ExecutiveCommittees

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!

EHS EduCom Member & EHS Ambassador

Geert Meermans is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at the Bravis Hospital, Bergen op Zoom and Roosendaal, The Netherlands. His current practice is focused on hip and knee surgery. He has 130+ presentations on international meetings, has published 50+ clinical research papers and several book chapters, and is a reviewer for several respected medical journals. For his research he received several awards including the McKee Award by the British Hip Society and the Award of Excellence by the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. In his spare time, he likes reading, including on the history of medicine, low and slow barbecuing and long-distance running.

EHS EduCom Member, EHS Ambassador and EHS Fellow

I am a 40-year old orthopaedic surgeon, working at the Sytenko Institute of Spine and Joint Pathology National Ukrainian Academy of Medical Science in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Our establishment is one of the oldest, most influential and outstanding medical academic institutions of Ukraine and Eastern Europe. As Head of the Orthopeadic Arthrology and Arthroplasty Department, specialized in hip and knee replacement and joint arthroscopy, my duties include controlling the clinical work of the entire department. We specialize in reconstructive surgery – mostly hip, knee primary and revision arthroplasties.

In 2014 I defended my first PhD devoted to the reasons and mechanism of stress-shielding and stem choice for primary total hip arthroplasty. Since then, I have been working on a few different topics, such as studying the early stages of the bone regeneration process – specifically the role of fibrin-blood clot; spine-pelvic relationships for spine and joint surgeries (our clinical and biomechanical study was approved last year); inflammatory markers after joint replacement in content of early PJI diagnostics (we have a close cooperation with the Berlin Charite Hospital’s infection disease team). I am quite active internationally, being a member of the world’s outstanding societies, such as EHS, EFORT, AAOS, AAHKS, SICOT. I was one of three delegates from my country chosen to join the International Consensus PJI Meeting in Philadelphia, 2018. On our initiative, we translated a consensus book into the Ukrainian language and widely introduced it throughout our country. I have been granted many fellowships throughout Europe and the USA, and was EHS Travelling Fellow through Hellas. Last year I became the EHS Ambassador from Ukraine.

I hope I can be a helpful, useful and effective new member of the EHS Education Committee to benefit the future of our society, as well as our orthopaedic community at large, and of course my own continued career development.

President EHS 2021-2023

On the occasion of this year’s Congress of the European Hip Society (EHS) in Lille on September 10-11, 2021, Prof. Klaus A. Siebenrock, MD, proudly accepted the presidency of the European Hip Society for the next two years.

As the president of this prestigious society, Prof. Siebenrock’s goals are twofold: first, to bundle European scientific knowledge and promote academic work in the field of hip and pelvic disease and treatment in Europe, as well as to make it more visible throughout the world. Second, the education and training of young hip surgeons must be intensified. This should be done through fellowships at renowned European hip centers, structured educational courses and common educational content in the future.

LINK Pubmed: Siebenrock K – Search Results – PubMed (nih.gov)