🎙️ Welcome to this new EPOS podcast episode! 🎧
As the 43rd EPOS Annual Meeting begins in the beautiful city of Toulouse, France 🇫🇷, we shine a spotlight on the EPOS Scientific Committee! 🏥🔬
Joining us for this insightful discussion are:
✨ Christian Wong (Denmark) – Immediate Past Chair of the Scientific Committee
✨ Cesar Fontecha (Spain) – New Chair
✨ Dan Perry (UK) & Flossie Carpenter (UK)
We dive into the committee’s journey – its past, the evolution into today’s robust, research-driven structure, and the exciting future of EPOS collaborative studies. 🚀📊
Tune in for an inspiring conversation on the science, vision, and teamwork behind EPOS! 🎤🔍
Dear EPOS friends and colleagues,
It's Spring time !
It is with great pleasure to bring you this latest episode of our podcast featuring two of this year's conference hosts, Prof Franck Accadbled and Prof Carol Hasler.
Dr Javier Downey and Dr Darius Rad, EPOS website committee, set up a brief interview with the hosts to discuss the 43rd EPOS annual meeting soon to start in Toulouse , France 2-4 April 2025.
Please check out the EPOS new Website and 2025 Annual Meeting website.
Hope you enjoy listening to our Podcast.
Your Website Committee
In October, 3 paediatric orthopaedic consultant surgeons from Europe, were very lucky to visit 4 countries in Latin America, Belo Horizonte-Brazil, Buenos Aires-Argentina, Viña del Mar-Chile and finally stoped at the 11th Congress of the Latin American Paediatric Orthopaedic Society, in Panama City-Panama.
Dr Karol Gawelowicz-Stockholm
Dr Alexandru Herdea-Bucharest
Dr Darius Rad-Southampton
We would like to express our gratitude to our friends and hosts that made this journey so beautiful!
Belo Horizonte:
Dr Bruno Azalim
Dr Leo Abrahao
Dr Gilberto Brandao
Dr Marcelo Sternick
Dr Davi Coutinho
Buenos Aires:
Dr Eduardo Sagal
Dr Carlos Duncan
Dr Eduardo Samar
Dr Daniel Yedlin
Dr Miguel Paz
Dr Luciano Ravetti
Dra Carolina Halliburton
Dr Sebastian Maenza
Dra Daniela Paladino
Santiago, Viña del Mar:
Dr Cristian Artiga
Dr Alejandro Peña
Panama City:
Dr Ricardo Mosquera
We thank EPOS and SLAOTI for making this dream possible!
Please check out this video capturing our experience in music and photographs
The EPOS-POSNA 2023 Travelling fellowship recipients share their life experiences as EPOS members and Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeons and their fabulous United States experience.
Dr Flavia Alberghina, Italy
Dr Senol Bekmez, Turkey
Dr Ozren Kubat, Croatia
EPOS Travelling fellowship coordinators:
Dr Ana Presedo, France
Ms Sanni Hiltunen, EPOS Education & Business Development Director
EPOS Website committee:
Dr Francisco Javi Downey Carmona, Spain
Dr Darius Rad, UK
EPOS POSNA 2023 Travelling Fellowship Report
How to apply for the EPOS Travelling Fellowship
The 2024 EPOS-SLAOTI Fellows this year are:
Congratulations to all of them!
Please note the deadline for next year’s EPOS-POSNA fellowship applications is 30th September 2024!
EPOS-SLAOTI 2022 Travelling fellowship recipients share their life experiences and their great Latin American adventure.
Dr Ilhan Bayhan, Turkey
Dr Christiaan van Bergen, Netherlands
Dr Lorenza Marengo, Italy
EPOS Travelling fellowship coordinators:
Dr Ana Presedo, France
Ms Sanni Hiltunen, EPOS Education & Business Development Director
EPOS SLAOTI 2022 Travelling Fellowship Report
How to apply for the EPOS Travelling Fellowship
The 2024 EPOS-SLAOTI Fellows this year are:
Congratulations to all of them!
Please note the deadline for next year’s EPOS-POSNA fellowship applications is 30th September 2024!
The Website Committee is brininging you part 6 (final part) of this new series, Women of EPOS.
We are truly grateful to our EPOS colleagues for taking the time to make this project come to life.
We also realise that there are so many other surgeons that should have been part of this project!
We thank our female colleagues for everything they do!
6th and final episode:
1. Dra Marta Salom , Head of the Pediatric Orthopedic Department, La Fe University and Polytechnic Hospital
Valencia, Spain
2. Dr Kerstin Schneider - Consultant Trauma&Orthopaedic Surgeon with Paediatric interest, Schulthess Klinik, Zurich, Switzerland
3. Prof. Dr. Heide Elke Viehweger - Clinical Professor of Neuroorthopedics, Head of Neuroorthopedics and Gait lab
4. Dr Melinda Witbreuk - Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon
AUMC Amsterdam University Medical Center and OLVG Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Today is 8th March when we celebrate International Women's Day!
Happy 8th March!
The Website Committee is brininging you part 5 of this new series, Women of EPOS.
We thank our female colleagues for everything they do!
5th episode:
1. Miss Yael Gelfer, Consultant Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon, St George's Hospital, London, UK
2. Dr Eva Pontén - Consultant Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon, Associate Professor in Orthopaedic Surgery, Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden
3. Dr Ana Presedo - Consultant Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon, Hôpital Universitaire Robert Debré, Paris
Leading to the International Women's Day, on the 8th of March 2024, the EPOS Website committee will broadcast one episode every week, promoting our female colleagues. This will be done in an alphabetical order.
We thank them for everything they do!
4th episode:
1. Prof Deborah Eastwood, Consultant Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon, RNOH/Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, UK
2. Dr Sharon Eylon - Consultant Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon, Alyn Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel
3. Dr Marie Fridberg - Consultant Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark
Leading to the International Women's Day, on the 8th of March 2024, the EPOS Website committee will broadcast one episode every week, promoting our female colleagues. This will be done in an alphabetical order.
We thank them for everything they do!
3rd episode:
1. Prof Catharina Chiari, Consultant Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon, Speising Hospital, Vienna, Austria
2. Dr Vasiliki Chatziravdeli - Consultant Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon, Hippocrates' General Hospital of Thessaloniki, Greece
3. Miss Sara Dorman - Consultant Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon, Sheffield Children's Hospital, UK
Leading to the International Women's Day, on the 8th of March 2024, the EPOS Website committee will broadcast one episode every week, promoting our female colleagues. This will be done in an alphabetical order.
We thank them for everything they do!
2nd episode:
1. Dr Anne Breen - Consultant Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon, Oslo University Hospital, Norway
2. Miss Anna Bridgens - Consultant Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon, St George's Hospital, London, UK
3. Dr Stefana Carp - Consultant Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon, Victor Gomoiu Hospital, Bucharest, Romania
Leading to the International Women's Day, on the 8th of March 2024, the EPOS Website committee will broadcast one episode every week, promoting our female colleagues. This will be done in an alphabetical order.
We thank them for everything they do!
1st Episode:
1. Dr Flavia Alberghina - Paediatric Orthopaedics Consultant -Dublin, Republic of Ireland
2. Dr Cristina Alves - Paediatric Orthopaedics Consultant - Coimbra, Portugal
3. Dr Stephanie Böhm - Paediatric Orthopaedics Consultant - Stockholm, Sweden
Welcome to the third EPOS Podcast episode!
In this episode we focus on probably one of the hottest topics in Paediatric Trauma, Supracondylar Humeral Fractures.
Prof. Ahmad Saeed Aly from Egypt, member of the EPOS Website Committee, together with his invited expert speakers discuss the varied pathology around these fractures.
1. Prof Antonio Andreacchio MD, Ospedale dei Bambini Vittore Buzzi · Department of Pediatric Surgery, Italy
Different treatment methods
2. Dr Amr Atef Abdelgawad, MD, PhD, MBA, FAAOS, Maimonides Hospital, Brooklin, NY, US
Pink Pulseless Hand
3. Prof Federico Canavese, Department of Pediatric Orthopedic Surgery, Jeanne de Flandre Hospital, Lille University Centre, France
Metaphyseal-Diaphyseal Pattern Fractures
4. Prof Gamal Hosny, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery ,Benha University, Egypt
Complications and Stiff Elbow
This is the second episode of the EPOS podcast!
We focus on the 3 best paper winners from the 41st Annual Meeting held in Krakow at the end of March.
Please see attached link to abstracts from the Krakow meeting, as published in the Journal of Children Orthopaedics.
Also, the best E-poster "The incidence of physeal fractures in the lower limb and the frequency of premature physeal closure: a cohort study of 236 patients" Cant D, Faergemann C, was recently published. Please check out the link here.
This is the inaugural episode of the European Paediatric Orthopaedic Society, EPOS.
Meet the team!
Website committee: Ahmad Saeed ALY - Egypt, Francisco Javier Downey CARMONA - Spain, Ozan Erdal ALI-Turkey, Darius Rareș RAD-UK-Chair and Producer, supported by Blazej Pruszczynski - EPOS Junior CouncillorPoland.
Professor Ignacio Sanpera from Hospital Universitario Son Espases. Palma de Mallorca, Spain, EPOS Past president describes the new Fellowship in Paediatric Orthopaedics under the supervision of EPOS.