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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
Congratulations to the entire membership of ISAKOS on the wonderful success of the recent 10th Biennial ISAKOS Congress, held on June 7–11, 2015 in Lyon, France
The future of ISAKOS is bright!
As the President of ISAKOS, I am grateful for the dedication and hard work of my predecessors Masahiro Kurosaka (Japan), Moises Cohen (Brazil) and all the past Presidents. I am looking forward to continuing ISAKOS’ mission to “advance the worldwide exchange and dissemination of education, research and patient care in arthroscopy, knee surgery and orthopaedic sports medicine” in collaboration with the new team of Committee Chairs and the entire ISAKOS membership for my Presidential term 2015 – 2017.
Special thanks are owed to Tassos Georgoulis (Greece), Julian Feller (Australia) and their 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, inclusive and interactive atmosphere (not only with the latest communication technology but also with a friendly spirit).
As I enter my term as ISAKOS President, I am occupied with two questions – What is the current situation of ISAKOS, and what projects can we initiate in the coming two years to move ISAKOS forward?
What is the current situation? Today, ISAKOS has a fantastic Executive Leadership group, as well as a superb office, and our financial situation is better than ever. This is a unique opportunity to prepare the future of ISAKOS. The various clinical committees have done tremendous work, and published many booklets under the coordination of Joao Espregueira Mendes (Portugal). ISAKOS is recognized around the world for our high level of scientific content during the Biennial Congress, as well as our publications. Naturally we will continue to develop our strengths.
What projects can ISAKOS initiate during the next years?
One area of particular excitement is the building anticipation for the first issue of the Journal of ISAKOS, scheduled for our first edition in early 2016! Dr. Niek van Dijk has been hard at work as Editor in Chief and has enlisted some of ISAKOS’ best and brightest to serve as the inaugural editorial board. JISAKOS will present an authentically global perspective to orthopaedic surgeons and related professionals. As a result, the journal will reflect diverse patient populations, healthcare systems, and clinical preferences. JISAKOS is intended to be directly originated from the society – being conceived, contributed to, and funded by ISAKOS and its members.
In our efforts to plan for the future, the Executive Committee will enlist a Strategic Planning Consultant to lead a retreat in early 2016 to clarify our plans and priorities. A few areas of attention will include:
Partnership with Industry will be different in the next years and we need to be prepared and to take into account not only the new regulations but also to understand the respective roles of the Industry and Society in term of education and resources.
ISAKOS Committee Structure has recently evolved ISAKOS must continue to adapt the structure to best serve our mission. We have restructured the clinical committees and created some new clinical committees, including Knee Arthroplasty and Alternatives, Shoulder, Hip / Groin / Thigh, Elbow / Wrist / Hand and Foot / Ankle. Additional administrative committees have been added, including Archives and Publications to best serve our needs moving forward. We shall also continue to promote a well-balanced geographical representation in the committees. The Communication committee and the office will work to develop a better internal communication with a special mission of liaisons among the committees for General Secretary (Jon Karlsson, Sweden) and Assistant Secretary (David Parker, Australia). For more information on the committee restructure, please see page 4.
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