On the 13th - 14th of September 2018 in Moscow under the head of leading Russian and foreign surgeons will be held the CONGRESS of FOOT & ANKLE JOINT, which will gather international professional community in order to discuss current issues, trends, methods of treatment for injuries of the foot and ankle. Introduce you the first persons of the event.

Dr James Calder
MD, PHD, FRCS (Tr & Orth), FFSEM, Great Britain  
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Dr James Calder is an internationally recognised expert of treatment of sports injuries and consultant Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Surgeon. Dr Calder works with international athletes and sports professionals including Barclays Premier League soccer teams, FC Barcelona, AC Milan and Aviva Premiership rugby clubs in addition to the British Olympic team, British athletics, gymnastics, hockey, netball and sailing, England cricket, rugby and soccer. He also looks after patients from the Royal Ballet, Covent Garden and Birmingham Royal Ballet and is Medical Advisor to Dance UK.

Professional Society memberships:

• British Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society.
• European Society for Sports Traumatology, Knee Surgery and Arthroscopy (ESSKA).
• International Cartilage Repair Society.
• ESSKA - Association of Foot and Ankle Surgeons (Vice President).
• American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons.
• American Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society.
• The Faculty of Sport and Exercise Medicine (UK).
• Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society.

He has developed a major clinical interest in the arthroscopic treatment (keyhole surgery) of ankle conditions and sports-related foot and ankle injuries. 

Prof. Andrey KOROLEV
Professor of the Traumatology and Orthopaedics Department at the RUDN University, Russia
Chief physician, Medical Director of ECSTO
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One of the most respected sports traumatologists and orthopedic surgeons of Russia, who consults in the field of orthopedics and traumatology many professional sport clubs in Russia and other countries (BC CSKA Moscow, BC SPARTAK, BC KHIMKI, BC DYNAMO Moscow, HC DYNAMO Moscow, FC CSKA, FC ZENIT, the Russian national team on football and hockey, International Tennis Tournament VTB Kremlin Cup, etc.).

Professional Society memberships:

• Association of Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy and Orthopaedic surgery, Rehabilitation (ASTAOR), President.
• International Society of Arthroscopy, Knee Surgery and Orthopaedic Sports Medicine, member of the Committee on arthroscopy.
• European society of sports traumatology, knee surgery and arthroscopy (ESSKA), member of the Committee on sports medicine.
• Russian Arthroscopic Society (RAO).
• American Academy of orthopaedic surgeons (AAOS).
• French society of arthroscopy (SFA).
• Polish society of sports traumatology (PTTS).

Professional interests: arthroscopic joint surgery, orthopedic surgery, sports medicine, sports injuries, joint surgery.

Professor Andrey KARDANOV
Professor of the Traumatology and Orthopaedics Department at the RUDN University, Russia
CONGRESS CO-PRESIDENTS

Professional Society memberships:
• French Society of Orthopedic Surgery and Traumatology (SOFCOT).
• Association of Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy and Orthopaedic surgery, Rehabilitation (ASTAOR).
• The Russian society for surgery of the foot and ankle (RUSFAS).

Professional interests: foot surgery, total joint replacement, treatment of fractures and false joints, deformities of the limbs.

Online - registration to the Congress is started. The Science Department invites you and your colleagues to actively participate in the event!