Jacques Menetrey studied medicine at the University of Lausanne. He completed his orthopaedic training at the University Hospital of Geneva and achieved a Sports Medicine Fellowship and Research Fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. He wrote his medical thesis about “Musculoskeletal injuries in professional dancing” in 1995, and his private docent thesis about “How to Improve muscle healing” in 2004, both successfully presented at the University of Geneva, Switzerland.

Jacques Menetrey is a Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University Hospital of Geneva and acted as the head of the Orthopaedic Sports Medicine Unit from 2003 to 2016. He is currently the Medical Director of the Swiss Olympic Medical Center at Hirslanden Clinique La Colline in Geneva Switzerland since 2016. His main area of clinical activity is orthopaedic sports medicine focusing on knee and muscle surgery, as well as primary knee replacement surgery. He is also the medical director of the professional ice hockey team GSHC, and has been the medical director of Alpine Skiing at the Youth Olympic Games Lausanne 2020, Doctor for the Swiss Alpine Ski Team, former medical director of the Cycling World Pro Team IAM cycling, of the Geneva Supercross, the Béjart ballet and Geneva ballet. Jacques has been the head of the Geneva basic and advanced knee arthroscopy course for more than 20 years now.

His research has focused upon regenerative medicine, cell therapy, and tissue engineering applied to muscle, ligament and cartilage. His clinical research has focused on meniscal and ACL injury, as well as muscle injury. Professor Menetrey is also editorial board member and reviewer of several national and international scientific journals in orthopaedic surgery and sports medicine, and the editor of the yearly Sports Medicine issue of the Revue Medicale Suisse. He authored and co-authored numerous peer-reviewed publications and book chapters. He notably co-edited the bestseller: “The Knee Joint: Surgical Techniques and Strategies”.

He is currently the Past President of ESSKA.

David DEJOUR has been the Head Director of Lyon-Ortho-Clinic since 1996. He is globally recognized for his pioneering research on the patellofemoral joint, knee ACL, and patellofemoral joint in degenerative knees. He served as the President of the Lyon School of Knee Surgery from 2010-2012, President of the European Society of Sport and Knee Arthroscopy (ESSKA) from 2018-2020, and held positions on the Board of the Francophone Arthroscopy Society (SFA) and the French National Society (SOFCOT). In recognition of his work on patellofemoral disorders and orthopedics, he received a lifetime award from the Patellofemoral Foundation.

His primary focus lies in sports medicine related to the knee.

For patellofemoral instability, he published in 1998 the worldwide classification of trochlear dysplasia using CT scan and X-Rays. In 2012 He starts to explore MRI in patellofemoral instability and introduce the modified sagittal patellofemoral engagement index in patella alta which allow to be more accurate in decision making in the famous “menu a la carte” of Lyon. From the diagnosis to the treatment, he proposed several innovative surgical procedures such as deepening trochleoplasty in high grade trochlear dysplasia, patellar closing wedge osteotomy, and a specific MPFL procedure.

For ACL he focuses on the intrinsic factors for ACL ruptures or re-ruptures and published the technique and the longest follow up on tibial deflexion osteotomy given the best slope target for correction and making the demonstration that the static anterior tibial translation is one of the most important factors to look at to make the right decision and protect the new ACL and the cartilage.

David Dejour and ESSKA have a very long story. Since he attended his first ESSKA congress in Budapast in 1996, he was an ESSKA-AOSSM fellow in 2003 and the ESSKA President from 2018-2020. In 2022 he was the ESSKAAOSSM godfather to the first travelling fellowship with three women as fellows, showing that the input from the “Women in ESSKA” initiative created in 2018 was successful.

In life or at work energy, open mind, happiness, sense of humour is certainly the best definition of David Dejour.

Romain Seil studied medicine in Luxembourg and Brussels. He trained in Belgium and Germany (Dept of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Saarland Medical School, Homburg/Saar-Germany). He gained a Diploma of Orthopaedic Surgery in 1998 and in Special Orthopaedic Surgery in 2001 at the Medical Association of Saarland, Germany. He wrote his doctoral thesis on meniscal repair in 2001 and his professorial thesis (habilitation) on anterior cruciate ligament injuries in children in 2003.

Romain has worked as an orthopaedic surgeon at the Centre Hospitalier de Luxembourg since September 2004 where he acts as Head of the Department of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery and, from 2008, as Head of the Department of the Locomotor system. His main areas of clinical activity are orthopaedic sports medicine as well as primary and revision knee reconstructive surgery. He was appointed extraordinary professor in orthopaedic surgery at the University of Saarland in 2007. Romain has been co-director of the Luxembourg Olympic Medical Centre since 2008 and of the Sports Medicine Research Laboratory of the ‘Centre de Recherche Public – Santé’ since 2009. Romain’s interest in knee osteotomies started in the late 1990s where he collaborated closely with his colleague Professor Dietrich Pape in the field, a collaboration which continues through the biannual organization of an international osteotomy course in Luxembourg.

His scientific work deals with the analysis and improvement of diagnostic, surgical and non-surgical principles of overuse and sports-related joint injuries and diseases as well as on the investigation and promotion of primary and secondary prevention initiatives in sports medicine and joint surgery. Romain is editorial board member and reviewer of several scientific journals in orthopaedic surgery and sports medicine. He authored and co-authored numerous peer-reviewed publications and book chapters.

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Prof. Matteo Denti received his Medical Degree in Medicine and Surgery from the University of Milan in 1990. He finished his Specialization in Orthopedics and Traumatology, Gaetano Pini Institute, University of Milan in 1985.

Dr. Denti worked at the 2^nd Orthopedic Clinic of the University of Milan, Milan Orthopedic Traumatology Center and San Gerardo Hospital, Monza, with special interest in knee, shoulder and arthroscopy surgery between 1985 and1996. He began the position of Head of the Structural Module of Arthroscopic Surgery, Orthopedic Clinic, University of Milan, San Gerardo Hospital, Monza between 1996 and2000. Between the years 2000-2010, he was the Head of the Center for Sports Traumatology and Arthroscopic Surgery, Galeazzi Orthopedic Institute, Milan. He is currently the Orthopedic scientific collaborator Galeazzi Orthopedic Institute, Milan since 2016.

Prof. Denti was the former president of SIGASCOT, and Honorary Member of the American Orthopedic Society for Sports Medicine and member of many other Societies.

Professor João Espregueira-Mendes graduated in Medicine from the Faculty of Medicine of University of Porto (Portugal) in 1985 and finished his residency in Orthopaedics and Traumatology at São João Hospital, Porto (Portugal) in 1994, with the final grade of 20/20. He received his PhD in Orthopaedics and Traumatology at Faculty of Medicine of University of Porto in 1995 and was approved with honour and distinction. From 1998 to 2006, was the 1st Director of Orthopaedics and Traumatology at São Sebastião Hospital. At the moment, he is the Chairman of Clínica Espregueira - FIFA Medical Centre of Excellence.

Currently, his education activities are mostly centralized in Minho University, where he is the Chairman of the Orthopaedic Department. He is also a senior associate researcher at 3B’s/ICVS.

He has received 15 awards and distinctions and serves many roles in European and International orthopaedic-related societies, of which stand out: President of SPAT (2004-2008); President of ESSKA (2012-2014); President Founder of ESSKA Foundation (2013); Member of the Editorial Board of the Knee Surgery Sports Traumatology and Arthroscopy - KSSTA Journal (2003-2021); Board of Trustees of Journal of Experimental Orthopaedics (since 2014); Board of Trustees of Journal of ISAKOS (since 2017); Second Vice-President of ISAKOS (current); member of the Publications Committee, of the Bylaws Committee, of the Committee on the Committees and of the Site Selection Committee of ISAKOS (current); member of board of trustees of Journal of ISAKOS and Journal of Experimental Orthopaedics (current); Associate Editor of Journal of Cartilage & Joint Preservation (current); Board Member of the Patellofemoral Foundation (current); Advisory Board of FIFA Medical Centre of Excellence (current). He is also honorary member of BOTA, SPAT and SEROD, and life member of ESSKA.

He has lectured more than 700 communications worldwide and published more than 200 works in the area of Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine mostly focusing anterior cruciate ligament injuries, knee cartilage injuries, instrumented-assisted imaging evaluation (knee ligaments and patellofemoral joint) and tissue engineering and regenerative medicine (PRP, MSCs). He also invented the Porto Knee Testing Device (as well as the Patella and Ankle Testing Devices) to measure the injury of knee and ankle joint ligaments within the MRI.

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• April 2020

Prof. Niek van Dijk received his MD in 1977 from the University of Leiden. He began his residency at Utrecht’s Centraal Military Hospital, and continued at Wilhelmina Gasthuis Department of Experimental Surgery, in Amsterdam. In March 1994, he obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Amsterdam. His thesis was entitled “Diagnostic strategies in patients with severe ankle sprain”, and his promotor was Professor Dr. R.K. Marti, the former head of Orthopaedic Surgery at AMC.

In 2000 he started the first international Amsterdam Foot and Ankle Course. Between 2002-2016 he was head of the Orthopaedic Department of the AMC Hospital (Amsterdam UMC). He is emeritus professor in Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Amsterdam. His great interest in teaching and his believe in the techniques of the Amsterdam Foot and Ankle School stimulated him to develop the free access website Amsterdam Foot and Ankle Platform.

In addition to being the President of ESSKA and ESSKA-AFAS (the Ankle and Foot Section of ESSKA), Prof. van Dijk was president of the Dutch Orthopedic Association and the Nordic Orthopedic Association. He is honorary member of several Societies and Associations. He is tutor of 50 PhD-students who he guided to a successful defense of their PhD-thesis. Niek van Dijk published over 350 scientific indexed publications, wrote over 100 book chapters and is editor of several books. He is founding editor of JISAKOS, the journal of ISAKOS.

Currently he is working in the FIFA Medical Centers of Excellence in Madrid, Clinic Ripol&DePrado&VanDijk and in Porto, Clinica de Dragão. More information is available on Wikipedia.

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Dr. Engebretsen completed his undergraduate degree at Hamar Katedralskole in Norway and then received his medical degree from the University of Oslo in 1979. He then went on to complete his orthopaedic residency at Trondheim University Hospital and his fellowship at the University of Minnesota. He received a PhD in orthopaedic surgery in 1990 from Trondheim University.

Dr. Lars Engebretsen has served on the faculties of the University of Trondheim and the University of Minnesota. He was the Professor and Chairman for the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Ullevaal Hospital from 1996 to 2000 and from 2002 to 2004 and the Orthopaedic University Clinic in Oslo from 2000 to 2002. From 2005 to 2007, he served as the Divisional Director for Orthopaedics, at the University of Oslo. He is currently Professor and Chair of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Oslo University Hospital and Faculty of Medicine University of Oslo, along with Co-chair of the Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center.

He has published more than 300 articles and book chapters and continues to be very active in clinical, epidemiological and basic science research in the areas of general sports medicine, knee ligaments, cartilage and prevention of sports injuries and illnesses. He has received research grants and awards from many agencies and associations, including the National Institutes of Health, the Norwegian Council for Research in Science and humanities,the Norwegian Ministry of Health, AOSSM and the International Olympic Committee. He is also involved in three different research groups in Norway and the US which are studying knee ligament, sports injury prevention and knee joint chondrocyte transplantation. He is an editor of the British Journal Sports Medicine (IPHP edition) and on the editorial board of AJSM, Scandanavian Journal of Medicine and Science in Sports, Knee Surgery, Arthroscopy and Sports Traumatology, and Th eKnee and is a reviewer for multiple other orthopaedic and sports traumatology journals.

Dr. Engebretsen has been the President of the Norwegian Sports Medicine Society and the Scandinavian Foundation of Sports Medicine. Dr. Engebretsen is or has been a board member of the Norwegian Society of Sports Medicine, the Scandinavian Foundation of Medicine & Science in Sports, ISAKOS, the Orthopaedic Research Society and International Knee Society. Since 2007, he has also served as the Head of Medical Sciences for the International Olympic Committee.

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• May 2012

Daniel Fritschy was born on 12 May 1947 in St Imier, a town located in the Swiss Jura valley of Tavannes. Enthused by sports at an early age, especially soccer, he naturally focused on the musculoskeletal system. After medical school in Geneva, he embraced orthopaedics. Daniel accomplished his training at the University Hospital of Geneva, obtained a doctorate in 1977 and completed two fellowships, the first in 1978 in Paris, at the Cochin and Trousseau Hospitals, and the second in 1990, in San Diego with Dale Daniel at the Kaiser Permanente. This was a sports medicine research fellowship awarded to Daniel by the Swiss Society of Orthopaedics. He joined the staff in Geneva in 1985, obtained a Privat-Docent in 1990 and began his 23-year career as a faculty member of the Department of Surgery of the University Hospital of Geneva where he rose to the rank of Associate Professor in 1999.

Starting from a general training in orthopaedic and trauma surgery including a year in neurosurgery, he belonged to the first generation of surgeons who specialised in knee surgery. During his academic career, he wrote and co-signed numerous book chapters and scientific articles. He notably co-edited a real bestseller entitled: “Traumatologie de l’appareil moteur: Stratégie pour le médecin de premier recours” awarded the Swiss Orthopaedic Society’s Debrunner prize. His research efforts focused on tendinopathy, meniscal repair, tissue healing, ACL injury, and later on TKA. He has also served on editorial boards of many journals (KSSTA, OTSR) and was currently an Associate Editor of EFORT Open Reviews. Daniel Fritschy was amongst the pioneers of sports medicine in this part of the world. He was notably a precursor and a great proponent of non-operative functional treatment which he successfully applied to tibial fractures of skiers and to the management of ankle sprains. A pioneer of operative arthroscopic surgery in Western Switzerland, Daniel excelled in the field where he was a renowned and sought-after master. Being a superb surgeon, he described a surgical technique for the treatment of patellar insertional tendinopathy that we still use today. Appalled by the results of closed wedge high tibial osteotomy, he introduced the open wedge technique to our area. He was also one of the developers of a contemporary knee prosthesis. Daniel was also amongst the first to recognize the importance of early rehabilitation after surgery.

Prof. Fritschy was a fantastic and entertaining teacher thereby initiating hundreds of seminars, symposia, meetings, specialty days, sports medicine weeks (FARD), and he was the co-founder of the Geneva knee arthroscopy course that has recently celebrated its 27th edition. Later in his career, he participated in humanitarian missions in Africa, where his talent did wonders.

Curious in nature, he travelled the world to share ideas and to be inspired by his visits and interactions. It allowed him to constantly implement cutting edge techniques always with a critical mind. In this part of the world, he has been one of the first, if not the first, orthopaedic surgeon to embrace a career of sports medicine doctor on field, and served for years as medical director for the Swiss Alpine Ski team, team physician of the Swiss Winter Olympic delegations in Nagano, Lillehammer, Albertville and Calgary, and the Genève Servette Hockey Club. His enthusiastic devotion has led to a dynasty of sports medicine surgeons and physicians taking care of sports at home and abroad.

Importantly, he devoted a good part of his life to ESSKA and was a real pillar of the society sitting on the Board from 1992 to 2010. He served as Treasurer and General Secretary, before becoming ESSKA President from 2006 to 2008. He has notably been an ESSKA-AOSSM travelling fellow in 1987 and Godfather of the same tour in 2007. Amongst his many functions, Prof Fritschy was also a senior Trustee of the AO Foundation and a member of the Board of the Swiss Sports Medicine Society where he was named an Honorary Member in 2015.

Prof. Fritschy unexpectedly died on 2 August 2021 while vacationing in Sweden. He was 74 years of age.

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• May 2013

Dr. Neil Thomas is a consultant orthopaedic knee surgeon. He consults privately at the Hampshire Clinic and the Wessex Knee Unit at the Wessex Nuffield Hospital in the UK. He also holds an NHS consultant appointment at the North Hampshire Hospital.

Dr. Thomas is a Past President of the British Association for Surgery of the Knee (BASK). He is also an active member of the British Orthopaedic Association, and the International Society of Arthroscopy, Knee Surgery and Orthopaedic Sports Medicine. His special Interests in Orthopedics are all types of Knee Surgery, Arthroscopy, Ligament reconstruction, Joint Replacement (total and unicompartmental), Revision and complex surgery.

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• May 2016

Prof. Karl Peter Benedetto received his medical degree in 1976 from the Medical School at Innsbruck University. After training as a general surgeon, he did a Fellowship for trauma surgery at University of Ulm, Germany in 1982.

He was the Vice-Chairman of department for trauma surgery at University of Innsbruck between 1988 and 1998 and received his degree for Sports Traumatology in 1995. He was an ESSKA-AOSSM Traveling Fellow in 1987. Between 2000 and 2016 he was the chairman for trauma surgery and sports traumatology at the Academic Hospital of Feldkirch, Austria.

He was the Editor in Chief of the German arthroscopy journal between 1996 and2004, Co-editor of the ESSKA Journal between 2006 and 2012. He has 92 Publications in Peer reviewed Journals and 27 Book Chapters.

He has organised annual Arthroscopy courses from 1985 to2000 in Innsbruck in Collaboration with the Institute of Anatomy.

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• June 2011

Prof. Pierre Chambat graduated from Lyon School of Medicine in 1969. He started his residency focused on knee surgery in 1974 with Albert Trillat when he was professor and Henry Dejour associated professor.

Dr. Pierre Chambat together with Dr. Gilles Walch founded the Centre Orthopédique Santy in January 2006 which is dedicated to Sports Injuries and Orthopaedic surgery. He is currently working at Sainte Anne Lumière Private Clinic and doing consultation on exclusively knee cases at Centre Orthopédique Santy.

He has authored more than 100 articles in leading journals. Prof. Chambat entered the board as a secretary after the ESSKA congress in Stockholm in 1990. He led the change of the society’s headquarters from Berlin to Geneva in 2000 and brought in the ESSKA board with a new young secretary and a treasurer during his presidency.

He is a member of SOFCOT, SFA, ESSKA, ISAKOS and AOSSM.

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• December 2011

Gian Carlo Puddu, MD was born in 1943 in Rome, Italy. He received his medical degree from the University of Rome La Sapienza, in 1968, and completed his residency in orthopedic surgery at the Hospital Il Policlinico in Rome in 1971. After his residency in Orthopedics, Dr. Puddu was awarded a fellowship in Knee Surgery with Prof. Albert Trillat in Lyon (1973), and a fellowship in Knee Surgery and Sports Medicine with Dr. Jack C. Hughston, in Columbus, Georgia (1975 – 1976).

During this same time, he began his teaching career in orthopedics at the University of Rome La Sapienza where he was associate professor until 1987. Since 1987, he has had several teaching appointments at: the University of Siena, the University Chieti and at the Istituto Superiore di Educazione Fisica in Rome.

Dr. Puddu has been involved in many research projects on knee osteotomy and ACL reconstruction advancing progress toward better treatment for knee arthrosis, cartilage repair, ACL reconstruction and tendinopaties. He has published more than 150 papers and book chapters related to knee surgery and sports medicine.

In addition to teaching and practicing, Dr. Puddu was the ESSKA President between May 1999 to September 2000, and served as Godfather for the AOSSM-ESSKA Traveling Fellowship. Dr. Puddu, has been an AOSSM Hall of Fame inductees on 2009.

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• June 2009

Carl Joachim Wirth worked at the Orthopädische Klinik der Medizinischen Hochschule in Hannover, Germany. He became an honorary member of the German Society for Orthopedics and Trauma Surgery (DGOU) in 2014 and was the President of the German Society for Trauma Surgery in 2003. He has co-written numerous books and papers in various fields of specialization.

Rene Verdonk was Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and head of the department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology, Ghent University Hospital, Gent, Belgium since 1992. He is emeritus professor since 2011. He has been involved in the advancement of trauma surgery and in knee pathology, and takes a special interest in cruciate and meniscal surgery. Currently, he is also involved in cartilage pathology.

He has published in a large number of review journals. He was Editor-in-Chief of the KSSTA journal (Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy) and later became senior editor since 2013.

Furthermore, he is a member of many scientific societies, such as the Belgian Society for Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology, of which he was President in 1991-1992. He is a founding member of BOTA (Belgian Orthopaedic Trauma Association), Past President of ESSKA and past chairman of the basic science committee. He was nominated to the prestigious Hall of Fame of the AOSSM in 2011. During the meeting in Lyon in June 2015 he was awarded the prestigious honorary ISAKOS membership.

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• June 2010

Gerardus Petrus Hubertus (Sjung) Hermans was the founder of sports medicine in The Netherlands.

Born in 1936, he first wanted to become an anatomist, started medical school and after a short time decided to become a medical doctor. He was a resident in orthopaedic surgery in Nijmegen under the guidance of Professor San Giorgi. His thesis, with supervision of Professor Chapchall, dealt with problems about the epiphysis. He had a private practise in Hilversum and was the Dutch teams’ physician at the Olympic Games in Moscow (1980), Los Angeles (1984), Seoul (1988) and Barcelona (1992).

Sjung Hermans played an important role in the history of ESSKA. In 1988 he was asked to organise the third congress of ESKA in Amsterdam after the sudden death of Theo van Rens. It was an enormous success as Sjung was a great organiser, gifted speaker and perfect host. Then he was the Godfather of the ESKA-AOSSM Knee Travelling fellowship in 1989 with the travelling fellows Matteo Denti (Switzerland/Italy), Klaus Lehrberger (Germany) and Albert Van Kampen (The Netherlands). During that four-week trip the fellows saw every aspect of Sjung including his devotion to sports and good health, incredible kindness, hospitality and always amazing and carefully chosen presents for all the hosts, which he prepared with his beloved wife Constance.

Thereafter he served as President of ESSKA from 1992 to 1994. In April 1995 he was the Godfather of the Asian Pacific tour with Burt Klos (The Netherlands), Uffe Jorgenson (Denmark) and Luigi Pederzini (Italy). During that trip he had to go back to The Netherlands due to being infected with the legionella bacteria.

In 2001 he stopped practising and - typically Sjung - finished completely with orthopaedics. He had a boat built and started sailing along the coast of The Netherlands and enjoyed his retirement.

Sjung Hermans, passed away on 18 October 2018 at the age of 82 in his hometown of Hilversum, The Netherlands.

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• December 2009

Dr. Ejnar K.G. Eriksson was born May 19, 1929 in Östersund, Sweden. He attended Skellefteå High School in Skellefteå, Northern Sweden and matriculated in 1947. During his high school years he was the school champion of orienteering three consecutive years. He went to Medical School at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm and obtained his M.D. 1956. He trained in both general surgery and orthopaedic surgery at the Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden and received Boards in both general surgery in 1969 and orthopaedics in 1975. In 1966 he defended his Ph.D. and became associate professor at the Karolinska Institute.

Dr. Eriksson trained in sports orthopaedic surgery mainly under Lennart Broström at the Karolinska hospital but also under Sten-Otto Liljedahl. From 1971 - 1987, Dr. Eriksson was Head of a Division of Trauma shared between the department of General Surgery and the department of Orthopaedics. In 1987 he was appointed full time professor of Sports orthopaedic surgery at the Karolinska Hospital in Stockholm. This was then the only full time professorship of Sports orthopaedic surgery with an autonomous department of Sports Medicine and Arthroscopy in Europe at that time.

Dr. Eriksson started using arthroscopy in 1971 and has given arthroscopy courses in 16 different countries and participated as a teacher in arthroscopy and sports medicine courses in 43 different countries. He has trained a great number of foreign fellows from different countries in sports medicine and arthroscopy. He has founded International Society for Skiing Safety (ISSS) and European Society for Sports Traumatology, Knee Surgery and Arthroscopy (ESSKA) and been president of both organizations. He was also been President of the Federation Internationelle de la Medicine Sportive (FIMS), 1980-1986. He started the journal Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology and Arthroscopy (KSSTA) in 1993 and has been it’s chief-editor since the start. Dr. Eriksson has published 330 scientific papers in leading journals and given numerous talks at different courses and conferences.

He will most probably be remembered for his work to popularize arthroscopy and ACL-reconstructions. At the age of 78 he is still skiing downhill and cross country and his favourite sport is long distance lake skating.

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Prof. Werner Müller got his Medical Degree from his studies in Medicine at University of Basel and Universities of Vienna and Paris in 1959. He finished his residency in 1970 at the newly created Orthopaedic University Clinic of Basel with the head Prof. Georges Chapchal,who was a disciple of the well known Dutch Prof. van Nes in Nijmegen. He was called “Gelenk-Müller“ (Joint Müller) by Prof. van Nes.

Dr. Müller became the Professor extraordinarius for Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Basel in 1990. The very first publication ever with image documentation on the pathophysiology of the Pivot Pivot Shift was published in 1977 in Zentralblatt für Chirurgie. The legendary book titled “The Knee. Form, Function and Ligament Reconstruction” was printed in 1982.

He is honorary member of 13 international societies including AOSSM, Herodicus Society, ESSKA and ISAKOS. He is also member of the Hall of Fame of AOSSM.

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