Amsterdam, October 2011
Dear Friends,
Summer is over and we are all back to work now, time for an update on the activities of ESSKA-AFAS. Our annual meeting took place at the sports center of the Karolinska institute in Warschau, Poland on June 11th 2011. A consensus meeting was held with a special focus on ‘Lateral ligament lesions in the athletes’ ankle’. Important aspects of diagnosis, treatment and prevention were discussed with best evidence from literature and experts in the audience. The afternoon was filled with interesting case discussions. The evening started with our business meeting and was finished with a typical Polish dinner. Robert Smigielski and Urszula Zdanowicz did a good job as local hosts, thank you!
Also in June we enjoyed the 11th Amsterdam Foot and Ankle Course with a national and international faculty, live-surgery, hands-on cadaver sessions, computer assisted teaching modules and again interesting case discussions sessions.
An important project within ESSKA-AFAS was the visibility on the official ESSKA website, we succeeded with this mission and we are currently online http://www.esska-afas.org Part of this website will be filled with more specific information on all section members in the upcoming months as almost all ESSKA-AFAS members have send a short CV with their special interests. A special thanks to our new ESSKA-AFAS member Daniel Haverkamp for his great help on this.
Our next event will be the International Congress on Cartilage Repair of the Ankle in Clontarf Castle,Dublin on March 9-10 in 2012. Organized by ESSKA-AFAS in collaboration with the Hospital for Special Surgery, this meeting has been established on the basis of requests from leaders in the field to consolidate and share information, which can collectively serve as a basis for international collaboration and innovation.
Also in 2012, there is the 12th Amsterdam Foot and Ankle Course inAmsterdam on June 20-21 and the ESSKA-AFAS Arthroscopy course inArezzo,Italy on September 27 and 28 with Giuliano Cerulli as local organizer.
So far we are heading for a great end of the year, please contact any of the board members for any questions or issues.
Gino Kerkhoffs
Secretary General ESSKA-AFAS
Email: esska.afas@amc.nl
