3 full days dedicated to shoulder arthroplasty Through lectures, live surgeries, interactive clinical case discussions, cadaver workshops, ultrasound workshops…
3 full days dedicated to shoulder arthroplasty Through lectures, live surgeries, interactive clinical case discussions, cadaver workshops, ultrasound workshops…
Dr. George Athwal is originally from Vancouver, and completed his M.D. at the University of British Columbia. Following completion of his orthopedic surgery residency at Queen’s University, he spent 2 years sub-specializing in upper extremity reconstruction and trauma. Dr. Athwal completed fellowships at the Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY and at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. In 2005, he joined the Hand and Upper Limb Centre at the University of Western Ontario. He is actively involved in biomechanical and clinical research pertaining to the shoulder and elbow.
Christian Gerber, MD, FRCS(hon) is an orthopaedic surgeon specialized in shoulder and elbow surgery. Born and raised in Switzerland, he completed Medical School at the Universities of Berne Yale and San Diego. He then underwent postgraduate training in Neurology, Internal Medicine, and General Surgery in Switzerland. His orthopaedic education took place at the University of Berne, started under Maurice E. Müller to ultimately be dominated by his teacher and mentor Reinhold Ganz. After a Shoulder Fellowship with Dr. C.A. Rockwood in San Antonio, he had the privilege to work as a ”médecin résident étranger under Marcel Kerboull, Bernard Toméno and Henri Carlioz in Paris. This period got him acquainted with French orthopedics and led to a lasting relationship with French role models and friends such as Alain Gilbert, Alain Masquelet Gilles Walch or Daniel Mole. After several years as a junior staff member at the University of Berne, He was appointed Professor and Chair at the State Hospital Fribourg in 1992 and was subsequently offered the position of Professor and Chairman of the Department of Orthopaedics at the University of Zürich in October 1995,a position which he held until July 2017.
He received numerous honors such as membership of honor from the Western Orthopaedic Society, the Spanish Shoulder and Elbow Society, the French Society of Orthopaedic Surgery, Swiss Orthopaedics, the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences and the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. His more than 420 peer-reviewed publications are quoted over 23’000 times and have resulted in a H-index of currently 91. He is the only four-time winner of the Charles S. Neer Award of the American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons, winner of the Didier Patte Award of SECEC, the first non-American winner of the Kappa Delta Award of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons and recipient of the Arthur Steindler Award of the Orthopaedic Research Society. In the year 2000 he founded the ResOrtho Foundation for Orthopaedic Research and Education which supports the development of young academic careers and created an Institute called “Balgrist Campus”, a novel research and development institution for the advancement of musculoskeletal medicine, which has become recognized as a Center of National Relevance for Research by the Swiss government in 2016. He continues to practice in the Balgrist university Hospital and to pursue his research in the Balgrist Campus. Prof. Gerber is married and has three adult children.
Laurent LAFOSSE is a upper extremity surgeon specialized in Shoulder Arthroscopiy and Arthroplasty. Born and raised in PARIS, he underwent training with Goutallier and Patte. He started his private practice in 1989 Clinique Generale in Annecy and in 2005 at Clinique Beaulieu in Geneva Switzerland. He had a privilege during his post graduate to learn from US surgeons and to collaborate and learn from his French mentor G. Walch. He was scientific secretary of SFA and chairman of SECEC education committee. He is honorary member of SoFCOT and numerous European societies (German, Spanish, Finish, Greek). He as participate in 46 publications, 20 book chapters and more than 360 international meetings in 27 countries. He has organized since 1998 more than 100 meetings and courses in Annecy, including the 7 Biannual events Annecy International Live Surgery Shoulder course since 2005. 119 fellows attended Annecy for training since 2000 from 29 countries.
Native of Lyon France and pure product of the Lyonnaise Orthopedic school, Doctor Gilles Walch focused on shoulder disorders very early in his career.After numerous publications on patello-femoral instability and natural history of cruciate ligament rupture, he travelled to the United States to visit Dr Franck Jobe and Dr Ch Rockwood. Since his return to France Dr Walch has focused completely on the shoulder, improving the understanding and treatment of various shoulder disorders. In 1993 he organised the first ‘Journées de l’épaule’ in Lyon.
Over 1000 European specialists including orthopaedic surgeons, rheumatologists, radiologists and rehabilitation specialists consolidated 10 years of collaboration with the purpose of identifying and quantifying the different shoulder pathologies.The results of the collaboration have allowed careful analysis of poor results, complications and failures to improve treatment. From 1987 to 1995 Dr Walch was the General Secretary of the European Society for Surgery of the Shoulder and Elbow before holding the office of President from 2005 to 2007. He is corresponding member of the ASES since 1994 and was elected President of the French Society of Orthopedic Surgery and Traumatology (SOFCOT) 2014-2015. He was distinguished as Honorary Member of several European Orthopedic Society including Switzerland, Portugal, Italy and Greece. He is also member of 8 scientific societies and was invited as Visiting Professor in many University Hospitals all around the world. He published more than 300 articles in national and international journals and has lectured at some 500 conferences across the world. He wrote numerous book chapters and edited 4 books on Shoulder Arthroplasty.
Dr Walch is one of the designers of the Aequalis Shoulder prostheses family. He has been a pioneer in the understanding of shoulder conditions and has developed several concept including internal impingement, arthroscopic tenotomy of the biceps in massive RCT, hidden lesion of the Subscapularis, the Latarjet procedure, the classification of arthritic glenoid, the role of the Teres Minor in MRCT and the musculo-tendinous rupture of the Infraspinatus For the last 20 years he has concentrated exclusively on surgery and arthroscopy of the shoulder with shoulder instability, rupture of the rotator cuff and shoulder arthroplasty forming the basis of his day to day work.
First and Second year of residency in Orthopaedic Surgery in the Department of Orthopaedic Sports Medicine, Technical University of Munich (Shoulder and Knee Surgery, A.B. Imhoff, MD) Third to sixth year of residency in Orthopaedic Surgery in the Department of Trauma and Reconstructive Surgery (Henriettenstiftung Hannover, Teaching Hospital of Medical School Hannover, Chief of Department : Prof. P. Lobenhoffer MD) Travelling fellowship Shoulder Surgery USA Consultant of Orthopeadic Surgery in Henriettenstiftung Hannover, Deputy of Chief of Department, Head of Arthroscopy and Shoulder Surgery Service Consultant and Partner of Sportsclinic Germany, Hannover Consultant, Partner and Chief of Service of Gelenkchirurgie Orthopädie Hannover, 1000-1100 shoulder operations personally performed per year Dissertation for the degree of MD: „summa cum laude“ Habilitation for the Degree of PhD in Orthopaedic Surgery (Medical School Hannover, MHH) Instructor of Society for Arthroscopy and Joint Surgery (AGA) Board member of Society for Arthroscopy and Joint Surgery (AGA) General Secretary of Society for Arthroscopy and Joint Surgery (AGA) Codeditor of Book „Osteotomies around the knee“ (Lobenhoffer, Agneskirchner, Galla), Thieme Editor of Book „Arthroscopic Shoulder Surgery“, Dt. Ärzteverlag Coeditor of New edition of Book “Osteotomies around the knee”), Thieme Author of 55 original papers (22 first author), 18 book chapers, more than 550 lectures and presentations in international meetings, 62 Live Surgeries at National and International meetings.
Chief of the Shoulder & Elbow Unit at La Paz University Hospital in Madrid. Associate professor of Orthopedics. Associate Editor of Journal of Shoulder & Elbow Surgery. Past president of the Spanish Shoulder and Elbow Society. Former shoulder and elbow fellow at the Mayo Clinic.
Dr. George Athwal is originally from Vancouver, and completed his M.D. at the University of British Columbia. Following completion of his orthopedic surgery residency at Queen’s University, he spent 2 years sub-specializing in upper extremity reconstruction and trauma. Dr. Athwal completed fellowships at the Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY and at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. In 2005, he joined the Hand and Upper Limb Centre at the University of Western Ontario. He is actively involved in biomechanical and clinical research pertaining to the shoulder and elbow.
Johannes BARTH is a shoulder surgeon (and knee arthroscopist) working in a private hospital in Grenoble. He is the vice-president of the Francophone Society of Arthroscopy and a member of the SOFCOT, SECEC, ESSKA and ISAKOS. He has published several articles in peer-reviewed journals and is reviewer of the AJSM, JSES, OTSR, KSSTA. He manages a clinical-research fellowship program since 2012 involving residents or surgeon fellows from E.U. and over-seas He did his residency and post-residency program, in Grenoble with Pr. Dominique Saragaglia (with a rotation in Toulouse with Pr. Michel Mansat for a 6 months period in 2004), and served as instructor in the anatomy lab with Pr. Chirossel. He did a clinical fellowship with Dr. Pierre Chambat and Dr. Gilles Walch in Lyon, (2001), a research fellowship with Pr. Stephen Burkhart in San Antonio, Texas, USA (2003), and the ESSKA-APKASS travelling fellowship (2016).
Head of Department Trauma - Shoulder - Elbow Surgery Agatharied Hospital Trained at the University Hospital of Munich Professor at the LMU, University of Munich American Travelling Fellow of SECEC Assistant Editor Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery Past President DVSE (German Association for Surgery of the Shoulder and Elbow)
Emilio Calvo is the Director of the Department of Orthopedic Surgery and Traumatology and Professor of Orthopedics at the Fundacion Jimenez Diaz, a teaching hospital affiliated to the Autónoma University of Madrid (Spain). He is also the director of the Shoulder and Elbow Felloship Program. After terminating his residency, he completed a fellowship in Sports Medicine at Beth Israel Medical Center in New York. Actually and since 1998, he is in charge of the Shoulder and Elbow Reconstructive Surgery Unit. During his tenure, new and innovated techniques have been introduced, like complex prosthetic procedures and arthroscopic Latarjet or arthroscopic treatment of proximal humeral malunions. In addition, a number of research projects in shoulder surgery have been initiated and developed. The main topics his research is focused to are shoulder instability, rotator cuff tear repair and reconstruction of complex proximal fractures and thieir complications. Numerous communications to national and international meetings have been presented, and more than 80 publications in peer-reviewed journals have been published. He is Associate Editor of the Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery. He has also been part of the faculty of prestigious shoulder meetings in Europe and America. Emilio Calvo is also an active member of national and international scientific societies, like the European Society for Surgery of the Shoulder and Elbow (ESSSE), the American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons (ASES), the European Society for Sports, Knee and Arthroscopy (ESSKA), and the International Society of Arthroscopy, Knee Surgery and Orthopaedic Sports Medicine (ISAKOS). He has now member by appointment of the Executive Committee of the European Society for Surgery of the Shoulder and Elbow (ESSSE) and the Shoulder Committee of the International Society of Arthroscopy, Knee Surgery and Orthopaedic Sports Medicine (ISAKOS). He has been the President of the 22nd Meeting of the European Society for Surgery of the Shoulder and Elbow, and the President of the 2013 European Society for Surgery of the Shoulder and Elbow Closed Meeting hold in Madrid on September 2009 and 2013.
Entirely dedicated to shoulder pathology treatment Trained for shoulder arthroscopy in the USA with Dr. Stephen Snyder Trained in open shoulder surgery in Italy with Prof. Mario randelli Past President of Italian Shoulder and Elbow Society (SICSeG, 2010-12) Past President of the European Shoulder and Elbow Society (SECEC/ESSSE, 2012-2014) Member of the International Board of ICSES 2013-2022 Present position: Director, Shoulder and Elbow Surgery, Humanitas Research Hospital Associate Professor of Orthopedics, Humanitas University Director, Post-Graduate School of Orthopedics, Humanitas University
After medical studies in Paris, Philippe Collin has been trained by different famous shoulder surgeons in France and in Europ. He is a direct pupil of the « aequalis group ». He works for 15 years in a private hospital of Saint Gregoire in Brittany ( ranked better private hospital in France since 2010).
Among 22 orthopeadic surgeons , the shoulder team host fellows from all over the world and have a departement for scientific research Philippe Collin has communicated all over the world (8 scientific papers at the American Academy Orthopeadic surgeon) He has win the best scientific paper at the international meeting for shoulder and elbow surgery in Japan in 2014, participation to chapter book, and more than 80 scientific papers ( medline) and guest lectures all over the world.
Ordinary member of the SECEC (member of the executive committee as Chairman of the education commettee) , corresponding member of the American society for shoulder and elbow, Past president of the French shoulder and elbow society. His area of interest is massive rotator cuff and reverse shoulder arthroplasty.
David M Dines MD is Clinical Professor of Orthopedic Surgery at Weill Cornell Medical College and Attending Surgeon at the Hospital for Special Surgery and Co-director of the Shoulder Fellowship. He is Past-President of the American Shoulder and Elbow Society.(2005-6) and has published over 350 per-reviewed articles, many book chapters, edited and written 7 text books on shoulder surgery, He has lectured and presented extensively throughout the world.
Pr Favard is the head of the Orthopedic Department of the University Hospital of Tours. He is mainly specialized in shoulder surgery, particularly in shoulder arthroplasties. He has been one of the first surgeons to implant a Grammont prosthesis beginning in 1992. He worked a lot about the long-term results and survival curves of the reverse and anatomical shoulder arthroplasty. He is part of the French group working about arthroplasties with G Walch, P Boileau and D Mole.
Pr Favard has been a member of the executive committee of the SECEC as chairman of the R & D Committee, then of the Registry committee. He has been in charge of different symposia about shoulder arthroplasties inside ICSES, SECEC and French Orthopedic Society.
He is Professor at the University of Tours, where he is in charge of the teaching of orthopedic semiology. He is also involved in different research projects, as the augmented reality and the implantation of shoulder arthroplasty, or the characteristics of the infra spinatus from an anatomical and imaging point of view.
Dr Pierre-Henri Flurin co-founded the Bordeaux-Mérignac Sport clinic (France) where he practices orthopedic surgery since 1992. He contributed to the development of the first surgical techniques in arthroscopy of the shoulder with, in particular, arthroscopic rotator cuff repair since 1993.
Dr Flurin worked on the development of 3rd generation anatomical prostheses and codification of surgical techniques for anatomic and reverse shoulder prostheses in France since 1996 and in the USA since 2001.
He founded the Equinoxe shoulder prosthesis program. Dr Flurin has made more than 200 presentations in national and international scientific congresses. He participated in the writing of several book chapters about arthroscopy and arthroplasty surgery, he is the author of more than 60 referenced scientific articles.
Christian Gerber, MD, FRCS(hon) is an orthopaedic surgeon specialized in shoulder and elbow surgery. Born and raised in Switzerland, he completed Medical School at the Universities of Berne Yale and San Diego. He then underwent postgraduate training in Neurology, Internal Medicine, and General Surgery in Switzerland. His orthopaedic education took place at the University of Berne, started under Maurice E. Müller to ultimately be dominated by his teacher and mentor Reinhold Ganz. After a Shoulder Fellowship with Dr. C.A. Rockwood in San Antonio, he had the privilege to work as a ”médecin résident étranger under Marcel Kerboull, Bernard Toméno and Henri Carlioz in Paris. This period got him acquainted with French orthopedics and led to a lasting relationship with French role models and friends such as Alain Gilbert, Alain Masquelet Gilles Walch or Daniel Mole. After several years as a junior staff member at the University of Berne, He was appointed Professor and Chair at the State Hospital Fribourg in 1992 and was subsequently offered the position of Professor and Chairman of the Department of Orthopaedics at the University of Zürich in October 1995,a position which he held until July 2017.
He received numerous honors such as membership of honor from the Western Orthopaedic Society, the Spanish Shoulder and Elbow Society, the French Society of Orthopaedic Surgery, Swiss Orthopaedics, the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences and the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh. His more than 420 peer-reviewed publications are quoted over 23’000 times and have resulted in a H-index of currently 91. He is the only four-time winner of the Charles S. Neer Award of the American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons, winner of the Didier Patte Award of SECEC, the first non-American winner of the Kappa Delta Award of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons and recipient of the Arthur Steindler Award of the Orthopaedic Research Society. In the year 2000 he founded the ResOrtho Foundation for Orthopaedic Research and Education which supports the development of young academic careers and created an Institute called “Balgrist Campus”, a novel research and development institution for the advancement of musculoskeletal medicine, which has become recognized as a Center of National Relevance for Research by the Swiss government in 2016. He continues to practice in the Balgrist university Hospital and to pursue his research in the Balgrist Campus. Prof.
My Orthopaedic Residency was in Lyon, from which I graduated in 1998. Following this my Fellowship was spent also in Lyon working with Dr Gilles Walch. I then started my practice, joining the Centre Orthopédique Santy with a group of 12 orthopaedic surgeons. I perform around 600 shoulder procedures per year including 350 arthroscopic cuff tendon repairs , more than 50 stabilizations for shoulder instability and more than 50 shoulder arthroplasties. We host a visitation center and run fellowship programs. I have a special interest in customized implants, instrument solutions, arthroscopic surgeries, scientific studies and teaching.
Prof. Bernhard Jost is Head of Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology at Kantonsspital St.Gallen and leading the Shoulder and Elbow Unit since 2011. He is a renowned Surgeon specialized in the whole field of shoulder and elbow surgery.
Prof. Bernhard Jost is past president (president from 2016 to 2018) of the Swiss Orthopaedic and Trauma Society “swiss orthopaedics” and actively engaged as a member of the Expert Group Shoulder and Elbow, Traumatology, Education Commission and Board Exam Commission.
As an ordinary member of the SECEC he also was a member of the Executive Committee (Chairman of the Membership and Website Committee). Furthermore, Prof. Jost is a corresponding member of the American Society for Shoulder and Elbow Surgery and an international deputy editor of JBJS.
Dr. Jean Kany is a French orthopedic surgeon, Shoulder unit at Clinique de l’Union, Toulouse. He is the author of more than 80 international publications and books. He has been an expert and faculty member for high profile shoulder congress. Dr Kany is member of French orthopedic society, European Shoulder and Elbow surgery and French arthroscopic society.
Dr Alexandre Lädermann is Privat Docent at the University of Geneva, president of Swiss Shoulder Society (Expertengruppe Schulter und Ellbogen (Swiss Orthopaedics), president of the Congress of the European Society for Shoulder and Elbow Surgery (SECEC/ESSSE), president of the foundation for Research and Teachning in Orthopaedics, Sports Medicine, Trauma and Imaging (FORE), chairman of the Val d'Isère Advanced Course on Shoulder Arthroscopy and the 4th International Congress on Adipose Stem cell Treatment (iCAST). Dr Alexandre Lädermann collaborates with the Geneva University Hospitals, La Tour Hospital and the Clinic Hirslanden La Colline. He is the author of more than 150 publications in journals and books concerning the shoulder joint.
Laurent LAFOSSE is a upper extremity surgeon specialized in Shoulder Arthroscopiy and Arthroplasty. Born and raised in PARIS, he underwent training with Goutallier and Patte. He started his private practice in 1989 Clinique Generale in Annecy and in 2005 at Clinique Beaulieu in Geneva Switzerland. He had a privilege during his post graduate to learn from US surgeons and to collaborate and learn from his French mentor G. Walch. He was scientific secretary of SFA and chairman of SECEC education committee. He is honorary member of SoFCOT and numerous European societies (German, Spanish, Finish, Greek). He as participate in 46 publications, 20 book chapters and more than 360 international meetings in 27 countries. He has organized since 1998 more than 100 meetings and courses in Annecy, including the 7 Biannual events Annecy International Live Surgery Shoulder course since 2005. 119 fellows attended Annecy for training since 2000 from 29 countries.
Prof. Pierre MANSAT, MD, PhD Chairman of the Orthopedic and Traumatology Department Chairman of the Sports University Clinic University Hospital of Toulouse Toulouse Medical school Deputy International Editor of the JSES Editor of the JSESOA
Medical Formation University Firbourg ( CH) University Zurich Postgraduate Trauma and Visceral Surgery 1992-1999, Trauma Surgery University Hospital Zurich 1999-2000 consultant surgery 1998 senior physician Trauma Departement Kantonsspital Aarau 2000-2004 main activity Truam surgery 2003 senior physician shoulder and elbow surgery Schulthess Clinic Zurich 2006 consultant orthopaedic and Trauma surgery 2007 senior consultant shoulder and elbow surgery Schulthess Clinic 2011 surgery Focus: Trauma and Revision Surgery schoulder elbow, Arthroscopic shoulder surgery ,joint replacement shoulder and elbow and Revisison Arthroplasty Member ship.
Swiss society of surgery Swiss Society of orthopaedic and trauma surgery AO Alumni Association ( AOAA) AGA ( Arthroscopic Joint society) Swiss Society of trauma Surgery ( SGCGU)
Philipp Moroder is the Head of the Shoulder and Elbow Unit at the Charitè University Hospital in Berlin. He completed his training with Herbert Resch, Peter Habermeyer, and Markus Scheibel. In 2018 he was selected for the ASES Traveling Fellowship.
Lionel Neyton, MD is an orthopaedic surgeon specialized in shoulder surgery. After completing his residency program in Nancy, he ran a one-year shoulder fellowship with Gilles Walch in 2003. He then joined Pascal Boileau’s department in Nice, France for three years of junior practice. Since November 2006, he’s Gilles Walch’s partner at Centre Orthopédique Santy in Lyon, France. His practice is fully dedicated to shoulder surgery with specific interest in arthroplasty (surgery and design), clinical research and education. He received honors such as Corresponding membership of the American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons society and Honorary membership of the Korean Shoulder and Elbow Society. He was selected for the Travelling fellowship SECEC/ASES in 2014 and is the 2018 winner of the Grammont Award of SECEC. He is member of the French Shoulder and Elbow Society (SOFEC), French Orthopaedic Society (SOFCOT), French Arthroscopic Society (SFA) and SECEC. He is the Shoulder fellowship program Director at Centre Orthopédique Santy. He is married and father of two teens.
Ben Ockert is the Head of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery at Munich University Hospitals. He completed his training and serves at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University as a Senior Consultant Orthopaedic Trauma Surgeon and Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery. In 2009 he attended a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the AO Research Institute Davos. As of then, his research interest is focused on the treatment of proximal humeral fractures.
Professor Pascal Boileau completed his undergraduate and graduate training in Nice, France in the University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis. ln the framework of the university resident exchange program, he was resident in Lyon. He is Board Certified in Orthopedic Surgery and Traumatology. He is Chairman of the University lnstitute of Locomotion and Sports of Pasteur 2 Hospital and Chairman of its Department of Orthopedic and Sports Surge ry. He is also in charge of Outpatient Surgery of the U n iversity Hospital Center of Nice Pascal Boileau takes an active part in the academic life of the Medical School of Nice, University of Nice-So phia-Antipolis, where he was nominated Vice-Dean in 2010, was the President of the Scientific Com mission from 2010 to 2104, as well as being a membe r of the Administrative Council of the Medical School. H e was the President of the European Society for Surgery of the Shoulder and Elbow from 2010 to 2012 after serving as General Secretary between 2008 and 2010. He is the member of several national and international learned societies. Professor Boileau specializes in shoulder surgery and is one of the designers of the Aequalis shoulder prostheses family and has developed several surgical devices and arthroscopic techniques. Professor Boileau has won the Gisela Sturm prize (European Federation of Orthopaedics and Traumatology) of innovation in prosthetic surgery in 1997. He also won the Neer Award in 2005 for clinical research and several other prizes for his scientific work. Professor Boileau has a wide-ranging scientific activity; he has more than 180 articles published in peer-re viewed journals, has edited 15 books, besides the more than 200 articles and chapters contributed to other publications. His papers are regularly selected for presentation in international and national meetings (more than 350). His works, studies and projects have earned him worldwide recognition and he has been invited to lecture worldwide. Besides his implication in education and training as faculty member of the University Côte d'Azur, and in residency and fellowship programs, every two years he organizes the Nice Shoulder Course - Current Concepts, a meeting point where internationally recognized experts share their knowledge, experience and views in the field of shoulder pathology and surgical treatment.
Dr. Joaquin Sanchez-Sotelo, MD PhD practices as a Consultant in Orthopedic Surgery at Mayo Clinic (Rochester, MN, USA). Dr. Sanchez-Sotelo was born in Madrid, Spain. He graduated as Medical Doctor from Universidad Autonoma de Madrid Medical School (Spain) and obtained the #1 position in the Spanish National Exam for Medical Graduates in 1992.
Dr. Sanchez-Sotelo completed his Residency Program at Hospital Universitario La Paz and his PhD Program at Universidad Autonoma de Madrid. He was then selected for a fellowship position at Mayo Clinic and completed a two year program in adult reconstruction of the lower (hip and knee) and upper (shoulder and elbow) extremities. Currently, Dr. Sanchez-Sotelo practices as Consultant in the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at Mayo Clinic, where he is actively involved in outpatient consultations, surgical procedures, research and teaching activities. Dr. Sanchez-Sotelo is also appointed as full Professor at Mayo College of Medicine. He serves as Program Director for the Mayo Clinic Shoulder and Elbow Fellowship, and ViceChairman for the Division of Adult Reconstruction. He has been presented the Mayo Clinic Teacher of the Year Award on two separate occasions and has received other research recognitions in the past, including the Mark B. Coventry, Melvin Post, MidAmerica Orthopedic Association, Knee Society and AAOS Achievement’s Awards. Dr. Sanchez-Sotelo is member of multiple professional societies, and currently serves as active member of the American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons Membership Committee, as well as Associate Editor for the Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery, the Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Arthroplasty, and the Journal of Orthopedic Trauma. He was recently appointed as Board member for American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons. Dr. Sanchez-Sotelo has published over 175 articles in the peer-reviewed literature in addition to over 50 book chapters. He is co-editor of the most widely read textbook on elbow surgery, “The Elbow and Its Disorders”.
Dr. Sanchez-Sotelo just published Mayo Clinic Principles of Shoulder Surgery, a book directed to individuals starting their training in the field of shoulder surgery. He is actively involved in the design of implants for joint replacement and fracture fixation. Dr. Sanchez-Sotelo serves as course co-director for the Mayo Clinic Annual Elbow Course “Teach the teachers”, and the Mayo Clinic Course on Shoulder Tendon Transfers and Complex Rotator Cuff Tears. He has presented his research in numerous occasions at national and international meetings. Dr. Sanchez-Sotelo has developed a special interest in complex reconstructive surgery of the shoulder and elbow joints, as well as in basic science research related to the genetic and molecular basis of orthopedic conditions, particularly joint stiffness, as well as the biomechanics of shoulder and elbow injuries and implants.
Prof Markus Scheibel is the former Head of the Department of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery at the Charité–Universitaetsmedizin Berlin, Germany. He is currently the president of the German Association for Shoulder and Elbow Surgery (DVSE). As of July 2018 he was appointed as the chairman at Schulthess Clinic in Zuerich, Switzerland and Visiting Professor at the Charité.
Born in Paris, doctor Philippe Valenti did a fellowship in Paris university and was interested to the surgery of the upper limb under the influence of the professors Alain Gilbert and AC Masquelet. As microsurgeon, he developed his experience on hand reconstruction, nerve surgery, brachial plexus surgery and free flap transfer. He worked between 1987 -1989 with Dr Didier Patte before to travel to United states to visit Dr Rick Matsen and Dr Charles Rockwood .
In 1995, Dr Valenti was admitted in the ”Institut de la main” where he focused is activity on shoulder reconstruction( arthroplasty, arthroscopy, nerves reconstruction and tendon transfer). In 2003, Doctor Valenti is one of the designers of the first complete convertible shoulder prosthesis (Arrow shoulder arthroplasty). In 2004, Doctor Valenti was president of the French microsurgery society(GAM) and since 2008 he is the general secretary of this French microsurgery society. In 2012, He organized in Paris the congress of the European Federation Microsurgery Society (EFMS).
Doctor Philippe Valenti is a member of the French orthopaedic society(SOFCOT), French Society of Arthroscopy (SFA), European Shoulder and Elbow Society (SECEC), American Association of Orthopedic Surgeons (AAOS) and American Society of Elbow and Shoulder (ASES). He is also a correspondent International Member of many Orthopaedic Societies (Chili, Columbia, Argentina, Brazil). In 2013, Dr Valenti organized with Ph Hardy the first Paris international shoulder course. We will do the fourth edition in 2019 with more than 500 attendees and specialists of shoulder surgery.
This year (2017-2018) Dr Valenti is the president of the French society of shoulder and elbow(SOFEC) and Vice president of the French academy of orthopedic and traumatology (AOT) He has over 50 publications on PubMed and has written four books including « Tendon transfer for irreparable cuff tear » (Springer). He is also a founder and member of the French humanitarian association «Chaîne de l’espoir» and Vice president of Chaîne de l’espoir.
Prof. Olivier Verborgt is a shoulder surgeon and chairman of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology at AZ Monica in Antwerp, Belgium.
After his studies and specialization in orthopedics at the University of Antwerp, he sub-specialized in shoulder surgery completing fellowships in Clinique Jouvenet in Paris and Mount Sinai Hospital in New York. He was responsible for shoulder surgery in AZ St Lucas in Brugge between 2005 and 2011. In october 2011 he joined the Orthopaedic Surgery Department of AZ Monica in Antwerp and became consultant at the University Hospital of Antwerp and guest professor at the University of Antwerp.
He is the past-president of the Belgian Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology (BVOT). He is committee member of the European Society of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery (SECEC) and member of the American Shoulder and Elbow Society (ASES) and is active in clinical and basic research about shoulder pathology with multiple peer publications.
Jean-David Werthel is a shoulder surgeon from Paris, France. He completed his medical school at the University Paris V René Descartes and his residency at Assistance Publique des Hôpitaux de Paris (Public Assistance - Paris Hospitals). He conducted his fellowship at Hôpital Bichat and Hôpital Ambroise Paré and spent a year as a research fellow in the biomechanics lab of the Mayo Clinic.
His interests are in complex reconstructive surgery of the shoulder and clinical outcomes as well as in basic science research related to the biomechanics of the shoulder and of shoulder implants. He is involved in the design of implants for shoulder replacements and has presented his research in numerous occasions at national and international meetings. He is an active member of the Chaine de l’Espoir, a French nonprofit organization working with disadvantaged children, with which he performs regular surgical missions for obstetric brachial plexus injuries and hand congenital deformities.
Jean-David has published over fifty scientific articles and is a reviewer for shoulder articles and corresponding member in International Orthopedics.
3 full days on shoulder arthroplasty gathering 600 shoulder surgeons from around the world.
60 international speakers will present, develop, explain and address the current following hot topics : - Complex proximal humeral fractures - Anatomical shoulder arthroplasty - Reverse shoulder arthroplasty
A rich programme of 6 Live surgeries et 9 relives operated by Key Opinion Leaders
Ultrasound workshops
With a focus on clinical scenarios, group discussion and hands-on skill practice, this ultrasound workshop will cover a number of topics using experienced small group teachers to help improve knowledge and competencies
Cadaver workshops
A pre-course cadaver workshop dedicated to shoulder arthroplasty guided by experts and offering you a chance to practice
A unique opportunity
Learn a range of practical information with regard to new techniques and ideas all focused on shoulder arthroplasty
CHAIRMEN OF CONGRESS
Philippe Valenti
Paris / France
Markus Scheibel
Berlin - Zurich / Germany - Switzerland
Topics good, controversies and problem areas highlighted, went into detail more than a lot of other congresses it's indications, techniques
A delegate
This course is probably the best one in term of fabulous balance between theory and practical tips, rare and friendly
