CO-Presidents of the Congress

Prof. Andrey KOROLEV
(Moscow, Russia), Doctor of Medical Sciences

President ASTAOR – Associations of sports traumatologists, arthroscopic and orthopedic surgeons, rehabilitators
Chief Medical Officer and Medical Director, ECSTO (European Clinic of Sports Traumatology and Orthopedics)
Professor, Department of Traumatology and Orthopedics, Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (RUDN)
In 1985 he graduated from the Medical Faculty of the First Moscow State Medical University. Sechenov, was trained in residency and postgraduate studies in the specialization of thoracic surgery at the Department of Phthisiopulmonology of the First Moscow State Medical University. Sechenov
In 1990 he defended his thesis on "Trachea Transplantation"
In 2004 he defended his doctoral thesis on the topic "Comprehensive rehabilitation of patients with injuries of the knee joint"
Full member ISAKOS (International Society of Arthroscopy, Knee Surgery and Orthopedic Sports Medicine), member of the Arthroscopy Committee
Full member ESSKA (European Society of Sports Traumatology, Knee Surgery and Arthroscopy), member of the Committee on Sports Medicine
Full member РАО (Russian Arthroscopic Society), American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons (AAOS), French Society of Arthroscopy (SFA), Polish Society of Sports Traumatology (PTTS)
Member of the Expert Council on Medicine of the Sochi 2014 Organizing Committee
Author of over 100 publications in Russian and international journals.
Included in the editorial board of the journal "Traumatology and Orthopedics"

Prof. Andreas IMHOFF
(Munich, Germany)

Professor of Orthopedic Surgery and Arthroscopy and Chairman of the Department of Sports Orthopedics in Technische Universität München (Germany)
Chairman of the ISAKOS Shoulder committee (International Society of Arthroscopy, Knee Surgery and Orthopedic Sports Medicine), since 2015, where he started as founding member of IAA/ISK in October 1994, now member of the board and different committees since 1996
One of founders and honorary мember of the AGA (German Society of Arthroscopy and Joint Surgery)
One of founders and honorary мember of the Arthroscopy Association of North America (AANA)
Member of several societies like SGO (Swiss Society for Orthopaedics), ESSKA (European Society of Sports Traumatology, Knee Surgery and Arthroscopy), SECEC (European Society for Surgery of the Shoulder and the Elbow), AOSSM (American Orthopedic Society for Sports Medicine), DVSE (German Society for Shoulder and Elbow), DGU (German Society for Traumatology), SICOT (Sociйtй Internationale de Chirurgie Orthopйdique et de Traumatologie), AFOR (Association of Orthopedic Research) member of the board since 2010, DKG (German Knee Society)
Since 1999 he got a lot of awards all over the world in different countries: honorary мember of the Arthroscopy Association of North America (AANA), honorary мember of the AGA (German Society of Arthroscopy and Joint Surgery), miembro Honorario, Sociedad Argentina de Cirurgia de Hombro y Codo, Malaysian Federal Honorary Award 2010 (“DATUK” (Honorary-Award given by His Majesty Tuanku Mizan, up to 200 living at any one time), Honorary member of Indian Arthroscopic Society IAS
Еditor of journals: Arthroscopy, Operative Orthopaedics and Traumatology (OOT), Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery (JSES), Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy (KSSTA), American Journal of Sports Medicine (AJSM) and Open Access Journal of Sports Medicine (OAJSM) as an editor in chief
He edited 35 books and published over 410 journal articles, cited in pubmed
Research interests: cartilage and tissue engineering of tendons and the meniscus and on the biomechanics of the shoulder and knee joint

Prof. Giuseppe MILANO, MD
(Rome, Italy)

Chairman of the European Shoulder Associates (ESA) – ESSKA Section
Associate Professor of Orthopaedics, Catholic University, Rome, Italy
Director, Shoulder Surgery Service, A. Gemelli University Hospital, Rome, Italy
Vice-President of Società Italiana Ginocchio Artroscopia Sport Cartilagine Tecnologie Ortopediche (SIGASCOT)
Editor in Chief of “Joints”, associate Editor of “Arthroscopy journal”, Principal Reviewer of American Journal of Sports Medicine
Research activity: biology and biomechanics of anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction, biology and biomechanics of cartilage repair, evidence-based medicine in shoulder surgery
Authorship in 91 journal articles, 35 book chapters, editor of 2 books

Dr. W.Jaap WILLEMS ,MD,PhD

Chief Shoulder and Elbow Unit, Lairesse Clinic, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
А visiting consultant in the International Knee and Joint Centre in Abu Dhabi, (United Arab Emirates)
Dr. Willems graduated at the Free University in Amsterdam in 1974. Before starting his orthopaedic training in 1979, he worked 4 years in a missionary hospital in Tanzania.
He founded with 2 collaegues the Dutch Arthroscopy Society in 1990 and also founded the Dutch Shoulder and Elbow Society in 1999. He started an arthroscopy and arthroplasty cadaver course on shoulder and elbow in 1991, which is running this year for the 28th time.
Scientific interests: kinematic analysis of shoulder arthroplasty and visualising bone defects in shoulder instability.
He has been active in several committees as well in the board of directors in the ISAKOS.
He has served in the Executive Committee of the SECEC (European Society for Surgery of the Shoulder and the Elbow) from 2001 to 2010, from 2004-2008 as General Secretary and from 2008-2010 as president.
Was honoured by the Queen of the Netherlands for both his efforts to promote shoulder surgery in The Netherlands as well as his orthopaedic activities in Africa and India, to become Knight in the Order of Orange Nassau.