Li Felländer Tsai, MD

Technical innovations led to excellent results in orthopaedic surgery. Quality management efforts like registers, patient-reported outcome measure, and certifications, like EndoCert, brought us, in many cases, to even higher success rates. Emerging evidence is, however, making it clear that more attention has to be drawn to non-technical factors, such as prevention and perioperative optimization, including lifestyle changes. Perioperative smoking cessation is maybe the most influencing factor for further improvement in orthopaedic operations.

Since last year, I have the honor to chair the EFORT Visiting and Travelling Fellowships, succeeding Prof. Philip Neyret. I am professor of orthopaedics at Karolinska Institutet and senior consultant at Karolinska University Hospital in Stockholm. Previous roles include presidency of the Swedish Orthopaedic Association and the Nordic Orthopaedic Federation, as well as secretary of education of the Swedish Orthopaedic Association, which included responsibility for the Swedish board exam in orthopaedics and traumatology.