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12th EFORT Congress will offer e-posters and encouraged patient participation
Next year’s EFORT Congress in Copenhagen will focus on fast-track treatment, Nordic Arthroplasty Register and tribology.
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The EFORT Executive Committee has made many of the major decisions for next year’s congress in Copenhagen.
The 12th EFORT Congress is scheduled for June 1-4, 2011, at the Bella Center in Copenhagen. Between 5,000 and 8,000 participants are expected to attend, according to Per Kjaersgaard-Andersen, MD, chief medical editor of Orthopaedics Today Europe and chairman of the 12th EFORT Congress.
The preliminary program, which will be available online at EFORT.org in February 2011, includes approximately 25 instructional lectures and 25 symposiums, which are near being finalized. “Most of the speakers have accepted, and therefore, our biggest job is complete,” Kjaersgaard-Andersen told Orthopaedics Today Europe.
Plenary sessions
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Fast-track treatment and rehabilitation and the Nordic Arthroplasty Register are among the main topics to be presented as plenary sessions during the congress, which will once again include an entire day dedicated to the problems of wear in total hip arthroplasty.
“Tribology Day has come to stay for the next EFORT meeting because we think it is important to look at the tribology,” Kjaersgaard-Andersen said.
For the first time at an EFORT Congress, e-posters will be presented daily in a cinema with a moderator present to discuss the presentations. The e-poster presenters will be asked to attend as well, so that they can join in the discussion.
Also new to the 12th EFORT Congress, patient organizations are being asked to participate in a public symposium focusing on what the patients feel are the hot topics in orthopaedic surgery. Patients from Copenhagen will be invited to speak and the symposium will be presented in Danish.
Copenhagen’s metro stations are available for transport from the airport to the downtown area and the Bella Center as well. “In fact, the infrastructure in Copenhagen is perfect for a meeting like this,” Kjaersgaard-Andersen said. — by Thomas M. Springer
Per Kjaersgaard-Andersen, MD, can be reached at Department of Orthopaedics, Vejle Hospital, DK-7100 Vejle, Denmark; +45-7940-5716; e-mail: Per.Kjaersgaard-Andersen@slb.regionsyddanmark.dk.