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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°004 - January / February 2020

ANDRE FERREIRA

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.

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Published in N° 003 - September / October 2019

CARSTEN PERKA

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).

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Published in N° 002 - July / August 2019

ANDREW PRICE

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.

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Published in N°001 - May / June 2019

ROB NELISSEN

Rob Nelissen is a professor in Orthopaedics and chairman of the Department of Orthopaedics at Leiden University Medical Center. He was president of the European and Netherlands Rheumatoid Arthritis Surgical Society and recently president of the Netherlands Orthopaedic Association. He is cofounder of the Dutch Arthroplasty Register and currently chairman of the Network of Orthopaedic Registries of Europe. But do not be fooled by all these pompous titles - he is a lively mind, curious and original. Get to know an orthopedist from the 3rd millennium.

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On 01/10/2018

WERNER SIEBERT

The German Congress of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, DKOU, is being held this month in Berlin under the triple chairmanship of Werner Siebert, Joachim Windolf and Gerd Rauch. We met Werner Siebert, president of the German Society for Orthopaedics and Orthopeadic Surgery. We were surprised by the extent of his experience and seduced by the relevance of his points of view.

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On 01/05/2018

DAVID PARKER

We met with Australian knee surgeon Associate Professor David Parker at the Asia-Pacific Knee, Arthroscopy and Sports Medicine Society (APKASS) congress in Sydney.
He is the APKASS president this year.
He practices in Sydney and specializes in knee surgery.
In this interview, he shares how he organises his time between surgery and research, the specificities of his work and his involvement in the international community.

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On 01/06/2017

PHILIPPE NEYRET

This year the 11th congress of the International Society of Arthroscopy, Knee and Orthopaedic Sports Medicine (ISAKOS) is to be held in Shanghai.
Presiding over the conference will be Professor Philippe Neyret. Professor Neyret has been a frequent contributor to Maitrise Orthopédique,and now, when he is at a turning point in his career, he has agreed to look back over the years
and tell us about his experiences in the realm of knee surgery.

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On 01/06/1997

KARL ZWEYMULLER

Karl Zweymüller is well known in the German-speaking orthopaedic community, and beyond, for his work on cementless total hip arthroplasty; his own design of a hip prosthesis is widely used. Maîtrise Orthopédique met him in Vienna. In this interview, he describes the rationale and the development of his cementless device.

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