May 2026 Newsletter

We are delighted to announce the two winners of our EHS Fellowship to Switzerland this Autumn, following steep competition: Dr Vincent Justus Leopold from Berlin, Germany and Mr Matthew Kennedy from Glasgow, UK. Congratulations!

Prof Johannes Bastian (EHS EduCom) from Inselspital Bern is our host and the itinerary is out. (See below.) Thanks to all who applied and watch out for our next call for EHS Fellowship applications at the end of summer. We have a fantastic destination lined up.

April was very busy with a great deal of clinical work and academic travel. I was very fortunate to be the Visiting Professor in Vancouver and gave the Clive Duncan lecture there. I reminded them of the good work of the European Hip Society and I am delighted that a couple of their consultants are now members.

I was then fortunate to attend the Isokinetic meeting in Athens where I presented and debated proximal hamstring injuries and care.

We then had a very busy and packed London Hip Meeting and EHS was very strongly represented.

I was also fortunate to be invited to speak at the Belgian Orthopaedic Congress and presented both on the state of the art with robotic surgery and on publishing.

EHS was extremely well represented at the Barcelona Hip Meeting where I had the privilege of speaking along with Andrew Manktelow, Stephan Vehmeijer, Nicolas Reina and Georges Vles amongst others. An excellent meeting in an idyllic setting.

Next week many of us are meeting in Malaga for the EFORT congress, where EHS has a great session lined up on Wednesday 6th May @ 11:00 – 12:00 CET on The Sport Patient with HIP OA, chaired by Prof Carsten Perka and myself.

Directly after this session is our EHS Annual General Assembly and you have all received your invitation. Plus our EHS committee members will gather for a nice face to face meeting.

We wish a warm welcome to new young member Dr Nils Meissner (Berlin, Germany), new full members Dr Una Bladiko (Riga, Latvia) and Dr Georgios Tsikandylakis (Molndal, Sweden), and international member Dr Lisa Howard (Burnaby, Canada) and look forward to their active involvement in EHS.

All 2026 membership fees must be paid in May. Thanks.

See you at our first EHS 2026 LIVE DEBATE SERIES later this month.

With best wishes,

Prof Fares Haddad
EHS President 2025-2027

Next Live Evening Webinars | 19:00 CET | 8 July | 16 Sep | 26 Nov 2026

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EHS Fellowship to Switzerland itinerary (two weeks)

• Lausanne with Dr Wettstein (3D planning for prostheses with a visit to the Symbios Orthopaedics factory in Yverdon)
• Basel with Prof Claus (high volume PJI, FRI, Osteomyelitis treatment, minimally invasive hip prosthetics, advanced pre-op planning, implant strategies, complex reconstruction techniques and revision prosthetics) and Prof Nowakowski (Biomedical Engineering)
• Bern with Prof Tannast and Prof Bastian (complex deformity, trauma and revision, observing ORworkflows, peri-op pathways and multidisciplinary care models, research environment at SITEM, AI research projects at Dynamic Imaging Center)
• Zurich with Prof Zingg (Operating Room X (OR-X) at the Balgrist Campus research and innovation centre)

Thanks in advance to all our hosts for this short fellowship, designed to provide concise insight into high volume, super-efficient OR in state of the art ortho centres, plus take in research activities to foster scientific exchange and explore potential future collaborations. The benefit of Switzerland’s small size is that travel is only an hour between the destinations, so our fellows can maximise on hips!