Dear colleagues and Members of ESSKA,
The European Society of Sports Traumatology, Knee Surgery and Arthroscopy (ESSKA) has the pleasure of inviting you to the 14th ESSKA Congress in Oslo, June 9-12, 2010.
We are proud to welcome you to the best scientific programme ever which features 18 Instructional Course Lectures, approximately 270 podium presentations and more than 600 posters. Altogether, there will be more than 50 symposia and 30 lectures.
Of course, this year’s congress introduces several new and exciting features. One of those is the National Award Session for the best paper in 17 European countries. A second is live surgery for the first time in an ESSKA congress. Some of the very best European surgeons will perform surgery on hip, knee, shoulder and ankle.
We welcome the 4 Highlight Speakers: Elizabeth Arendt (USA), Roald Bahr (Norway), Jan Victor (Belgium) and Savio Woo (USA), who will give insight into the frontline of sports traumatology. We are proud to invite these distinguished speakers to the ESSKA congress. We are equally proud to welcome specially invited guests like John Bergfeld and Rocky Tuan.
In approximately the same manner as the Innsbruck and Porto congresses, the best paper of all submitted abstracts will be selected for the Theo-van-Rens Award. The 6 papers with the highest scores will compete for this prize in a separate session on Thursday in the Plenary Hall.
We are also happy to present a full 3-day Physiotherapist programme, with lectures, workshops, symposia and free papers.
The programme on Thursday, Friday and Saturday will start with the Instructional Course Lectures, followed by the plenary sessions with invited speakers giving highlight lectures. From 10.00/10.30 h there will be 6 parallel rooms with symposia, lectures, free papers, debates, and symposia. The scientific programme committee has worked hard on integration, geographical and scientific balance and you will find several new young speakers.
During the lunch breaks the industry will organise lunch symposia, demonstrating the latest technology available. These events are important, and most probably the best opportunity to keep up with the modern techniques.
The congress starts Wednesday morning, June 9, and will end on Saturday, June 12 at lunch time.
We cordially welcome you all to Oslo to share ideas and to participate in an exciting scientific and social programme.
Jacques Menetrey
Programme Chair Jon Karlsson
Programme Chair
