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EDITOR’S MESSAGE

As summer continues in the northern hemisphere, and winter cools the south, we are still digesting our recent
memories from the long-awaited ISAKOS Congress in Toronto.

As with previous Congresses, the meeting in Toronto was a huge success, bringing together surgeons from
all over the globe to interact scientifically and socially, to share experiences and thoughts, differences and

similarities.

In my opinion, this is what ISAKOS is all about.

Big world, small (but rapidly growing!) community.

Interaction without boundaries, resulting in a fruitful experience for us all.
New friends, new places to visit, new techniques to adopt, and constant evolution.

With our eyes on the future ISAKOS Congress in Lyon in 2015, we have decided to broaden the ISAKOS voice
to many more aspects of life that are important and relevant to us. This is in keeping with our society’s spirit and
our ever expanding interests far beyond simply orthopaedics.

ISAKOS members are well read and up to date with the scientific literature, and as your global voice we are
aware that the ISAKOS Newsletter is not meant to be a substitute for high impact orthopaedic journals. However,
we would like to generate a global discussion and common language, to provide the community with cutting

edge information that is not usually available in the purely scientific forums. We aspire to share life experiences
and to let our role models pass on their wisdom, in order to eliminate the need to reinvent the wheel all over

again, or fight battles which have already been won.

In the era of Facebook, Twitter and streamlined communication, where information is available in small digestible
bites, the ISAKOS Newsletter is moving to quick, take-away messages, so you can consume it, sip by sip, with

your morning espresso or in between cases.

As the new Editor of the ISAKOS Newsletter, my vision is for the ISAKOS Newsletter to be something you can
pick up and read for a few minutes at a time, and still be provided with interesting, relevant information. We hope

it will provoke thought perhaps on topics slightly broader than typical journals.

There are the things that surround us or we use everyday, but we do not always stop to think what are they
made of or how they work (see ‘In a Nutshell’, Page 45).

• As we progress and develop in our careers, we are all curious to know how our mentors deal with both

family and professional life decision making (jump to ‘Life Style’, Page 42).

• We have also included advice from the more organized or experienced physicians among us, that we
hope you find helpful to learn how they keep five balls in the air, stay productive, on schedule, safe and
happy! (see Robert Marx’s OR checklist on Page 39).

• Everyone could use tips on how to get through a busy professional day without stumbling or fading, an
issue which many of us have been dealing with (without too much success) for years (Visit our Nutritionist
on Page 44).

I’d like to take this opportunity to thank James Lubowitz, USA, the legendary Editor in Chief of this Newsletter,

for six outstanding years of excellence. Jim has turned this Newsletter into an established and respected global
forum, making it hard for anyone to fill these large shoes.

Finally, we would like congratulate our incoming new President, Masahiro Kurosaka, and send a round of

applause to ISAKOS’ Executive Director, Michele Johnson, and her amazing team, Donna Festo, Katie
Anderson, Hilary Matthews, Kathleen Reyes, April Warden and Beverlee Galstan, who will take us with great

vision and expertise into this new and exciting 2013–2015 term.

Enjoy!

Omer Mei-Dan, MD, USA

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