ExecutiveCommittees

Anthony Viste MD, PhD

EHS EduCom Member

Professor Anthony Viste, MD, PhD, is an Academic orthopaedic surgeon and teacher of Anatomy at the University of Lyon, France.

He is an active member of the French Orthopaedic and Trauma Society (SOFCOT), the French Society for Hip and Knee Surgeons (SFHG) and of the College of French Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgeons (CFCOT).

As Vice-Chair of the Department of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery at the University Hospital Lyon Sud, he is specialized in Hip and Knee Surgery with a focus on primary and revision reconstructions, especially using double mobility constructs for many years.

He also heads the Trauma Unit, especially specialised in treating pelvic and acetabulum injuries. Professor of Anatomy at the University of Lyon 1, he is involved in teaching general Anatomy to the medical students, residents and fellows.

In 2015-2016, he spent a year of research fellowship at Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN (USA) under the supervision of Matthew P Abdel and Daniel J Berry, which led to numerous publications and book chapters.

He is the authors of scientific publications (PubMed) and books contributions, speaks at national and international conferences, is Associate Editor for Surgical and Radiologic Anatomy and reviewers for various journals.

He is also the leading surgeon treating haemophiliac patients with hip and knee disorders and osteoarticular infections in orthopaedic and trauma patients with the CRIOAC Lyon.

In 2023, he created a national interuniversity diploma to teach Hip Surgery to French-speaking international students and young surgeons.

Associate Professor Martin Thaler, MD, MSc, is currently the head of the department for orthopaedics and traumatology of Helios Oberbayern. He worked at the Medical University of Innsbruck at the Department of Orthopaedics. He is an orthopaedic and trauma surgeon, specialized on hip pathologies and oncology. As an Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at the Medical University of Innsbruck, Martin Thaler trains residents and colleagues from all over the world in hip courses held in Innsbruck.

Martin Thaler has a background in financing, having received a Master’s degree in managing from the University of Krems and a Master´s degree in Business Administration from the Middlesex University in London.

His areas of expertise include minimally invasive total hip replacements, complex revision surgery, femuroacetabular impingement surgery, oncologic surgery as well as fracture treatment of the hip. He is currently the Treasurer of the European Hip Society (EHS).

Prof Fares Haddad

CONSULTANT ORTHOPAEDIC SURGEON, University College London Hospitals PROFESSOR of Orthopaedics/Sports Surgery, Division of Surgery, University College London DIVISIONAL CLINICAL DIRECTOR of Surgery UCH
DIRECTOR, Institute of Sport, Exercise and Health, UCLH and UCL
PROGRAMME DIRECTOR, UCH Rotation
ASSISTANT RESPONSIBLE OFFICER, UCH
ORTHOPAEDIC MEDICAL DIRECTOR, HCA UK
RESEARCH LEAD, UCLH Orthopaedics

It will be a great privilege to serve the European Hip Society as President and to help strengthen education, research, and communication in hip surgery in Europe.

I am excited by the opportunity to represent all European colleagues and to raise the profile of the EHS. I am a very active clinician with a high volume clinical practice of complex hip surgery encompassing young adult sports surgery all the way through to complex revisions. I have a big academic portfolio and a strong track record in leadership nationally in the UK and internationally. I have published and presented widely. I have strong contacts worldwide and will bring international recognition and key collaborations to the European Hip Society.

My goal would be to work with the Executive Committee and with National Reps and Ambassadors and Members of the Society to strengthen the scale and scope of local and collaborative offerings, and the communication and the interactions of the European Hip Society with its members. The European Hip Society needs to refresh and re-energise. We need to look at the committee structures and strengthen ExCom, EduCom and SciCom, and ensure that they are active, productive and delivering national involvement and input, and up-to-date education initiatives and appropriate research platforms and support. There are also funds that would allow us to launch new fellowships and forge close links between European colleagues for the future.

I also hope to raise the profile and reach of the European Hip Society worldwide. My involvement would open and energise international links to the benefit of our society and its members.

To read Prof Haddad’s CV, click here

Filippo Randelli MD

EHS SciCom Member

Filippo Randelli is a contract Professor practicing and teaching hip surgery at the Hip Department in Gaetano Pini Orthopaedic Institute, University of Milan. Previously he was chief of Orthopaedics and Trauma at San Donato University Hospital and has chaired the ESSKA Hip Arthroscopy Committee and the AO Trauma Italy. He is the Hip Associate Editor for the Journal of Orthopaedics and Traumatology and has organized more than 30 meetings, moderated more than 90 sessions and presented over 600 papers in national and international meetings. He published mainly on hip and trauma surgery (H-index 15).

+39 335 8394220
www.ortopediaetraumatologia.com
filippo.randelli71@gmail.com

Plamen Kinov MD, PhD, DSc

EHS SciCom Member

Plamen Kinov (Chairman, Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology at the Medical University of Sofia & Head Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology, University Hospital Queen Giovanna – ISUL Sofia) is devoted to his many patients and has a busy hip and knee replacement practice. After obtaining orthopaedics speciality from the Medical University of Sofia in 2004 he has done fellowships in joint replacement in USA, Austria, Germany and Italy. He is an author of more than 230 scientific publications and 15 book chapters and edited four books.

Prof Kinov is an active member of different scientific societies: BOTA, European Hip Society (EHS), EFORT, AAOS, ESSKA, AO Trauma, Gerhard Kuentscher Society, Bulgarian Union of Physicians, Bulgarian Union of Scientists, Bulgarian Society of Rheumatology, Bulgarian Society of Osteoporosis and Osteoathritis.

He was awarded several prestigious awards: Abdel Hay Mashhour Award XXIV SICOT Congress 2005, Istanbul; Award for best poster presentation – 10th BOTA Congress 2007; Golden Hippocrates Oath – Balkan Association for History of Medicine, 2015; Paraskev Stoyanov Award for High Achievements, 2017 – Medical University of Sofia; Best scientific presentation – Annual meeting of BOTA, 2021; Patients’ award: Physician of the year – 2014 – present.
Plamen Kinov is passionate for teaching his students and residents in joint replacement and is involved in several international educational initiatives.

Mattia Loppini MD

EHS EduCom Member

I am an orthopaedic and trauma consultant working since 2015 in the Hip Diseases and Joint Replacement Surgery Unit at Humanitas Research Hospital in Milan. I was appointed Assistant Professor of Locomotor Apparatus Disease and Physical and Rehabilitative Medicine at Humanitas University in 2017. Since 2018, I also serve as Scientific Director at the “Livio Sciutto Foundation”, a non-profit organization aiming to foster research and support education in the field of hip diseases and joint replacement. I strongly believe in the importance of scientific research in the orthopaedic field, and I mean it as a duty to move forward our practice and ensure the best clinical assistance to our patients. At the same time, I totally recognize the value of a high-level training of young orthopaedics, or soon to be, and this is why I committed myself to the education of medical students, trainees and fellows.

Johannes Bastian MD

EHS EduCom Member

Prof Johannes Bastian is a Bern-trained teaching surgeon, and is a member of the Swiss Medical Association (FMH) for orthopaedic surgery and musculoskeletal traumatology. He lives with his family in the city of Bern and is a Swiss citizen. He is based at the Inselspital, University Hospital Bern, where he specialises in hip and pelvic surgery with a focus on primary and revision prosthetics, and traumatology in the treatment and revision of fractures of the femur and acetabulum, including periprosthetic fractures and pelvic ring injuries. His most important teachers and mentors are Prof R Ganz, Prof K Siebenrock, Prof M Keel and Prof P Giannoudis (Leeds, UK).

In his fields of expertise, he is involved in teaching and research. He is the author of scientific publications (PubMed) and book contributions, speaks at national and international conferences, writes reviews for various journals, and is an active member of renowned professional societies.

At the Inselspital he and his team have established an orthogeriatric service and a fracture liaison service, both of which he leads. At his request, the “Orthogeriatrics” expert group was set up within the Swiss Society for Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology (Swiss Orthopaedics), of which he is the president. He founded the Orthogeriatric Research Center Bern (www.orthogeriatrics.ch) as a platform for interdisciplinary and interprofessional exchange within the framework of the Swiss Orthogeriatric Day. He is passionate about providing the elderly with optimal orthopaedic trauma care in acute care hospitals.

Filippo Randelli MD

EHS SciCom Member

Filippo Randelli is a contract Professor practicing and teaching hip surgery at the Hip Department in Gaetano Pini Orthopaedic Institute, University of Milan. Previously he was chief of Orthopaedics and Trauma at San Donato University Hospital and has chaired the ESSKA Hip Arthroscopy Committee and the AO Trauma Italy. He is the Hip Associate Editor for the Journal of Orthopaedics and Traumatology and has organized more than 30 meetings, moderated more than 90 sessions and presented over 600 papers in national and international meetings. He published mainly on hip and trauma surgery (H-index 15).

+39 335 8394220
www.ortopediaetraumatologia.com
filippo.randelli71@gmail.com

Oliver Marín-Peña MD

EHS SciCom Member & EHS Ambassador

It is a tremendous pleasure to be part of EHS SciCom Committee. Just as a brief presentation, my current practice is as Senior Consultant of Hip Surgery Unit, Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology Department at University Hospital Infanta Leonor (Madrid, Spain) which is part of the National Public Health System of Spain. Also do a limited private practice at Hospital La Luz (Madrid, Spain).

My clinical practice is mainly hip surgery that involved hip arthroplasty (primary and revision), hip trauma and hip preserving surgery (arthroscopic and open techniques).

Hip surgery was my passion since I was an Orthopaedic Resident at Hospital Severo Ochoa (Madrid-Spain 1999-2004). I completed my training with several fellowships at Adult Lower Limb Orthopaedic Surgery at Mayo Clinic (Rochester, Minnesota) in 2003, 2005 and 2013. Rush Presbyterian Hospital (Chicago, IL) in 2005. Hip Preserving Surgery Fellowship at Hospital for Special Surgery (New York) in 2013.

I’m involved in different clinical research projects about treatment of young patients with hip problems that requires conservative treatment, hip preserving surgery and hip arthroplasty.

I frequently participate with lectures in hip arthroplasty & preserving surgery at international meetings worldwide. Regarding my scientific publications, I have participated as author/co-author in several publications about hip pathology at international journals and chapters in different hip surgery books (more than 55 international references https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7814-5766 ). Author of the book: “Femoroacetabular Impingement” (Springer publisher). I’m experience in organizing international meetings and cadaver labs.

Finally, I’m available to any EHS member who request my collaboration.

Walter van der Weegen PhD

EHS SciCom Member & EHS Ambassador

I am excited, proud and looking forward to contribute to the EHS Scientific Committee in the coming years and to support EHS SciCom President Luigi Zagra in organizing EHS scientific meetings and activities. As a researcher dedicated to orthopaedic surgery, much of my work has been on hip pathology with a PhD on metal-on-metal hip arthroplasty. I work from the department of Orthopaedic Surgery in the Anna Hospital in the Netherland with a great team of surgeons, research colleagues and students. Currently my research is focused on e-health for THA patients and I always enjoy the sharing of knowledge seen at the bi-annual EHS congress. I am looking forward to meeting you in person soon!