I am honoured to serve as EHS President.

Congratulations to Prof Eleftherios Tsiridis and everyone involved in our successful Thessaloniki congress, our biggest to date, with over 1k delegates and a healthy show of industry support – we were all witness to EHS as a thriving community of international hip surgeons exchanging ideas. All bodes well for 17th EHS Congress London 2027, and we will test out the venue as the Guest Society for the British Hip Society’s annual congress at Olympia Stadium in March 2026.

Welcome to our new ExCom members: President Elect Prof Carsten Perka (Germany), who will hold 18th EHS Congress Berlin 2029, Treasurer Prof Tobias Winkler (Germany) and Secretary General Prof Stanislav Bondarenko (Ukraine). Thanks to Prof Moussa Hamadouche for his candidacy. Well done to the winners of the SAGE-EHS Abstract Awards 2025: 1st prize of €1.5k is on its way to Dr Daphne Wezenberg and Prof Jörg Schilcher*, while 2nd prize of €1k is off to Canada to Dr George Grammatopoulos and his team**.

My initial aim as President is to improve EHS’s academic viability and encourage a more youthful and diverse community, and without further ado, I introduce our EHS Emerging Leaders Committee, who have bravely agreed to take up the challenge: Syed S Ahmed (UK); Cecile Batailler (France); Safa Gursoy (Turkiye); Kartik Logishetty (UK); Manuel Mazzoleni (Italy); Fiachra Rowan (Ireland); Kevin Staats (Austria) and Georges Vles (Belgium).

Also in that vein are the following EHS collaborations:-

• BHS / EHS Webinar Series: Complex Primary THA (11th November 2025 @ 21:00 CET) Register HERE
• Osteoarticular Reconstructive Surgery Course, Madrid (20-21st November 2025) EHS Patronage Register 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 Sepciality Society Register HERE
• (International Hip Society) IHS & EHS in Stockholm (September 2026) (Closed meeting – but abstract submission open to EHS consultant members soon)

The German Ortho Congress has just taken place and EHS had a great session and a booth there. Read our report HERE.

For the committees, we welcome a new Vice Chairman of the SciCom, Prof Andrew Manktelow (UK), and we are calling for expressions of interest for a new member to join the EHS EduCom. (See below.)

We are pleased to welcome several new Full Members: Dr Joao Boavida (Portugal); Prof Safa Gursoy (Turkiye); Dr Aristotelis Kourtis (Greece); Dr Manuel Giovanni Mazzoleni (Italy); Dr Georges Vles (Belgium). Also, Young Member Dr Andreas Fontalis (UK) and Mr Warran Wignadasan (Canada), and International Member: Dr Anna Cohen-Rosenberg (USA).

With the help of our General Secretary, we plan to get tough on the small number of non-payers who let the rest down. There is no excuse, so please check you have settled your dues for 2025.

And finally, on a sad note, we post HERE a fond remembrance of the late EHS forefather and Past President Reg Elson, and send condolences to his family.

Please do contact me with any suggestions or to discuss the future of your society. `

Best regards,

Prof Fares Haddad
EHS President 2025-2027

* Locally Delivered Vancomycin and Tobramycin Does Not Result in Toxic Serum Levels – A Report from the Abograft Study (Wezenberg D.1, Schilcher J.1,2 1 Department of Orthopedic Surgery, and Department of Biomedical and Clinical Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden, 2 Wallenberg Centre)

** The Anterior Approach does not Improve Recovery After Hemiarthroplasty for Femoral Neck Fracture. A Randomized Controlled Trial (Woolnough T, Horton I, Garceau S, Beaule P, Feibel R, Gofton W. Poitras S, Kim P, Grammatopoulos G)

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