Wim SchreursLetter from the President, Dr B Willem Schreurs

Dear Members,

The first steps for the European Hip Society meeting in 2020 have been made. Our incoming President, Jean-Alain Epinette, is looking for Lille as the location, a very attractive city in the northern part of France and the European Capital of Culture in 2005. More words from him below when you scroll down.

Also, after the successful first Visiting Fellowship in Greece in November/ December 2016, the EHS recently selected 2 new young and promising candidates for the first EHS Travelling Fellowship 2017. (See Secretary General’s letter for more info.)

Meanwhile, your ExCom is  working on our constitution, which we will have checked by an external juridical adviser, to ensure it is adapted to the current times.

We are redefining the tasks and criteria for our main committees, the EHS Scientific Committee (SciCom) and the EHS Educational Committee (EduCom), as well as working on the repositioning of our National Delegates; we will better define their tasks and duties, to optimise the promotion of EHS on a national basis. We will keep you updated on all these items.

Wishing you on behalf of the European Hip Society a very sparkling 2017. We hope we will have your support in the coming year to further develop the influence of the European Hip Society and we hope that we can welcome many new members in 2017.

Best wishes,

Your EHS President, B Willem Schreurs

The EHS Travelling Fellows 2017:-

Letter from the Secretary General, Associate Prof Eleftherios TsiridisTsiridis

Dear Members,

Following the decision by the ExCom and the Chairman of the EduCom, Prof Ullmark, we are pleased to announce the two winners of the EHS Travelling Fellowship 2017 (Spring), Dr Oleksii Tankut of Kharkiv, Ukraine and Dr Goksel Dikmen of Istanbul, Turkey (photographed above). Congratulations to them both.
Meanwhile, the Visiting Fellows 2016, Olga Pidgaiska and Sujith Konan, have reported on their two-week fellowship in their own words. Read their summary here. If you think this is an experience you would benefit from, already the EHS Visiting Fellowship 2017 (autumn) is open to applicants and we look forward to receiving your CVs.
Just before the year finishes, we are happy to welcome four new members to EHS following the approval of the ExCom during out meeting in Munich this month. New Full Members are: Dr Bulent (Turkey), Dr Delgado (Spain), Dr Reina (France) and Dr Richter (Germany). We look forward to your active participation in our society.
Finally, thanks to Associate Prof Arkan S Sayed-Noor, who has done a great job as our Nat Rep for Sweden for several years, and welcome to Prof Per Wretenberg, who will take over from him. We look forward to working with you.
Wishing you all a pleasant break over the holidays and all the best for a strong and prosperous 2017.

EHS Secretary General, Associate Prof Eleftherios Tsiridis

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

Prof Werner Siebert, Kassel, Germany
EHS Past President 2016-18

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 Siebert

It 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.

Jean Alain Epinette, EHS President Elect

President Elect
President Elect

EHS PRESIDENT ELECT, Jean-Alain Epinette

Merry Christmas to all, and welcome to our new EHS French members!

Our European Hip Society (EHS) is a well-regarded scientific society grouping 32 European countries and many other countries (18) of each of the other continents, for all matters concerned with hip surgery. However, we recently considered the very low number of French members: of the 550 EHS members, only 22 were registered from France! Moreover, at the last congress in Munich in September 2016, among the 70 reviewers of all nationalities responsible for selecting communications, none were French!!!…

We thus decided among our French Society for Hip and Knee Surgery (SFHG) to strongly promote the French membership in EHS. A presentation was proposed at the recent Hip & Knee specialty day during the SOFCOT congress (November 2016), to highlight the different features provided by EHS, and the announcement of the Congress 2020 to be held in France (Lille). It 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. To date, more than 10 new French surgeons during the past month decided to join EHS through the specific page (translated in every language as well) devoted to “EHS partnership” from our SFHG web site : so… “Join EHS and welcome aboard!”.

Bridges between EHS and each national Hip Society already exist, particularly for round tables (as an example in France with dual mobility cups, and so on …), they must be amplified and each orthopaedic surgeon must not hesitate to get involved increasingly at European level: EHS is particularly interested in a wide share of knowledge and expertise from each of us!

So, thank you all for your enthusiastic involvement toward this European link between us… Best wishes from France and Happy New Year!

Jean-Alain Epinette, 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.

Fellowship Logo

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

Spread the word.