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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
He has served as Team Physician for the New York Mets Baseball team, United States Davis Cup Tennis Team and Medical Director of the Association of Tennis Professionals World Tour since 2000. Dr. Dines is the co-developer of the ZimmerBiomet Comprehensive © Shoulder Arthroplasty System. He is recognized as an international leader in Shoulder arthroplasty and has received The Sir John Charnley Memorial Medal for Arthroplasty, and the Neer Award for Shoulder Research .
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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.
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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.
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Dr. Garrigues is shoulder and elbow specialist in the sports medicine division of orthopaedic surgery, Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He received his undergraduate and medical degrees from Harvard, a research degree from MIT, completed his orthopaedic residency at Duke University, and a shoulder and elbow fellowship at The Rothman Institute. He was the Head of Shoulder Reconstruction and Co-Director of the Sports Medicine and Shoulder Surgery Fellowship at Duke for a decade before being recruited to Rush.
Dr. Garrigues’ clinical practice focuses on the management of any and all shoulder and elbow conditions. Currently, he is co-team physician for the Chicago White Sox (Major League Baseball) and the Chicago Bulls (National Basketball Association). Dr. Garrigues has been honored with multiple awards, including the 2017 ASES European traveling fellowship, a prestigious 2018 OREF grant, an ASES research grant, and an NIH R01 grant. He has authored nearly 200 publications, multiple textbooks, and was the Co-Chair of the 2018 International Consensus on Periprosthetic Joint Infection Shoulder Task-force. Additionally, he has been involved in the design of multiple, successful, FDA-approved shoulder replacement systems.
When he is not thinking about shoulder and elbow pathology, he enjoys kiteboarding, playing bluegrass music, and spending time with his family.
Website: www.DrGshoulder.com
Twitter: @Grant_Garrigues
Instagram: @Grant_Garrigues
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/grant-garrigues-82362511/
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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.
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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.
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Dr Gupta is a Sub specialist shoulder surgeon working in Brisbane Australia.
His practice solely comprises of shoulder surgery. He Completed his Orthopaedic training in Queensland in 2012. Dr Gupta completed advanced shoulder arthroscopy and arthroplasty fellowships with Dr Lafosse (France), Dr Seebauer (Germany) and at Fowler Kennedy sports clinic and / Hand and Upper Limb Clinic G Athwal/R Litchfield (Canada).
His keen interest in basic science research led him to complete his Masters in Science from the University of Western Ontario in Canada; his thesis is on the Role of Scapular Morphology in Reverse Shoulder Arthroplasty.
Dr Gupta now practices in Brisbane. He is a dedicated clinician and teacher. He is the Co-Director of the Australian Shoulder Arthroscopy and Arthroplasty Clinical Fellowship. He is actively involved with training registrars. His passion for clinical research has led to the development of a clinical research unit-Shoulder Surgery Research Institute. SSQRI fosters teaching and clinical research to improve patient outcomes. http://drashishgupta.com.au/research-institute/
Prof Gupta is actively involved in basic science research at the Queensland University of Technology and is the founding Director of QUASR - Queensland Unit for Advanced Shoulder Research. QUASR is a dedicated research organisation with a key focus on biomechanical, tissue, 3 D printing, robotics and computational research into the shoulder. https://www.quasr.com.au
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Joseph Iannotti is Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Chief of Staff, Chief Academic and Innovations Officer and serves as Interim CEO and President for Cleveland Clinic Florida Health System. He is past chairman of the Orthopaedic and Rheumatology Institute at the Cleveland Clinic 2000 - 2018.
Dr. Iannotti received his MD from Northwestern University in 1979, completed his Orthopaedic Residency training at the University of Pennsylvania in 1984, and received a PhD in cell biology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1987.
Dr. Iannotti’s clinical and basic science research program focuses on innovative treatments for tendon repair and tendon tissue engineering, prosthetic design, software planning and patient specific instrumentation.
Dr. Iannotti has published three textbooks and has authored over 380 original peer reviewed articles, review articles and book chapters. He is a three time recipient of Charles Neer Research Award, the Cleveland Clinic 2011 Sones Award for Innovation and Cleveland Clinic Life time Achievements Award for Innovation in 2019.
Dr. Iannotti holds 120 US and International patents. In 2016 he was inducted into the National Academy of Inventors.
He has served as Past Chair of the Academic Affairs Council and the Board of Directors of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgery, Past-president of the American Shoulder and Elbow, Past-chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery.
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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.
From 2014 – 2020, Prof. Bernhard Jost was a board member in the presidential line of the Swiss Orthopaedic and Trauma Society “swiss orthopaedics” and was president from 2016 – 2018. He is 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.
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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.
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Privatdozent MD Franz Kralinger is head of the trauma and sports Departement of the Klinik Ottakring, former Wilhelminenspital in Vienna.
His career started at the University hospital in Innsbruck, where he was leading the shoulder and Elbow unit before getting the call to Vienna.
As an ordinary member of the SECEC, he was actively involved as member of the membership committee.
His main scientific interest of the last years is the treatment of osteoporotic proximal humerus fractures, especially all forms of enhancing fixation strength allowing for functional rehabilitation in an orthogeriatric population.
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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.
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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.
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Dr. William Levine is the Frank E. Stinchfield Professor and Chairman of the Department of Orthopedic Surgery of the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and Orthopedic Surgeon-in-Chief of NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia University Medical Center. In addition, Dr. Levine is the Chief of the Shoulder Service, Co-Director of the Center for Shoulder, Elbow and Sports Medicine, and Fellowship Director for the Columbia Shoulder and elbow fellowship. He has served as Head Team Physician for Columbia University’s 31 Men’s and Women’s Varsity teams for 21 years. Dr. Levine has been named one of New York’s Best Doctors by New York magazine for the last sixteen years. He is a member of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS), the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine (AOSSM), the American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons (ASES), the American Orthopaedic Association (AOA), and the Herodicus Society. Dr. Levine has authored or co-authored over 200 peer-reviewed articles, 50 book chapters, and has edited 11 textbooks and monographs. He has served on the Board of Directors of the AOSSM, the Executive Committee for the AOA, and is a past Director of the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery. He is currently the President for the American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons and the Editor-in-Chief for the Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (JAAOS).
A native of North Dakota, Dr. Levine received a B.A. in Human Biology from Stanford University and his Doctor of Medicine from Case Western Reserve University. He was a resident in orthopaedic surgery at Tufts Medical Center, and held fellowships at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in Shoulder and Elbow surgery and the University of Maryland in Sports Medicine.
He lives in New York with his wife and their two daughters.
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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
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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)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Prof. Dr. Raiss did his residency at the Orthopaedic University Hospital in Heidelberg and at the BG-Unfallklinik Ludwigshafen, Germany. Between 2011-2012 he underwent a 1-year Shoulder Fellowship in Lyon, France with Dr. Gilles Walch. Afterwards he returned to the Orthopaedic University Hospital where he worked as a Consultant Surgeon and received his professorship in 2016. In 2017 he became partner at the OCM-Clinic in Munich, Germany. He is specialized in Shoulder surgery and his research focus is shoulder arthroplasty.
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Born in Milano, Italy, First of July 1969.
Graduate: Medicine, University of Milan, Italy (Top Honours). Date 21/7/1994 Post-Graduate:
Speciality in Orthopaedics and Traumatology, 1994-1999, University of Milan, Italy
Master in Pediatric Orthopaedics and Traumatology, 2002, University of Milan, Italy
Present Occupation:
Full Professor in Orthopaedics, Dipartimento di Scienze Biomediche per la Salute, University of Milan, Italy Chairman of the Scientific Committee, Gaetano Pini Orthopaedic Institute of Milan.
Chief of the 1st Department of Orthopaedics, Gaetano Pini Orthopaedic Institute, Milan, Italy.
Chief of the 1st Department of Orthopaedics, CTO Orthopaedic Institute, Milan, Italy.
Manager of Resident’s and Fellows Education Programme in the same Dept.
Surgical Experience of more than 7.000 procedures including mostly Shoulder and Knee Arthroscopy, Total Knee, Hip and Shoulder replacement.
Over 400 publications, including peer review journals, DVDs, VHS and Abstracts. Over 600 presentations in local and internationals meetings.
Recipient of eight scientific Awards, National and International.
Reviewer of AJSM (American Journal Sports Medicine), Editorial Board Member of OJSM (Orthopaedic Journal Sports Medicine), Reviewer and Editorial Board Member of KSSTA (Knee Surg. Sports Traumatology Arthroscopy), Board of Trustees of JOINTS Journal, Editorial Board Member of Orthopaedics Today Europe, Associate Editor of Journal of Orthopaedics and Traumatology.
Executive Board Member of ESSKA (European Society Sports Traumatology, Knee Surgery, Arthroscopy) 2010-2018. ESSKA General Secretary 2016-2018 and Chairman of the Education and Fellowship Committee 2010-2016.
President of SIGASCOT (Italian Society Knee Surgery, Arthroscopy and Sports Traumatology) 2016-2018.
President of the Magellan Society 2010-12.
Affiliations:
Honorary Member of AOSSM (American Orthopaedic Society Sports Medicine, since 2005).
Founding Member of SIGASCOT (Italian Society Knee Surgery, Arthroscopy and Sports Traumatology, 2005). Has been member of SIA, SICSeG, SIOT, AANA, ESSKA, ISAKOS, CBOS, ASTAOR.
H-index: 24 Citations: 2153 IF total: 241,2
ORCID ID: orcid.org/0000-0001-9331-820X
Scopus Author ID: 6701310013 ResearcherID: G-9360-2015
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.
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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.
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Dr. Robert Tashjian is a Professor of Orthopaedics at the University of Utah School of Medicine in Salt Lake City, UT specializing in shoulder and elbow surgery. Dr. Tashjian received his medical doctorate from Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, MA. He completed an orthopaedic residency at Brown Medical School in Providence, RI followed by an orthopaedic trauma fellowship at Brown. Dr. Tashjian completed an additional fellowship in shoulder and elbow surgery at Washington University in St. Louis under the direction of Ken Yamaguchi, MD. Dr. Tashjian's primary clinical focus centers on all aspects of primary and revision shoulder and elbow surgery including labral tears, rotator cuff tears, arthritis and fractures including shoulder arthroplasty and post-reconstructive procedures. Dr. Tashjian is an Active Member of the American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons. Dr. Tashjian is the editor of the textbooks The Unstable Elbow and Complex and Revision Shoulder Arthroplasty. Dr. Tashjian is currently the Vice-Chairman for Research in the Department of Orthopaedics as well as the co-director of the annual internationally recognized Advanced Shoulder Arthroplasty Meeting in Park City, Utah
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Born and raised in Barcelona, completed studies of medicine at Medicine University in Barcelona. Chief of the Shoulder Unit at Hospital Universitario del Mar de Barcelona. Associate Professor of Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona. Past President of Spanish Shoulder and Elbow Society. Member of the Executive Committee of the European Society for Surgery of the Shoulder and Elbow from 2017 to 2020. Chairman of the Registry Committee. During all this period saved extra-time to raise 3 daughters, Maria aged 32, Lucia aged 10 and the last one, Sara aged 8 years old!
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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.
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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.
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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, France 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 25 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.
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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.
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Dr. med. Karl Wieser is Privat Docent at the University of Zurich and Head of the Shoulder and Elbow Unit at the Balgrist University Hospital in Zurich, Switzerland.
Despite his clinical work as a highly specialized shoulder and elbow surgeon Dr. Wieser has a strong scientific interest in rotator cuff disorders and its associated myotendinous degeneration, shoulder instability and reverse total shoulder arthroplasty. In cooperation with the different research departments of the Balgrist Campus he is also highly interested and active in the translation of cutting-edge technologies like patient specific instrumentation and Augmented Reality into the clinical use. He authored over 80 clinical and basic science publications, mainly in the field of shoulder surgery, acquired multiple research grants from national and international societies and was selected for the European Asian SECEC Traveling Fellowship in 2015.
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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
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
A pre-course cadaver workshop dedicated to shoulder arthroplasty guided by experts and offering you a chance to practice
Learn a range of practical information with regard to new techniques and ideas all focused on shoulder arthroplasty
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