For each issue of MO Journal, we interview respected surgeons from all over the world to find out more about their day to day lives, preferred surgical techniques and professional history. Browse our list of interviewees or perform a keyword search above.
Published in N°012 - July / August 2021
For this issue, we met Klaus-Peter Günther, a hip specialist and current EFORT President. He tells us about his career as an orthopaedic surgeon, in the footsteps of the great german masters. Meet a man who knows how to combine tradition, innovation and reflection.
Published in N°011 - May / June 2021
The World Arthroplasty Conference has being held in April virtually and has attracted a very strong international audience. Among those that preside over this event, we met Gijs Van Hellemondt from Sint Maartenskliniek in Nijmnegen. Portrait of a figure in Netherland knee surgery.
Published in N°010 - March / April 2021
David Dejour should have finished his mandate as president last May 2020 in Milan, at the Esska congress. He tells us about the highlights of this very popular congress and retraces the main stages of his professional career, which is entirely focused on the knee.
Published in N°009 - Juanary / February 2021
Modesty, eclecticism and commitment characterise Alberto Gregori. His career, which he was willing to evoke for MO Europe, gave him the opportunity to devote himself to navigation, the beginnings of robotics and above all to humanitarian surgery.
Published in N°008 - November / December 2020
We spoke with Manuel Ribas, who runs the Orthopaedics and Traumatology Unit at the Dexeus University hospital in Barcelona.
Manuel is a student of Vilarrubias and has dedicated his career to femoral acetabular surgery.
Published in N°006 - July / August 2020
Prof. Hofmann Siegfried is an experienced surgeon and international well recognized expert for knee and hip surgery. He has oriented his career towards training and education. Meet a man without compromises.
Published in N°005 - March / April 2020
Wayne Paprosky is the Man behind the most used classification system of acetabular bone defects encountered during total hip replacement revision surgery. Honored Special guest at the last French Academy Convention in Paris, Wayne Paprosky accepted to share his experience and vision with Maitrise Orthopedique.
Published in N°004 - January / February 2020
The Lyon Hip Arthroplasty 2019 congress in September was well attended by surgeons from a dozen countries.
We met one of the organizers, André Ferreira, who commented on the main achievements of this congress devoted to femoral stems.
André Ferreira underlines one of the objectives of this congress: to bring together experiences from the public and private sectors.
He comes from the Lyon orthopaedic school and works at the Clinique du Parc in Lyon.
Published in N° 003 - September / October 2019
Prof. Carsten Perka is one of the three presidents of the DKOU 2019 and the medical Director of the Centre for Musculoskeletal Surgery at the Charité in Berlin.
He is an internationally well recognized arthroplasty surgeon and member of the International Hip Society and the European Knee Society.
He has also served as President for the AE (Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Endoprothetik, Germany) and is member of the steering board of the AORecon (Arbeitsgemeinschaft Osteosynthese) and Educational Chair of the Society.
Starting in December he will serve as General Secretary of the German Arthroplasty Society (AE).
Published in N° 002 - July / August 2019
Professor Andrew Price studied medicine at the University of Cambridge before completing his clinical studies at St.Thomas' Hospital in London. For his Orthopaedic training he joined the Oxford training programme in 1997, becoming a Clinical Lecturer in 2001. In 2011, through the University of Oxford Recognition of Distinction exercise, he was made a Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery. He is the President of the British Association for Surgery of the Knee.
