Theofilos Karachalios, MD, DSc, Professor in Orthopaedic Surgery, Orthopaedic Department, University of Thessalia, University General Hospital of Larissa, Larissa, Greece

Prof Karachalios was  born  in  Loutraki  Korinthias  in  1958, he qualified  from  the  Medical School  of  Athens University (1976-1982), specialised in Orthopaedics and completed  his  MD  thesis at the  Orthopaedic Department  of  Athens University (1984-1989). He further improved his clinical and research experience at Bristol Royal Infirmary, Bristol University, Bristol UK (1990-1992). From 1992 – 1998 he practiced Orthopaedic Surgery, as Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, at the KAT NHS Hospital in Athens.

In 1998 he was elected Assistant Professor, in 2005 Associate Professor and in 2011 Professor in Orthopaedics at the University of Thessaly. He practices adult hip and knee reconstructive surgery, sport injuries and late reconstruction of musculoskeletal injuries. His main research interest is hip disorders, fracture healing and  bone metabolism and diseases.

He has published 105 papers in international Journals of Index Medicus with a total impact  factor of 192.5 (91 of them are shown  in Pubmed). He has got 1200 citations with an h-index of 22. He has written  eleven chapters in books. His teaching experience includes 408 lectures in domestic (339) and international (89) meetings.

He is joint Editor in Chief of Hip International with Richard Baker.

He spends his free time running long distances and he is a keen master scuba diver.

Prof Eleftherios Tsiridis MD, MSc, DMed, PhD(London), FACS, FRCS

President Elect European Hip Society

Summary

• Chairman of Orthopaedic Surgery, PGH University Hospital, AUTh, Thessaloniki (2019-today)
• Executive Member of the Chairmen Committee, PGH Univ. Hospital, AUTh, Thessaloniki (2019-today)
• Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, AUTh Medical School Thessaloniki (2017-today)
• Director of Adult Joint Reconstruction, PGH University Hospital, AUTh, Thessaloniki (2010-today)
• President Hellenic Society for Hip & Knee Surgery (2020-2024)
• Secretary General European Hip Society (2012-2021)
• Founder & Chairman of ICAROS Center for Arthroplasty Thessaloniki (2014-today)
• Director of CORE Center for Orthopaedic & Regenerative Research at CORE-CIRI-AUTh (2014-today)
• Director Arthroplasty Registry Thessaloniki ART (2014-today)
• Director Robotic Arthroplasty Surgery, InterBalkan Medical Center Hospital, Thessaloniki (2019-today)
• President of MAST Conference-Masterclass in Arthroplasty Surgery Thessaloniki, Hellas (2013-today)
• Visiting Professor, UCL Engineering, London UK (2019-today)
• Founder & Vice President of ORamaVR.SA (Arthroplasty Simulators VR) (2016-today)

Curriculum Vitae

Academic & Professional Achievements

• MD Cum Laude Athens University Medical School (1992)
• FRCS: Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh (1999)
• MSc (Orth): University College London (2000)
• DMed (Doctorate in Medicine) Crete University Medical School (2004)
• Fellow of the British Orthopaedic Association (2005)
• PhD (London): King’s College, University of London (2009)
• Fellow of the Hellenic Association of Orthopaedic Surgery & Traumatology (2010)
• Member of the European Hip Society (2010)
• Member of the European Knee Society (2017)
• FACS: Fellow of the American College of Surgeons (2017)

Theses

MSc (Orth) [2000]
Institute of Orthopaedics, Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore, UCL, London, UK
“Periprosthetic Femoral Fractures: Management and Outcome” S: Prof G. Bentley

DMed (Doctorate in Medicine) [2004]
Crete University Medical School, Crete, Greece
“Impaction grafting enhancement using human MSCs and BMP-7” S: Prof A. Hatzipavlou

PhD [2009]
King’s-Guys’-St Thomas School of Medicine, King’s College London, University of London, UK
“Bone Graft Substitutes: Local and Systemic Enhancement of Bone Formation” S: Prof L. Di Silvio

Medical School

MD Athens University Medical School Cum Laude (1992)

Best Student Award International Hippocratic Foundation Prize (1992)

Hellenic National Services

Military Service Special Forces Lieutenant, Paratroopers Regiment, Hellenic Special Forces (1992-94)
Compulsory Rural Medical Service (1994-95)

Specialist Training in Orthopaedic Surgery, UK (1995-2003)

James Paget NHS, Norfolk, Senior House Officer (1995-1998)
Exeter (PEOC) NHS, Exeter, Senior House Officer (1998-1999)
Stanmore (RNOH) NHS, London, MSc Registrar (1999-2000)
Whittington NHS, London, Senior Registrar (2000-2002)
Whittington NHS, London, Locum Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, London, UK (2002-2003)

Fellowship & Sabbatical Training USA & UK (2003-2005)

Adult Joint Reconstruction Hip and Knee: Boston University, Boston, MA, USA (2003-04)
Adult Joint Reconstruction Hip and Knee (Ling fellowship): University Exeter, PEOC, Exeter, UK (2004-05)
Arthroplasty & Young Adult Hip Preservation Surgery: Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA (2011)

Hip Society “Rothman-Ranawat Hip Traveling Fellowship” USA (2014)

Rush University Medical Center Chicago, Illinois, Hospital for Special Surgery New York, NY, Massachusetts
General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Rothman Institute Philadelphia, OrthoCarolina Hip and Knee
Center Charlotte, NC, Mayo Clinic Rochester Minnesota, Anderson Clinic Alexandria, Washington, VA, Joint
Implant Surgeons, New Albany, Ohio, Stanford Hospital, Stanford University, CA, University of Southern
California, LA, CA, London Health Sciences Centre London, ON Canada, The Center for Hip and Knee Surgery,
Indiana IN.

Scholarships-Research Fellowships-Prizes

• Prize first 10 graduates Athens Medical School & International Hippocratic Foundation, (1992)
• National Institute for Scholarships “Papadakis Scholarships” Hellas (1988-1992)
• Onassis Scholarship, Hellas (2001-2003)
• British Orthopaedic Association Scholarship, UK (2003)
• Paul Toller Research Prize British Assoc. of MF Surgery, Glasgow, UK (2003)
• Wishbone Traveling Fellowship, UK (2003)
• The Latta Fellowship, British Orthopaedic Association & Wishbone, UK (2008)
• First Prize Future Orthopaedic Surgeons Royal Society of Medicine, UK (2009)
• Rothman Ranawat Traveling Fellowship, Hip Society, USA (2014)
• FARE Prize & Grand AAHKS USA (2018)
• Best Research Award AUTH Greece (2018)
• Best Clinician Award AUTH Greece (2019)

Co-Author International Guidelines

• International Guidelines on Periprosthetic Joint Infection (Philadelphia Consensus) (2015 & 2018)
• European Guidelines on Anticoagulation for Arthroplasty (2017)

Book Editor in Hip Surgery

The Adult Hip: Master Case Series and Techniques, ISBN 978-3-319-64177-5, Springer 2018

PhD, MSc and Post Doc Supervisor

4 Post Docs, 11 PhD, 11 MSc, 3 BSc (PS: Primary Supervisor)
Post Doc Mehran Mozen Mechanical Engineering, Leeds, UK (completed) PS
Post Doc Zak Gammie, Orthopaedics, Leeds, UK (completed) PS
Post Doc Stathis Kenanidis, AUTh, Greece (completed) PS
Post Doc Christos Topalis, AUTh, Greece (completed) PS
PhD Jonathan Mik, Mechanical Engineering, Leeds, UK (completed) PS
PhD Lee Elcherst, Mechanical Engineering, Leeds, UK (completed) PS
PhD Makis Savvidis, AUTh, Greece (completed) PS
PhD Anastasia Georgiou Imperial College London, UK (completed)
PhD Robert MacFarlane Imperial College London, UK (completed)
PhD Klontzas Michael, Imperial College London, UK (completed)
PhD Theofylaktos Kyriakidis, AUTH, Greece (completed)
PhD Akis Tzavelas Thessaloniki, AUTH, Greece (ongoing) PS
PhD Andrew Leonidou, AUTh, Greece, (ongoing) PS
PhD Chris Milaras, AUTh, Greece (ongoing) PS
PhD George Paparoidamis, AUTh, Greece, (ongoing) PS
MSc Orthopaedics Theofylaktos Kyriakidis, Erasmus University Belgium (completed) PS
MSc Science Dimitra Nella, AUTh, Greece (completed)
MSc Science Chris Topalis, AUTh, Greece (completed) PS
MSc Science Andrew Fonatlis, AUTh, Greece (completed) PS
MSC Science Theodore Michael, AUTh, Greece (completed)
MSc Maria Hadjidakis, Imperial College London (completed)
MSc Mech Eng Andrew Leonidou, Cardiff, UK (completed)PS
MSc Mech Eng Paul Panteliadis, Cardiff, UK (completed) PS
MSc Surgery Joseph Pagkalos, University of Edinburgh, UK(completed) PS
MSc in Trauma Surgery Greg Rudol, Swansea University, UK (completed) PS
MSc Mech Eng Simon Graham, University of Leeds, UK (completed)PS
BSc Orth Zubeir Ali, University College London, UK (completed)
BSc Orth Amit Bhalla, University College London, UK (completed)
BSc Orth Amir Rushdi, University College London, UK (completed)

Research Grants as PI or SI €2.552.000 (2005-2020)

1. Furlong Research Charitable Foundation: £ 60.000 Injectable cellular constructs h-MSC
2. Latta Fellowship: £ 400.000 BOA+ Leeds University Finite Element analysis of PPFF
3. BOA: £ 200.000 Fracture healing acceleration with PTH
4. Kuros Biotechnology: £ 90.000 PTH for intra-articular tibial plateau fractures
5. Yorkshire Children’s Spinal Foundation: £ 25.000 Congenital heart Disease and Scoliosis
6. Stryker USA Boston University: 200.000 USA Dollars PTH vs OP-1 in healing
7. Onassis Foundation: £ 20.000 HA with MSCs and OP-1 in vitro osteogenesis
8. Culier Grant, NHS, UK: £ 15.000 Enhancing impaction grafting with OP-1 and MSCs
9. NIR (Nat. Inst. Res) 93933 RCT pharmacology anticoagulant Ab testing ΙΙΙβ PRONOMOS €22.000
10. NIR 93950 ART €33.000
11. NIR 92882 MAST €12.300
12. NIR BAY 1213790 RCT multicenter pharmacology study II FOXTROT €150.000
13. FARE Grand AAHKS USA, Collaboration with NUY, $25.000
14. ESPA ORamaVR with AUTh and UTH €600.000
15. PJC ORamaVR with UOC €550.000
16. NIR 99834 RCT multicenter pharmacology study 70033093 AXIOMATIC-TKR: €150.000
17. Culier Grant, NHS, UK: £ 15.000 Enhancing impaction grafting with OP-1 and MSCs
18. NIR (Nat. Inst. Res) 93933 RCT pharmacology anticoagulant Ab testing ΙΙΙβ PRONOMOS €22.000
19. NIR 93950 ART €33.000
20. NIR 92882 MAST €12.300
21. NIR BAY 1213790 RCT multicenter pharmacology study II FOXTROT €150.000
22. FARE Grand AAHKS USA, Collaboration with NUY, $25.000
23. ESPA ORamaVR with AUTh and UTH €600.000
24. PJC ORamaVR with UOC €650.000
25. NIR 99834 RCT multicenter pharmacology study 70033093 AXIOMATIC-TKR: €50.000

Reviewer/Editor/Board Member

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, J Arthroplasty (Editorial Board), Journal of Cellular and Molecular
Medicine, Injury (Invited Editor), Tissue Engineering, Cell Tissue Organs, Arthritis Treatment and Research,
BMJ, Nature Clinical Practice Rheumatology, Expert opinion in Pharmacotherapy, Expert opinion in
Biological Therapy, Expert opinion in Investigational Drugs, Expert op in Drug Safety (Editorial Board),
Scandinavian Journal of Rheumatology, Acta Biomaterialia, Hip International, Acta Orthop., J Orthop
Research, J Bone Mineral Research., Bone and Joint J.

Member of International Scientific Organizations

EHS, EKS, BOA, BTS, BORS, BHS, BMA, GMC, EBJIS, HAOST, HHKS, Onassis Foundation, RCS, ACS.

Bibliometrics-Indexes

275 Publications in Peer Reviewed International Journals (PubMed & Scopus)

• 197 full PubMed papers
• 7 full non-PubMed papers & letters
• 67 PubMed Journal Proceedings

Total Impact Factor: 854.927
Citations (Google Scholar 2019): 8,873
H-factor: 43
i10-index: 126

105 Book Chapters in International Orthopaedics textbooks
180 Invited and Guest lectures in National & International Conferences
250 Abstracts presented in National & International Conferences

Prof Berend Willem Schreurs, The Netherlands

Past President of EHS

Prof Schreurs has been involved in EHS from 2007 onwards, first as the National Representative for the Netherlands. ln 2012 he joined the Scientific Committee of the EHS.

During his Presidency (2016-18), he continued the focus of our Society to enlarge our influence on hip joint care around Europe, and we now send EHS speakers to National Society Meetings and co-organise several hip meetings throughout Europe. Also, as a Society, he found methods to also bind our younger colleagues from the so called e-generation with an interest in hip surgery to our Society. The EHS Fellowships offer four upcoming hip surgeons a year the chance to improve their knowledge immensely and learn directly from Europe’s top hip centres and skilled surgeons. The 13th EHS Congress in The Hague (20-22 September 2018) was a great success with over 750 orthopaedic surgeons participating literally from all over the world. Also more than 180 Dutch participants were registered.

ln the Netherlands he has been active in several committees, e.g. President of the Scientific Committee of the Dutch Orthopedic Association, member of several steering groups of that society around the hip joint, and contributed to the National Dutch guide line on total hip prosthesis. Recently, he has been appointed as the President of the Scientific Committee of the Dutch Arthroplasty  Registry.

He was appointed to the academic rank of Professor, with the teaching and research remit Registration of orthopedic implants, in January 2019, at Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

Prof Gösta Ullmark, Stockholm, Sweden

Prof Ullmark was President of EHS from 2012-14. He did an excellent job through a busy time at EHS and offers his wisdom to the ExCom for another two years as “Past President” and also chairman of the Educational Committee of EFORT.

He has done an excellent job with the Promotional Programme of EHS: the advanced course, travelling to national orthopaedic societies to propose sending an expert to their congresses to speak; explaining face to face what EHS is. He has been to USA, Prague, Central European Orthopaedic Congress in Split, Sweden of course, Lithuanian Congress, 2 BAT courses in Madrid and Berne. London congress. A meeting with Russian Hip Society, Paris, Turkey, China and Egypt.

Prof Ullmark initiated and organised the excellent 11th Congress for EHS in the beautiful city of Stockholm 2014.

Univ. Prof Dr. med. Werner Siebert, Kassel, Germany

Medical Director of Vitos Orthopaedic Center Kassel, Germany

• President of the European Hip Society 2014-2016
• Member of the Board of Directors of the German Orthopaedic Society (DGOOC)
• Treasurer of the German Orthopaedic Society (DGOOC) and German Orthopaedic and Trauma Society (DGOU)
• Past President of the South German Orthopedic Society (Vereinigung Süddeutscher Orthopäden, VSOU)
• Member of the American Association of Hip & Knee Surgeons (AAHKS)
• ASG-Travelling Fellow
• Initiator and Organiser of 12th EHS Congress in Munich, 6-9th Sept 2016

Prof Siebert is the Department Orthopaedics Medical Director of the Orthopaedic Clinic Kassel Vitos.

Under the direction of Prof. Siebert, the Vitos Orthopaedic Clinic Kassel has developed into one of the largest arthroplasty centers in Germany. The internationally respected and esteemed professor of Orthopaedics and Orthopaedic Surgery is also involved in education and training for young medical students and teaches at the University of Marburg.

Prof Siebert was awarded the following titles at “FOCUS”, Germany’s most famous rankings:

Top Physician 2015 in Hip and Knee Surgery, also for 2016.

CURRICULUM VITAE

Werner E. Siebert M.D.

Director of Vitos Orthopedic Center Kassel

Chief Adult Hip and Knee Reconstruction

Clinical Professor of Orthopedic Surgery,

Philipps-University Marburg, Germany

PERSONAL DATA

Name, Title: Prof. Dr. med. habil. Werner Eduard Siebert

Date and place of birth: November 22, 1953, Wemding, Germany

Present address: Vitos Orthopedic Clinic Kassel, Wilhelmshöher Allee 345 D-34131 Kassel, Germany

Family status: Married to Birgit Siebert, M.D. since 1982

Present position: Chairman of the Vitos Orthopedic Hospital Kassel

EDUCATION, POSTGRADUATE TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT

1974-1981 Faculty of Medicine Munich, Doctoral Thesis

1982-1988 Resident, Department of General Surgery, Department of Orthopaedics, University of Munich, Germany

1988-1994 Senior Registrar, Assistant Professor, Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation, University of Hannover, Germany

1991 Thesis, Assistant Professor of Clinical Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation

1994 – present Medical Director, Vitos Orthopedic Center Kassel

1997 – present Professor of Clinical Orthopaedics – Marburg University and Kassel University

RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

Total joint specialist, Hip and Knee Reconstruction and Revision Surgery

Minimal invasive surgery in orthopedics and traumatology

Head of Maximum Care Endoprosthetics Center of Vitos Orthopaedic Center Kassel

Professor of Clinical Orthopaedics at Marburg University, Germany

• Special Orthopedic Surgery
• Orthopedic-Rheumatology

Additional Titles:

• Sports Medicine
• Special Pain Therapy
• Pediatric Orthopaedics
• Radiodiagnostics
• MRI and CT in Orthopedics
• Physical Therapy and Balneology

Instructor at the German Board of Orthopedic Surgeons for

• Special Orthopedic Surgery (3 years – full authorization)
• Orthopedics and Traumatology (5 years)
• Physical Therapy (2 years – full authorization)
• Sports Medicine (1 year – full authorization)

QUALIFICATIONS AND ACTIVITIES (excerpt)

1. Clinical Professor of Orthopedic Surgery, Philipps-University Marburg, Germany
2. ASG-Travelling fellow of the German speaking Orthopedic Societies
3. Past President of the South German Orthopedic Society (Vereinigung Süddeutscher Orthopäden, VSOU)

4. Member of the Board of Directors of the German Orthopaedic Society (DGOOC)

5. Past-Treasurer of the German Orthopaedic Society (DGOOC)

6. Past-Treasurer of the German Orthopaedic and Trauma Society (DGOU)

7. Member of the executive committee of the German Arthroplasty Registry (EPRD)

8. International Fellow of the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons (AAOS)

9. Member of the “American Association of Hip & Knee Surgeons” (AAHKS)

10. President of the European Hip Society (EHS) 2014-2016

11. President Elect of the German Knee Society (DKG) 2017

12. President Elect of the German Orthopaedic Society (DGOOC) and President Elect of the Congress of German Orthopaedic and Trauma Society (DKOU) 2018

13. “Master of Business Administration” (MBA) for hospital management, June 2003

14. Honorary Member of the Austrian Orthopaedic and Traumatolgy Society (ÖGO)

15. Honorary Member of the Latin-American Orthopaedic and Traumatology Society (SLAOT)

16. Honorary Member of the Colombian Orthopaedic and Traumatology Society (SCCOT)

17. Honorary Member of the Venezulanian Orthopaedic and Traumatology Society (SVCOT)

18. Editor in Chief of the German Orthopedic Journal “OUP”