Hip Society 2010-2012
Report from EHS Guest Society Fellow at AAHKS, Eduardo Garcia-Rey
Dear Members,
The European Hip Society (EHS) and the Colombian Orthopaedic Society were the Guest Societies during the last American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons (AAHKS) Meeting in Dallas, USA. As part of our cooperation, I have had the opportunity to complete the Visiting Fellowship organised for this year. For four weeks I attended two of the most prestigious Institutions and the aforementioned Meeting.
From the very beginning, the collaboration and communication between AAHKS, EHS and myself was excellent, so the organisation during the whole Fellowship was outstanding…
Please read the full report by clicking here
The image at the top of the Newsletter this month shows the Music Concert Hall in Thessaloniki, Hellas, where the MAST 4 Course will take place 1-3 December 2017
