Dear Colleagues and Friends,

THANK YOU!!! We recently launched a proposal to all our members who want to get more involved in the scientific life of our Society, by sharing their Hip knowledge under the aegis of the European Hip Society, and thus becoming one of our official “EHS Ambassadors”.

In such a way, each EHS Ambassador would get the opportunity to participate as a speaker in lots of famous National and International meetings, supported by our Society. We would like to warmly thank all members who applied for such an involvement, as to date their number is already over 30, in addition to the members of our Scientific and Educational Committees!… Their application forms will be soon reviewed within the EHS board and the official list of the approved Ambassadors will be displayed on our EHS website. Do not hesitate to apply by using the following link:  EHS Ambassador 

This is extremely encouraging, while more and more our Society actively participates in the worldwide life of our Orthopaedic Community. Last month our first official Ambassador was Nicolas Reina, from France… Today we are glad to welcome as our “Ambassador of the month” Aaron Ng, who is a consultant orthopaedic surgeon in UK. Aaron has been for ages an active EHS member, and the first to apply to this position with us… He will introduce himself within these newsletter lines and we wish for him an efficient and fruitful activity under the banner of the European Hip Society.

The annual EFORT congress is coming very soon in Lisbon. This meeting will allow for meeting altogether during the various sessions, and especially the EHS related slots, including the “Specialty Session” devoted to EHS works on Friday 7th June 15.00-18.30. Don’t miss it!… it will present up-to-date advances in “Innovations, Current Trends and Outcomes in Arthroplasty”.

Just the day before, on Thursday 6th June, our General Assembly will take place at 18:30, and will allow us to provide a complete agenda of the next 14th EHS meeting in Lille (France), through the first release of the official EHS LILLE 2020 website and the timetable for submitting your abstracts.

Here we are with fantastic projects in our professional life, while (as usual) “bringing orthopaedic hip surgeons together”!

More to see, and back soon…

On behalf of the entire EHS Board, our very best regards,

Jean-Alain Epinette, MD

President

Letter from the Secretary General, Professor Eleftherios Tsiridis

Dear Members,

You have all now received your invite to our annual General Assembly in Lisbon during the EFORT Congress on Thursday 6th June 18.30-19.30 at the Vila Galé Ópera Hotel (two minutes’ walk from the congress hall). The Agenda will be sent to you shortly.

Congratulations to the two winners of our EHS Visiting Fellowship 2019: Dr Vittorio Bellotti of Barcelona, Spain and Dr Vahit Emre Ozden of Istanbul, Turkey, who will enjoy their Autumn fellowship in Switzerland. Organisation of the fellowship is in the very capable hands of our President Elect, Prof Klaus Siebenrock, who will arrange a valuable itinerary in the coming weeks. Thanks to all who applied.

Meanwhile the excellent report from our two EHS Travelling Fellows 2019, Dr Brunner and Dr Perticarini, who toured interesting hip surgeries in the UK, is available HERE. You will enjoy reading it. Also, below is the report from Gosta Ullmark, our chairman of the EHS EduCom, on the recent course in Sweden.

We wish a warm welcome to new Full Members, Prof Corten (Belgium) and Dr Zampelis (Sweden), as well as International Members, Dr Nehme, Dr Yammine and Dr Nasser (all from Lebanon).

Thank you to everyone who has paid their annual membership dues for 2019 already. Please contact our Membership Secretary Samantha Stokes (samstokesehs@gmail.com) for any help.

Best wishes,

EHS Secretary General, Professor Eleftherios Tsiridis

Gosta Ullmark, EHS Chairman of EduCom

EHS Ambassador of the month, Aaron Ng, UK

My name is Aaron Ng. I am working as a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon in Pinderfields General Hospital and also an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the University of Leeds. I have a strong interest in post-graduate education and training, being a national faculty member of AO trauma and being on the national selection panel for orthopaedic trainees. I am also a panel member for ODEP and Beyond Compliance. Over the years, I have contributed in numerous presentations in British Hip Society and European Hip Society. My research interests are the use of dual-mobility cup; management of peri prosthetic fracture around THR and reverse hybrid THR. It is my pleasure to be accepted as an Ambassador for EHS.EHS session at EFORT Congress, Lisbon, Friday 7th June14th EHS Congress October 2020 in LilleHip International Reviewers! We want reviewers from EHS membership. If interested please contact Sally Lumb (Sally.lumb@12nbr.co.uk)If you prefer to pay by credit card, we accept Mastercard and Visa. Please click here to download the formIf you prefer to pay digitally, please find the EHS bank details (IBAN etc) here. Thank you

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Dear Colleagues and Friends,

After the winter, comes spring, sun, happy days, and lots of EHS commitments!…

The coming months will be very busy (again) with EHS projects, all around Europe. We will participate in two EHS co-organised course, i.e. Stockholm International Hip revision course next week, and later on the International Conference “Advanced Treatment of Hip and Knee Pathology” in Kharkiv, Ukraine.

In addition a high-ranking opportunity to present our works will take place at EFORT in Lisbon: We are in charge of providing a full session on June, Friday 7th (3:00 pm to 6:30 pm at EHS Specialty Session day). Together with Luigi Zagra and the EHS Scientific Committee, an appealing agenda has been set up, with the invaluable participation of our EHS Ambassadors!… The title will be “Innovations, Current trends in arthroplasty and outcomes”. Hence Robotic surgery, additive manufacturing, novel approach of registries, very new imaging techniques and their applications in our daily practice, as well as Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Orthopaedics will take place within this session. The detailed program of this EHS-EFFORT session can be downloaded by clicking here.

We will in addition have great pleasure to host during this session Prof Fares Haddad, as our new UK National Representative. Fares is a famous surgeon and researcher and has been chosen by the British Hip Society to represent their Society within our European organization. It is great news … warmest welcome to him for a so distinguished contribution to EHS.

Of course, we also are already working hard to finalize the program of the next 21th EHS Congress in Lille on October 1st and 2nd, 2020. The preliminary program is coming soon, as the official EHS Lille 2020 website will be released during the EFORT Lisbon congress in June.

In such a way, we are delighted to confirm again two major appointments between “Hip European (and overseas) Surgeons”, i.e. firstly this EHS Specialty Session on June 7th on the one hand, and of course the 2020 October 1st and 2nd in Lille at our 21st European congress.

More to see, and back soon!

On behalf of the entire EHS Board, our very best regards,

Jean-Alain Epinette, MD

President

Letter from the Secretary General, Professor Eleftherios Tsiridis

Dear Members,

Please note the date for our annual General Assembly this year will be in Lisbon during the EFORT Congress on Thursday 6th June 18.30-19.30 at the Vila Galé Ópera Hotel (two minutes’ walk from the EFORT congress hall). We hope to see many of you there. An Agenda will be sent to you all nearer the time.

Thanks to all who applied for our EHS Visiting Fellowship 2019. Our EduCom will now put the best two through to the ExCom for final approval and the two winners will be announced here soon – as well as the host country. Good luck!

The EHS Travelling Fellowship 2019 is happening right now and our winners Dr Brunner and Dr Perticarini are travelling around the ORs of the UK learning from the experts. Their report will be featured on our website soon.

We are delighted to announce our new Nat Rep for UK, Prof Fares Haddad of UCL, BSc MD (Res) MCh (Orth) FRCS (Orth) FFSEM. Please read a brief introduction from him below. Thanks to Mr Evert Smith, who held the post before him for many years.

This April, there are two EHS Co-Organised courses. Our President is attending the one in Sweden, the Stockholm Revision Course, while our President Elect will be speaking at the Kharkiv Conference on the Advanced Treatment of Hip and Knee Pathology in Ukraine. We have also added the Vreden’s Reading course to our calendar of hip meetings, which takes place every September in St Petersberg, Russia.

We wish a warm welcome to two new Full Members, Dr Boyer (France) and Dr Mazek (Poland), and two new International Members, Dr Meftah (USA) and Dr Flordelis (Philippines).

Thank you to everyone who has paid their annual membership dues for 2019 already. Please contact our Membership Secretary Samantha Stokes (samstokesehs@gmail.com) for any help.

Best wishes,

EHS Secretary General, Professor Eleftherios Tsiridis

Nat Rep for UK, Fares Haddad

It is a great privilege for me to start as the UK representative to the European Hip Society.  I have been  a member and a great supporter of the European Hip Society for almost 20 years and I have seen it grown in stature and influence during that time.  At the same time, there have been tremendous developments in hip surgery, in the clinical and research and educational fields in the UK, and it will be a privilege to try and marry many of the great things that happened in the UK and integrate them with activities around Europe, and also to understand some of the wonderful practices and innovations undertaken by EHS members and translate those to our community in the United Kingdom. I look forward to meeting EHS colleagues and to fruitful collaborations. 

Click here for Prof Haddad’s biography.

Professor of Orthopaedic and Sports Surgery,
Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon,
Director of ISEH,
Divisional Clinical Director of Surgical Specialties at UCH

EHS Ambassador of the month, Nicolas Reina, France

Dear Colleagues,

Ambassador for the European Hip Society is an opportunity to meet, exchange, share with many surgeons with very different backgrounds all over Europe. It is a way to create bonds between the members of our community, to collaborate on projects and see that a similar issue can be solved by different means.

EHS reflects our nations’ capacity for thinking, studying and promoting hip surgery together. I subscribe to these values and when EHS board asked me to fly to the Estonian Conference last year, I did not hesitate. I went there with my friend Manuel Ribas from Barcelona, whose warmth and vivacity are well-known. We had the great opportunity to give lectures on AVN and FAI and meet really welcoming colleagues.

My mentors, Prof Chiron and Prof Puget, heirs of a long-lasting story with hip surgery starting with Profs Ficat, Arlet, Rieunaud in Toulouse, France, had the conscience of the necessity to facilitate those international connections. Since few decades now, they invited German, Spanish, British and American fellow surgeons to the Hip Improvements and Proceedings meeting (HIP), interesting title for a conference, isn’t it?

Next EHS meeting will be held in France. We are so delighted that President Epinette thought it would be a great occasion to merge the conference with our HIP meeting this year. Thus, we will organize a half day in Lille 2020 with two main topics; short stems and acetabular revisions. I am sure we will have a fantastic meeting next year. Another occasion to debate, argue and finally reconcile around a glass of Champagne.

What we all do is not just science, it’s about experience and, as such, exchanges are necessary and fulfilling. EHS aims to develop such interactions promoting ambassadors and many of us should take the opportunity in order to promote our society and make it one of the most productive and interactive in Orthopaedics.

Prof Nicolas Reina, MD PhDEHS session at EFORT Congress, Lisbon, Friday 7th JuneEKS Knee Arthroplasty Travelling Fellowship 2019 – DEADLINE: APRIL 15, 201914th EHS Congress October 2020 in LilleHip International Reviewers! We want reviewers from EHS membership. If interested please contact Sally Lumb (Sally.lumb@12nbr.co.uk)If you prefer to pay by credit card, we accept Mastercard and Visa. Please click here to download the formIf you prefer to pay digitally, please find the EHS bank details (IBAN etc) here. Thank you

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Dear Colleagues and Friends,

Among all congresses held here and there as National or International meetings, in addition to events organized by the Industry, our European Hip Society aims to be seen as an absolute reference in Hip Surgery areas. In such a way, EHS would be a perfect link between all Hip devoted meetings, as well as between us and Knee and Spine organizations.

In fact, EHS gets more and more often addressed to participate in several international meetings as EFORT, ICRJ or WAC in particular, as well as in National Congresses all around European countries or overseas. We are more than happy to participate here and there as partners or attendants, depending on the previous terms of agreement between EHS and the hosting organization. Hence, we are finalizing the conditions of such agreements, and namely the potential addition of EHS logo on official documents, number of invited EHS representatives, EHS booth, number and timing of EHS slots within the agenda…

In line with these targets, the newly defined statute of EHS Ambassadors is extremely important: Would you like to report on your works and researches at the best congresses, being proudly supported by EHS?…  Hence do not hesitate to apply for becoming one of our ambassadors, aside members of Scientific and Educational Committees. Simply you need to be an active EHS member, and in such a case, please send to our Secretariat (samstokesehs@gmail.com) a mail including your CV and favourite topics and lectures to propose. Your application will be checked accordingly for you getting included in the “EHS Hall of Fame”!…

On the other hand, we are actively working on the next EHS International Congress to be held at Lille in 2020… The program has been already set up with very exciting topics, symposia and round tables. Details will be displayed very soon through the EHS Lille 2020 web site, including the first call of abstracts and early bird registration modalities. More to see!…

Very best wishes on behalf on the entire EHS Board!

Jean-Alain Epinette, MD

President

Letter from the Secretary General, Professor Eleftherios Tsiridis

Dear Members,

We are delighted to accept applicants for our EHS Visiting Fellowship 2019. If you are under 45, want to focus on hip surgery and live in an EHS member country, please send your application before end of March 2019.

Meanwhile, the EHS Travelling Fellowship 2019 is starting in the UK at the end of this month and Drs Brunner and Perticarini will experience arthroscopy in Reading, cemented hips and SPARE approach in Exeter, Superpath in Swansea, Revision THR in Bristol, more arthroscopy and cemented hip in Wrightington – where Sir John Charnley perfected hip replacement – and finally, tumours, hip resurfacing and young adult hip in Birmingham. Thanks to Mr Richard Baker, Co-Chief Editor of Hip International for organising this excellent fellowship.

EHS is Co-Organising two courses in April, the Stockholm Revision Course and the Kharkiv Conference on the Advanced Treatment of Hip and Knee Pathology in Ukraine. As always, see our calendar of hip meetings for more info.

We wish a warm welcome to our new members: Full Member Dr Marc Tey (Spain), International Members Prof SM Javad Mortazavi (Iran), Prof Joseph T Moskal (USA), Young Members Dr Luca Garro (Italy), Dr Ana Luisa Neto and Dr Tiago Pato (both from Portugal) and Dr Diego Alfonso Salinas Gonzalez (Spain) – we now have a member on the island of Mallorca! We also welcome back Prof Jose Sueiro (Spain).

Thank you to everyone who has paid their annual membership dues for 2019 already. Please contact our Membership Secretary Samantha Stokes (samstokesehs@gmail.com) for any help.

Finally, on behalf of the EHS ExCom and all our members, we wish deepest commiserations to the family and colleagues of our excellent member Dr Luigi Rizzi, from Bergamo in Italy, who we fondly remember. Please read some words from his colleague Prof Claudio Carlo Castelli below.

Best wishes,

EHS Secretary General, Professor Eleftherios Tsiridis

Sit tibi terra levis

This brief note is a remembrance of Doctor Luigi Rizzi, an orthopedic surgeon who passed away in Bergamo on February 6, 2019 at the age of 56. I would like to share a few thoughts that are not in his biography.

I met Luigi in early 2000. I immediately realized he was a cultured and curious man, with an extraordinary passion for surgery. He was my invaluable collaborator for over 15 years. We shared an approach to surgery that combined (indeed must combine) technical excellence with aesthetics. He had a great love, respect and amazement for the beauty of human anatomy. This made him an excellent surgeon. Devoting himself to pelvic and hip surgery as a specialty, he worked with two great experts of which he was very proud: Joel Matta and Reinhold Ganz.

The disease was as short as it was brutal. He fought bravely and boldly, and then with acceptance and great dignity. He leaves his wife Alessandra and children Filippo 16, Ludovico 14.

Claudio Carlo Castelli
Head of Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
ASST Papa Giovanni XXIII
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Welcome to our EHS Ambassadors!

Dear members of our European Hip Society,

We would be delighted to welcome you as an official “EHS Ambassador”!…  If you are known as a scientist getting involved in hip knowledge, you appreciate sharing this knowledge with colleagues from other countries, and you are interested in receiving invitations to participate in National and/or International congresses as a member of the Faculty, then we need you as one of our Ambassadors of the European Hip Society.

EHS is growing favourably in Europe and overseas, and might be regarded so far as one of the absolute references within hip surgery areas. Hence we often receive invitations to send EHS speakers to congresses here and there, which is an awesome opportunity to “bring orthopaedic hip surgeons together”!… However, between “individual” members on the one hand, and EHS Committee members on the other hand (National Representatives, Scientific (SciCom) and Educational (EduCom) Committee members), I hereby propose a specific status is fruitfully created for each colleague who wishes to actively participate in the wider prestige of our Society: introducing our distinguished EHS Ambassadors!

Their role will consist of accepting to present their best works on behalf of EHS, and share hip knowledge with foreign colleagues, as members of the faculty of orthopaedic congresses taking place in Europe or overseas. From the practical viewpoint, when receiving such invitations here and there, EHS would be able to address a list of its official Ambassadors and their favourite topics – hence, one or two speakers could accordingly be officially invited to such commitments.

If you are interested in becoming one of our EHS Ambassadors, simply email our Membership Secretary Samantha (samstokesehs@gmail.com) with your name and address, and the list of lectures you would be happy to give (English language, of course). An official list of selected Ambassadors will then be displayed on the EHS website, and we will be delighted to add your name to the EHS “Hall of Fame”!

By the way, we are setting up actively the programme of our next EHS International 2020 congress in Lille (France), and during this meeting, a specific reward session will be devoted to the winners of the best oral presentation, as well as the best poster… In addition, we will create a specific reward for our Best Ambassador of the Year!… We need YOU standing there on the podium to receive the prize!!!

We look forward to receiving very soon our Ambassador application and thank you very much in advance for supporting efficiently EHS on this matter. More to see, keep in touch and again… best regards on behalf of the entire EHS Board.

Jean-Alain Epinette, MD

President

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Letter from the Secretary General, Professor Eleftherios Tsiridis

Dear Members,

We are delighted to announce our Visiting Fellowship 2019. If you are under 45, are passionate about hip surgery and live in an EHS member country, then we are now accepting applicants until the end of March 2019.

Despite the cold, January was a busy month. The EHS SciCom, chaired by Prof Luigi Zagra, met in Milan last week for a very successful brainstorming session on the topics for our next EHS (biannual) Congress in Lille, 1-2 October 2020. Thanks to the host himself, as well as the Vice Chairman Prof Theofilos Karachalios, the EHS President Dr Jean-Alain Epinette and of course other members who attended: Profs B Willem Schreurs, Klaus Siebenrock, Thomas Ilchmann, Johan Kärrholm, Manuel Ribas Fernandez and A Mazhar Tokgözoğlu.

I attended the excellent closed meeting of our sister society, the European Knee Society, in Megève, France. Coming up for hip is the Inaugural ICJR Direct Anterior Approach THA Course organised with EHS in Innsbruck, from 31st January – 2nd February, where our Treasurer Martin Thaler plus member Michael Nogler are Course Directors.

Following that in April is the EHS-Co-Organised Stockholm Revision Course, as well as the Kharkiv Conference on the Advanced Treatment of Hip and Knee Pathology in Ukraine. As always, see our calendar of hip meetings for more info.

We wish a warm welcome to our new Full Members Dr Chris Gatzka from Hamburg, Germany and Assoc Prof Fatih Kucukdurmaz from Istanbul, Turkey, as well as new Young Member, Dr Antonio Pedro Robalo Correia from Coimbra, Portugal. Below, we introduce our new Nat Rep for the Irish Republic, Mr Derek Bennett, and extend thanks to Prof Eric Masterson who he replaces. Also, we welcome words from our new International Member Dr Chahine Assi, who gives us an update on hip surgery in Lebanon.

Finally, thank you to everyone who has paid their annual membership dues for 2019 already. For any information on fees, please contact our Membership Secretary Samantha Stokes (samstokesehs@gmail.com).

Best wishes,

EHS Secretary General, Professor Eleftherios Tsiridis

Mr Derek Bennett,
EHS Nat Rep for the Irish Republic

MCh, FRCSI, FRCS Tr & Orth
Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon

Derek Bennett is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon specialising in all aspects of primary and revision hip and knee replacement surgery. He is Chairman of the Orthopaedic Department at Mayo University Hospital and Clinical Director of the Peri-operative Division. He is a member and former chairman of the Irish Faculty of the AO Organisation. He is a member of the European Board of Orthopaedic Surgery. He is Vice President of the orthopaedic section of the Royal Academy of Medicine in Ireland. He is a board member of and serves as Vice President of the Irish American Orthopaedic Society. He is a board member of the Irish Osteoporosis Society. He is a member of the European Accreditation Committee for Continuing Medical Education. He is the founder and Chairman of the Mayo Arthroplasty Conference, Ireland’s largest joint reconstruction conference which is held every Spring. He is founder of the Irish Chapter of the Operation Walk Charity which performs hip and knee surgeries in third world countries. He is the Irish pioneer for enhanced recovery hip and knee replacement surgery.

Chahine Assi,
EHS International Member from Lebanon

M.D, Ph.D
Orthopaedic Surgeon
EMail: chahassi@yahoo.fr

Dear EHS Members,

As a French Lebanese orthopaedic surgeon, I am proud to join EHS as a new member. In line with the historic relationship between Europe and Lebanon, I hope to contribute in strengthening this relationship in the orthopaedic surgery field.

I graduated from Lyon Medical School (Claude Bernard) and did my residency and fellowship in Montpellier. I moved to Lebanon in 2003 and currently I am the head of the Orthopedic Department at the Lebanese American University Medical Center-Rizk Hospital.

In Lebanon, hip replacement surgery has evolved during the last five years. As per a recent article about total hip arthroplasty in Lebanon[1], cemented and uncemented femoral stems are both used. Recently short stems have been available in the Lebanese market. While standard cups (SC) were routinely used in primary total hip arthroplasties (THA)[more than 2000 THA per year], dual mobility cups (DMC) gained in popularity among Lebanese surgeons and Lebanese patients. Based on this recent paper published by our department, the percentage of THA-DMC implanted in Lebanon shifted from 34.95% in 2013 to 61.3% in 2017, yielding a relative increasing rate of 88% over a 5-year period span. Additionally, the rate increase has been steady and linear from 2013 to 2017.

In many institutions, DMC are used in revision THA as a first choice. More, in revision THA with major acetabular defects, a high number of Lebanese surgeons use the Kerboull cross plate combined to DMC when indicated.

While this trend has been unsurprisingly noted in France, the same evolution is happening in many European countries and in the United States as well. The documented reduced dislocation and mechanical loosening rates following DMC are likely valid factors for such trend. Additionally, extreme hip positions leading to potentially higher risk of dislocation are part of Middle Eastern lifestyle. Thus, oriental sitting positions and prayer rituals could have been other reasons for the increased use of DMC in Lebanese population. Furthermore, due to the long-term relationship between France and Lebanon, a high number of Lebanese orthopaedic surgeons were trained in France and were familiar with the dual mobility concept and advantages.

[1] Ch. Assi, J. Mansour, J. Caton, C. Samaha, K. Yammine ; Total hip arthroplasty: evolution of the use of dual mobility cups in Lebanon; J Med Liban. 2018, 66 (4): 232-237Hip International Reviewers! We want reviewers from EHS membership. If interested please contact Sally Lumb (Sally.lumb@12nbr.co.uk)14th EHS Congress October 2020 in LilleIf you prefer to pay by credit card, we accept Mastercard and Visa. Please click here to download the formIf you prefer to pay digitally, please find the EHS bank details (IBAN etc) here. Thank you

Dear Members of the EHS, dear Colleagues and Friends,

Here comes 2019 ! Just on time to wish you again a very exciting, fruitful and Happy New Year …

The last EHS congress in The Hague was really a great success, as confirmed by the final balance sheet about attendants and evaluation of the 2018 meeting. With more than 750 attendants, the visiting figures were very encouraging, including more than 100 visitors from Asia (of which 30 from Thailand, 24 from India, and 23 from Japan), and 50 from America (of which 17 from The USA, 15 from Argentina, 9 from Brazil and 9 from Chile)… The partnership with Argentina in particular was very well regarded with numerous surgeons from the ACARO Society. The overall impression of the event was rated as excellent in 41% and proficient in 50%, while the scientific program was assessed as excellent in 36% and proficient in 52%. More importantly, upon the aim of our Society, the “effectiveness for continuing medical education” was “very effective” in 30% and “effective” in 49%. At the end of the day, at the following question “Would you recommend the event to your colleagues”, 46% of attendants answered “100% yes” and 42% “likely”!… Congratulations to our former President and the EHS Scientific Committee for organizing such an excellent congress!

Obviously, the standing of EHS within its area of Hip surgery is growing up efficiently as an influential and positive link between orthopaedic surgeons, through their Hip Societies… We currently receive numerous requests from International or National Societies, and we are always happy to hold scientific partnership as EHS collaboration or EHS combined events, provided that some prerequisites might be considered. Do not hesitate to address us anyway. In addition, EHS National Representatives from each country might stay as vigorous links between us and orthopaedic surgeons from their country… in particular when proposing topics, names of potential speakers and directors of symposia or round tables in the view of coming EHS congresses. Thanks again for their continuous and appreciated support to “bring orthopaedic hip surgeons together” !!!

In addition to the EHS session during the 2019 EFORT meeting in Lisbon, our future in one-word would be now “Lille-2020”… Save the date for our next EHS congress which will be held in France at “Lille Grand Palais” next October 1^st and 2^nd, 2020. We are already working on this great event to let each of us at the same time share upon the always needed knowledge of “Basic Science”, and debate on the “very cutting edge of technology” … Canada will be the invited Nation: Warm welcome to our Canadian cousins !!!…

More to see, keep in touch and again… Happy New Year on behalf of the entire EHS Board.

Jean-Alain Epinette, MD

President

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Letter from the Secretary General, Professor Eleftherios Tsiridis

Dear Members,

We are delighted to announce our two Travelling Fellows 2019 are Dr Brunner (Innsbruck, Austria) and Dr Perticarini (Pavia, Italy). They will visit top hip surgery centres around UK in the Spring 2019. Congratulations to both.

Thanks to all who attended the MAST 5 course in Arthroplasty (Thessaloniki, Greece). With 188 delegates from both Greece and countries including Belgium, Korea, Spain, Turkey, UK and USA, it was an honour to be involved in the organisation of this very successful EHS-organised meeting. Intense and invaluable sessions ran non-stop over two days, with hands on workshops on the last day. Sessions included Navigation and Robotics updates, with presentations from our EHS President, Jean-Alain Epinette and Sebastian Sturridge (Frimley Park, UK), to name two. For the Perioperative Care session we heard from William Macaulay (Prof of Orthopaedic Surgery at NYU, USA) on the reality that is “Outpaitent arthroplasty”, as well as others. Bulent Atilla (Ankara, Turkey), John Charity (Exeter, UK), Panayiotis Christofilopoulos (Geneva, Switzerland), Theofilaktos Kyriakidis (Brussels, Belgium), William Long (NYU, USA), Oliver Marin-Pena (Madrid, Spain) and Moazen Mehran (UCL, UK), were among the international faculty (photographed below). Sessions spanned from Challenging Cases to Hip Approaches & Spino Pelvic Instability, as well as Registry Results and updates on Socket Revision, Stem Revision and a THA Complications.

Meanwhile in Lisbon, Dr Pedro Dantas our Nat Rep for Portugal, held a very successful EHS Combined Meeting on Hip Revision Arthroplasty with an EHS faculty including Prof Gosta Ullmark (Past President of EHS and now Chairman of the EHS EduCom), Prof Alister Hart (Member of the EduCom) and Dr Jose Cordero (EHS Nat Rep for Spain). We have had many applications from young Portuguese orthopaedic hip surgeons following this very interesting meeting.

The next hip event on our calendar is the ICJR Direct Anterior Approach THA Course organised with EHS in Innsbruck, from 31st January – 2nd February. EHS will have a booth there, and our Treasurer Martin Thaler outlines the offer to our members below. Following that in April is the EHS-Co-Organised Stockholm Revision Course, as well as the Kharkiv Conference on the Advanced Treatment of Hip and Knee Pathology in Ukraine. See our calendar of hip meetings for more info.

We have had 11 new reviewers for Hip International, so thank you very much to those members – but we still need more. So please click the link below to become a reviewer.

Finally, a quick reminder that the Commemorative Booklet celebrating 25 years of EHS, is available digitally from our website. However,  if you would prefer to receive the printed copy, please email Samantha and she will be happy to send one out to you.

I wish you all a very happy New Year.

Best wishes,

EHS Secretary General, Professor Eleftherios Tsiridis

Prof Luigi Zagra, Chairman of EHS SciCom

Dear EHS Member,

After the great scientific success of our last meeting in The Hague, the Scientific Committee of EHS together with the President, decided a new step forward: to ask to each active member to give suggestions for the development of the scientific program of our next meetings. We are just starting the process of building the Scientific Program of our next Congress in Lille 2020.

We would like to approach the hottest and most controversial topics about hip surgery in Europe. Which are the ones perceived by our members as most urgent/important for their everyday clinical practice, that need to be addressed with an evidence based and practical approach.

So if you have any interesting proposal on hip topics for Symposia, Instructional Course Lectures, Keynote Lectures etc. please contact and submit to your National Representative, that will coordinate within your country. Afterwards the Scientific Committee will gather all the proposals and try to build the most comprehensive program for our next Congress taking into account which are the best  rated topics.  Proposals that cannot be included in the program for Lille due to limited slots could be eventually part of our scientific sessions organized during national or international meetings around Europe supported by EHS.

Appreciated first deadline is Sunday 13 January 2019, but anyway further suggestions can follow.

Thank you for all the ones who are willing to contribute and I take the opportunity to wish you all Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

Prof Martin Thaler, EHS Treasurer

Dear EHS Members, Dear Colleagues,

Once again I would like to remind you about the inaugural Direct Anterior Approach THA Course in collaboration with the EHS and the ICJR, which will take place on 31 January to 2 February 2019 in Innsbruck, Austria.

The course will offer a thorough education on the surgical and patient processes associated with the direct anterior hip approach, from patient selection through patient recovery and postoperative follow-up, and will include a hands-on cadaver workshop and multiple live surgeries.

EHS members get discounted registration of 500 Euros for the entire course, including the lab.

Go to www.icjr.net/2019austria to register for this highly anticipated course on the direct anterior approach, or CLICK HERE for more info.

We are looking forward to welcome you in Innsbruck.

Kind regards,

Martin Thaler

Hip International Reviewers! We want reviewers from EHS membership. If interested please contact Sally Lumb (Sally.lumb@12nbr.co.uk)14th EHS Congress October 2020 in LilleIf you prefer to pay by credit card, we accept Mastercard and Visa. Please click here to download the formIf you prefer to pay digitally, please find the EHS bank details (IBAN etc) here. Thank you

Dear Members of the EHS, dear Colleagues and Friends,

«Bringing Hip Orthopaedic surgeons together»… This aim of our European Hip Society remains an absolute need in our surgical expertise, at each step of our professional life. Our young colleagues will benefit from fellowships along the years, and also, while participating in hip congresses or masterclasses, will share practical tips and tricks on hip matters with their peers from other countries. For senior surgeons and researchers, these EHS meetings can be seen as an excellent opportunity to catch new trends and new procedures, through the various lectures, debates, round tables and controversies. We are really quite lucky to concentrate only on this lower limb joint, simply because it allows us to go deeply within all facets of the femoro-acetabular joint, and to state on real steps forward versus simple fleetingness… 

Just back from the French National annual congress of the French Orthopaedic Society (SOFCOT) in Paris, with in particular two symposia at the special Hip & Knee session, devoted to outpatient and rapid recovery after hip surgery on the one hand, and on the other hand the state-of-the-art in hip short stems based upon a 1800 cases multi-centre study, including the participation of German and Italian colleagues… Obviously these two “modern” topics would not have been presented some years ago, as well as the current status of HXLPE in knee inserts discussed during a previous session… Moreover, we were happy and honoured to welcome there our Secretary General, Eleftherios Tsiridis, to present modern means of training and education through virtual reality features.

Here the “spirit” of our EHS society can be seen in action: participating in national congresses and hip masterclass meetings in Europe, to bring to peers all that is new, performing well, and what can (and must?) become “evidence-based” hip knowledge. In such a way, in between our great bi-annual EHS congress – recently in The Hague, or the coming Lille 2020 meeting –  we may meet together, share together, progress together.

Over European boundaries, our EHS becomes more and more attractive, and we are proud to welcome as EHS members Pascal-Andre Vendittoli and Paul Beaule, from Canada, as well as Chahine Assi from Lebanon. As a significant signal of international links, Canada would be the guest nation at our Lille 2020 EHS congress…

How time flies!… here comes December and soon a fantastic (orthopaedic!) year 2019… We just want to send you our best wishes for great end-of-year festivities, and the very best regards from the whole EHS team.

Jean-Alain Epinette MD

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Letter from the Secretary General, Professor Eleftherios Tsiridis

Dear Members,

I am eager to report the good news that the MAST 5 course in Arthroplasty which is fast approaching (7-9th December 2018 in Thessaloniki, Greece) has been awarded 20 CME points from the UEMS-EACCME®. I look forward to seeing many of you there. Also for the meeting calendar, see the invitation from our Treasurer, Martin Thaler, below to the course with ICJR in Innsbruck in January.

Thanks to Prof Manel Ribas (Spain) of the EHS SciCom and Ass Prof Nicolas Reina (France) who represented EHS along with Prof George Macheras (Nat Rep for Greece and Past President), at the successful Estonian National Orthopaedic Society Congress last week in Tallinn. See photos below.

We are glad to announce the new Nat Rep for France, our active member Dr Andre Ferreira, who is currently the Secretary General of SFHG and is introduced below. We wish a very warm welcome to our new Full Members: Dr Mykola Ankin and Dr Taras Petryk from Ukraine and Dr Stefan Budde from Germany.  Our new Young Member from Hungary studied in Shanghai China and is now doing his PhD with Prof Csernátony: Dr Lee Zhang. We also welcome two new International Members from Canada: Dr Paul Beaule and Prof Pascal-Andre Vendittoli, who introduces himself below.

Meanwhile, do read the report just published from our Visiting Fellows 2018 on their trip to the OR of The Netherlands. Thanks to our two fellows, Mattia Loppini from Italy and Pedro Santos Leite from Portugal.

Finally, the Commemorative Booklet celebrating 25 years of EHS, compiled by our team of Eduardo Garcia-Cimbrelo, Wim Schreurs and Samantha Stokes, was gifted to all members at our congress in The Hague earlier this year. It is now available digitally from our website. However,  if you would prefer to receive the printed copy, please email Samantha and she will be happy to send one out to you.

I wish you all a happy and peaceful festive season.

Best wishes,

EHS Secretary General, Professor Eleftherios Tsiridis

André Ferreira, New Nat Rep for France

Becoming the National Representative for France to the EHS is the logical evolution of Dr André Ferreira, a member of this Society since its creation in 1992 and regularly speaking during the EHS congresses!

Trained by H Dejour, JP Carret and CR Michel in Lyon, he has specialized in prosthetic hip and knee replacement for more than 20 years. He practices at the Clinique du Parc-Lyon since 1996.

Since 2017, he is the Secretary General of the French Society of the Hip and Knee (partner of the SOFCOT Society) and is a member, besides SOFCOT, of SICOT, EFORT and AAOS. Its scientific activity is particularly focused on dual mobility cups, implants fixation and new technologies, at the origin of many publications or book chapters in text books. Since 2000, he has co-organized various meetings (Symposiums Charnley, RECO and 2017 Lyon Hip Arthroplasty) all focused on the hip. He lectures regularly around the world, from symposia at annual EFORT speeches to lectures in South America or the French Academy of Surgery.

Convinced that prosthetic hip surgery still has a lot of challenges to tackle, starting by taking stock of biomaterials and bearings and studying the contribution of new technologies, he wants to participate in the development of the EHS, whose audience is growing steadily thanks to the quality of its works and its activities. EHS earns to be more well known in Europe and France!

Finally, his European commitment is confirmed by his ability to express himself in English, Spanish and Italian.

Pascal-André Vendittoli, New International Member of EHS

Dear EHS Members,

Why would a Canadian like to become a member of the European Hip Society? Most Canadians, especially the French speaking, feel a very strong attachment with European countries and their culture. Personally, my father is half Italian and Belgium and my mother’s origins are from France. Even though on the American continent, we feel we are between Europe and America.

As surgeon and scientists, we acknowledge the rigour and long-term traditions of European hip surgeon pioneers. Quebec surgeons early adopted European implants and their design philosophy. The CLS / Spotorno, the Muller cemented, the Ceraver Osteal cemented, the Wagner stems and others are still widely used in Quebec. Experience, traditions and the strong hierarchical structure of the European orthopaedic academic centres have taught us that reinventing the wheel while something is working well may be detrimental – for example, the disastrous introduction of ceramic bearing in North America in the 1990’s. On the other hand, our United States neighbours helped us to improve our efficiency, reduce hospital length of stay (day surgery) and to standardize our practices. As Canadians, we also developed specificities. Working in a public health system allowed us to answer some scientific questions using randomized study design. Great RCTs have been published by the Bourne and McDonald’s (London), Duncan and Masri’s (Vancouver) and Lavigne and Vendittoli’s (Montreal) teams.

Canadians are open minded people with a pacific and a welcoming culture. We believe that diversity of opinion and practice leads to improved relations and solutions. As Europeans, you unified many of your countries and are a great example of flexibility and democracy. I am very honoured to be a new member of the European hip Society. I will try to participate and to contribute to the success of the Society.

Prof Martin Thaler, EHS Treasurer

Dear EHS Members, Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of the European Hip Society (EHS), it is our pleasure to invite you to the inaugural Direct Anterior Approach THA Course in collaboration with the EHS and the ICJR, which will take place on 31 January to 2 February 2019 in Innsbruck, Austria.

The inaugural Direct Anterior Approach THA Course will offer a thorough education on the surgical and patient processes associated with the direct anterior hip approach, from patient selection through patient recovery and postoperative follow-up, and will include a hands-on cadaver workshop and multiple live surgeries.

EHS members get discounted registration of 500 Euros for the entire course, including the lab.

Go to www.icjr.net/2019austria to register for this highly anticipated course on the direct anterior approach, or CLICK HERE for more info.

We are looking forward to welcome you in Innsbruck.

Kind regards,

Martin ThalerHip International Reviewers! We want reviewers from EHS membership. If interested please contact Sally Lumb (Sally.lumb@12nbr.co.uk)14th EHS Congress October 2020 in LilleIf you prefer to pay by credit card, we accept Mastercard and Visa. Please click here to download the formIf you prefer to pay digitally, please find the EHS bank details (IBAN etc) here. Thank you

Dear Members of the EHS, dear Colleagues and Friends,

Further to the success of our EHS congress in The Hague, we are already preparing our next congress in Lille 2020! Step by step, our European Hip Society becomes more and more attractive for all orthopaedic surgeons who are interested in Hip surgery, be they experienced practitioners or young residents! Thirty-three new members joined us this year as full members, while in addition thirteen are “young members” and eight “international members” from Egypt, Israel, Japan, USA and Canada. No doubt that these two coming years will be very important to continue on the fruitful tracks already traced by the previous presidents.

We will soon display the first highlights for the Lille 2020 congress, as this meeting is yours, and we need each of you. The venue in France would be extremely appealing, and the organization must be at top… Be sure we will do what is needed for that. Nevertheless,  we cannot do anything without your enthusiasm and cooperation… Of course, the Scientific Committee, with its Chairman Luigi Zagra, will be at the front scene, however each National Representative, each EHS member, must help to draw on an awesome agenda! We plan to focus on round tables, debates, controversial topics, new trends in surgical skills and management, new assets from technology… Please address us through our “contact” section of the website to propose lecturers, debaters, and topics. Be sure we will more than happy to take in great consideration your input!

By the way, a very attractive congress usually takes place every 3-years in Toulouse (South-West of France), chaired by Professor Chiron: the next “Hip Toulouse” was previously scheduled exactly at the same dates as EHS Lille on October 1^st and 2^nd!… We naturally did not want to compete, and thus a friendly agreement was reached to welcome “Hip Toulouse” … to join us in Lille, and a full half day will be devoted to this “white card” to Philippe Chiron! Another announcement would be soon released about the next invited nation to EHS Lille 2020, which could be Canada, with Professor Pascal-André Vendittoli as their main ambassador… more to see…

In the meantime, our Society continuously remains out on deck, while participating at numbers of EHS-labelled courses within National Congresses in Europe, be it the Rotterdam meeting, or Berlin recently, or again the Athens, followed by the Thessaloniki course, before the Swedish, then Ukrainian ones. In addition, it is much important to keep very strong our links with the EFORT Society, and in that view, Wim Schreurs will be our official representative at the Scientific Committee of EFORT… Good news!…

Last but not least, we will take the opportunity to hold a new frame for this newsletter and the EHS website. We will try to make them less formal, more attractive and user friendly, and plan to request from all of you to become more active “player-managers” at each level of this link between us… Hence, as president, I will not systematically each month write an editorial… this will be taken over by the chairmen of our EHS committees, while each month each national representative, each full or young member, each member of any country out of Europe, will be kindly requested to give us their thoughts about their expectations from EHS, and what this Society affords, or might afford to each of us as “bringing orthopaedic hip surgeons together”…

On behalf of the whole EHS Executive Committee, warm and friendly greetings from your President,

Jean-Alain Epinette MD

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Letter from the Secretary General, Professor Eleftherios Tsiridis

Dear Members,

The EHS Travelling Fellowship 2019 closes for applications on 31st October. Thank you to all the young surgeons who have applied. Meanwhile, our Visiting Fellows 2018 are back from The Netherlands after enjoying a very valuable time and seeing 26 hip surgeries in two weeks in six different clinics, as well as being guests at the combined meeting of the EHS and the Dutch Hip Society. We look forward to publishing their report here next month.

All members, please see the final Minutes from our General Assembly at the EHS Congress last month by logging in as a member from the EHS website homepage. This special Members Area of the website is also where you can access your complimentary Hip International subscription.

I am just back from Berlin, where Past President of EHS, Prof Werner Siebert (President of DGOOC) along with Prof Windolf (President of DGU) and Dr Rauch (President of BVOU) organised an excellent DKOU 2018. Hundreds of delegates attended and the guest nation was UK. EHS cooperated with DKOU to hold an O+U International Session on “Impingement and instability of the hip” chaired by Profs Hube, Schreurs, Stockle and von Eisenhart-Rothe. Speakers were M Leunig on: Femoroacetabul impingement – Causes, Screening & prevention; M Dienst on: FAI – Can we prevent arthritis?; H Gollwitzer on: Capsular instability and reconstruction; U Stockle on: Posttraumatic instability of the hip joint– analysis and treatment strategies; myself on: Instability and early arthritis of the dysplastic young Hip: technical challenges of the THA; A Hartmann on: Impingement after THA – diagnostic algorithm; L Zagra on: Reasons and diagnostic for instability after hip replacement; and JA Epinette on: Can dual mobility cups in primary THA in young patients solve instabilities? (See photo above left.)

On a sad note, I would like to express my commiserations to the orthopaedic community on the passing of Prof Rothman. I was honoured to personally know this important figure in hip surgery, whom I met when participating in the Rothman Ranawat Travelling Fellowship 2014, a prestigious fellowship organised by the The Hip Society USA. He was a greatly admired physician and I was lucky enough to have interesting discussions with him and to consider him a mentor. Our International Member, Javad Parvizi, will write an obituary in our newsletter next month.

We wish a very warm welcome to our new Full Members: from France, Dr Brax, Dr De Ladoucette, Dr De Polignac and Dr Magendie; from Germany, Prof Bitsch and Prof Kendoff; from Italy: Dr Buratti; from The Netherlands: Dr Verdegaal; from Russia: Dr Korytkin and Dr Shubnyakov; from Switzerland: Dr Bastian. Young Members are: Dr Crnogaca from Croatia, Dr Moazenjamshidi from Iran and Dr Rabello from Brazil. International members we warmly welcome are: Dr Assi from Lebanon, Prof Kosashvili from Israel and Dr Oe from Japan. Please scroll down to see photos of some of these new faces to join EHS.

Below is a small introduction from our new Nat Rep for Slovakia, Assoc Prof Steno, as well as a report fro our Past President, Wim Schreurs, on the congress he attended in our guest nation, Argentina.

Finally, I look forward to seeing colleagues at SOFCOT in Paris in a fortnight, where I will speak on: “From the operating room to Virtual Reality and back through advanced medical applications”. Following that, I look forward to welcoming many members to the EHS-supported MAST 5 Course in Arthroplasty Surgery (7-9th December 2018 in Thessaloniki, Hellas), officially listed on EFORT’s EOTEP platform. This intense event covers all current hip (and knee) arthroplasty concepts and debates, enhanced by a full day of hands on practical sessions focusing on Revision Arthroplasty and related Technology – plus Virtual Reality Training opportunities.

Best wishes,

EHS Secretary General, Professor Eleftherios Tsiridis

Report on A.CA.RO Meeting in Argentina

The European Hip Society was very honoured to have the A.CA.RO as the guest society on our 13th European Hip Society meeting in The Hague. Many colleagues from Argentina were present in The Hague which, we really appreciated. On behalf of the European Hip Society, I was invited to contribute to the 24th International congress of A.CA.RO in Mar del Plato, a city on the seaside one hour’s flight from Buenos Aires (3-5 October 2018).

Personally, I was overwhelmed by the hospitality of the congress organization, starting on the day of arrival and extending even after leaving the city for the home travel. The congress was very well organized by Professor Silberman and his team. A.CA.RO decided some years ago to fill the largest part of their annual international meeting with foreign speakers, who will give then all multiple contributions. This seems to be very successful as the meeting was well attended with over 550 delegates. This year there were five international guest speakers, Dr Aaron Rosenberg, Dr Todd Sekundiak, Dr Neil Sheth, Dr Edwin Su and myself. Even the fact that Dr Rosenberg had to cancel his contributions due to a medical problem did not affect the program – his colleagues from USA took over many of his presentations. There was simultaneous translation from Spanish to English of very high quality, which proved to be essential for all the very lively discussions at this meeting.

I was impressed by the quality of the orthopaedic care, in a country that is very extensive with some provinces as big as France. As EHS, we hope to continue very tight connections with the A.CA.RO.

Wim Schreurs

EHS Past President 2018-2020

Assoc Prof Boris Steno, Slovakia

EHS Nat Rep for Slovakia, 2018-22

Dear EHS members,

My name is Boris Šteňo and I am an Associate Professor working at Comenius University Medical Faculty in Bratislava.  Since 2005 I was consultant in chief of Orthopaedic Department of II. University Department of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery.

Since 2017 I am head of II. University Department of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery University Hospital Bratislava. I am in charge for student education, patient treatment and research at the department.

I am an orthopaedic and trauma surgeon. Since 25 years the scope of my work is mainly hip endoprosthetics, complex primary cases and revision hip arthroplasty surgery. The patients with this diagnosis are concentrated in our department from all over the country. Hemophiliac arthropathy is next domain of my interest. The patients with hemophilia and bleeding disorders are treated exclusivley in our department, which is part of National Hemophilia Center. In this field I train Slovak and international fellows and residents.

I am a member of the board of Slovak Orthopaedic and Trauma Society, national delegate to European Federation of National Associations of Orthopaedics and Traumatology.Apply to EHS Travelling Fellowship 2019 hereHip International Reviewers! We want reviewers from EHS membership. If interested please contact Sally Lumb (Sally.lumb@12nbr.co.uk)14th EHS Congress October 2020 in LilleIf you prefer to pay by credit card, we accept Mastercard and Visa. Please click here to download the formIf you prefer to pay digitally, please find the EHS bank details (IBAN etc) here. Thank you

Just back from The Hague at the 13^th Congress of the European Hip Society… The meeting was very enjoyable and we have to warmly thank Wim Schreurs for organizing a such successful event, as well as for the two past years while he was so clever and efficient at the head of our Society.

It is a great honour to become your President. Be sure I will do my very best at any time to fulfil the requirements needed by our Scientific Institution, through a so challenging environment, be it about the education of youngest colleagues, the emerging technologies devoted to Hip Surgery, that we need to learn and share, and also the difficult status of the Industry upon the new regulation system.

Anyway, we are very confident in the future, with our so active and efficient Committees, and naturally all our National Reps who are so important to link EHS to each surgeon from each country… The Scientific Committee, with Luigi Zagra on the one hand, and the Educational Committee on the other, led by Gösta Ullmark, are doing a continuous excellent job. Also, I am happy to congratulate Klaus Siebenrock, who as our new President-Elect will be of a precious help during these two coming years, and of course our new Treasurer, Martin Thaler who takes over the financial department of the EHS, after the excellent work by Theofilos Karachalios all along these past years. I would add a very friendly address to Evert Smith who would have been a perfect president, and was a sound candidate at this presidential election… Unfortunately as in any other election in democracy, only one gets elected at the end of the voting!…

I know that I can count on our Secretary General Eleftherios Tsiridis, for the two coming years with a continuous and fruitful work in all activities of our Society, without forgetting the smile of Samantha Stokes, and her efficiency as our Secretary while organizing at the heart of the EHS all is so important in the real life of a Scientific Society…

Well, we got this wonderful booklet entitled “EHS: 25 years, Bringing Hip Surgeons Together since 1992” by Eduardo Garcia-Cimbrelo”… It is time right now to envision a new page of this EHS history with the coming annual meeting in Lille, France, which will be held on October 1^st and 2^nd, 2020. We naturally will keep you in touch at each step of this exciting new challenge!…

Warm and friendly greetings from your new EHS President,

Jean-Alain Epinette

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Letter from the Secretary General, Professor Eleftherios Tsiridis

Dear Members,

The next EHS Travelling Fellowship is open for applications and will support two young hip surgeons to visit top orthopaedic centres in Europe for three weeks in Spring 2019. The deadline for applications is 31st October, so please tell young surgeons in your department to apply now.

Thank you to all members who came to our very successful 13th Congress in The Hague, and to the Full Members who took part in our democratic vote at the General Assembly for a new President 2020-22: welcome to the winner, Prof Klaus Siebenrock of Berne in Switzerland, who we are confident will do an excellent job. Also welcome to Assoc Prof Martin Thaler of Innsbruck, Austria, who takes over with immediate effect as new Treasurer of EHS for a four year term. Both introduce themselves below. Two new Nat Reps were also officially introduced: Dr Stig Jakobsen for Denmark, who has already contributed to this Newsletter, and Assoc Prof Boris Steno for Slovakia.

Many hip surgeons applied for membership at the EHS booth during the congress, where Samantha Stokes our Membership Secretary also received outstanding membership payments. I would ask all members who still have not paid, to please contact Samantha at your earliest convenience. Thank you.

“The Adult Hip – Master Case Series and Techniques“, with contributions from many EHS members, was on sale at the Springer booth at the congress and is of course available online. I am very pleased with it and wish to thank all the distinguished experts who sent their interesting hip cases for publication, providing readers with a comparative and comprehensive overview of surgical techniques today.

Congress season is in full swing and our Hip Meetings Calendar is a useful tool. EHS speakers will head back to The Netherlands for the Najaarscongres of the Dutch Orthopaedic Society in Rotterdam on 10th October. Also present will be the two EHS Visiting Fellows 2018, Dr Loppini and Dr Santos Leite, who will travel around top Dutch operating rooms for two weeks. Look out for their report next month.

I will be speaking at DKOU in Berlin in a few weeks, organised by EHS President 2014-16, Prof Siebert. Then it’s SOFCOT in Paris, the Estonian Orthopaedic Congress, several UK courses, the Portuguese Society of Orthopaedics & Traumatology’s hip revision arthroplasty course followed by the MAST 5 Course in Arthroplasty Surgery (7-9th December 2018 in Thessaloniki, Hellas). This latter is an EHS-co-organised and EFORT-approved event, where as Congress President, alongside the EHS President, Dr Epinette and President of the Congress SciCom, Dr Sayegh, we will welcome many keen hip surgeons from around the world. Delegates can experience the virtual reality training platform, and young specialists applying to the Tsiridis-Frimley Park Fellowship can have a preliminary interview with the faculty.

Best wishes,

EHS Secretary General, Professor Eleftherios Tsiridis

Prof Klaus-Arno Siebenrock, Switzerland

EHS President 2020-2022

I’m honoured to be the future president of the EHS 2020. I do offer full commitment to further promote this important society. Since 2005 I am assigned full professor and chairman of the Orthopaedic and Traumatologic Department at the University of Bern, Switzerland. The Department represents one of the largest combined Orthopaedic and level 1 Trauma centres in Switzerland. The founder of this Department and one of my antecessors was Professor Maurice E Müller, who was among the first genius pioneers worldwide to promote total hip arthroplasty (THA).

My surgical practice is exclusively focused on hip surgery covering all the fields from THA, an increasing number of complex THA revisions, hip traumatology and treatment of the painful young hip. Hip joint preservation surgery is a dominant domain where my Department is regarded to be among the international leaders. We developed the first experimental model (sheep hip model) to imitate early cartilage degeneration of the hip during femoro-acetabular impingement. Early osteoarthritis, test imaging modalities and treatment efficacies can be
monitored with direct correlation to histopathology. The results of latest research and innovative surgical treatment modalities are presented and published biannually in context with the Bernese Hip Symposium.

My CV spans more than 200 peer-reviewed publications. Research grants are provided by the Swiss National Foundation or international grants. The most prestigious awards are a Gold Paper Award from EFORT and the Pauwels Medal from the German Orthopaedic Society (DGOU) in 2016.

I am an assigned active member in many committees (e.g. Swiss Orthopaedics & Hip Society, International Hip Society, EHS). My goals as a president of the EHS are twofold. First, we should bundle European scientific knowledge in order to further strengthen the self-confidence of our society on the international field. Second we need to build up new young hip surgeons. This should be done by fellowships at renown European hip centres and structured educational courses for systematic improvement of knowledge throughout EHS member countries.

Associate Prof Martin Thaler, Austria

EHS Treasurer 2018-2022

Dear EHS members and friends,
My Name is Martin Thaler and I am very honoured that I was voted to be the next Treasurer of the EHS one week ago in Den Haag.

I am a Associate Professor working at the Medical University of Innsbruck at the Department of Orthopedics. I am an orthopedic and trauma surgeon, specialized on hip pathologies and oncology. I frequently train residents and colleagues from all over the world in hip courses held in Innsbruck. I am in charge for student education in orthopedics at the University.

I have a background in financing, having received a Master’s degree in managing from the University of Krems. I am also doing right now a Master’s degree in Business Administration at the Middlesex University.

My areas of expertise include minimally invasive total hip replacements, complex revision surgery, femuroacetabular impingement surgery, oncologic surgery as well as fracture treatment of the hip.

In Innsbruck I am the head of the certified arthroplasty centre and the hip team. My current research focuses on revision surgeries of the hip, robotics, navigation and infection after surgery and on how to improve the lifespan of joint replacements. I build up an expertise in treating infections and other serious complications after hip joint replacement, and I am very proud that patients come from around the country to ask for my expertise.

I want to thank again all EHS members to give me the trust to be a member of the ExCom and responsible for the finances of the EHS.Apply to EHS Travelling Fellowship 2019 hereHip International Reviewers! We want reviewers from EHS membership. If interested please contact Sally Lumb (Sally.lumb@12nbr.co.uk)14th EHS Congress October 2020 in LilleIf you prefer to pay by credit card, we accept Mastercard and Visa. Please click here to download the formIf you prefer to pay digitally, please find the EHS bank details (IBAN etc) here. Thank you

Letter from the President, Dr B Willem Schreurs

Dear colleagues and friends,

Our European Hip Society congress in The Hague is approaching very quickly now. It is promising to be a very nice event, however organizing such a congress in 2018 is quite demanding. Due to new European rules, companies are no longer allowed to sponsor orthopaedic surgeons to attend meetings such as ours. Despite these new circumstances, however, we already had one month ago over 600 registered participants and we are still counting. So we hope to reach top statistics and it shows that orthopaedic surgeons are really interested in meetings like ours, to learn from peers, exchange new ideas and to meet friends.

In addition, we have our industrial exhibition, with many companies showing their products and innovations. We are grateful for their interest in our meeting. Also, some of the bigger industries are part of the symposium “New Technologies” on September 22nd. They will present their views on future innovations from the company’s side on hip surgery. So, we hope that in the coming weeks, even more of our friends will decide to come. Registration on site is of course also possible.

At our General Assembly meeting on September 21st, the full members of EHS have to vote for the positions of the Incoming President and the Treasurer. We have two very strong candidates for the position of Incoming President, please read their text below. Please also note the introduction of our candidate for Treasurer, we think he is a very strong candidate that can fulfil the needs of the EHS for this position.

Looking forward to seeing you all in The Hague.

Best wishes,

Your EHS President, B Willem Schreurs

Letter from the Secretary General, Professor Eleftherios Tsiridis

Dear Members,

We are looking forward to welcoming you all to our 13th Congress at The Hague this month, where an exciting meeting has been organised. It is very important that you attend the General Assembly on Friday 21st September at 17:45 – 19:15 in the Amazon Room of the Congress Centre. Here we will vote for the President of EHS from 2020-22, and the two candidates are presented below. Good luck to them both. Assoc Prof Thaler, a candidate for EHS Treasurer, is also introduced below.

During the congress, as well as chairing a session on complex primary THA on the Thursday, I am speaking on “Periprosthetic fractures, an increasing problem” on the Friday. Finally, I am lecturing on Saturday at the invited symposium on “New developments in THA: Tele-medicine, computer assistance and customization of implants” where you can hear me talk on “Using virtual reality as a tool for THA placement”. Samantha Stokes our membership Secretary will be at the EHS booth to answer any questions you may have or settle any outstanding membership fees for 2018.

I am also delighted to announce the publication of the book I have edited, “The Adult Hip – Master Case Series and Techniques”, with contributions from many EHS members (published by Springer).  This book:-

• Enables the reader to join distinguished hip surgeons in the operating room
• Presents 100 cases from preoperative planning to final outcome
• Highlights key surgical points and solutions to technical difficulties
• Provides evidence-based guidance

I hope you will find it very useful. And a final notice that the programme for the EHS-supported and EFORT-approved MAST 5 Course in Arthroplasty Surgery (7-9th December 2018 in Thessaloniki, Hellas) is now available online.

Best wishes,

EHS Secretary General, Professor Eleftherios Tsiridis

Prof Klaus-Arno Siebenrock, Switzerland

Declaration to become EHS President 2020-2022

Hereby I do declare that I would be honoured to become president of the EHS 2020. I would offer full commitment to further promote this important society. Since 2005 I am assigned full professor and chairman of the Orthopaedic and Traumatologic Department at the University of Bern, Switzerland. The Department represents one of the largest combined Orthopaedic and level 1 Trauma centers in Switzerland. The founder of this Department and one of my antecessors was Professor Maurice E Müller, who was among the first genious pioneers worldwide to promote total hip arthroplasty (THA).

My surgical practice is exclusively focused on hip surgery covering all the fields from THA, an increasing number of complex THA revisions, hip traumatology and treatment of the painful young hip. Hip joint preservation surgery is a dominant domain where my Department is regarded to be among the international leaders. We developed the first experimental model (sheep hip model) to imitate early cartilage degeneration of the hip during femoro-acetabular impingement. Early osteoarthritis, test imaging modalities and treatment efficacies can be monitored with direct correlation to histopathology. The results of latest research and innovative surgical treatment modalities are presented and published biannually in context with the Bernese Hip Symposium.

My CV spans more than 200 peer-reviewed publications. Research grants are provided by the Swiss National Foundation or international grants. The most prestigious awards are a Gold Paper Award from EFORT and the Pauwels Medal from the German Orthopaedic Society (DGOU) in 2016.

I am an assigned active member in many committees (e.g. Swiss Orthopaedics & Hip Society, International Hip Society, EHS). My goals as a president of the EHS would be twofold. First, we should bundle European scientific knowledge in order to further strengthen the self-confidence of our society on the international field. Second we need to build up new young hip surgeons. This should be done by fellowships at renown European hip centers and structured educational courses for systematic improvement of knowledge throughout EHS member countries.

Mr Evert Smith, UK

Declaration to become EHS President 2020-2022

In 1969, Otto Aufranc said:
“The execution of new ideas to solve old problems always creates more problems than it solves.”

International Medical Societies share common ambitions and principles. Our society should undoubtedly continue to strive for the safe and pragmatic advancement of hip arthroplasty, ably guided by its president. Throughout my orthopaedic career, I have been immersed in research, education, audit, publication, innovation, advances in surgical practice, active discussion and wider dissemination of all matters related to the hip joint. This has complemented an active clinical practice in the UK.

Reflecting on my career, I believe that my achievements sit at the heart of the aims of the European Hip Society (EHS). I have been intimately involved in:

• Instigating, managing and acting as member for national data evaluation panels and joint registries (ODEP, Beyond Compliance and NJR)
• Active involvement in ethics committees and journal editorship
• Development and commercial introduction of a successful acetabular cup system
• Collaborative research with Europe and the USA
• Establishment of a UK charity that furthers hip research
• Development and organisation of an annual international 2-day hip course since 2003
• Active participation as a member and officer of national and international Orthopaedic Societies

From all my experience, I have learned that Otto’s words have a ring of truth! Nevertheless, as President, I would aspire to achieve greater synergy of European registries of hip arthroplasty as one of my primary goals.

In addition, I have also learned that enlightenment comes from inclusivity. I would therefore work to gain the active participation of other recognised medical societies across the world to advance the core clinical, educational and research aims of the EHS.

Anyone who wishes to become President of the EHS certainly requires experience. I undoubtedly have gained a considerable amount of both relevant and valuable experience and knowledge to enable me to advance the aims and aspirations of the EHS with energetic and effective leadership.

In the words of Oscar Wilde: “Experience is simply the name we give to our mistakes”

I aspire to become President of the EHS. It would be both an honour and a privilege to be elected EHS President and I would welcome your support.

Associate Prof Martin Thaler, Austria

Declaration to become EHS Treasurer 2018-2022

Martin Thaler will candidate for the position of the treasurer of the EHS this year in Den Haag. Associate Professor Martin Thaler, MD, MSc. works at the Medical University of Innsbruck at the Department of Orthopedics. He is an orthopedic and trauma surgeon, specialized on hip pathologies and oncology. As an Associate Professor of Orthopedic Surgery at the Medical University of Innsbruck, Martin Thaler trains residents and colleagues from all over the world in hip courses held in Innsbruck. He is in charge for student education in orthopedics at the University.

Martin Thaler has a background in financing, having received a Master’s degree in managing from the University of Krems. In one year he will finish also a Master´s degree in Business Administration from the Middlesex University.

His areas of expertise include minimally invasive total hip replacements, complex revision surgery, femuroacetabular impingement surgery, oncologic surgery as well as fracture treatment of the hip.

As the head of the certified arthroplasty center Innsbruck and the hip team, he conducts research that will benefit patients and has written numerous articles for prestigious peer-reviewed medical journals. He has won awards for studies that have advanced the field of orthopedic surgery. His current research focuses on reducing revision surgeries of the hip, robotics, navigation and infection after surgery and on how to improve the lifespan of joint replacements. He has expertise in treating infections and other serious complications after hip joint replacement, and therefore patients come from around the country for his expertise.

He is also involved in a lot of background work of the European Hip Society, like updating and overworking the constitution and has supported the current Treasurer for the last two years.

Mr Richard Baker, UK and Prof Theofilos Karachalios, Hellas

Co-Chief Editors of Hip International

Once again our impact factor has risen! Last year’s figures reveal that our impact factor is now 1.26. This represents a steady increase in impact factor every year for the last four years and is an encouraging sign that the journal is becoming more prominent.

We are now receiving approximately 500 submissions a year of which about one quarter are finally published. The research articles are published over six editions and case reports are published online only.

The rise in impact factor is only possible with our dedicated reviewers and editors and we would like to thank everybody for their efforts. We would also like to welcome our two new trauma section editors Prof Minos Tyllianakis and Dr Christos Garnavos.

It would be great if we could attract more reviewers from the European Hip Society membership. If anyone would be interested in becoming a reviewer for HIP International – please contact Sally Lumb (Sally.lumb@12nbr.co.uk).

13th EHS Congress September 2018 in The HagueIf you prefer to pay by credit card, we accept Mastercard and Visa. Please click here to download the formIf you prefer to pay digitally, please find the EHS bank details (IBAN etc) here. Thank you

Letter from the President, Dr B Willem Schreurs

Dear All,

The summer is breaking all records in West European countries and especially in my country The Netherlands. We have not seen cloudy skies for six weeks (very unusual in The Netherlands) and new temperature records for July are estimated.

I hope the European Hip Congress in The Hague in September 20-22 will also break all records, so far the number of surgeons planning to attend is very promising. Plus, as stated before, we have more than 500 abstract submissions, which is also great. Registration is of course still possible and registration can also be done on site,  so please stimulate your colleagues to take the trip to The Hague. Finding flights should be easy and not expensive, Schiphol Amsterdam airport has many connections throughout Europe. There is still some space in our congress hotels very close to the venue. You can book them on our congress website. Of course, hotels with availability in other areas of The Hague are plenty and in that period start from around 75 Euros per night. Hiring with more persons and choosing an apartment is even cheaper. Distances are never far, and public transportation is excellent. So you will find something fitting your budget.

Now some other issues. At this moment, European Hip Society is taking part in the Consensus Meeting of Infection in Philadelphia 25 to 27 July organized by Javad Parvizi and Thorsten Gehrke. Our representers are Professor Eleftherios Tsiridis and Professor Jean-Yves Jenny.

For those of you who have not paid their membership annual fee, please contact Samantha, it is fine if this is arranged before you come to our congress. 

Have all a great summer and a very nice and well deserved holiday.

Best wishes,

Your EHS President, B Willem Schreurs

Letter from the Secretary General, Professor Eleftherios Tsiridis

Dear Members,

I’m writing from Philadelphia where I am attending the excellent Musculoskeletal Infection Society Annual Meeting, organised by Javad Parvizi. I was pleased to see here our EHS Visiting Fellows 2016, Prof Olga Pidgaiska (Ukraine) and Mr Sujith Konan (UK), among other EHS members (photographed below).

Following our own congress in September in The Hague (20th-22nd), EHS will be part of the meeting of HOAST in Athens in October (10-13th), the German Hip Society for the DKOU meeting in Berlin also in October (23rd-26th) (see words from Prof Siebert below), the Estonian Orthopaedic Congress in November, the Portuguese Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology for the Lisbon meeting on 1st December on hip revision arthroplasty (see words below from Dr Dantas), as well as the MAST Course in Thessaloniki from 7-9th December, co-organised by EHS and approved by EFORT.

So while you may be relaxing somewhere sunny in August, make sure to have your work calendar with you to plan the upcoming congresses and courses that follow the summertime and are not to be missed.

Best wishes,

EHS Secretary General, Professor Eleftherios Tsiridis

EHS at DKOU 2018

Dear Members,

“We are O&T” is the congress motto of the German Congress of Orthopaedics and Traumatology 2018. Orthopaedics and Traumatology stands for professional treatment of injuries and ailments of the locomotor system and the motto addresses the variety and the wide range of our shared field. No other congress in Europe offers a larger platform for professional, collegial and academic exchange than the DKOU 2018 in Berlin.

10 years after the foundation of the German Society for Orthopaedics and Trauma (DGOU), the congress is the signature feature of the successful growing together of Orthopaedics and Traumatology in Germany. The aspiration of the German Congress of Orthopaedics and Traumatology was a high contentual quality both with regard to the broadness of the field and with regard to the differentiation of the subspecialties, so sections and cooperating expert associations are noticeably integrated in the congress programme. More than 12.000 orthopaedic surgeons attending especially valuate our international program.

We are happy that EHS will also be a part of the outstanding program. In cooperation with the German Hip Society (DHG), EHS will cover a hip session “Impingement and Instability of the Hip”, which will take place Tuesday, October 23^rd 2018 at 2:30-4:00 pm.

We warmly invite all EHS-members to participate in the German Congress of Orthopaedics and Traumatology 2018. Register HERE come to Berlin, join the discussion, co-create our field actively. Only together we can say: “We are O&T!”

EHS Past President, Werner Siebert

EHS at The Combined Lisbon Meeting on Hip Revision Arthroplasty

Dear Members,

The Hip Section of the Portuguese Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology is organizing, with the collaboration of the European Hip Society, The Combined Lisbon Meeting on Hip Revision Arthroplasty. This meeting is an opportunity to increase the relationship between the EHS and our National Society.

The goal of this gathering is to promote an in-deep discussion on several topics of the hip arthroplasty revision surgery such as hip anatomy, surgical approaches, evaluation of the painful arthroplasty, implant and cement removal and problems related to the metal-on-metal arthroplasties.

More specifically, in the acetabular reconstruction session, the program includes the discussion of several options for the treatment of different defects, like the use of augments, reinforcement rings, impaction grafting, and 3D custom made implants. The femoral reconstruction session will cover the cemented femoral revision and cement-in-cement technique, as well as the cementless monoblock and modular stems. The diagnosis and treatment of infection and other complications such as instability and periprosthetic fractures will also be covered in this meeting.

The event will take place in Lisbon on the 1th of December 2018 and Professor Wim Schreurs, Professor Alister Hart and Dr Jose Cordero are already confirmed as EHS speakers.

Register HERE

Best,

EHS Nat Rep for Portugal, Pedro Dantas13th EHS Congress September 2018 in The HagueIf you haven’t yet paid your membership fees for 2018, don’t fret, please click here to be taken to the PayPal page of our website, and register as a new userIf you prefer to pay by credit card, we accept Mastercard and Visa. Please click here to download the formIf you prefer to pay digitally, please find the EHS bank details (IBAN etc) here. Thank you

For August Newsletter click hereLetter from the President, Dr B Willem Schreurs

Dear All,

Recently I visited ISAR in Iceland, the congress of the International Society of Arthroplasty Registries. This annual congress represents data of all kinds of joints, so hip, knee, ankle, shoulder, wrist and elbow. 

It was remarkable that there were so many presentations on hip arthroplasties – compared to other joints, there are many new developments around hip arthroplasty.

In no other area is there so much debate on the surgical approach, the type of bearing, the type of fixation and the types of prostheses. In hip surgery we have long stems, standard stems, short stems or resurfacings on the femoral side – this is completely different from other joints.

However, the Australian Registry showed data that are somewhat worrisome: five years after the introduction of a new hip implant, 80% were no longer on the market. In addition, none of the 20% of implants that were still available was better then the average implant. Indeed, food for thought for both surgeon and industry. 

All these interesting matters can be discussed between colleagues when we meet at our 13th EHS Congress in The Hague this September (20-22nd) – Early Bird registration is available until end of June! Until then, have a good summer.

Best wishes,

Your EHS President, B Willem Schreurs

Letter from the Secretary General, Professor Eleftherios Tsiridis

Dear Members,

I would hereby like to give notice that two positions will be voted in at our General Assembly in The Hague. The position of EHS President 2020-22 and the position of EHS Treasurer 2018-22. Please make sure you are present to make your vote on: 21st September 2018 at 17:45 – 19:15 in the Amazon room at the EHS Congress. Thank you.

I am pleased to announce our two Visiting Fellows have been selected: Dr Mattia Loppini from Italy and Dr Pedro Santos Leite from Portugal (both are Young Members of EHS). They will travel to The Netherlands in October of this year. Thank you to all our applicants and to the EduCom and ExCom for making the selection.

I wish a warm welcome to our new members this month. Full Members are: Dr Alok Bansal (from Ukraine) and Dr Georgios Drosos (from Hellas). Young Members are: Drs Stijn Bolink and Bas van Ooij (both from The Netherlands), Dr Ryan Giordmaina (our first member from Malta) and Dr Pia Zurmühle (from Switzerland).

I am pleased to inform you all that AAHKS (the American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons) has announced the prestigious FARE Grant Award to NYU and ORamaVR: Virtual Reality Applications to Orthopaedic Surgical Training: A Pilot Study. I myself am Chief Medical Officer and Vice President of this Start Up company and EHS International Member Prof William B Macaulay is a primary  investigator along with Dr Jessica M Hooper. Co-Investigators include International EHS Members Ass Prof Lazaros Poultsides, Assoc Prof Ran Schwarzkopf and Ass Prof Jonathan Vigdorchik. The purpose of this groundbreaking clinical study is to assess the skill transfer, educational value, and validity of a virtual reality (VR) surgical simulator for total hip arthroplasty.

And finally, now you have hopefully all registered to our congress in The Hague in September, I welcome everyone to the 5th Masterclass in Arthroplasty Surgery in Thessaloniki, Hellas, from 7-9th December 2018, an EHS-co-organized course under the auspices of EFORT, on current concepts in hip and knee reconstruction.

I wish you all a pleasant July.

EHS Secretary General, Professor Eleftherios Tsiridis13th EHS Congress September 2018 in The HagueIf you haven’t yet paid your membership fees for 2018, don’t fret, please click here to be taken to the PayPal page of our website, and register as a new userIf you prefer to pay by credit card, we accept Mastercard and Visa. Please click here to download the formIf you prefer to pay digitally, please find the EHS bank details (IBAN etc) here. Thank you

Letter from the President, Dr B Willem Schreurs

Dear All,

Last week, we sent out invitations for the oral and poster presentations at the EHS meeting in The Hague. Of course, we hope that all who are selected for either a poster or an oral presentation can come to the Netherlands.

All submitted abstracts were scored by an independent review system. The 10 top-scoring abstracts will be part of one of the two special sessions for Award Abstracts. The authors of these excellent papers have been informed also, and congratulated.

For clarity again, only after the presenter of the oral or poster has been registered by our PCO Intercongress, will the poster or oral become part of the final scientific programme.

For all of you who are planning to join us at the EHS in The Hague, please register before July 1st to benefit from the “early bird” registration.

In May, Dr Grammatopoulos and Dr Merle were our EHS Travelling Fellows 2018 and they visited Turkey for two weeks. You can read their report about their experience here. As you can read, they had a great experience in Turkey. On behalf of the European Hip Society I would like to thank both the team of Professors Atilla and Tokgözoğlu in Ankara, as well as the team of Assoc  Prof Çağlar and Chief Resident Dr Işık for the great programme.

Best wishes,

Your EHS President, B Willem Schreurs

Letter from the Secretary General, Professor Eleftherios Tsiridis

Dear Members,

I am delighted to publish below the report from the EHS Travelling Fellowship 2018 which was organised by our very good friends, Prof Tokgözoğlu and Prof Atilla, of Turkey. Of course, one was a president of EHS in 2003-4, is Nat Rep for Turkey and sits on the SciCom and the other is our EduCom Vice Chairman, having sat on the committee for a few years already.

This was a wonderful opportunity for our two members, Dr George Grammatopoulos (UK) and Dr Christian Merle (Germany), who faced very fierce competition to be selected. The Fellowship in Ankara and Istanbul was full of excellent scientific content, plenty of time in OR, culture from the surrounding areas and of course no end of great hospitality. Read the report here. They are both now automatically welcomed as Full Members of EHS.

Meanwhile, we are about to announce the two EHS Visiting Fellows 2018 – this is the Autumn fellowship run by EHS and is an EFORT-approved programme. The EduCom have made their votes and now it is down to the ExCom for the final decision when they meet in Barcelona. We look forward to all our EHS Committee meetings in Barcelona, also including the NatRep, the EduCom and the SciCom.

I would very much like to announce to you all the “Tsiridis Frimley Orthopaedic Travelling Fellowship“, offered by the Frimley Health  NHS Foundation Trust in South East England. This is a one year fixed-term contract, available from August 2018, designed to provide skills and competencies above and beyond what is currently required to obtain a CCT in Trauma & Orthopaedics. It affords an excellent training opportunity in the whole spectrum of orthopaedic surgery and includes regular supervised elective and trauma clinics and OR sessions. It is supported by educational meetings and relevant research. For more information, click here.

We are pleased to welcome several new faces to EHS: New Full members are Dr Stig Jakobsen from Denmark and Dr Andrii Babko from Ukraine. New Young Members include Dr Arjan De Beus from The Netherlands, Dr Christos Milaras from Hellas and Dr Oleg Ovychinnikov from Ukraine.

Finally, Per Kjaersgaard-Andersen, incoming President of EFORT, speaks to us below on the upcoming congress in Barcelona, where I hope to see many of you. EHS will have a booth as always and Samantha Stokes, our EHS Membership Secretary, will be happy to talk to you and of course to collect in person any outstanding membership fees.

EHS Secretary General, Professor Eleftherios Tsiridis

19^th EFORT Congress in Barcelona, Spain May 30 – June 1, 2018

By Per Kjaersgaard-Andersen, In-coming EFORT President

In just a few days, the 19^th EFORT Congress will take place in Barcelona. The scientific and educational program has been finalized since several months, and another exciting meeting is waiting you.

The main theme for the congress will be “Innovation and new technologies”. This theme has been carefully selected by the Scientific Board in EFORT to give the participating orthopaedic surgeons their ever best opportunity, in one meeting and during three days, to learn about several aspects within our developing medical society. A total of 23 symposiums, instructional lectures or complex case discussions has been organized in the aspect of the main theme, with focus on new diagnostic technologies, advances in biomaterial and implant technologies, new tissue regeneration techniques, latest news in robotic and computer-assisted surgery, and especially latest news on 3D printing in orthopaedics and traumatology.

We will again have two distinguished orthopaedic surgeons two give honorary lectures. Professor Reinhard Graf from Austria will lecture Thursday, May 31 on “Hip Sonography in Babies: Prevention is better than Operation”; and Professor Philippe Hernigou, France will Friday, June 1 lecture on “Cell Theraphy in Orthopaedic Surgery: 30 Years of Experience”. Please, plan your programme so you may listen to both speakers.

In total 180 educational sessions will take place during the three congress days. Moreover, an expert panel of scientific advisors has selected 576 free papers, 63 clinical cases and 1.164 posters to be presented from the total 3.217 submitted abstracts.

Again in Barcelona a full day of “Advanced Total Hip and Knee Replacement” has been planned, with great assistance from European Hip Society, European Knee Association and European Knee Society. European lower limb joint replacement experts will talk on complex primary hip replacement, revision total hip and knee replacement, stability in difficult primary total knee replacement and latest new innovation within hip and knee replacement. An outstanding programme, that will fulfill you need as a daily hip or knee surgeon.

Trauma treatment is a huge burden for orthopaedic surgeons cross Europe, and as always approximately 50 % of all sessions at the EFORT Congress deals with trauma. This Congress will have specific focus on shoulder and proximal humerus fractures, spine trauma treatment strategies and soft-tissue lesions.

As a great tradition, EFORT offers the opportunity to the larger European Orthopaedic Special Societies to have their own educational sessions organized during the congress days. Therefore, at each congres day you may select a speciality society educational session of you interest. The content of each of these sessions can be looked up at the EFORT website.

Finally, as a fixed part of the Congress programme, the Comprehensive Review Course will run full Wednesday, May 31 in room “Munich” as will their each day in the lunch break from 12:45 to 14:15 be several very interesting sessions organized by the orthopaedic industry.

As the in-coming president of the EFORT Board, I hereby invite you to join the Barcelona Congress, and look forward to see you there for another memorable congress.13th EHS Congress September 2018 in The HagueIf you haven’t yet paid your membership fees for 2018, don’t fret, please click here to be taken to the PayPal page of our website, and register as a new userIf you prefer to pay by credit card, we accept Mastercard and Visa. Please click here to download the formIf you prefer to pay digitally, please find the EHS bank details (IBAN etc) here. Thank you

Letter from the President, Dr B Willem Schreurs

Dear All,

In my opinion, while the EHS congress must be attractive to you all by offering worldclass speakers, congresses such as our own are also important for the
exchange of ideas – they are an opportunity to present your own research. And from the top statistics so far, of 500 abstracts received, this is also your view. We as European Hip Society are very proud of this figure.

All abstracts have now been reviewed and we sincerely thank the many reviewers for their contribution to finish this impressive task. More information about the acceptance of your submitted abstract can be expected by mid May 2018.

For those invited to present their data in an oral presentation, we have created 196 time slots of six minutes each, plus – as we think discussion is important after the presentations – an additional two minutes for discussion after each abstract. So each presenter has in total of eight minutes. In addition, 10 abstracts will be selected for the Award Sessions.

Also, we have created the possibility for 250 classical and traditional posters; personally I like traditional poster sessions more than e posters. To guarantee optimal attention for those who exhibit their work as a poster, we are lucky to be able to hold our Welcome Reception among and around them, in the Poster Hall itself – the Worldforum Congress location in The Hague is really a fitting location for our EHS Congress.

As a last word for this Newsletter, many of the abstracts we have received are focussed on surgical approaches for total hip arthroplasty. It is remarkable how much attention is focussed on this issue, when it is a procedure that has been around for such a long time. However, it reflects the efforts of all of us to improve even this already very successful procedure. This will certainly guarantee very interesting discussions at the European Hip Congress 2018 in the Hague.

Best wishes,

Your EHS President, B Willem Schreurs

Letter from the Secretary General, Professor Eleftherios Tsiridis

Dear Members,

It was good to see many of our members at the World Arthroplasty Congress in Rome at the end of the April, where over  1,000 participants and 250 company representatives, joined together over three days in the Ergife Palace Hotel. The congress was organised by EKS and ICJR in collaboration with EHS.

The Stockholm International Hip Revision Course (an EHS course) was a great success and we have words from Past President Prof Ullmark below. EHS was represented at the excellent 10th Mayo Arthroplasty Conference in Westport Co Mayo, Ireland, by Past President Dr Macheras and UK Nat Rep, Mr Evert Smith. Words below. Thank you to our contributors.

Our two EHS Travelling Fellows for 2018, George Grammatopoulos and Christopher Merle, are now in Ankara with EHS Past President and Nat Rep for Turkey, Prof Tokgözoĝlu and Vice Chairman of the EHS SciCom, Prof Atilla. This is an EFORT-approved fellowship now in its third year. See their excellent itinerary here.

Meanwhile, the EHS EduCom is scrutinising the applications for the EHS Visiting Fellowship 2018. The winners and destination will be announced shortly.

EHS Secretary General, Professor Eleftherios TsiridisThe course included case presentations and lectures on diagnosing THA problems, periprosthetic infections, periprosthetic fractures and dislocationsPast EHS President & Chairman of EHS EduCom, Prof Gösta Ullmark

Central Stockholm was home to the very successful International Hip Revision Course on Theory and Practices in April, in cooperation with the European Hip Society.

The lectures were interactive with plenty of lively discussions. Most speakers were international EHS speakers, including Prof Theofilos Karachalios our Treasurer from Hellas, as well as myself and Prof Per Wretenberg, our Nat Rep for Sweden.

The course included case presentations and lectures on diagnosing THA problems, periprosthetic infections, periprosthetic fractures and dislocations. All sorts of revision methods were tackled, and the results were thoroughly discussed. 4 workshops in plastic bone got high scores from the participants.13th EHS Congress September 2018 in The HagueIf you haven’t yet paid your membership fees for 2018, don’t fret, please click here to be taken to the PayPal page of our website, and register as a new userIf you prefer to pay by credit card, we accept Mastercard and Visa. Please click here to download the formIf you prefer to pay digitally, please find the EHS bank details (IBAN etc) here. Thank you

EHS Visiting Fellowship 2018: Are you under 40yrs old and interested in visiting orthopaedic centres of excellence in Europe to learn more about hip surgery from the experts? Apply now… deadline for applications 31.3.2018. For more info, click hereLetter from the President, Dr B Willem Schreurs

Dear All,

We are now in full congress season and several large meetings have already taken place, including the excellent AAOS meeting in New Orleans. In April we are looking forward to the World Arthroplasty Congress (19th-21st) in Rome, and EHS is participating with several speakers, and has promoted this course to you in previous newsletters.

Also upcoming is the EFORT Congress in Barcelona from 30th May to 1st June. We hope to see a lot of you in Spain, and as usual the European Hip Society is participating in the program as a Specialty and Partner Society. On Wednesday 30th May we warmly invite you to attend the EHS Half Day Session from 15.00 – 18.30, where two symposia will run:-

1. EHS Session 1: Present And Future Technologies In Acetabular Revisions For Severe Protrusion: Materials, Techniques And Results?
   15.00 – 16.30, Auditorium: Barcelona
   Speakers in this symposium are Mr Richard Baker (UK) and Profs Timperley (UK), Zagra (Italy),
   Argenson (France) and Flivik (Sweden).
2. EHS Session 2: Risk Factors For THA Failures: The Patient, The Surgeon, The Diagnosis And The Implant
    17.00 – 18.30, Auditorium: Barcelona
   This has been organized by Profs Karachalios (Greece) and Günther (Germany),  and speakers include these two members as well as Profs Atilla (Turkey) and Babis (Greece).

We will also participate in the “Full Day on Advanced THR & TKR” Combined Session, organized by EFORT, EHS and the EKS on Thursday 31st May. This symposium is scheduled from 8.30am – 12 pm and details will be given in the next newsletter. I hope many of you will come to this important EFORT meeting.

Now the extended abstract submission deadline for the EHS congress in The Hague is approaching quickly.
We are very pleased to announce that preliminary data show we have already 100 abstracts more than in our previous meeting and there are still some days left! You can send abstracts in until 3rd April 2018. For details, see our congress website.

Best wishes,

Your EHS President, B Willem Schreurs

Letter from the Secretary General, Professor Eleftherios Tsiridis

Dear Members,

Thank you to all our applicants for the EHS Visiting Fellowship 2018, an EFORT-approved fellowship now in its third year. (If you still haven’t applied, deadline is 31st March. Full information is here.)

We are pleased to welcome five news members to the EHS:

• Dr Bennink (Netherlands) Full member
• Dr Berger (Germany) Full member
• Dr Keshavarz (Iran) Young member
• Dr Oikonomidis (Hellas) Full member
• Ass Prof Vigdorchik (USA) International member

Meanwhile, we wish warm congratulations to our long-term EHS Full Member, Prof Dr Nikolaus Böhler, from Linz, Austria, who will become an EHS Emeritus Member when he retires this summer after a long and prosperous orthopaedic career.

It was good to catch up with many of you at the Annual AAOS Meeting in New Orleans at the beginning of March. Now, April is all about Europe and EHS’s focus is firstly on the Stockholm International Hip Revision Course: “Theory and practices”, from 11-13th April 2018, aimed at orthopedic surgeons, specialist hip surgeons and specialist registrars. This is an EHS Course and is held in accordance with the European Curriculum for Orthopedics and Traumatology and EFORT’s Educational Platform. Prof Ullmark, Past President of EHS, and Per Wretenberg, EHS’s Nat Rep for Sweden, will report on the course in our next newsletter.

Then is it time for “Back to the Future”, the Hip Meeting in Barcelona from 17-18th April, followed by the World Arthroplasty Congress in Rome, 19th-21st April. I am speaking at both. At the same time, 20th April, the Russian Hip Society is holding the International Olympics of Young Scientists in Traumatology and Orthopedics in Nizhny Novogord, while from 20th-22nd April, it is the 10th Mayo Arthroplasty Conference in Westport Co Mayo, Ireland, where Past President Dr Macheras will represent EHS.

Following this, there is an opportunity to run our busy practices and attend our surgical duties before we are back to Barcelona for EFORT’s annual meeting at the end of May/beginning of June, where EHS is proud to be a Specialty and Partner Society and has a lot organised (see the President’s letter).  Meanwhile, Happy Easter for those who celebrate it, and Happy Holidays for those who don’t.

EHS Secretary General, Professor Eleftherios TsiridisWe would be delighted to have EHS delegates at our meeting in Argentina, and we invite all members to submit abstracts with the intention of exchanging current diagnosis, indications and therapies to help our performance on a daily basis around the worldDistinguished Members of the European Hip Society,

On behalf of the Argentinian Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons (ACARO) and, as Past President, we would like to express our most sincere gratefulness for being 2018’s guest Nation of your prestigious Society. It will be the first time in the history of ACARO to be a guest Society, and also the first time EHS invites a nation, so we really appreciate it.

Founded on 1983 by surgeons trained by Sir John Charnley, our Society nowadays includes 575 members and 22 accredited hospitals along the country. During our past 23 meetings, giants of Hip Surgery from Europe, such as Mr John Older, Mike Wroblewsky, Graham Gie, Jaques Taboutin and Thorsten Gehrke had been special guests.

We would be delighted to have EHS delegates to our next Meeting in October 2018, and we invite all members to submit abstracts before July with the intention of exchanging current diagnosis, indications and therapies to help our performance on a daily basis around the world.

Our Society has been associated to Hip International for the last 10 years, and all EHS members are also invited to visit our Journal, where you can find free abstracts in English language, as well as to explore our VuMedi channel that has been recently developed, including ACARO surgical video techniques and conferences.

Looking forward to meeting you in The Hague!

Best regards,

Prof. Martin Buttaro

ACARO Past President 201713th EHS Congress September 2018 in The HagueIf you haven’t yet paid your membership fees for 2018, don’t fret, please click here to be taken to the PayPal page of our website, and register as a new userIf you prefer to pay by credit card, we accept Mastercard and Visa. Please click here to download the formIf you prefer to pay digitally, please find the EHS bank details (IBAN etc) here. Thank you

EHS Visiting Fellowship 2018: Are you under 40yrs old and interested in visiting orthopaedic centres of excellence in Europe to learn more about hip surgery from the experts? Apply now… deadline for applications 31.3.2018. For more info, click hereLetter from the President, Dr B Willem Schreurs

Dear All,

Plans are progressing well for our 13th Congress in the Hague in September with our Guest Nation, Argentina, and the Guest Society: the Argentinian Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons (ACARO). I am in communication with the President Prof Andrés Silberman, and General Secretary Dr Roberto Olivetto, who share the EHS concept of “bringing orthopeadic surgeons together” as a means of exchanging current diagnosis, indications and therapies to help our performance on a daily basis around the world.

ACARO, like EHS, is committed to increasing its presence at international meetings to offer its members top-level scientific perspectives. The Association considers EHS to be “…at the highest level of scientific knowledge” in the hip world and has invited two EHS delegates to attend their Annual Meeting from 3-5 October 2018 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Their President also encourages our EHS members to submit research for a podium or poster presentation at their meeting and wants to see EHS scientifically represented, “…to expand the reach of international arthroplasty research and educational exchange to the mutual benefit of our organizations”.

We are also pleased to announce our special congress guest: Prof Per Kjaersgaard Anderson, Incoming EFORT President, who will lecture on the influence of obesitas in hip diseases. Plus we will be joined by Emeritus Professor Henrik Kehlet, the godfather of fast track surgery with a track record of more than 1,000 Pub Med papers, and last but by no means least, the expert Professor Manoj Ramachandran. These are all familiar names to us in the hip surgery world and we will be inviting them to write some words in this Newsletter in the coming issues. 

Please click here to familiarise yourself with our online overview of the Scientific Programme for The Hague, and REMEMBER the deadline for abstract submission is 15th March!

Best wishes,

Your EHS President, B Willem Schreurs

Letter from the Secretary General, Professor Eleftherios Tsiridis

Dear Members,

I am delighted to announce that we are now accepting applications for the EHS Visiting Fellowship 2018, an EFORT-approved fellowship now in its third year. The fellowship will take place over a fortnight in the Autumn and as usual, each of the two Fellows will receive a fund of 3,000 euros to cover expenses. Deadline for applications is 31st March.  Two candidates will then be selected by the EduCom and the ExCom after careful scrutiny and winners will be announced in May. As you know, this is an excellent and absolutely invaluable opportunity for young surgeons to meet and observe at close hand top experts in our field. Non EHS members are welcome to apply, so please tell the young doctors in your hospital who want to specialise in the hip. Full information is here.

We are pleased to welcome three news members to the EHS: Full Members Prof Didier Hannouche from Switzerland and Dr Weird Zijlstra from Netherlands, as well as International Member Dr Masaki Mizushima from Japan. We look forward to meeting you. Meanwhile, we want to congratulate several members on their retirement from orthopaedic surgery this year: Dr Antonio Coscujuela of Spain, Dr Eric De Groof of Belgium, Dr Humberto Escobar of Spain, Mr Munthir J Farhan of UK, Dr Jan Minde of Sweden, Dr Harry Rubash of USA, Dr Mai Sabine of Germany, Mr Keith Tucker of UK and Prof Dieter Kohn of Germany.

Hip courses coming up include the Annual AAOS Meeting in New Orleans (6-10 March), the Annual Revision THA Course in Sweden (an EHS course, 11-13 April), the Barcelona Hip Meeting (16-18 April) and the World Arthroplasty Congress in Rome (19-21 April). A report from WAC can be found below.

EHS will be presented by two speakers at the MAYO Arthroplasty Conference 2018 meeting in Westport Co Mayo, Ireland (20-22 April): two Nat Reps, Dr George Macheras (Greece) and Mr Evert Smith (UK).  Dr Manel Ribas from Spain will represent EHS in the Russian Hip Society’s Annual International Conference on Orthopaedic Surgery Today (24-25 May) in Nizhny Novgorod. He will speak on: Limits of Hip Arthroscopy and pitfalls.

EHS will have a booth as always at the EFORT congress in Barcelona (31 May – 1 June), where you can visit Samantha to make any outstanding membership payments. Thank you to the very many of you who have now paid for 2018. All the ExCom will be at the congress if you want to meet us.

EHS Secretary General, Professor Eleftherios TsiridisThe World Arthroplasty Congress is the meeting dedicated to the exchange of surgical innovation, cutting-edge science and practical knowledge related to joint arthroplasty

Update from WAC

Dear Friends and Colleagues, Dear European Hip Society Members,

We kindly remind you that the 2nd World Arthroplasty Congress, organized by the European Knee Society (EKS), the International Congress for Joint Reconstruction (ICJR) and supported by the European Hip Society (EHS) will take place in Rome, Italy on April 19-21, 2018.

The World Arthroplasty Congress is the meeting dedicated to the exchange of surgical innovation, cutting-edge science and practical knowledge related to joint arthroplasty.

With today’s surgical environment being impacted by societal, political, and economic constraints, this congress focuses on the common goal of advancing the field of arthroplasty and improving patient care.

Kindly find the Program HERE.

The Hip Sessions are taking place in a dedicated meeting room. A combined session for Hip and Knee is organized on Friday, April 20.

As a European Hip Society Member you are entitled to a reduced registration fee: Save up to 100,00 euros and register now!

We hope you will join us in Rome!

Yours sincerely,

Jean-Noël Argenson, Andrea Baldini, Arlen Hanssen and Norman Scott
Course Directors

13th EHS Congress September 2018 in The HagueIf you haven’t yet paid your membership fees for 2018, don’t fret, please click here to be taken to the PayPal page of our website, and register as a new userIf you prefer to pay by credit card, we accept Mastercard and Visa. Please click here to download the formIf you prefer to pay digitally, please find the EHS bank details (IBAN etc) here. Thank you

Letter from the President, Dr B Willem Schreurs

Dear All,

It is really a privilege to announce the two surgeons who have been selected for the EHS Travelling Fellowship 2018. We had a great response rate following the announcement of the fellowship, with over 20 candidates applying for two available places.

The quality of the candidates was excellent and thus there was strong competition. Finally two candidates were selected: Dr George Grammatopoulos (Consultant Hip Surgeon, Hip Reconstruction Service, University College Hospital, London & Senior Clinical Lecturer University College London, UK ) and Dr Christian Merle (Consultant Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgeon University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany). See more information here.

As EHS we are also excited that the guest country for this upcoming fellowship will be Turkey. There has always been a strong relation between the Turkish orthopaedic hip surgeons and the EHS. To remember, the best ever visited meeting of the EHS was in Antalya in 2006 with over 1,100 visitors. There is no doubt that the candidates will have an excellent time in Turkey with exciting orthopaedics. The fellows will visit Ankara and Istanbul in May 2018. 

In between, we want to remind you of our upcoming congress in The Hague in September this year: abstract submission is opened until March 15 2018. We hope that you submit your latest and most innovative papers to our congress.

Best wishes,

Your EHS President, B Willem Schreurs

Letter from the Secretary General, Professor Eleftherios Tsiridis

Dear Members,

The American Academy in New Orleans is approaching (6-10th March 2018) and I will be there should you wish to meet me.

I am sad to report that the Exeter Hip Unit’s Prof Robin Ling, a legend in orthopaedics, has passed away. A memorial service will be held in Exeter Cathedral, UK, on 23rd February. Please read his obituary here, kindly sent in by Prof Timperley from University of Exeter.

Meanwhile, we are happy to welcome three new members this month: Prof Cobb is a new Full Member from UK, and we have two new Young Members, Dr Badnaoui from Ukraine and Dr Hussain from India.

Our Nat Rep for Switzerland, Prof Klaus Siebenrock, reports on his imminent Hip Symposium in Berne 1-3rd February 2018 below. Please do email Samantha Stokes our PA with any upcoming hip meetings you are involved in and want to share with our members.

For example, we are pleased to announce the 37^th Annual Meeting of the European Bone and Joint Infection Society which will take place in Helsinki, Finland, 6-8th September 2018. The programme will include the topics: Prosthetic joint infection: diagnosis, treatment, prevention, Traumatology – treatment of bone infection in tibia, pelvis, ankle and calcaneus and Biomaterials – role of bone substitutes in the treatment of infected bone… abstract submission is open until 20 April. Find more information on the conference website: www.ebjis2018.org.

Finally, congratulations to our two winners of the EHS Travelling Fellowship 2018 Dr George Grammatopoulos (London, UK) and Dr Christian Merle (Heidelberg, Germany) and thank you to everyone who applied. Look out for our Visiting Fellowship 2018, which will be announced very soon.

EHS Secretary General, Professor Eleftherios TsiridisOur Research interests in hip surgery include Patient Specific Instruments for the hip, understanding failure of hip arthroplasty and developing long lasting fixation and bearing solutions for young patients and custom solutions for the failed and multiply operated hip

Update from The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore, UK

Finally, having been promised for over 30 years, the building of a new five-storey ward block is almost complete. This is the first phase of the redevelopment of the Stanmore site, where many of the buildings date back to before the Second World War. Those who have visited will recall it as a series of huts connected by a steeply sloping corridor.

The new hospital will continue to be dedicated to elective orthopaedic surgery and provide 120 beds, 80% of which will be in single rooms, greatly enhancing patient privacy. A main entrance with a children’s activity centre and shops will give the hospital the community heart that it currently lacks.

The Inpatient ward building will accommodate a 27 bed Children and Young People’s Ward with embedded therapy and education functions and an external play area to replace the current paediatric ward beds.

There will also be new Adult Acute Wards over three floors, a Private Patient Ward and embedded therapies to replace several of the current outdated adult wards “in huts”. Alongside the clinical spaces, the new block will have an impressive glass atrium that will provide reception and waiting space plus a children’s activity centre.  This will be fitted out with a range of toys, games and interactive technological equipment for patients and families.

Better location of areas within the hospital will reduce travel times and make it easier for patients and visitors to find their way, as well as allowing staff to work more effectively. The hospital already has a ten theatre modern operating theatre block which will connect to the new facility via a short Airbridge.

The new building has now “topped out” and is scheduled to open in Autumn 2018. The RNOH remains the surgical home of the London Sarcoma Service, the London Implant Retrieval Centre, the London Spinal Cord Injury Centre, the Peripheral Nerve Injury Unit and a thriving Joint Replacement Unit that specializes in Complex Primary and
Revision Hip and Knee Arthroplasty.

Our Research interests in hip surgery include Patient Specific Instruments for the hip, understanding failure of hip arthroplasty and developing long lasting fixation and bearing solutions for young patients and custom solutions for the failed and multiply operated hip. We are also looking at biological solutions to augment and improve fixation.Besides Hip Joint Preservation the 2018 meeting also will include topics around Total Hip Arthroplasty in the young and complex hip

Bernese Hip Symposium 2018

The 2018 Bernese Hip Symposium will take place from February 1 -3 at the University of Bern, Switzerland. Every two years highly ranked experts on the field of hip surgery gather at this Symposium in order to present the latest knowledge and research. Besides Hip Joint Preservation the 2018 meeting also will include topics around Total Hip Arthroplasty in the young and complex hip. Reknowned faculty on this field include e.g. H. Malchau, J. Parvizi, K. Günther and L. Zagra as one of the former presidents of the European Hip Society. As guest of honour, Prof. M Itoman will report on the Japanese experience of osteotomies around the hip. Presented latest research will be published in a dedicated 2018 CORR Hip Symposium. This year two live surgeries will be performed during the Symposium. Detailed information is available here.

Congratulations to the Secretary General of EHS, Eleftherios Tsiridis, who has been appointed Full University Professor of Orthopaedics at Aristotle University Medical School, Thessaloniki, Hellas

13th EHS Congress September 2018 in The Hague

We are calling for abstracts for our 13th EHS Congress at The Hague (20-22nd September 2018) – deadline is 15th March 2018Letter from the President, Dr B Willem Schreurs

Dear All,

I wish you all a very Happy New Year for 2018. It is the year of our 13th congress in The Hague in September (20-22nd) and now the countdown has truly begun.

As you know, although we focus on Europe, our guest society will be the Argentinian Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons (ACARO), so we will add the view of hip orthopaedics from this country to our European outlook – as well as of course other South American member countries such as Brazil and Columbia, plus hip orthopaedic friends from all over the world, including Egypt, Iran, Israel, Japan and the USA.

We will maintain the high standard of invited symposia and instructed course lectures that our EHS congresses have become known for.  

The Congress will be submitted for accreditation by the European Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (EACCME). I urge all our members to get involved and together we will make this the best EHS Congress to date. 

Best wishes,

Your EHS President, B Willem Schreurs

Letter from the Secretary General, Associate Prof Eleftherios Tsiridis

Dear Members,

In December, the MAST Course in Arthroplasty Surgery ran for the fourth consecutive year in Thessaloniki, Hellas, and was a great success, welcoming 200 delegates with over 8 hours of lectures, 9 workshops (of three hours each) and a day of live video surgery. It is an EFORT-approved event co-organized by EHS. Chairs included: EHS President,  B Willem Schreurs, EHS President Elect, Jean-Alain Epinette, EHS Past President, George Macheras and EHS Full Member Søren Overgaard.

This year the main theme was MIS Arthroplasty and related techniques and technologies and there was much interest around our international virtual reality training course, “VITRO 1” (Virtual Training Orthopaedics 1), where participants enjoyed the unique opportunity to train in hip arthroplasty surgery with virtual reality and augmented reality.

The next EHS-organised course will be in Stockholm, Sweden: the Annual Revision THA Course from 4-6th April 2018. (Click for more information.)

In the next Newsletter, our member Prof John Skinner will report on the brand new rebuild at Stanmore’s Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust, UK, and Prof Søren Overgaard will write on the cemented paradox in primary THA. Please remember that this Newsletter is for all our members to get involved in, so if you have something you particularly want to write in about, such as an upcoming hip event in your area or an interesting hip surgery debate or hot topic, please contact our PA Samantha Stokes at samstokesehs@gmail.com and she will publish your words here.

That just leaves me to wish all our members a happy, healthy and prosperous 2018.

EHS Secretary General, Associate Prof Eleftherios Tsiridis

We are calling for abstracts for our 13th EHS Congress at The Hague (20-22nd September 2018) – deadline is 15th March 2018Letter from the President, Dr B Willem Schreurs

Dear All,

We are proud to announce that the guest society at our upcoming congress in the Hague 20-22nd September 2018 will be the Argentinian Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons (ACARO). We are really looking forward to welcoming them to our meeting – EHS will offer them the podium to present the view on hip orthopaedics from South America. There are a lot of connections between orthopaedic societies in South America and Europe, and this invitation is a confirmation of the lively contacts. In the next issue we will also confirm the symposia that will be part of our meeting.

As EHS, we have just seen what an invitation as a guest society can bring. As already announced in the previous newsletter, EHS was the guest society of the AAHKS meeting in Dallas. Luigi Zagra, our SciCom chairman, and I were impressed with the very high standard of presentations at this meeting. 

The newest insights in Orthopaedics were presented in a very stimulating environment with a critical audience and vivid discussion. Very interesting was a session on the future of Orthopaedics with new digital tools that can help orthopaedics to deliver better care. There was also an award winning paper on local administration of antibiotics in obese patients.

Together with the Colombian Hip Society, we were recognized by AAHKS, as can be seen from our photo gallery of the event. Eduardo Garcia-Rey, the EHS guest fellow of AAHKS, reports on his month-long experience below. Please find also an introduction from Eleftherios Tsiridis to the MAST Course in Thessaloniki, co-organized by EHS, and the announcement of the WAC congress by Luigi Zagra. Finally, we have updated our Hip Meetings webpages with reports from Stanislav Bondarenko on his Kharkiv (Ukraine) congress and from Evert Smith on his Bristol (UK) meeting.

Best wishes,

Your EHS President, B Willem Schreurs

Letter from the Secretary General, Associate Prof Eleftherios Tsiridis

Dear Members,

Thank you to all our applicants for the EHS Travelling Fellowship 2018, which will take place in a European member country during Spring next year. We will carefully consider all the applications now, with the EduCom, and reveal the two selected surgeons in the New Year.

Meanwhile, we would like to wish a very warm welcome to two new Full Members of EHS:  Prof John Skinner (pictured below left) and Mr Ronan Treacy (below right), both from UK. Gentlemen, we are delighted you have joined us.

Next week is the MAST 4 Course in Thessaloniki – an EFORT-approved event that is co-organized by EHS. Saturday 2nd December is the absolutely packed Hip Arthroplasty Day, and we will kick off proceedings with the “MIS THA: Video Steps for Success”, where the Chairs are: EHS President,  B Willem Schreurs, EHS President Elect, Jean-Alain Epinette, EHS member Søren Overgaard and S Sturridge. EHS Past President George Macheras will lecture on MIS Direct Anterior and I myself on MIS Direct Superior.

Next on the programme is “Total Hip Arthroplasty: Modern Era of Hip Surgery”, chaired by Dr Macheras and colleagues, where lectures will include: Robotic Navigation MAKO-plasty THA current concepts, by Lazaros Poultsides; Monoblock Vitamin E sockets for primary THA, by Efstathios Chronopoulos; VR training in MIS THA the way forward, by Efstathios Kenanidis – all members of EHS.

Following on is the very interesting “Revision Total Hip Arthroplasty: Removing Implants & Dual Mobility Concept”, where lectures will include Dual mobility in young patients and revision cases by Jean-Alain Epinette; and I will reveal Tricks to remove the socket.

Then is the “Revision Total Hip Arthroplasty: Reconstruction Techniques TM vs Graft” where lectures will include Reconstruction of the femur: IG or Uncemented long from Prof Schreurs.

Still before lunch is the “THA Complications & Registry Data”, where Jean-Alain Epinette will talk on Immunoallergy and ALVAL in modularity; Prof Schreurs will lecture of course on Dutch Registry Results (Hip); Søren Overgaard will take to the stand twice, once for Risk factors for deep infection in THA and the prognosis and again for Danish Registry Results (Hip) and Efstathios Kenanidis will enlighten us on Arthroplasty Registry Thessaloniki – Registry Results.

The afternoon is then taken up with four simultaneous workshops:

1. Customised Spacers Course: Stage I Infection Revision
2. THA Revision Course: Augments, Cup-Cage, ETO, Modular Tapered Stems, Impaction Grafting, Figure of 7
3. TKA Revision Course: Augments, CCK, stem & offset
4. Virtual Reality: THA & TKA Course

I very much look forward to welcoming you all to Thessaloniki, Hellas for this, our 4th MAST course, this year focusing on MIS Arthroplasty and related techniques and technologies and introducing for the first time our international virtual reality training course, “VITRO 1” (Virtual Training Orthopaedics 1), where we offer participants the unique opportunity to train in hip (& knee) arthroplasty surgery.

EHS Secretary General, Associate Prof Eleftherios Tsiridis

Letter from the Chairman of the EHS SciCom, Luigi Zagra 

Dear Members,

The second World Arthroplasty Congress will be in Rome on 19-21st April 2018. It will feature a 3-day interactive agenda with international faculty and including podium and ePoster presentations from abstracts submission that was closed on 30 October. More than 600 abstracts have been submitted that are now under review.

This great event is organized by the European Knee Society (EKS), the International Congress for Joint Reconstruction (ICJR) and for the first time it is officially supported by the European Hip Society.

The first edition of the Congress took place in Paris in 2015 and was a great success with over 1,200 attendees representing over 68 countries throughout Africa, Asia, Europe, Middle East, North America, Oceania, Russia and South America.

The Meeting is dedicated to the exchange of surgical innovation, cutting-edge science and practical knowledge related to joint arthroplasty. With today’s surgical environment being impacted by societal, political, and economic constraints, this congress aims focus on the common goal of advancing the field of arthroplasty and improving patient care.

The Course Directors are Jean-Noël Argenson, Andrea Baldini, Arlen Hanssen and Norman Scott.

It is my privilege to be Vice Chairman of the Hip Program on behalf of EHS. Our Society is actively participating with eminent members being part of the Faculty and with a lot of our members that submitted abstracts.

The location is the Ergife Palace Hotel located nearby the city center of Rome in via Aurelia. Vatican City is only 4 km from the hotel.

All the updated information including the Invited Faculty and the Scientific Program can be followed at www.WAC2018.org

We hope you will join us in Rome!

Luigi Zagra
Head of the Hip Department, Istituto Ortopedico Galeazzi IRCCS, Milan Italy
Chairman of the Scientific Committee of the European Hip Society
Immediate Past President of the Italian Hip Society
President of the European Hip Society 2010-2012

Report from EHS Guest Society Fellow at AAHKS, Eduardo Garcia-Rey

Dear Members,

The European Hip Society (EHS) and the Colombian Orthopaedic Society were the Guest Societies during the last American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons (AAHKS) Meeting in Dallas, USA. As part of our cooperation, I have had the opportunity to complete the Visiting Fellowship organised for this year. For four weeks I attended two of the most prestigious Institutions and the aforementioned Meeting.

From the very beginning, the collaboration and communication between AAHKS, EHS and myself was excellent, so the organisation during the whole Fellowship was outstanding…

Please read the full report by clicking here

The image at the top of the Newsletter this month shows the Music Concert Hall in Thessaloniki, Hellas, where the MAST 4 Course will take place 1-3 December 2017

EHS Travelling Fellowship 2018: Are you under 45yrs old and interested in travelling to learn more about hip surgery from the experts of Europe? Apply to EHS Travelling Fellowship 2018 now… deadline for applications 30.11.2017. For more info, click hereLetter from the President, Dr B Willem Schreurs

Dear All,

In the name of my EHS Presidency, I am now ready for visiting Dallas in Texas, where the AAHKS (American Association of Hip and Knee) annual meeting is being held from 2nd-5th November. As you all know, EHS is honoured to be the Guest Society this year, along with the Colombian Orthopaedic and Traumatology Society – a programme introduced to “bring international perspectives and expertise to their members – to expand the reach of arthroplasty research and exchanges internationally to the mutual benefit of all organizations involved”.

We are proud that our Guest Society Fellowship offered by AAHKS to EHS, Eduardo Garcia-Rey from Madrid, will represent “The Old World” on our behalf. With our connections, networks and friendships, we all recognise our obligation to share knowledge and work towards the worldwide advancement of hip surgery. Right now, Dr Garcia-Rey is visiting Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, then he will attend the meeting in Dallas, and afterwards he will head to the Rothman Institute in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. We wish him an excellent experience and look forward to his report here in this newsletter.

EHS will present five posters in Dallas:-

1. High proximal migration of the revised acetabular component predicts aseptic loosening, 352 acetabular revisions followed 2-20 years – by Tina Klerken, Maziar Mohaddes, Johan Karrholm (Department of Orthopaedics, Institute of Clinical Sciences at Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg and the Swedish Hip Arthroplasty Register, Sweden)

2. Costs analysis of femoral heads donation procedure in total hip arthroplasty and bone grafting for hip revision surgery – by Luigi Rizzi, Claudio Carlo Castelli (Department of Orthopaedics and Trauma, Papa Giovanni XXIII Hospital, Bergamo, Italy)

3. Introduction of new acetabular designs does not influence risk of early failure in hip arthroplasty – by Maziar Mohaddes, Szilard Nemes, Johan Kärrholm (Department of Orthopaedics, Swedish Hip Arthroplasty Register, Gothenburg, Sweden & Swedish Hip Arthroplasty Register, University of Gothenburg, Sweden)

4. A Prospective Comparative Study Of Perioperative Local Infiltration In The Surgical Site, Of A Novel Drug Combination For The Management Of Blood Loss In Total Hip Arthroplasty (THA) – by Efstathios Kenanidis, John Nakopoulos, Theodosis Stamatopoulos, Alexandros Stamatopoulos, Christos Topalis, Michael Potoupnis, Eleftherios Tsiridis( Academic Orthopaedic Unit, Aristotle University Medical School, Papageorgiou Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece)

5. 25-year Survival of Acetabular Reconstructions with Impaction Bone Grafting and a Cemented Cup in Young Patients – by Marloes WJL Schmitz, Gerjon Hannink, Jean WM Gardeniers, Ena Colo, Nico Verdonschot, Tom JJH Slooff, B Willem Schreurs (Department of Orthopaedics, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands)

Our Nat Rep for Ukraine, Prof Bondarenko, has reported on the success of the International Educational Course “Current Issues of Total Hip and Knee Arthroplasty” that his institution hosted in October, in Kharkiv – a scientific-practical conference organized by the Ukrainian Association of Orthopaedists and Traumatologists, dedicated to 110th anniversary of Sytenko Institute of Spine and Joint Pathology. This was a high-profile event organized with participation of AAHKS and EHS and was honoured to feature, among others, invited speaker Prof Karachalios from EHS ExCom. As well as Europe and USA, speakers came from Chile, India and Indonesia. The event included state of the art presentations of the newest trends in total hip and knee arthroplasty and was a unique chance for hundreds of surgeons from Ukraine and all over the world to exchange opinions and best practices.

And if you were looking for an opportunity to have a stimulating experience to develop your own knowledge on the field of hip surgery, it could be your turn next: see our details of the next EHS Fellowship below. We are looking forward for candidates under 45 year who will apply for this fellowship, your chance to boost your career.

Best wishes,

Your EHS President, B Willem Schreurs

Letter from the Secretary General, Associate Prof Eleftherios Tsiridis

Dear Members,

We are now welcoming applications for the EHS Travelling Fellowship 2018, which will take place in a European member country during Spring next year.

Please visit the relevant page to see how to apply and to note the criteria. Applicants can be non-members of EHS, so you may want to tell a colleague who is not reading this newsletter. They should be a European orthopaedic specialist with academic potential and an interest in high level knowledge of hip surgery. The aim for the Fellows is to make contacts and receive comprehensive training in all aspects of hip surgery.

The two Travelling Fellows will be selected by our ExCom and will automatically become EHS members (free for a year). A Travelling Fellowship fund of up to €3,000 will be awarded by EHS to each Fellow to cover the cost of transport, accommodation, food and other essential expenses and they will be guests at our EHS Congress in 2018 in The Hague.

Application deadline is 30th November 2017. Good luck!

Meanwhile, we would like to welcome two new Full members to EHS: Dr Matthijs Somford from The Netherlands and Mr Nikhil Shah from UK. We would also like to welcome two new members to the EHS EduCom: Prof Alister Hart from UK and Dr Eduardo Garcia-Cimbrelo from Spain. Plus, we are delighted to announce that long-term member of EHS and its EduCom, Prof Bulent Atilla, will become Vice Chairman of the EduCom.

The report from our two Visiting Fellows 2017 has been published on this website and, as you will read, had an excellent experience in Germany last month.

Please note that the deadline for abstract submission to the World Arthroplasty Congress in Rome next April – supported by EHS – has been extended until tomorrow.

Finally, I look forward to welcoming those of you who will attend the MAST 4 Course in Thessaloniki at the start of December – an EFORT-approved event that is co-organized by EHS.  MIS Arthroplasty and related techniques and technologies is the focus this year and the programme also includes presentations on the full spectrum of current hip (and knee) arthroplasty and revision concepts by renowned national and international faculty.

EHS Secretary General, Associate Prof Eleftherios TsiridisRead the 2017 Visiting Fellow’s report in their own words13th EHS Congress September 2018 in The Hague

Photo at top of page is from EHS Visiting Fellows 2017 and shows Prof Fritz Thorey performing a total hip arthroplasty with a minimally invasive Watson Jones approach

Letter from the President, Dr B Willem Schreurs

Dear All,

One of the privileges of being the President of the European Hip Society is having the chance to represent EHS in many meetings all over Europe. Travelling into the unknown really enriches your views on topics. Last week I was invited by Professor Tikhilov to visit Saint Petersburg to be part of a hip course.

It was impressive to see the state of the art of Orthopaedics in Russia and the progress that has been made over the last years. Of course, in some areas of Russia, total hip arthroplasty has just started causing problems with learning curves, however, some centres are really working on excellence. 

It is important for the progress of hip surgery in Europe to have open minds and discussions about how local differences in treatment can influence outcomes. Hopefully, unexpected pearls from the East, like the introduction of the Ilizarov system in the past, can benefit us all in the care of our hip patients.

Another pearl that came late to hip orthopaedics worldwide was the dual mobility cup, which was around in France for a long time unnoticed to many other countries until its potential in the care of patients with a high risk for dislocation was appreciated.

Maybe new pearls are around the corner and hopefully these will be presented at the European Hip Society meeting in the Hague in 2018. For your information, we are now looking forward for abstracts, the website opened September 2017 and will be closed 15 March 2018.

Best wishes,

Your EHS President, B Willem Schreurs

Letter from the Secretary General, Associate Prof Eleftherios Tsiridis

Dear Members,

Like our President, three of the ExCom have been abroad representing EHS this week: Prof Epinette, Prof Karachalios and myself have been in Barcelona at the 54th SECOT meeting to present an EHS Symposium on Hip Developments from all over Europe. Prof Epinette spoke on: “What have we learned at 30 years of clinical experience with HA-coated hip arthroplasty?” and “Indications and Results of Dual Mobility Cups in Primary Hips”, while Prof Karachalios spoke on: “Total hip arthroplasty instability” and “Management strategies for severe femoral defects in revision total hip arthroplasty” and myself on: “Periprosthetic fractures around acetabulum, femur and knee an overview” and “Removing acetabular implants and socket reconstruction in revision hip surgery”.

This is part of an initiative from our EduCom to promote hip knowledge throughout Europe, which is our aim as EHS. Also towards this aim are the EHS Fellowships, running since the inaugural Visiting Fellowship last year in Hellas and followed by the Travelling Fellowship in France this summer. Each Fellowship offers the chance for two young hip surgeons to visit top orthopaedic centres of Europe to observe the experts at work on difficult hip cases. Watch out for the announcement of our next Travelling Fellowship very soon.

Meanwhile, our Visiting Fellows 2017, Antonios Koutalos and Jesús Moreta Suárez, had an excellent experience in Germany and will publish their report here next month. Thanks to the host, and especially to our Nat Rep, Prof Thorey.

Finally, thanks to our contributors this month, Dennis Janssen of The Netherlands and João Sarmento Esteves of Portugal.

EHS Secretary General, Associate Prof Eleftherios TsiridisThe 13^th congress of EHS meeting is the place for keeping up to date with the latest innovations in hip care and hip surgery, for discussions on treatment options, and for meeting up with the industry

EHS Member from The  Netherlands, Dennis Janssen

Dear all,

In less than one year we will be hosting the bi-annual EHS meeting in The Hague, the Netherlands. The 13^th congress of EHS meeting is the place for keeping up to date with the latest innovations in hip care and hip surgery, for discussions on treatment options, and for meeting up with the industry.

Preparations are full underway, the preliminary programme schedule already has been compiled, and abstract submission has been opened. Please visit our congress website, ehs-congress.org, for the latest information and for submitting your abstract.

Next to the scientific meeting, there will be ample time to reconnect with your hip friends during the social events. The Welcome reception will take place at the congress venue, the World Forum, while the congress dinner will be held at the Grand Hotel Amrâth Kurhaus. The Kurhaus is a historical seaside resort, and has hosted several Royal Families, but is also known for a notorious (and very brief) concert of the Rolling Stones. This special venue promises an exciting backdrop for the congress dinner!

While we continue working on the organisation of the 13^th EHS congress, we look forward to welcoming you next year, September 20-22, in The Hague!

Best regards,

Dennis JanssenNowadays I think it’s very important to create channels of contact among hip surgeons that do the same pathology, have similar problems and difficulties and want to share expertise

EHS Young Member from Portugal, João Sarmento Esteves

Dear Mr President, Mr Secretary General and colleagues,

It’s a pleasure to become a member of a society that is so believed in; even more so because nowadays I think it’s very important to create channels of contact among hip surgeons that do the same pathology, have similar problems and difficulties and want to share expertise.

But first, let me introduce myself. My name is João Sarmento Esteves,  I’m an MD consultant with 2 years of specialisation. Actually I’m working in a public orthopaedic hospital unit and in a private clinic also, both in Lisbon.

My area of election is hip and pelvis and my weekly work constitutes about 1-3 total hip replacements, 1-2 hip arthroscopies, some hip prothesis revision and acetabulum/ pelvic trauma.

Like I said before, I hope that by joining EHS, I can create channels of communication, share hip surgery issues, attend events and meetings, and finally, promote the society in my own country amoung young hip colleagues.

Best regards,

João Sarmento Esteves13th EHS Congress September 2018 in The Hague

Letter from the President, Dr B Willem Schreurs

Dear All,

Although it is still more than one year to our bi-annual meeting in the Hague the Netherlands, the next step in the preparation process will be taken soon. The congress website is now open for abstract submission. A lot of work has been done behind the scenes, but this is the next visible step for all. We are also delighted that the incoming President of EFORT 2018-2019 Professor Per Kjærsgaard-Andersen will be one of our special guests at our EHS meeting in the Netherlands.

As you know, the European Hip Society is a guest society of the AAHKS meeting in Dallas 2017, and our Fellow Eduardo Garcia-Rey (from Spain) will be received there for a month either side of the meeting – see his words below.

The American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons organizes every year in Dallas a 3-day meeting, this year from 2nd – 5th November. We are proud that we can continue our collaboration with this very influential society, after the successful combined meeting we had at our EHS Munich meeting in 2016. On behalf of the European Hip Society we will display 5 posters in Dallas presenting awarded work from our society. Of course, your President will be there and also the Chairman of the Scientific committee, Luigi Zagra. He did a lot of work using his international connections to establish this contact. Of course, we are looking forward to see more European Hip Society members there – the AAHKS meeting has a very strong reputation for being one of the annual top meetings in the field of hip surgery.

Last but not least, for those who have failed so far, please respond to the email of our Secretary Samantha Stokes, who on behalf of our Treasurer Prof Karachalios, requests you to pay your annual contribution to the EHS. We have done everything to make paying simple, now in 2017 including PayPal. Your society cannot function if members fail to pay their contribution.

Have a nice September month, starting work again, but for most still remembering the nice summer period just behind you.

Best wishes,

Your EHS President, B Willem Schreurs

Letter from the Secretary General, Associate Prof Eleftherios Tsiridis

Dear Members,

The summer is almost behind us now and our diaries are filling up for autumn. I am off to Barcelona with President Elect Jean-Alain Epinette and our Treasurer Prof Karachalios to present an EHS programme called “Hip Developments from All Over Europe” at the 54th SECOT congress, 27-9th September. Then in October I join other ExCom members on the Faculty at ICJR Transatlantic Orthopaedic Congress in New York, USA, in November it is the AAHKS in Dallas and in 1-3 December we hold the 4th Masterclass in Arthroplasty Surgery in Thessaloniki, Hellas.

We still have many unpaid dues for 2017. Thank you to everyone who has paid, and I am pleased you are enjoying the convenience of PayPal and SEPA to make payments, though of course Samantha is still able to process Credit Card payments for those who prefer this method. If you are in doubt as to whether or not you have paid this year, just drop Samantha an email please and she will guide you: samstokesehs@gmail.com

Our Visiting Fellows 2017, Antonios Koutalos and Jesús Moreta Suárez are preparing to fly to Germany in September and we will have updates from them on their experience to publish here and on the Facebook page. Their itinerary is:-

11-12.09 ATOS Heidelberg
Host surgeon: Prof Thorey
13-15.09 HEH Braunschweig
Host surgeon: Prof Heller
18-20.09 University Hospital Dresden
Host surgeon: Prof Günther
21-22.09 University Munich
Host surgeon: Prof Eisenhardt-Rothe

We wish them an excellent experience and thank our Nat Rep for Germany, Prof Fritz Thorey, for organising this Visiting Fellowship.

EHS Secretary General, Associate Prof Eleftherios TsiridisThe continued monitoring and communication of results from Institutions all over the world is of paramount importance to the advancement of hip surgery. Our “Old Europe” is the land of the most successful ideas in hip surgery like cemented low-friction arthroplasty, ceramics, dual mobility cups or bone impaction grafting, and we all have the obligation to share knowledge.

EHS Fellow at AAHKS , Eduardo Garcia-Rey, Hospital La Paz, Madrid, Spain

Dear Members,

Last April our Society was invited as the Guest Society to the up-coming American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons (AAHKS) Meeting and members of the European Hip Society (EHS) were invited to apply for a Guest Society Visiting Fellowship with the AAHKS. I applied, and am very pleased to have been selected.

I joined the EHS in 2004 and witness to our Society’s rapid increase in numbers and importance over the last years. The collaboration between different Associations is growing. One of these first examples was the 2008 Combined Meeting between the Spanish Hip Society and our Society, a collaboration continued in new meetings with EFORT or the Italian and British Hip Societies in November 2015.

As our current President Willem Schreurs said last October, we have to look forward. Our EHS ExCom have intensified the International EHS activities. The connections between our Society and the AAHKS are closer, as we saw in the last EHS Congress in Munich. This is a great opportunity next Autumn to improve our relationship with one of the most important Associations in the world.

Since I finished my training in Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology, I have been realising the importance of the problems of hip pathology and the benefits of hip replacement. After investigating concerns related to polyethylene wear, I have focused on the use and clinical assessment of alternative bearing surfaces and bone loss in revision surgery. Since 1993, with the first bone impaction grafting surgery on the femoral side in our Hospital, restoring bone stock in young and active patients has been one of our main goals. The continued monitoring and communication of results from Institutions all over the world is of paramount importance to the advancement of hip surgery. Our “Old Europe” is the land of the most successful ideas in hip surgery like cemented low-friction arthroplasty, ceramics, dual mobility cups or bone impaction grafting, and we all have the obligation to share knowledge.

I am very proud and grateful to have been selected to participate in this Fellowship. Last, I would like to thank the EHS ExCom for all their help and support, and also Madrid’s Hospital La Paz for giving me the opportunities of developing my clinical activities and research in their the facilities.13th EHS Congress September 2018 in The Hague

Letter from the President, Dr B Willem Schreurs

Dear All,

This period is the ultimate holiday season, and many hip surgeons and researchers will be enjoying their well-earned holidays. The number of congresses organised is very low in August. It is time to relax, and enjoy time with your family and friends. However, there maybe also some time for reflection.

Although we certainly still have some way to go before we can solve all hip problems, we should also realize how successful hip surgery can be. Every July in my hometown of Nijmegen there is a very big walking meeting, the International Four Days Marches, with participants from all over the world. The walking distance is between 30 and 50 kilometers daily, depending on age and sex. The number of participants is over 40,000, and it is one of the biggest walking events in the world.  Some of the participants have a status after a Total Hip and are, despite this medical problem, able to perform this Four Days event. They walk not only 30, but some even walk the 4 times 49 kilometers challenge.

The ability that patients, who were very limited before their hip surgery due to hip arthrosis, can participate in this activity is proof of the very high level of care we deliver as orthopedic surgeons. Indeed, we have a fantastic job.

Have a nice summer period.

Best wishes,

Your EHS President, B Willem Schreurs

Letter from the Secretary General, Associate Prof Eleftherios Tsiridis

Dear Members,

Welcome to two new Young Members, Mr Kenneth Linton from The Irish Republic and Mr Syed Ahmen from UK. Also, we welcome a new Full Member from The Netherlands, Dr Marijn Rutgers.

This month we publish on our website the report from the EHS Travelling Fellows on their time in France and the valuable hip experience they gained.

We have added more European courses to our Scientific Meetings, and the list now includes:-

• SEPT: HIPToulouse France 21-23 September 2017
• OCT: Scientific-practical conference by UAOT Ukraine 5.10.17
• OCT: ICJR Transatlantic Orthopaedic Congress, New York, USA 12-15.10.2017
• NOV: BRISTOL HIP ARTHROPLASTY COURSE 2-3 November 2017
• NOV: Hip Symposium – 3rd Lisbon International Edition Portugal 16–17.11.2017 
• DEC: 4th Masterclass in Arthroplasty Surgery, Thessaloniki, Hellas 1-3.12.17
• DEC: Young Adult Hip Preservation Cadaver Course, Sheffield, UK 9-11.12.17
• FEB: Bernese Hip Symposium 1-3.2.2018 Switzerland
• APRIL: Annual Revision THA Course 4-6.4.18 Stockholm, Sweden

We have uploaded the Minutes of the EHS General Assembly 2017 which took place in Vienna in June.  And finally, we have a contribution from a married couple of hip surgeons amongst our members, see below. So, plenty to look at on the website while you relax and enjoy your summertime.

EHS Secretary General, Associate Prof Eleftherios TsiridisWith Prof Gaucher, we had a chance to see direct lateral trans-trochanteric chevron osteotomy for acetabuler reconstruction with femoral head autograft and cemented femoral stem application in dysplasia sequel; it was a very nice experience to see such a difficult case for reconstruction

EHS Travelling Fellows Report

First of all, I would like to state my deep gratitude to the ExCom of EHS, and the Chairman of the EHS EduCom, Prof Ullmark for selecting me and giving me the opportunity to be a part of highly valuable clinical fellowship. Also, I would like to thank my chief Prof Remzi Tözün & National Representative of our country Prof Mazhar Tokgözoĝlu for their great care and support. In addition, I’d like to thank the European Hip Society for funding this Fellowship and last but not least, I’d like to thanks Mrs Samantha Stokes for her great help.

Planning started immediately after receiving the good news that I had been selected to participate in this great fellowship. We made some arrangement for work and travel to France; before the travelling, host clinics made some recommendations for local stay and travel within France between centers. The fellowship was shared by the three centers depending on the availability. We started the fellowship in Marseille, then passed to St Étienne in the second week and we finished the fellowship in Quimper (Brittany) at the North Pole of France…

READ THE FULL REPORT HEREWe went to Liberia to work in the hospital of an iron ore mine until the war, which started 1989. We were the last Europeans to leave the country 1990

Husband and Wife Hip Surgeons

EHS Member from Germany, Dr Sabine Mai writes…

My husband Dr Burkhard Mai, and I, were both general surgeons and met in Konstanz working in the department of trauma surgery. Then we went to Liberia to work in the hospital of an iron ore mine until the war, which started 1989. We were the last Europeans to leave the country 1990.

In Hannover my husband specialized in orthopaedics, while I took care of the children and worked as a general practitioner, as a surgeon and in orthopaedics. We moved to Kassel, where I also specialized in orthopaedics.

Now we both work in the Vitos Orthopädische Klinik Kassel as senior consulting orthopaedic surgeons together with the Past President of EHS, Prof Siebert. The main area of my husband is arthroplasty and orthopedic rheumatology, which he also teaches. I built up a register of all implanted artificial joints  since 1998 with nearly 18,000  patients by now, take care of the quality management of the hospital, and work in the outpatients clinic. We take part in several studies,  give presentations an write papers.13th EHS Congress September 2018 in The Hague

Letter from the President, Dr B Willem Schreurs

Letter from the Secretary General, Associate Prof Eleftherios Tsiridis

Dear Members,

We have ten new members to welcome this month: from France Dr Celine Batailler, Prof Philippe Chiron, Mr Maurice Malissard, Prof Didier Mainard and Dr Jean Marc Puch; from The Netherlands, Dr Wout Rosenberg; from UK, Mr Anthony Ward; and, from Ukraine, Dr Vasyl Makarov. We welcome two new International members: from Egypt, Prof Ayman Ebied and from Israel, Prof Michael Drexler. Finally, welcome to a new Young member from Portugal, Dr Joao Sarmento Esteves. Special thanks to Mr Malissard who allowed us to use his latest painting of Cap Ferret for our newsletter.

We are very happy to announce Dr Eduardo Garcia-Rey from Madrid, Spain, as the chosen applicant from EHS for the AAHKS Guest Society Fellowship later this year in Dallas. Congratulations. We look forward to hearing about your experience in the New Year. Thanks to all our applicants. There will be plenty more opportunities ahead. Don’t forget that EHS members can attend the AAHKS meeting at the AAHKS discounted member rate and have free membership for the remainder of the calendar year.

Thank you for telling us about your National hip meetings – we are announcing them on this website, so have a look under Scientific Meetings, or click below:-

And finally, on behalf of all the ExCom, thanks to Prof Zagra, EHS’s Chairman of SciCom and of course, past president of EHS, who will step down as Nat Rep for Italy after many years. The new Nat Rep is Nicola Santori (pictured below) from Rome and we wish him a warm welcome.

EHS Secretary General, Associate Prof Eleftherios TsiridisAs hip surgery continues to grow in numbers and hip preservation is accepted and performed all over the continent, I can’t see any better place than the EHS to promote education and training in hip surgery

EHS Nat Rep for Italy, Nicola Santori

My name is Nicola Santori and my task today it is to take over from Luigi Zagra as national representative for my country, Italy, in the European Hip Society.

I was born and educated in Rome and over the years my practice has focused more and more on the hip. As a junior doctor, I had specific interest in both sport medicine and hip surgery. In the early nineties I assisted my father, who is an orthopedic surgeon too, in large numbers of primary and revision hip procedures.

In the mid-nineties, in association with the biomechanical unit of the Royal Orthopedic Hospital in Stanmore we started the development of a new ultrashort hip stem which was initially produced with cad cam technology and later became a standard commercial implant known as “Proxima hip”. In the same years I spent a 6 months fellowship in Cambridge UK, with Mr Richard Villar, a visionaire and one of the key figures of hip arthroscopy in the world.

Since then I’ve added hip scopes to my surgical practice and I’ve been able to expand both my practice and my understanding of this joint. Hip biomechanics is my passion and since hip preservation and short stem THR are the bulk of my activity, I spend a lot of time struggling to understand the way each single hip that I treat works.

I’ve been leading the hip faculty of the Italian arthroscopic society for the last 8 years and I’m board member of the Italian Hip Society since 2014. I’m very excited to join the committee of the European Hip Society even though I realize it won’t be easy to replace Luigi Zagra who, apart from being a friend and a great hip surgeon, has been extraordinarily active inside the EHS.

As hip surgery continues to grow in numbers and hip preservation is accepted and performed all over the continent, I can’t see any better place than the EHS to promote education and training in hip surgery.

Painting at top: Cap Ferret 2017 by new EHS member, Mr Malissard

13th EHS Congress September 2018 in The Hague

Letter from the President, Dr B Willem Schreurs

Letter from the Secretary General, Associate Prof Eleftherios Tsiridis

Dear Members,

Thanks to EFORT’s 2nd Vice-President, Ass Prof Dr Per Kjaersgaard-Andersen, who speaks here in our newsletter about the congress, which focuses on Sports Activities and Orthopaedic Practice.

Having been founded in 1992, EHS this year celebrates 25 years of existence.  We are now delighted to be in the strong position to be able to offer Fellowships to young surgeons across Europe and are delighted to announce the two winners of our EFORT-approved Visiting Fellowship 2017:-

 Dr Antonios Koutalos of Hellas and Dr Moreta Suárez of Spain

These two surgeons (pictured above) will visit centres in Germany for one month during the Autumn of 2017, with the aim of making contacts and receiving comprehensive training in all aspects of hip surgery. The EHS will cover the cost of transport and accommodation and the Fellows will enjoy free EHS membership for a year.

A short written report will be published here after the Fellowship and a short oral report will be given at the EHS 13th Congress in The Hague 2018.

EHS will soon learn which member will be named a Guest Society Fellow of AAHKS (American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons) at its 2017 meeting in Dallas later this year (2nd-5th November 2017) .

Meanwhile, EHS’ first ever Travelling Fellows, Drs Dikmen and Tankut, are ready to go to France for three weeks in June, where they will visit with Prof J N Argenson, Dr F Farizon and Dr F Gaucher. 

A quick reminder of our General Assembly during the EFORT congress in Vienna on Wednesday 31st May 6.45-7.45pm at the Marriot Courtyard Hotel, just next door to the Messe Wien Exhibition & Congress Centre. EHS will also hold it’s ExCom, Nat Rep, EduCom and SciCom meetings during EFORT.

Please pop into the booth to say hello to myself and Samantha during EFORT and to pay your membership dues if you haven’t been able to  yet.

EHS Secretary General, Associate Prof Eleftherios TsiridisIn 15 parallel rooms a total of 200 sessions will run from early morning to late afternoon during the three days – this totals 18½ hours of education

EHS Member & 2nd Vice-President of EFORT, Prof Per Kjaersgaard-Andersen

The 18th annual EFORT Congress will be held in Vienna from 31st May until 2nd June. In 15 parallel rooms a total of 200 sessions will run from early morning to late afternoon during the three days – this totals 18½ hours of education. The EFORT annual congress has really become the orthopaedic congress of the year in Europe, covering all aspects of each corner in the orthopaedic and traumatology fields, including specialty sessions with great assistance from major European Specialty Societies, and especially European Hip Society. Also, having received more than 3.400 free paper / poster / case abstract, a total of 633 papers have been evaluated and selected for the 72 free paper sessions. No other place in the European Orthopaedic community is such a high number of free paper accepted, leaving several young European Orthopaedic surgeons the opportunity to present their research for approximately 6.000 congress participants.

The main theme for Vienna is “Sports Activities and Orthopaedic Practice” – and a total of 13 sessions have been organized directly under the theme. Sport has become a major part of everyday life. Professional sport activities are very well appreciated and are broadcast all over the world every day. Many of us are active in sport activities at a much lower level but are stimulated and impressed by the performance of these professional sportsmen and women. For many years, work-related physical activity has been reduced and therefore physical activity can only be found in our free time in the form of sport or fitness. There are many studies showing that we really need to increase our physical activity to live a longer and healthier life.

So if you are interested in sports medicine – there will be plenty of sessions for your interest. On Wednesday, May 31 a symposium on “Sports Activities after Total Hip Arthroplasty” is running from 11:00-12:00.

On Thursday, June 1 a full day “Advanced Course in Total Knee and Hip Replacement” will again take place. Last year this was the best ever recognized session ever in EFORT with more than 800 in the auditorium. This year knee will be in the morning, hip in the afternoon.

Total hip replacement has always been a leading topic at all EFORT Congresses – covering most aspects of conservative treatment, bone sparing procedures, primary replacement and certainly also revisions. In Vienna more than 25 sessions will concentrate on all these hip related aspects. The sessions have been organized so you should be able to plan your day and reach all activities.

Finally, you must not miss the new sessions on competing free papers for best paper in trauma and in orthopaedics. These two sessions will run during Friday, June 2 in the morning in room “Helsinki”. The audience will participate in electing the best papers – so don’t miss this opportunity.

I really hope that we in EFORT have succeeded in creating a great educational programme for you, and look forward to welcoming you.13th EHS Congress September 2018 in The Hague

Letter from the President, Dr B Willem Schreurs

Letter from the Secretary General, Associate Prof Eleftherios Tsiridis

Dear Members,

It is my pleasure to invite all our members to the General Assembly, which will be held during the EFORT congress in Vienna on:-

Wednesday 31st May 6.45-7.45pm

The meeting will take place at the Marriot Courtyard Hotel, which is just next door to the Messe Wien Exhibition & Congress Centre.

The main theme for EFORT’s 18th Congress is Sports Activities and Orthopaedic Practice, of which their Second Vice President, Prof Dr Per Kjaersgaard-Andersen, will speak more of here in our newsletter next month.

Meanwhile, looking a bit farther ahead in the calendar, EHS is very proud to be named a Guest Society of AAHKS (American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons) at its 2017 meeting in Dallas later this year (2nd-5th November 2017) along with the Colombian Hip Society. We were delighted to offer our younger members (under 45 years of age) the chance to apply for the inspirational Visiting Fellowship with AAHKS, for which the deadline was just a few days ago.

The Fellowship duration is one month and will take place either side of the AAHKS Dallas meeting. The selected candidate will be announced next month and will receive a grant of 10,000 USD from the AAHKS. Good luck to all applicants.

EHS members attending the Meeting in Dallas will receive AAHKS member registration rates, along with free international membership for the remainder of the calendar year. EHS is a co-host of the annual AAHKS International Reception (open to all AAHKS international members) on Thursday, November 2, 2017.

EHS’ own Travelling Fellowship is drawing closer and Drs Dikmen and Tankut will soon be off to France for three weeks in June, where they will visit three centres, namely: Hopital Sainte Marguerite, Marseille Cedex with Prof J N Argenson; Hopital De Bellevue, Saint Etienne Cedex 2  with Dr F Farizon; and Centre Hospitalier B.P. 67, Pont-L’Abbé, Quimper, with Dr F Gaucher. Thanks in advance to our French hip experts for hosting our Fellows and thanks to President Elect Dr Jean-Alain Epinette and EduCom Chairman Prof Gosta Ullmark.

Looking ahead to next year, Dr Luigi Zagra, Chariman of our SciCom, along with EHS member Prof Jean-Noël Argenson, are both involved in the organisation of the 2nd World Arthroplasty Congress (19th-21st April 2018) in Rome, which takes place in collaboration with EHS, EKS & ICJR.

EHS Secretary General, Associate Prof Eleftherios Tsiridis

EHS Member Marianne Westberg from Oslo, Norway

Norway is a small country with six university hospitals, of which Oslo University Hospital (OUS) is the largest. In OUS, the joint replacement surgery has recently been reorganized, and we are for the time being in an interesting process of forming the new unit. Until December 2016 we were on two locations, functioning separately. The new unit is located at OUS Ullevål , which is a level 1 trauma center for 3 million inhabitants and with a large and complete orthopaedic department. The arthroplasty unit has local and regional functions, as well as national function for patients with bleeding disorders. The unit performs both hip and knee arthroplasties. As for the hip, we perform periacetublar osteotomies, ordinary and difficult primary hip arthroplasties, and all types of revision surgery, apart from tumor surgery. Approximately 20% of all procedures are performed acutely for hip fractures, acetabular fractures, periprosthetic fractures and revision for  infection. We have a close collaboration with the infection specialists and the microbiologists, with weekly scheduled meetings. Research is a priority, both in the arthroplasty unit as well as in the Orthopaedic Department. Many of our patients are recruited to RSA studies with the Center of Implant and Radiostereometric  Research Oslo (CIRRO). The mix of ordinary hip surgery and complex revision surgery, and the close collaboration with the trauma unit for acute procedures, makes our unit an interesting and vibrant working place.Research is a priority, both in the arthroplasty unit as well as in the Orthopaedic Department. Many of our patients are recruited to RSA studies with the Center of Implant and Radiostereometric  Research Oslo13th EHS Congress September 2018 in The Hague

Letter from the President, Dr B Willem Schreurs

…there are very few papers in orthopaedic literature which address the outcome of hip revisions in patients under 55 years of age. Unfortunately, the few reports we do have of the outcome of these revisions are overall disappointing

Letter from the Secretary General, Associate Prof Eleftherios Tsiridis

Dear Members,

It has been a very busy month. I saw many of you at the excellent annual meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons held in San Diego. Following that, I flew straight to the UK to attend the London Hip Meeting directly afterwards. The scientific level at both meetings was top quality and hip surgery is truly advancing and is a diverse speciality I am delighted to be involved in.

Thank you to everyone who has now paid their annual membership dues, either via PayPal from this EHS website, or with a bank transfer or credit card transaction. For anyone who is not sure if they have paid yet or not, please email Samantha Stokes who will be happy to hear from you.

We warmly welcome a new Full Member this month, Prof Sebastien Lustig from Lyon in France. And finally, the two 2018 EHS Visiting Fellows will be announced in your next newsletter.

EHS Secretary General, Associate Prof Eleftherios Tsiridis

EHS Emeritus Member and previous Nat Rep for France, Dr Jacques Tabutin

Since the first EHS event in 1994 in Crete , I have attended all the closed EHS meetings and saw the society evolve from a small circle of prothesis enthusiasts to a large group, covering all the topics of hip pathology with sound scientific bases.

Being the National Representative of France since 2002 was not that easy, because French surgeons are somewhat reluctant to attend meetings in English, although it changes with our younger colleagues. One of my duties was to spread French specificities into Europe such as the “French paradox”, locked revision stems or dual mobility cups. Under the auspices of science and friendship these years were very rich.

To my successor as National Representative, Dr Jean Alain Epinette, has been devoted the organisation of the EHS 2020 meeting in France.One of my duties was to spread French specificities into Europe such as the “French paradox”, locked revision stems or dual mobility cups. Under the auspices of science and friendship these years were very rich13th EHS Congress September 2018 in The Hague

Letter from the President, Dr B Willem Schreurs

Membership Fees 2017

A polite reminder for any  Full, International or Young Members who have not yet paid their annual membership fees. THANK YOU.

Letter from the Secretary General, Associate Prof Eleftherios Tsiridis

Dear Members,

Thank you to the very many of you who have kindly paid your annual membership dues, starting at €100. Of course, Emeritus and Honorary Members are free of charge, and Young Members pay just half the fee.

Our diaries are filling up with scientific events for the year ahead. You had an email from me already this month about three meetings in the world of Hip Orthopaedics that EHS is a patron of:-

In addition to this of course we will see you at EFORT in Vienna at the end of May/beginning of June. EHS is very involved as always, not only with its Half Day Speciality Session on Thursday 1st June, but with very many moderators and speakers throughout the congress.

Meanwhile, we are now closing the application deadline for the EHS Visiting Fellowship 2017 today. Thanks to everyone who applied. The ExCom and EduCom will decide upon the two most suitable candidates and the results will be disclosed here soon.

EHS Secretary General, Associate Prof Eleftherios TsiridisI started my fantastic journey in Antwerp, Belgium. And I moved from there on to Durban. From Mainz over Melbourne to London,… Ontario. And from New York to Groningen, The Netherlands

EHS Member from Belgium, Kathleen Pittoors

Are there many female orthopaedic surgeons in Belgium? Not really – between 1 or 2  – but you can definitely count the full-time female hip surgeons on the fingers of one hand. And I’m one of them – maybe the only finger? It surely is not an evidence: hip surgery needs passion, but also power. Male power.
However, I was 11 when I decided not to jump into the family business (tomato business) , but to become a doctor, an orthopaedic surgeon even. I started my fantastic journey in Antwerp, Belgium. And I moved from there on to Durban. From Mainz over Melbourne to London,… Ontario. And from New York to Groningen, The Netherlands.
It was in this country where I started my professional career – Catharina Hospital in Eindhoven. After a great period of nine years it was time to go back to Belgium. To start a family life but also to be part of a fantastic group of qualified orthopaedic surgeons in the Algemeen Ziekenhuis in Turnhout. This is the place where I’d like to continue  being a specialist in adult hip surgery with the focus on hip arthroscopy, periarticular osteotomy (together with my hip unit partner Dr Roos).  Also we are a reference center for the AMIS technique for hip artrosis.   
Why I am telling this? Because hip surgery needs passion. But also power. Girl power!

Dr Kathleen Pittoors
Orthopedisch Centrum Turnhout, Antwerp13th EHS Congress September 2018 in The Hague

Letter from the President, Dr B Willem Schreurs

Membership Fees 2017

Please would all Full, International and Young Members pay their annual membership fees at their earliest convenience. THANK YOU.

Letter from the Secretary General, Associate Prof Eleftherios Tsiridis

Dear Members,

January is almost over and it is the time of year when I ask you, as Secretary General of EHS, to kindly pay your annual membership dues, starting at €100. Of course, Emeritus and Honorary Members are free of charge, and Young Members pay just half the fee.

To make payment easier, our website now has PayPal. Please use it. However, if you prefer SEPA or credit card payment via the old method, the forms are available here and you can send your payment information to Samantha.

Please could I also remind European members to complete the NORE (Network of Orthopaedic Registries of Europe) Survey – kindly scroll down to find the document.

Meanwhile, we have two new members to welcome: Dr Dennis Janssen from Nijmegen in The Netherlands and Dr  Vasileios Sakellariou from Athens, Hellas.

EHS Secretary General, Associate Prof Eleftherios TsiridisMy initial focus will be development of advanced technical tools for increased accuracy during joint replacement, and the coming month we will perform the first hip replacements with a new navigation system that looks very promising

NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR SWEDEN, Prof Per Wretenberg

Per Wretenberg is professor in orthopedic surgery at Örebro University Hospital. He got his training at the Karolinska Institute (KI) and has previously been professor at KI and head of the joint reconstruction unit at the Department of Orthopaedic surgery at the Karoliska University Hospital for 10 years before moving to Örebro.

In Örebro he will be responsible for building the research unit at the department of Orthopaedic Surgery. “My initial focus will be development of advanced technical tools for increased accuracy during joint replacement, and the coming month we will perform the first hip replacements with a new navigation system that looks very promising”, says Per Wretenberg. He is also responsible for the orthopaedic education.

Prof Per Wretenberg

Dear Members,

A Quick Reminder of NORE = Network of Orthopaedic Registries of Europe

Please can all our European members complete the questionnaire. Just 8 quick parts. Please:-

1. save the Word file with your name in the title
2. use Track Changes to complete it
3. return it to samstokesehs@gmail.com by Wednesday 7th December

click-here-to-download-the-nore-survey

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To jump to January 2017 Newsletter, click here

Letter from the President, Dr B Willem Schreurs

The EHS Travelling Fellows 2017:-

Letter from the Secretary General, Associate Prof Eleftherios Tsiridis

Dear Members,

EHS Secretary General, Associate Prof Eleftherios TsiridisNow I leave you with best wishes for the Christmas Season and all the best for the New Year.

PAST PRESIDENT (2016-18), Prof Werner Siebert

Dear Members of EHS,

As you all know, at our congress in Munich in September, I passed the Presidency of our society over to Dr B Willem Schreurs, who I wish every success for his congress in The Hague in 2018. I will remain on the ExCom as Past President until 2018 and will be also busy now as President of the German Orthopedic and Trauma Society.

Statistics from the Munich Congress show that we welcomed over 750 delegates, including more than 110 from Asia, ten from Africa and almost 50 from USA – four attendees even came all the way from Australia. We have had so many notes of congratulations from the many satisfied delegates who all comment on the excellent scientific content.

I would like to thank everyone from the Congress Team who helped to organise this event, for all their hard work during the two years leading up to the congress. I had great support and it is thanks to everyone that our congress was a success. I personally thank the EHS ExCom, SciCom, EduCom, our PA Mrs Samantha Stokes, all our National Representatives, every single speaker and each and every participant. Special thanks go to our friends from AAHKS and from the German Hip and the German Knee Society!

Last but not least, a big thank you to Dr Sabine Mai and my secretaries, Annett Frost and Sabrina Imeraj, plus all the ladies at the German congress organizing team.

Now I leave you with best wishes for the Christmas Season and all the best for the New Year.

If you missed out on the photos, click here to see the Munich page again. Goodbye and all the best to everybody from the leaving president,

Prof Werner SiebertIt became obvious for each of us that every member among our French Orthopaedic Community has right now to adhere to EHS. This is an absolute must, as individuals as a collective, to allow both a better understanding of what is happening in Europe in hip surgery, and to disseminate our “national” trends and ideas outside our borders.

EHS PRESIDENT ELECT, Jean-Alain Epinette

EHS Visiting Fellowship 2017

The EHS EduCom and ExCom are pleased to announce that we are now accepting applications for the Visiting Fellowship 2017.

Deadline for applications is 28th February 2017 and the Fellowship will take place in the Autumn of 2017.

Spread the word.13th EHS Congress September 2018 in The Hague

Letter from the President, Dr B Willem Schreurs

Letter from the Secretary General, Associate Prof Eleftherios Tsiridis

Dear Members,

EHS Secretary General, Associate Prof Eleftherios TsiridisThe EHS Fellows scrubbed-up in all operations. Discussions on the cases and on the activities of my department in KAT Hospital Athens were organised.

PAST PRESIDENT (2009-10), Dr George Macheras

Athens, Hellas

The National TJR register (since 2011) is administrated and owned by the Lithuanian Joint Replacement Association. It is a member of ISAR and recognized as one of the high quality registers, with 12,600 primary THR

EHS MEMBER FROM LITHUANIA, Vidmantas Zegunis, MD

EHS Visiting Fellowship 2017

The EHS EduCom and ExCom are pleased to announce that we are now accepting applications for the Visiting Fellowship 2017.

Deadline for applications is 28th February 2017 and the Fellowship will take place in the Autumn of 2017.

Spread the word.

NORE QUESTIONNAIRE

Dear Members,

A Quick Reminder of NORE = Network of Orthopaedic Registries of Europe

Please can all our European members complete the questionnaire. Just 8 quick parts. Please:-

1. save the Word file with your name in the title
2. use Track Changes to complete it
3. return it to samstokesehs@gmail.com by Wednesday 7th December

13th EHS Congress September 2018 in The Hague

Letter from the President, Prof Wim Schreurs

Letter from the Secretary General, Associate Prof Eleftherios Tsiridis

Dear Members,

EHS Secretary General, A Prof Eleftherios TsiridisThe idea was to contribute to a harmonization of orthopaedic education across various European countries. Since a rising number of surgeons educated in one country will later work in another, such a harmonization is important

PAST PRESIDENT & EDUCOM CHAIRMAN, Gösta Ullmark

Hip International celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2015, achieving its highest ever impact factor of 0.889

EXCOM MEMBER & CO CHIEF EDITOR OF HIP INTERNATIONAL, Mr Richard Baker

Bristol, UK

Upcoming Event: Lyon Hip Arthroplasty 2017

LHA will take place on 13^th  and 14^th April 2017 at the Cité des Congrès de Lyon. Built on the foundations of CHARNLEY Symposia and the Lyon Days of the Hip, it will provide the opportunity to continue to promote the Lyon school of Orthopaedics by bringing both the private (ACORA association represented byJean-Louis PRUDHON and André FERREIRA) and public (Michel-Henri FESSY and Sébastien LUSTIG) sectors together. Since the long-term objective of the conference is to treat the hip arthroplasty, its first edition will be exclusively devoted to the prosthetic instability and to double mobility implants.

Why LHA 2017? Because dislocation of a total hip replacement is the primary reason for revision surgery in the short term. Because the patients concerned are also more active, and the medical and economic aspect imposes its own logic. Because preventing and treating instability is the main challenge for today’s orthopaedic surgeons. The international development of hip prosthetic surgery fosters a French congress specifically dedicated to the specialty.13th EHS Congress September 2018 in The Hague

Letter from the President, Prof Wim Schreurs

Letter from the Secretary General, A Prof Eleftherios Tsiridis

Dear Members,

EHS Secretary General, A Prof Eleftherios TsiridisThe hip societies, and EHS, are nowadays in a historical crossroad. Most of us come from the arthroplasty world, undoubtedly the most successful orthopaedic operation. But, what are the limits of “hip”?

NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR SPAIN, José Cordero Ampuero

Our members are highly academic and active all around the world, probably many of the EHS members had acquaintance of at least one or more KHS members

INTERNATIONAL EHS MEMBER, Suk Kyu Choo

Inje University, lsan Paik Hospital, Goyang city, Korea

Hip joint preservation course

Bern, November 11-12, 2016

Hands-on training course for hip surgeons and trainees for hip surgery.

Four workshops including hip arthroscopy exercises, femoral osteotomies, cadaver sessions and surgical approaches.

Course language is German by renowned international faculty.

Please spread information to trainees and interested hip surgeons.

Course organized by the German Society for Hip Surgery (AE)

More information, click here12th EHS Congress – more info here

Letter from the President, Prof Werner Siebert

Your EHS President, Werner Siebert

Letter from the Secretary General, A Prof Eleftherios Tsiridis

Dear Members,

I hope you have all found some time during the month of August to relax a little bit from our very demanding profession, ready to visit the EHS Congress in Munich refreshed for Autumn and eager to dive back into the science of the hip.

All our members are cordially invited to the EHS General Assembly on Thursday 8th September 2016, from 1.30-2.30pm in Saal 13a, in the congress centre. Also, please come and visit Samantha Stokes or myself at Booth 7, anytime during the congress.

Below you will read an update on hip surgery today in Philadelphia from our American member, Javad Parvizi, who is participating in our congress next week. Also, you can read a report from our Italian member, Gianluca Cusmá, who visited hip surgery centres in China. Thanks to both for these words.

EHS Secretary General, A Prof Eleftherios TsiridisIt is clear that the US healthcare is undergoing gargantuan changes. The time will tell if these changes stand to benefit our patients or limit access to those in real need

INTERNATIONAL EHS MEMBER, Javad Parvisi

Philadelphia, USA

I didn’t meet any western people for 3 weeks – working, eating, travelling and sharing experiences only with Chinese colleagues and patients – and this was the difficult but also amazing aspect of my travel

EHS MEMBER, Gianluca Cusmà, VISITS CHINA

MIlan, Italy

Letter from the President, Prof Werner Siebert

Please forgive me for doing some “name dropping” now, but we are proud to present the excellent Wednesday-morning courses with the American Academy of Hip Surgeons! Dr Stefano Bini from AAHKS, who is chair of our Combined Symposium EHS-AAHKS on Arthroplasty Problems, as well as Combined Symposium EHS-AAHKS (case-based discussions), will give two lectures: Diagnosis of Taperosis and Clinical problems with Exchangeable Necks. Dr Michael P. Bolognesi of Duke Raleigh Hospital will lecture on Why THA fails in 2016, as well as hold a case-based discussion on Revision.

Dr Roy I. Davidovitch from NYU Center for Musculoskeletal Care (CMC) and NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases is flying in to lecture on Outpatient Hip Replacement Surgery: When am I ready to do it? Which of my patients are ready to have it? Ahmad Faizan (PhD) from Stryker Orthopaedics will give four lectures, including X-ray Imaging of Acetabular Shells: Do Radiolucent Lines Always Correlate to Physical Gap?

David Fitch (PhD) from MicroPort Orthopedics Inc. will give two lectures: Mid- to long-term outcomes of a modular femoral stem in total hip arthroplasty and Midterm outcomes of total hip replacement using a delta-on-delta articulation.

Dr David Hartigan of the American Hip Institute will enlighten us on Arthroscopic treatment of labral tears in patients aged 65 years and older. Dr James Huddleston of Stanford University will talk on Acetabular bone loss and hold a case-based discussion: Infection and Revision.

Dr William A. Jiranek from Virginia Commonwealth University Health System presents Highlights from AAHKS, while Dr William B. Macaulay of New York Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University Medical Center, will talk on Evaluation of the Unstable Hip as well as hold a case-based discussion on Primary DDH. Dr Javad Parvizi from Rothman Institute and Thomas Jefferson University Hospital will lecture on The diagnosis of infected THA and hold a case-based discussion on Infection.

Dr Lazaros Poultsides from Hospital for Special Surgery will give four lectures, including MIS and short LOS arthroplasty in HSS NY. Dr Itay Perets will give too many lectures to list, but they include Clinical outcomes of iliopsoas fractional lengthening incompetitive athletes undergoing hip arthroscopy to Hip problems mimicking gynecologic pathology.

Dr. Ran Schwarzkopf from NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases also has a big list of lectures, including Risk of total hip arthroplasty dislocation after adult spinal deformity correction and Timing of irrigation and debridement for peri-prosthetic total hip infections.

Finally Dr Thomas Vail from Duke University Medical Center will talk on Post-traumatic hip as well as hold a case-based discussion on Primary DDH and Primary.

As you can see, this Congress is your chance to immerse yourself in every area of the hip.

See you there!

Your EHS President, Werner Siebert

Letter from the Secretary General, A Prof Eleftherios Tsiridis

Munich is approaching fast and the ExCom and I are looking forward to welcoming as many members and delegates as possible. Don’t forget that attendance at the EHS Congress will earn you 15 European CME credits.

Last month in this newsletter, we launched the EHS Travelling Fellowship 2017. See how to apply here  – you don’t have to be an EHS member to apply.

On behalf of the ExCom, I would like to warmly welcome even more new members. Full members from Europe include Dr Stefan Bolder from The Netherlands, Dr Thierry Musset from France, Dr Charles Rivière (French and currently in the UK) and Dr Marianne Westberg from Norway. Dr André Sá Rodrigues is a new Young Member from Portugal.

Meanwhile, from outside Europe, we welcome our new International Members, Dr Ahmed Alghamdi from KSA and Dr Sayyed Alireza Rozati from Iran.

Below, we have words from our President Elect, Prof B Willem Schreurs, who will be hosting the EHS Congress in The Hague in 2018. Then we have an  update on NORE by UK member Mr Keith Tucker. Thanks to him for this informative contribution.

EHS Secretary General, A Prof Eleftherios TsiridisI sincerely hope that our members from countries with political difficulties will be able to be in Munich, so that EHS can do what it stands for

“bringing all European hip surgeons together”.

EHS PRESIDENT ELECT: Prof B Willem Schreurs

Nijmegen, the Netherlands

Although already two months ago, I think it is important to state that the European Hip Society was part of a very successful symposium at the EFORT meeting in Geneva in June 2016. We are looking forward to working together with EFORT to continue this combined symposium with our knee collogues at the EFORT meeting in Vienna in 2017.

Meanwhile it is summer across Europe, and while most of you are celebrating a well-earned holiday in this period, the team of our current president Professor Siebert is working hard to prepare a successful meeting in Munich from 6-9 September 2016. I hope many of you will attend this meeting to make it again a great success. I sincerely hope that also our members from Ukraine and Turkey, countries with political difficulties, will be able to be there, so that the European Hip Society can do for what it stands for “bringing all European hip surgeons together”.

This meeting will cover the whole field of hip surgery, from newborn to geriatric patients, with key topic instructional courses on echography in the newborn and hip arthroscopy by really world leading orthopedic surgeons.

In addition to the professional part of the congress, making friends and exchanging ideas is very important as well. Maybe this will lead to research networks that will present their results at the next bi-annual meeting in The Hague, The Netherlands, in 2018.

Enjoy your holiday and see you in Munich.NORE is a fledgling organisation which, with everyone’s support will evolve and play an important part in European Orthopaedics

EHS UK MEMBER: Mr Keith Tucker

Norwich, UK

NORE (Network of Orthopaedic Registries of Europe) has been set up by EFORT to provide Europe with an organisation that will support European Orthopaedic Registries and when required, offer advice to such organisations as the European Union etc.

Initially it will embrace the European Joint Replacement registries but with time it may well expand into other orthopaedic registries provided there is a perceived advantage for this to happen.

The Chairman is Rob Nelissen from the Dutch Registry (photographed right). The website is worth visiting. There are 39 countries involved. At present the committee comprises representatives from NJR, EPRD, the Nordic registries and ISAR.

NORE will orchestrate educational sessions at the EFORT congresses.

NORE is working closely with ODEP and Beyond compliance to improve post market surveillance of joint replacements across Europe.

NORE is a fledgling organisation which, with everyone’s support will evolve and play an important part in European Orthopaedics.

Letter from the President, Prof Werner Siebert

Dear Members,
The highlight for me at the EHS congress will certainly be hosting the legend of orthopaedics, Dr Reinhard Graf from Stolzalpe in Austria. As well as speaking at our openeing ceremony, he will also lead the Refresher Course on Sonography of the Infant Hip on Tuesday 6th September. Space is limited, so if you want the seal of the master, get your ticket now.

Another excellent opportunity for our visitors is the Hands-On Hip Arthroscopy Course with cadaveric specimens on Friday 9th September – you will work in small groups with internationally renowned experts covering all levels of hip arthroscopy.

The Early Bird discounts will finish at the end of June, as you know. So I hope most of our members have already registered. If not, click this link now. You still have a few hours!

Your EHS President, Werner Siebert

Letter from the Secretary General, A Prof Eleftherios Tsiridis

Good to meet many of our members at the European Hip Society’s booth at the EFORT Congress earlier this month. I hope to see many more of you in Munich in two month’s time.

In this month’s newsletter, we are very excited to launch the EHS Travelling Fellowship 2017. See how to apply here. This is an excellent opportunity for two young hip surgeons, so spread the word to your young colleagues because you don’t have to be an EHS member to apply.

On behalf of the ExCom, I would like to warmly welcome our new members. Full members from Europe include Dr Oleksii Dudko from Chernivtsy in Ukraine, Dr Giovanni Pignatti from Bologna in Italy, Dr Yuriy Prudnikov from Kaluga Region in the Russian Federation and a new Young Member, Mr Walid Elnahal from Bristol in the UK.

Meanwhile, from outside Europe, we welcome our new International Members Dr Emadeldin Elbushra from Alamarat in Sudan, Mr Khalid Maaita from Amman in Jordan.

Below, we have words from our President Elect, Prof Wim Schreurs, who will be hosting the EHS Congress in The Hague in 2018. And to continue the International flavour of our society, some words from our Nat Rep in New Zealand, Dr Bill Farrington.

EHS Secretary General, A Prof Eleftherios TsiridisThe National Joint Registry of NZ has been recording all hip arthroplasty for over 17 years

NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR NEW ZEALAND: Bill Farrington

Mr Bill Farrington MBBS, FRCS(Eng), FRCS(Tr&Orth), FRACS
Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon -North Shore hospital, Auckland
Honorary Senior Lecturer -Auckland University

New Zealand is commonly known for its All Blacks Rugby Team, spectacular natural scenery and adrenalin sports. The Orthopaedic community is very collegial, embraces practical solutions and takes great pride in its excellent Registrar training scheme.

The New Zealand Orthopaedic Association (NZOA) supports our professional activities extremely well and there are a number of specialist societies, including a hip society.

The National Joint Registry has been recording all hip and knee arthroplasty undertaken throughout the country for over 17 years. There are over 100,000 hip arthroplasties registered with over a million “observed component years – OCYs”. One of it’s strengths as a registry is the recording of patient generated outcomes post-operatively (Oxford Hip score and various complications).

Half of all primary arthroplasties are performed in the public health system, the other half in private, and most revision surgery performed in the public system.

The ERAS philosophy has been embraced over the last few years with a National ERAS program and collaborative groups ensuring dissemination and uptake of the new gold standard in patient care.

EHS Travelling Fellowship 2017

Click here to find out how to apply to The EHS Travelling Fellowship 2017.

Letter from the President, Prof Werner Siebert

Dear Members,

It is time for the annual EFORT congress once again, this time in Switzerland’s beautiful Geneva. I hope that many of you will be able to come and attend one of EHS’s many activities there. We have the EHS Register Symposium, Speciality Sessions, an Advanced Course in Total Hip Replacement and a debate on Cemented Versus Cementless Primary THA in +70 Years. Many top names from EHS will be chairing, moderating and presenting these events.

Please, if you are in Geneva, come along to the EHS stand and visit us. You can also pick up your Preliminary Programme for our EHS Congress in Munich in September. And of course, if you can’t fit Geneva into your schedule, we will keep you updated on our activities there through our new website, facebook and of course the EHS Newsletter.

Your EHS President, Werner Siebert

Letter from the Secretary General, A Prof Eleftherios Tsiridis

As every year, the European Hip Society will have a booth at the EFORT Congress (C2-38), so please come and find us. It is always good to meet face to face and discuss anything “hip”.

This issue of the EHS Newsletter, Number 19, marks the completion of our project for every EHS Nat Rep to write a summary from their country. Thank you very much to you all. A few International Members from outside Europe have contributed too, and we will continue to ask them to do so.

We will now start to include summaries from EHS Members themselves.  So if you would like to send in a contribution for this newsletter, we’d be delighted to receive it.

This issue also sees our 2nd Q&A supplement, this time we hear about the MAST 2 Course which took place in Thessaloniki late last year, with words from myself and EFORT’s Secretary General and Orthopaedics Today Europe’s Chief Medical Editor, Prof Per Kjaersgaard-Andersen. Scroll down to read it in full.

EHS Secretary General, A Prof Eleftherios Tsiridis

The UK has led the way in monitoring the performance of joint implants by initiating the system known as the ODEP in 2003

NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR UNITED KINGDOM: Evert Smith

Since the National Joint Registry (NJR) for England, Wales, Northern Ireland and the Isle of Man was set up in 2003, more than 1.8 million hip procedures have been recorded to March 2015. There has been a trend away from cemented hip replacements from NJR inception, the most common fixation now being uncemented with a slight rise of hybrid fixation. Ceramic-on- polyethylene articulations have the lowest revision risk.

The UK has led the way in monitoring the performance of joint implants by initiating the system known as the Orthopaedic Data Evaluation Panel (ODEP) in 2003. As a result of a significant incidence of associated device-related adverse events from certain brands during the initial phase of product launch prior to widespread use, a further layer of surveillance known as Beyond Compliance (BC) was launched in 2014.

Whereas ODEP is concerned with the performance of an implant once it is available to market, BC comprises of a specialist team that monitors early results and analyses these until sufficient data has been obtained and successful results evidenced.

The UK’s ODEP model has received worldwide acclaim and other countries have copied this model. ODEP was acknowledged in the 2014 Swedish Hip Arthroplasty Register.Patients’ expectations are changing, prevention and treatment of complications are improving, research is growing

NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR ITALY: Luigi Zagra

Hip topics are getting increasing interest in the Italian orthopaedic community as a new generation of younger hip surgeons have been growing in the last years. Joint preserving surgery, not only arthroscopic, after a pioneer time has shown its effectiveness and limitations. With a better understanding of the hip biomechanics and pathologies and the correct indications, this surgery has gained the right role in the hands of selected surgeons. Revision surgery is increasing in number of procedures and thanks to the new technical tools, it is feasible in the hands of more skilled surgeons in the major centres. Very good primary THA are performed in most of the orthopaedic departments as the surgical techniques and materials and the less invasive approaches have shown all the advantages. After the latest “fashions” the real benefits and limitations of the innovation are clearer. Patients’ expectations are changing, prevention and treatment of complications are improving, research is growing. The Combined Meeting of the Italian and British hip societies last November with the active participation of many EHS members was a good example of this time of progress through collaboration. We are looking forward to our next Domestic Congress in September in Munich.

Luigi Zagra, EHS Past President and Italian National Representative

EHS: Q&A

Masterclass in Arthroplasty Surgery Thessaloniki 2 

4-5.12. 2015 – Thessaloniki, Hellas

Complex Primary Hip / Arthroplasty and Basic Knee / Arthroplasty concepts

MAST: A Prof Eleftherios Tsiridis        EFORT: Prof Per Kjaersgaard-Andersen

• What is the Masterclass in Arthroplasty Surgery?

MAST: The MAST Course is an international mini professional conference aiming to continuously educate young or even experienced surgeons in arthroplasty surgery. It has a very experienced international and national faculty and also involves experienced surgeons from Exeter to teach the Exeter Hip Course in cemented hip arthroplasty.

EFORT: A course where young, up and coming joint replacement surgeons over a two days course are educated by experienced orthopaedic senior surgeons in various aspects of treating patients with basic and complex primary hip and knee arthroplasties.

• Was it a success?

MAST: This is the 2^nd time we run this course and we are aiming for the 3^rd one in December of this year. The course is under the auspices of EFORT, EHS, The Hellenic Association of Orthopaedics and Trauma and the Aristotle University Medical School. It is now considered an international conference and has attracted candidates form Southeast Europe and the neighbouring countries.

EFORT: Yes, when the young trainees – after the course – are ready to recommend that same course for their fellow colleagues.

• How did the Masterclass benefit from the auspices of EFORT?

MAST: EFORT is the largest European organization in orthopaedics and we enjoy and respect enormously their contribution and their recognition of the Mast Course. We make every possible effort to maintain their auspices for good and make the Mast Course and Thessaloniki an official EFORT educational centre in a network of centres around Europe.

EFORT: By the attendance of EFORT’s Secretary General to learn if this course in any way can be integrated in the overall educational EFORT programme.

• Considering topics of the Masterclass: what is the most important issue in Complex Primary Hip?

MAST: The most striking lectures were first on the management of complex primary arthroplasties that require experience and planning and second, the 24 hours arthroplasty service that remains a primary target of the national health services.

EFORT: To learn when a case is complicated, so you as young hip surgeons do not start out without being well prepared. Next to learn about tips and tricks in the complicated primaries.

• What is the “burning issue” in Arthroplasty Concepts?

MAST: The most burning issue is the cost effectiveness of joint arthroplasty and the lack of classification of appropriateness for joint replacement in the population.

EFORT: For me it is the “Cemented Paradox” – where the outcome of most national registries clearly prove the well cemented THA to have a significantly higher survival rate – and yet, still, hip surgeons across the world are using more and more frequently the non-cemented designs. Why is that?? Industry-driven?? Driven by “quicker surgery” – or what else? That is for me the current most burning issue within THA.

• Is Cement and the Cemented THA a hot topic?

MAST: Absolutely. It appears quite clearly now that cemented femoral prosthesis is the appropriate one, with significant longevity in the over 60s, as well as for proximal femoral deformities in young people. Uncemented hips remain a gold standard procedure for the uncomplicated straightforward routine hip arthroplasty, however, this procedure must always be performed by experienced surgeons as it cannot forgive any intraoperative surgical mistakes.

EFORT: As mentioned above it is definitely a hot topic. The THA era started with the total cemented THA – and has developed from that. We today forget why hip surgeons in the 70’s and 80’s went away from cemented THA – namely mainly due to what they thought was “cement-disease” – later shown to be a combination of poor cementing techniques and poor first and second generation polyethylene. On top of this THA – and mainly the non-cemented THA became the “big business” – and industry and supported by some hip surgeons brought that into a world-wide big money business. Today we have developed 4-5 generation cement and cementing technique – has clearly better implants for cementing – and a much better polyethylene with no or only minor wear. So all good indications are there for turning more and more of our cases into a total cemented THA.

• What did attendees learn about Tribology and Interface?

MAST: The hot topic nowadays is the trunnion disease and the metal and metal tribology issues. Manufacturing diversity, design and head size has changed the outcome of a standard hip procedure that all must be under control. Regarding materials, the literature and sciences over such, rated with good quality materials and the tribology issues are now resolved with guaranteed longevity of up to 30 years.

EFORT: The attendees had basic information on tribology, third body wear, interface fixations – and how these may both develop in different designs and bearings – and influence the outcome / survival of an implant / design.

• Were Complex Primary Femur and Complex Primary Acetabulum discussed?

MAST: It was discussed thoroughly in the special session on complex arthroplasty and several techniques were deployed according to several clinical case scenarios. The discussion was really revitalising, bringing along ideas and practices from around Europe.

EFORT: Certainly – in several presentations. It was the main theme of the Course.

• Finally, when will the next Mast Course be?

MAST/EFORT: It is held always in the first weekend of December, which this year is between 2^nd and 4^th of December 2016. The place is the magnificent opera house on the seafront in the heart of Thessaloniki.

Letter from the President, Prof Werner Siebert

Dear Members,

The preliminary Scientific Programme for the EHS Congress in Munich this September (6th-9th) is available from our dedicated website, ehs-congress.org. There you can find all our courses, meetings, presentations and symposia, day by day, to find what most interests you in our vast field of hip surgery. You can also see the Faculty members listed there and more information about the congress in general.

Meanwhile, I hope you enjoy this great new EHS website, which will work equally well on your tablet and mobile phone. The EHS facebook has also launched, so please have a look when you have time and “like it”.

I will be at EFORT in Geneva and look forward to seeing those able to make it.

Your EHS President, Werner Siebert

Letter from the Secretary General, A Prof Eleftherios Tsiridis

We are delighted to launch this, the new European Hip Society website, as well as the EHS facebook page – a platform for communication which we hope to develop with your cooperation and use. As you can see, the monthly Newsletter will now be presented within the website as you see it now, so that you can easily read it without downloading a separate pdf document. The new website also has summaries of scientific meetings and courses that our members have been involved in – such as the Ukraine Combined Course which took place earlier this month with great success. And as you will see below, our Newsletter now has links to upcoming meetings, such as Vreden Reading in St Petersberg later in the year.

On behalf of the EHS ExCom I would like to wish a warm welcome to our new members, Mr Alister Hart from London, UK, Dr Ton Vervest from Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Dr Heinz Röttinger from Krailling, Germany, Mr Andrej Moličnik from Dravograd, Slovenia and our new Young Member Dr Mohammad Tabaza from Bologna, Italy.

The European Hip Society will have a booth at the EFORT congress next month (C2-38), so please come and find us. It will be our pleasure to talk about any aspects of EHS.

EHS Secretary General, A Prof Eleftherios Tsiridis

The most recognized Greek Hip surgeon is Prof Hartofilakidis. His contribution in the classification and understanding of hip pathology in developmental dysplasia is enormous

NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR HELLAS: George Macheras

Nowadays the Greek hip surgeons have an excellent educational background with great experience been able to cover all hip pathologies especially  complex primaries and revision hip arthroplasties. The number of THA’s shows an increased trend compared to the previous years and the number of revision THA’ s, remain in similar rate compared to other countries. The Greek members of the EHS are all prominent members of the Greek Orthopedic community and they participate actively in all EHS, EFFORT and AAOS meetings presenting p their work and experience in hip surgery. The first Hip arthroplasty has been performed 40 years ago. Our National records show that currently more than 5.000 primary total hips and 1000 revision hip surgeries are performed annually. In all district hospitals orthopaedic surgeons are able to perform primary and revision hip surgeries. The difficult and complicated cases are referred to the teaching hospitals and to specialized centers. The Hellenic Orthopaedic Association is organizing annual teaching programs for the junior doctors. Fellowships are also given to some junior doctors to go to specialized centers worldwide. The most recognized Greek Hip surgeon is Prof Hartofilakidis (photographed above right). His contribution in the classification and understanding of the hip pathology in developmental dysplasia is enormous. Greek hip surgeons have published many papers in international journals on hip pathology, surgical techniques and results of their operations. The first EHS meeting was organized in Greece(Crete) by Prof. Dretakis, founding member of the EHS and was successful. In 2010 another very successful EHS meeting was organized in Athens by George Macheras, another founding member of EHS. In 2012 a combined EHS-EFORT meeting was organized in Athens ( KAT Hospital) witch was attended by 150 international participants, with interactive discussions and live surgery transmition. The local hip and knee society is very active organizing annual meetings and sessions during the Hellenic Orthopaedic Association meetings.Despite having a long history national joint registry in Slovenia is still not functional. Important steps have, however, been accomplished in the last year

NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR SLOVENIA: Rihard Trebše

Slovenian hip pathologies are covered by 130 orthopaedic surgeons and approximately 100 traumatologists. Trauma is treated by specialized traumatologists in large centres, general surgeons focused on trauma in regional hospitals, while orthopaedic surgeons care for the rest of the derangements. In five orthopaedic departments within general hospitals, one university associated orthopaedic clinic, one specialised orthopaedic hospital, and trauma centres 4050 artificial hips are implanted yearly giving an incidence of 200/100000. Despite having a long history national joint registry is still not functional. Important steps have, however, been accomplished in the last year. A local hip implant and explant registry covering 35% of cases has been active since 2002 showing a 13% revision burden. Due to unfavourable experiences with 28mm MOM bearings in the Nineties, we avoided the big head MOM story. IT technologies are increasingly being integrated in planning and executing hip preserving and hip replacement surgeries, and hip trauma.

Upcoming Event…

The Vreden’s Readings Research and Practice Conference has been held annually since 2007 and is considered the best joint replacement event in Russia.
The Ministry of Healthcare of the Russian Federation and public organizations support the Vreaden’s Readings Conference.
About 1000 leading traumotologists and orthopedists from Russia and the CIS participate in the conference.
The conference speakers are world famous specialists from Russia, Europe, North America and Asia.
One of the top conference topics is hip replacement that traditionally attracts the majority of delegates.
Along with exploring new technologies and successful results in the managment of traumatic injuries and orthopedic disorders, the conference is educational in nature and has its goal to shape right orthopedics philosophy of young specialists.
As a result of the Vreden’s Readings Conference, many orthopedics problems in medical assistance are successfully solved.
Official conference web site: http://vredenreadings.org/eng/

Dear EHS Members, Firstly, as the year draws to an end, I want to wish you all a healthy, happy and prosperous New Year. As you know, 2016 will be the year of the EHS 12th Congress in Munich, and the call for abstracts has gone out! The programme will be confirmed in January and will be up on the Congress website for you to check. Also in 2016, we are very happy to present the first ever EHS Fellowship, as you will see below. Tell your young colleagues to apply! For now though, we are all taking some well-deserved time off to recharge our batteries and spend time with friends and family to prepare for an busy, exciting New Year ahead.

All the very best,

Your EHS President, Prof Werner E. SiebertWe would like to congratulate our member Dr Jean Alain Epinette, as he steps up to become our new Nat Rep for France. Sincere thanks go to his predecessor, Dr Jacques Tabutin, a loyal and long-term member of EHS, for holding this role for so long. Welcome also to six new EHS members: Dr Ozden from Turkey, Dr Marushchak, Dr Mezentsev and Dr Tankut from Ukraine, Dr Burian from Czech Republic and Dr Cusmà Guatteri from Italy. I hope you will take note of the Fellowship we are launching in 2016 (see below) and will send this newsletter to any young colleagues you deem fit to apply.

Happy New Year to you all.

Assoc Prof Eleftherios Tsiridis, EHS Secretary General

NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVE, FINLAND

Dr Ville Remes Pihlajalinna Group Helsinki

In Finland,approximately 8000 primary THAs and 1600 revision THAs are performed annually – the number and incidence of primary THAs have increased steadily. The majority of the implants during the last decade have been cementless. However, the number of the cemented implants has increased during the last two years. Metal-on-metal (MoM) bearings were common between 2004–2010. This has increased the number of hip revisions due to ARMeD reactions during the last five years. National guidelines and programmes have been adopted for follow-up of the MoM implants.

Finland has the second oldest hip arthroplasty register in the world. Data collection was totally renovated in 2014. Data is collected electronically and implants are tracked based on REF-and LOT-codes. Beta-version of the new internet pages (www.thl.fi/far) were launched at the end of last month. Data is reported in a dynamic way i.e. the viewer can modify tables and graphs. In addition, we are currently reporting more detailed information on hip surgeries.

The Finnish arthroplastysociety has published national guidelines for performing primary THAs. Second version of the guidelines was published in 2015 (www.suomenartroplastiayhdistys.fi/files/hyva_hoito_lonkan_ja_pol ven_tekonivelkirurgiassa_2015.pdf).

About 200-300 hip arthroscopies are performed annually mainlyin universityand private hospitals. Onlya few hip osteotomies are performed annuallyin university hospitals.

Health care is tax-funded in Finland and currentlyservices are mainly publicly produced and organized. The Government is planning to reform health care structures in Finland during the next few years. Currently 317 different municipalities are responsible for organizing social and health care services. In the future, there will be 15 provinces,which are responsible for organizing services. Hospitals performing hip surgeries are most likely decreasing. In addition,as a part of the reform private companies will most likely be accepted as providers in publiclyfunded health care.The EHS EduCom is pleased to launch the EHS Visiting Fellowship

Applicants are invited to apply now!

The EHS Visiting Fellowship will consist of 2 weeks per centre in 2 top European orthopaedic centres in Spring, 2016. Applicants can be non-members and should be European orthopaedic specialists with academic potential and an interest in high level knowledge of hip surgery.

The aim for the Fellow is to make contacts and receive comprehensive training in all aspects of hip surgery. 2 Fellows will be selected by the ExCom and will automatically become EHS members (free for a year). The EHS will cover the cost of transport and accommodation.

Candidates must meet these requirements:

• Age under 40 years
• Major interest in orthopaedic hip surgery
• Scientific Works (publications, research reports on hip surgery)
• Satisfactory knowledge of English
• Completed orthopaedic training with extra experience in hip surgery
• Resident of an EHS member country

To apply, candidates should email the following documents to the EHS Secretary General’s PA, Samantha Stokes at samstokesehs@gmail.com:-

• Application letter
• CV in English including:-
• date of birth
• description of current position and clinical responsibilities
• list of publications and presentations at scientific meetings
• 2 letters of recommendation

After completing the Fellowship, a short written report should be sent to EHS and a short oral report should be given at the EHS Congress.

The deadline for applications is end of February 2016. Good luck!