3 full days dedicated to shoulder arthroplasty Through lectures, live surgeries, interactive clinical case discussions, Pre-course, ultrasound workshops…
3 full days dedicated to shoulder arthroplasty Through lectures, live surgeries, interactive clinical case discussions, Pre-course, ultrasound workshops…
Dr. Jawa earned his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, followed by a Harvard combined orthopaedic surgery residency at Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He also completed two fellowships at Massachusetts General Hospital; one in hand and upper extremity surgery, and the other in shoulder and elbow surgery. He currently is the Chief of Shoulder Arthroplasty at the New England Baptist Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts.
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. 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.
JC (Jae Chul) Yoo is Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Sungkyunkwan University, Samsung Medical Center, Chief of Shoulder and Elbow Division, He is currently President of Korean Shoulder Elbow Society.
Dr. Yoo did his undergraduate from Northwestern University in 1989, his MD in Korea University, School of Medicine, completed his Orthopaedic Residency training at the Korea University in 1994.
Dr. Yoo’s clinical and basic science research program focuses on biomechanics, subscapularis tendon tears and rotator cuff tears, also in Asian leading shoulder arthroplasty surgeries and research.
Dr. Yoo has published three book chapters and has authored over 120 original peer reviewed articles, review articles and case reports.
He has organized an Asian Shoulder Elbow Group (ASEG, which are the leading surgeons in ASIA), and is an active board member of Asian Shoulder Elbow Association and APKASS.
He is currently the vice-Chair of the Korean Sports Medicine Society and Editorial board of Arthroscopy and American Journal of Sports Medicine Journal.
Professor Matthias Zumstein is currently Section Head of Shoulder, Elbow and Orthopaedic Sports Medicine at Sonnenhof Orthopaedics in Bern, Switzerland. He was Section Head of Shoulder, Elbow Surgery and Orthopaedic Sports Medicine and also Senior Consultant of the Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, at the Bern University Hospital (Inselspital) Bern, Switzerland. Professor Zumstein was Deputy Clinical Director until 2019. Professor Zumstein is also an active member of Sportclinic #1, Bern.
He had the privilege of completing his research and clinical fellowships in shoulder surgery with Professor Christian Gerber in Zurich, Switzerland and Professor Pascal Boileau in Nice, France. He also completed a clinical fellowship in elbow and wrist surgery at the University Hospital in Adelaide, Australia with Professor Greg Bain.
Professor Zumstein is an elected board member of the Swiss Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology (Swiss Orthopaedics), and editor of the Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery. Furthermore, he served in the board of the European Society of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery (SECEC/ESSSE) for several years.
Professor Zumstein has an extensive research pedigree with more than 65 peer-reviewed publications, 15 book chapters, and more than 200 presentations at national and international congresses - including 100 invited presentations. He is a two-time Charles S. Neer Award winner from the American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons – this is the highest honour in shoulder and elbow surgery research in the world.
Dr. Abboud is a Board Certified Orthopaedic Surgeon and specializes in the treatment of patients with shoulder and elbow disorders. He is an internationally recognized authority on the treatment of shoulder and elbow disorders. He is a Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at the Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University and a core member of the teaching faculty for Rothman Orthopaedics
Dr. Abboud received his medical degree with honors from Georgetown University School of Medicine and went on to complete his residency in Orthopaedic surgery at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania where he served as the administrative chief resident and received the award . He subsequently completed two (one-year) fellowships at the University of Pennsylvania in Shoulder and Elbow surgery and Orthopaedic Biomechanics. Dr. Abboud has published over 250 peer reviewed publications, given over 600 invited lectures nationally and internationally, and published several textbooks and numerous book chapters. He has received the prestigious Neer award and Burkhardt award for excellence in research.
Dr. Abboud performs a wide variety of simple and complex surgical procedures on the shoulder and elbow including arthroscopic surgery (e.g. rotator cuff repairs, instability surgery) comprehensive fracture care, as well as shoulder and elbow replacement(arthroplasty) procedures. Dr. Abboud is most proud of the fact that he has been caring for patients throughout the Philadelphia region and the Northeast region of the United States. Patients seek out his care from all regions of the United States and overseas. His goal is to always provide each patient with exceptional personalized care.
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.
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.
Stig Brorson is a clinical professor in orthopedic surgery at the University of Copenhagen, and a consultant shoulder surgeon at Zealand University Hospital, Denmark. He holds a Ph.D. degree in medical philosophy and a doctoral degree in fractures of the proximal humerus. He is the founding leader of the independent Centre for Evidence-Based Orthopedics. Stig has published more than 150 peer-reviewed papers and book chapters.
His scholarly work covers most aspects of proximal humerus fractures, including their cultural history, taxonomy, epidemiology, diagnostics, classification, clinical decision-making, evidence-based management, outcome assessment, and complications. In his clinical work, Stig is responsible for treating 250 elderly patients with shoulder fractures annually, with less than 5 percent being treated surgically. He has conducted national and international multi-center studies and summarized current evidence in clinical guidelines, systematic reviews, and meta-analyses. Stig is an advocate of evidence-based shoulder surgery, and he has questioned the benefits of surgical interventions in proximal humerus fractures in the elderly.
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.
After completing his medical studies in Paris in the 90's , Philippe Collin has been trained by different famous shoulder surgeons in France and in Europe and USA.
His team host fellows from all over the world and has a department for scientific research. Since 2022 he is at the head of shoulder department at the famous American Hospital of Paris.
Philippe Collin has gained international recognition by communicating all over the world (he has presented 12 scientific papers in the American Academy Orthopedic surgeon). He has won the best scientific paper prize at the international meeting for shoulder and elbow surgery in Japan in 2013. As a leading figure in shoulder surgery,and recently the prestigious Hawkins Award he published more than 100 scientific papers and is a lecturer all over the world.
Always in the search for the improvement of the techniques of its sector, and as a real technophile, in 2013 he has been the first surgeon in the word to use Google glasses for a live surgery between France and Japan. In 2020, he was the first one too to use Hololens technology for visualization of shoulder prosthesis planification.
In 2021, his work ethic as well as his acclaimed skills have earned him to be elected President of the European Society for Shoulder and Elbow Surgery ( SECEC), he is also corresponding member of the American society for shoulder and elbow, former president of the French shoulder and elbow society. His area of interest is massive rotator cuff and reverse shoulder arthroplasty as well as new technologies.
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.
Francesco Franceschi is the Director of the Department of Orthopedic Surgery and Traumatology and Professor of Orthopedics at the San Pietro hospital Fatebenefratelli of Rome Unicamillus University . He is also the director of the Orthopaedic specialization and shoulder Felloship Program. After terminating his residency, he completed a fellowship program in 1996 in Kerlan Jobe clinic in Los Angeles and was a visiting professor in many usa and France shoulder surgery centers. Since 1997, he was in charge of the Shoulder and Elbow Reconstructive Surgery Unit of Campus Biomedico University in Rome and since the 2014 was the chief of the joint surgery unit. During his tenure, new and innovated techniques have been introduced, like complex prosthetic procedures and arthroscopic Latarjet or arthroscopic treatment of massive rotator cuff. 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 revision shoulder arthroplasty cases. Numerous communications to national and international meetings have been presented, and more than 100 publications in peer-reviewed journals have been published. He was Associate Editor of the ESSKA journal. He has also been part of the faculty of prestigious shoulder meetings in Europe and America and organizer of cutting edge international meetings. Francesco Franceschi is also an active member of national and international scientific societies, like the European Society for Surgery of the Shoulder and Elbow (ESSSE), 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 Shoulder Committee of the International Society of Arthroscopy, Knee Surgery and Orthopaedic Sports Medicine (ISAKOS). He is the President of the arthroscopic committee of the SIAGASCOT
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.
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.
Dr. Jawa earned his medical degree from the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, followed by a Harvard combined orthopaedic surgery residency at Massachusetts General Hospital and Brigham and Women’s Hospital. He also completed two fellowships at Massachusetts General Hospital; one in hand and upper extremity surgery, and the other in shoulder and elbow surgery. He currently is the Chief of Shoulder Arthroplasty at the New England Baptist Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts.
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.
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.
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.
I am a hand, peripheral nerve and upper limb surgeon in Annecy, France.
After going to medical school in Lyon, I trained in Orthopaedics and Trauma surgery in Paris during my 5 years residency program.
I early started microsurgery, attending Pr Oberlin microsurgical and Hand surgery training program.
Along with general orthopaedic surgery, I specialized in nerve, and microvascular surgery in order to perform limb reconstruction.
I attended two 6 months fellowships:
In 2013, I was a fellow in Alps Surgery Institute with Laurent Lafosse to learn Shoulder surgery and arthroscopy. This enabled me to start working on my thesis on the topic of endoscopic brachial plexus release, which led to several publications. In 2015, I attended a travelling fellowship in Thailand with Pr Somsak Leechavengvongs from Bangkok, for brachial plexus surgery, and with Pr Kanit Sananpanich from Chiangmai for microvascular reconstruction of the limbs.
In November 2015 I started my fellowship in Paris, as a Chef de Clinique, Assistant des Hôpitaux, where I did brachial plexus, hand, wrist, elbow and shoulder surgery with Pr Masmejean, and reconstruction of the limbs with Pr Lantieri. The department was specialised in emergencies of the hand.
I started my own practice in November 2017, as a partner in Clinic Generale d'Annecy.
My activity in Annecy is shoulder surgery, peripheral nerve surgery along with hand surgery and the development of a hand trauma center (SOS main).
I also have an activity of congénital hand deformities surgery and obstetrical brachial plexus surgery, participating to missions since 2012 with the Chain Of Hope, mostly in Afghanistan, Iran and Jordan.
We have created Plexus Brachial Main Microchirurgie ANNECY (PBMA) with my partners Michael Bouyer and Marie Loret. We operate together, and receive fellows and residents in our institution, which is focusing on hand and microsurgical reconstruction
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.
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.
Mr Amar Malhas is a Consultant Orthopaedic surgeon at the Royal Berkshire NHS trust. After completing extensive fellowship training in shoulder and elbow surgery he has been in post since 2016 and is the senior shoulder and elbow surgeon in the trust.
Having qualified in 2004 from King’s College London, he completed his training on the Birmingham and Dundee rotations. He then was a fellow, firstly, at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary and then at the Wrightington Orthopaedic Hospital in its prestigious Upper Limb Unit.
At Reading he has a busy practice of sports injuries, degenerative soft tissue conditions and arthritis of the shoulder. He also runs a specialty service for shoulder and elbow trauma. He is the lead local PI for several multi-center studies and frequently participates as faculty in arthroplasty and arthroscopy courses. He runs a successful shoulder fellowship program, training specialist surgeons of the future.
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.
Surgery: More than 200 Shoulder arthroplasties per year performed. In 2018 he started to use GPS navigation system (10 arthroplasties performed). About 400 Shoulder arthroscopy procedures, 30 elbow arthroscopy procedures and 10 elbow arthroplasties performed per year.
Director of the School of Orthopaedics and Traumatology of University of Modena and Reggio Emilia.
Chief of Shoulder and Elbow Unit of the Policlinico University Hospital of Modena.
Author of more than 200 published works.
Author of six books on upper limb pathology.
More than 200 shoulder arthroplasties performed per year.
More than 400 shoulder arthroscopies performed per year.
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.
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.
Bradley S. Schoch M.D., is a Consultant in the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at Mayo Clinic in Florida. He is an expert in shoulder arthroplasty with over 200 peer reviewed publications. He was one of the first surgeons in the United States to perform navigated shoulder arthroplasty. He serves as a member of the Exactech Shoulder Arthroplasty Design Team and is the Chair of the Equinoxe Research Advisory Board.
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
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!
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.
JC (Jae Chul) Yoo is Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Sungkyunkwan University, Samsung Medical Center, Chief of Shoulder and Elbow Division, He is currently President of Korean Shoulder Elbow Society.
Dr. Yoo did his undergraduate from Northwestern University in 1989, his MD in Korea University, School of Medicine, completed his Orthopaedic Residency training at the Korea University in 1994.
Dr. Yoo’s clinical and basic science research program focuses on biomechanics, subscapularis tendon tears and rotator cuff tears, also in Asian leading shoulder arthroplasty surgeries and research.
Dr. Yoo has published three book chapters and has authored over 120 original peer reviewed articles, review articles and case reports.
He has organized an Asian Shoulder Elbow Group (ASEG, which are the leading surgeons in ASIA), and is an active board member of Asian Shoulder Elbow Association and APKASS.
He is currently the vice-Chair of the Korean Sports Medicine Society and Editorial board of Arthroscopy and American Journal of Sports Medicine Journal.
Professor Matthias Zumstein is currently Section Head of Shoulder, Elbow and Orthopaedic Sports Medicine at Sonnenhof Orthopaedics in Bern, Switzerland. He was Section Head of Shoulder, Elbow Surgery and Orthopaedic Sports Medicine and also Senior Consultant of the Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, at the Bern University Hospital (Inselspital) Bern, Switzerland. Professor Zumstein was Deputy Clinical Director until 2019. Professor Zumstein is also an active member of Sportclinic #1, Bern.
He had the privilege of completing his research and clinical fellowships in shoulder surgery with Professor Christian Gerber in Zurich, Switzerland and Professor Pascal Boileau in Nice, France. He also completed a clinical fellowship in elbow and wrist surgery at the University Hospital in Adelaide, Australia with Professor Greg Bain.
Professor Zumstein is an elected board member of the Swiss Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology (Swiss Orthopaedics), and editor of the Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery. Furthermore, he served in the board of the European Society of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery (SECEC/ESSSE) for several years.
Professor Zumstein has an extensive research pedigree with more than 65 peer-reviewed publications, 15 book chapters, and more than 200 presentations at national and international congresses - including 100 invited presentations. He is a two-time Charles S. Neer Award winner from the American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons – this is the highest honour in shoulder and elbow surgery research in the world.
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 4 Live surgeries et 8 Relive & Technical Pearl Sessions 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
Pre-Course
On Wednesday, 4th February we welcome you to the PISC Pre-Course.
Renowned speakers from around the world will discuss the best design parameters in terms of distalization and lateralization for RSA in 2026.
In addition, all major companies will showcase their latest digital innovations in terms of planning, navigation, robotics and artificial intelligence.
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
Jean-David Werthel
Paris - France
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
