Dear EHS Members,

It was a privilege for me to represent the European Hip Society at multiple meetings in 2025.

I was delighted to be invited to Berlin to become an honorary member of The German Arthroplasty Society. This was beautifully hosted by Robert Hube and Georgi Wassilew with Carsten Perka, our EHS President Elect, coordinating some of the proceedings. It was an outstanding meeting. I had the opportunity to present two keynotes on robotics in arthroplasty surgery and on the evolution of THA surgery, and I had the great privilege of becoming an honorary member of The German Arthroplasty Society.

I was also on the organising committee and faculty of the Current Concept in Joint Replacement (CCJR) meeting in Orlando. This was without doubt the best CCJR for a few years. The meeting has grown and has tremendous energy. There was an intense, superb and very clinically practical programme with wonderful opportunities to network and interact with colleagues. I would encourage European Hip Society members to put this meeting in their diary for 9-12th December 2026.

Looking even farther ahead, EHS President Elect Prof Carsten Perka will be hosting our 18th EHS Congress in Berlin in 2029 and outlines his plans for EHS below. On our website you can see brief bios of most of our committee members, including Prof Perka HERE, EHS Treasurer Prof Tobias Winkler HERE, and new EHS EduCom member Prof Sebastien Lustig HERE.

Rather more imminent is the FREE PJI International Meeting on Monday 26th January @ 18:00-20:00 CET, supported by EHS and in collaboration with the German Hip Society, presented by the Sytenko Institute for Spine and Joint Pathology, Kharkiv, Ukraine and Charite Hospital, Berlin, Germany. Register HERE and spread the word.

Don’t miss our free webinar replay of the BHS / EHS Webinar series. Experts from both societies share their knowledge in a friendly atmosphere with interesting discussion of various tricky cases. Pick and choose what interests you from The Young Adult Hip, Complex Primary THA and Revision THA. And please spread the word on this too, so we can disseminate hip knowledge broadly.

We are happy to welcome new faces to EHS: Young Member Mr Humza Tariq Osmani from London, UK; Full Members Prof Louis Dagneaux from Montpellier, France, Dr Christian Hipfl from Berlin, Germany, Dr Pits Putzey from Luxembourg, Dr Jesse Walle Pieter Kuiper from The Netherlands and Dr Daniel Pfeufer From Munich, Germany; and finally International Member Prof Bill Walter from Sydney, Australia.

Also now available are all 496 abstracts from our 16th EHS Congress Thessaloniki 2026. Click HERE. Plus reports from our two recently sponsored events: the Portuguese O&T Society Congress 2025 (SPOT) (HERE) and the Osteoarticular Reconstructive Hip Surgery course in Madrid, Spain (HERE).

The New Year will be busy for me and for the European Hip Society and I look forward to meeting many of you and to continuing to foster the growth, visibility and impact of our society.

I would like to end this note by wishing each and every one of you an enjoyable festive period and health, happiness and success in 2026.

With Best Wishes,

Prof Fares Haddad
EHS President 2025-2027

Humza Osmani

Louis Dagneaux

Dr Christian Hipfl

Daniel Pfeufer

Jesse Kuiper

Pit Putzeys, EHS Full Member from Luxembourg

Professor Bill Walter

CCJR

Prof Haddad is on the organising committee

PJI Course 2026

Bern Hip Symposium 2026

EHS partnership

BHM

17th EHS Congress 2027

EHS President Elect

New treatment approaches and new recommendations for the optimal therapy of diseases are emerging daily, often involving considerable costs, and require a reliable scientific basis for evaluation. We can only overcome this challenge by working together. Therapy recommendations that were correct 10 years ago need to be completely rethought today. For example, with the ever-increasing durability of endoprostheses, the importance of joint-preserving surgery on the hip joint has changed, but it is undoubtedly still extremely important.

We have also learned that treatment methods cannot simply be transferred between countries; different approaches have led to different decisions about what is the optimal treatment for patients.

So my goals as president of the EHS are threefold:

First, I want to support bundling European scientific knowledge to further strengthen our society's self-confidence on the international stage. Second, we have to develop more intensive International cooperation with North America as well as Asia. Rapidly developing countries like Thailand, Indonesia, and South Korea need more attention.

Third, we need to develop new young hip surgeons. This should be achieved through fellowships at renowned European hip centres and structured educational courses for systematic improvement of knowledge across EHS member countries.

I want to work together with you to make the EHS more and more attractive and visible, especially for these younger colleagues. To achieve this, I want to work closely with the current President Fares Haddad, the Executive Committee, and with National Reps and all Members of the Society.

For your diary

Upcoming hip courses with EHS patronage are:-

PJI International Meeting (26th January 2026 @ 18:00-20:00 CET): Expert view on the diagnostic & management of PJI (Charite Berlin & Sytenko Kharkiv) EHS Support & DHG collaboration Register for FREE HERE
Bern Hip Symposium (5-7th February 2026), EHS Partnership Register HERE
BHS London (18-20th March 2026) EHS is the Guest Society! Register HERE
Barcelona Hip Meeting (27-29 April 2026) New Times, New Rules! Info HERE
EFORT Malaga (4-6th May 2026) EHS is a Specialty Society Register HERE
Catanzaro, Italy (8-12th June 2026) 9th FORTE Magna Graecia Summer School
(North American Hip Society) HS & EHS in Stockholm (September 2026) (Closed meeting - but abstract submission open to EHS consultant members soon)
DKOU 2026 abstract call is out now!
Save the date: 5th World Arthroplasty Congress (WAC) 22-23rd April 2027 in Brussels, Belgium in collaboration with EHS