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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE

I would like to begin my first ISAKOS

Presidential Message, with a congratulations

to the entire membership of ISAKOS on the

wonderful success of the recent 9th Biennial

ISKAOS Congress, held on May 12–17, 2013

in Toronto, Canada.

Special thanks are owed to Marc Safran, MD, USA and his extraordinary Program Committee, for creating a

diverse and energetic scientific program for participants of all specialties. I would like to offer additional thanks
to all paper presenters, and faculty members for making the Congress a diverse educational event, and creating

a collaborative and interactive atmosphere.

As the President of ISAKOS, I am grateful for the dedication and hard work of my predecessors Moises Cohen
(Brazil), and Freddie Fu (USA). I look forward to continuing their great work with the collaboration of the entire

ISAKOS Membership for my 2013–2015 presidential term.

When I was named as part of the ISAKOS presidential line in 2009, I began to reflect on the future of ISAKOS.
What will ISAKOS be? Who can shape the future or ISAKOS? How can we fulfill our commitments to our
members?

With an eighteen-year history, I always compare ISAKOS to a teenager – young, talented, and energetic, with
with an ambition to change the world! ISAKOS is an international society embracing 4,032 members, which
makes it a unique, living, motivated society with huge potential and tremendous fortune. However, potential

and fortune will not develop on their own – we need wisdom and a deep sense of history to forsee the potential
and grow! I was very happy when I found the future is in the younger generation’s hand.. they are the fortune

of ISAKOS.

The ISAKOS traveling fellowship program has witnessed fruitful achievements in the winning physicians. I was
inspired by the creativity and passion from those young people when they were traveling around the world

and learning from others. Without any doubt, they will be the leaders in their countries in the coming future,
and we feel the responsibility to establish a wider platform for more and more young people to show their

talent and aspiration. The ISAKOS Upper Extremity and Patellofemoral Traveling Fellowships are fantastic
opportunities, and ISAKOS is thrilled to announce the opening of the Masaki Watanabe Arthroscopy Traveling

Fellowship! For more information on these fellowships, please visit the ISAKOS Congress Awards website -
http://isakos.com/meetings/2015congress/Awards.aspx.

Education is at the core of ISAKOS’ mission to “advance the worldwide exchange and dissemination of
education, research and patient care in arthroscopy, knee surgery and orthopaedic sports medicine.” This is

why the Education Committee and Program Committee are essential when we discuss ISAKOS’ future. I am
humbled to see the continuing hard work and tireless contributions from my predecessors and colleagues in

the purpose of making the ISAKOS an international, diverse, and committed organization. One such example of
the ISAKOS Education Committee’s efforts are the four booklets published and distributed at the 2013 ISAKOS

Congress. These booklets are on a variety of topics ranging from Rotator Cuff to the Meniscus, and I encourage
you to log in to ISAKOS Global Link to read them if

you were unable to attend the ISAKOS Congress.

In the next two years, we still need the vivid
participation and volunteerism from all of our

members, by unifying the strength, sharing the
values, and keeping the forward-looking mindset
in heart, to do the right things, to shape a brighter

future for ISAKOS.

Masahiro Kurosaka

01 From left: Freddie Fu, ISAKOS President 2009–2011
Marc Safran, ISAKOS President 2017–2019
Masahiro Kurosaka, ISAKOS President 2013–2015

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Moises Cohen, ISAKOS President 2011–2013
Philippe Neyret, ISAKOS President 2015–2017

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