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ISAKOS past president Paolo Aglietti dies
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Paolo Aglietti, MD, died 17 April 2013, in Florence, at the age of 70 years. He was an inaugural member of the Orthopaedics Today Europe Editorial Board through his death.
Aglietti was known for his treatment of the knee, ACL and patellofemoral disorders.
“The world of knee surgeons has lost one of its best members,” Giancarlo Puddu, MD, an Orthopaedics Today Europe Editorial Board member, said. Both surgeons began their careers about the same time and took pleasure in their exchange of ideas about the knee.
The 1970s proved a pivotal time for Aglietti’s career. During that decade, he had two clinical fellowships at Hospital for Special Surgery in New York. In 1975, Aglietti became assistant professor of Orthopaedics and Traumatology at University of Perugia, Italy, and was associate professor of Orthopaedics and Traumatology at University of Florence from 1979 to 1989, becoming full professor in 1990 through his retirement in 2009.
Aglietti spearheaded the founding of the Italian Orthopaedic Society of Knee Surgery, Arthroscopy, Sports Traumatology, Cartilage and New Orthopaedic Technologies in 2004, which united a diverse group of Italian physicians from three separate organizations, focused on knee surgery, sports traumatology and cartilage research, to collaborate on clinical studies and research.
From 2005 to 2007, Aglietti was president of the International Society for Arthroscopy, Knee Surgery & Orthopaedic Sports Medicine (ISAKOS). Last month he was named an honorary member of ISAKOS at its congress in Toronto. He was also a member of the European Society of Sports Traumatology, Knee Surgery and Arthroscopy.
“Paolo Aglietti has been for me not only a good friend, but one of the best teachers I have met in my professional life,” Puddu said.