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17th EFORT Annual Congress in Geneva - Plenary Sessions: Meet the Honorary Lecturers (Part 2)
The Michael Freeman Honorary Lecture
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Professor Martin Krismer will be presenting the Michael Freeman Honorary Lecture at the upcoming 17th EFORT Annual Congress in Geneva, on Friday 3 June 2016 in the Geneva Auditorium. Professor Krismer’s presentation, entitled “Migration of Hip Implants,” will explore his long and distinguished career surrounding the stability and migration of hip implants.
Professor Krismer received his university degree in Medicine from the University of Innsbruck, Austria, in 1979. He also studied philosophy during that time. Professor Krismer served as a resident in several hospitals and also trained in radiology for 2 years. In 1986, he started his residency in orthopaedics at the Department of Orthopaedics of Innsbruck University Hospital.
He had the opportunity to learn from important teachers including Professor Rudolf Bauer, who is famous for his textbook Operative Approaches in Orthopedic Surgery and Traumatology, and Dr. Wolfgang Russe, who was trying to develop a method for measuring the migration of hip implants. In 1988, Dr. Russe died in a car crash. Professor Krismer subsequently felt compelled to continue his research in the field of migration measurement.
After finishing his specialization in orthopaedics in 1991, Professor Krismer increasingly worked in spine surgery, especially scoliosis. In 1993, a fellowship gave him the opportunity to meet Dr. Stuart L. Weinstein in Iowa City, Iowa, USA, Drs. Robert Winter and John E. Lonstein in Minneapolis, USA, and many others. But the fellowship also helped him get together with Professor Michael Freeman in London, to operate with him and to exchange ideas on knee arthroplasty.
In 1996, the Volvo Award for Low Back Pain Research in biomechanics was awarded to Professor Krismer for his research on torque resistance of anulus fibers. In this article and subsequent papers, he demonstrated that anulus fibers of the lumbar spine are loaded asymmetrically depending on the rotation of the trunk and that they lose their stability with increasing degeneration. That same year he became Associate Professor. He worked in parallel on spine and hip cases, and on some important articles on the EBRA method for measuring acetabular cup migration, as well as EBRA-FCA for stem migration, which were published in 1995 and 1999.
In 2001, he was appointed professor of orthopaedics and head of the department of orthopaedics at Innsbruck University Hospital. He headed the Section for Operative Medicine of the Medical University of Innsbruck from 2008 to 2011. Since 2010, he has been the chairman of the Academic Senate of the Medical University of Innsbruck.
During his career, Professor Krismer held offices in several important organizations. He was the Congress resident of EuroSpine 1998 where Europe’s former two spine societies, the European Spine Society and the European Spinal Deformity Society, merged to become the Spine Society of Europe (SSE). He served the European Hip Society as president from 2002 to 2004 and as general secretary from 2008 to 2012. He was also president of the Austrian Orthopaedic Society from 2004 to 2005 and president of the South German Association for Orthopaedics and Traumatology from 2011 to 2012. From 2005 to 2010, he was a member of the Supreme Medical Council (Oberster Sanitätsrat) of the Austrian Federal Ministry of Health.
In 2007, Professor Krismer was pleased to be visited by Professor Michael Freeman and Associate Professor Vera Pinskerova, who became interested in an apparatus designed by Professor Rudolf Fick, who was professor of anatomy in Innsbruck from 1909 to 1917. The apparatus simulated knee mechanics. Results with the apparatus supported Freeman’s hypotheses, and the device is preserved in the Museum of Anatomy of the Medical University of Innsbruck.
Professor Krismer is the author of a monograph, an editor of a textbook on minimally invasive joint arthroplasty and wrote approximately 130 peer-reviewed articles. He sees himself as an academic teacher and is proud and happy to witness the clinical development and career of his staff and residents. Professor Krismer is particularly indebted to his wife Ingrid, who has been his unwavering supporter throughout his career.
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