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EFORT committee selects new board members
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GENEVA — Elections for the 2016/2017 EFORT board members took place during the General Assembly on 31 May 2016.
The new second Vice President of EFORT is Assistant Prof. Dr. Per Kjaersgaard-Andersen, of Denmark. Kjaersgaard-Andersen most recently served as EFORT Secretary General. His term of office as second Vice President will be from 4 June 2016 to 2 June 2017; this will be followed by a year serving as first Vice President. Kjaersgaard-Andersen will then serve as President of EFORT from June 2018 until June 2019. Kjaersgaard-Andersen is the Chief Medicial Editor of Orthopaedics Today Europe.
Mr. David Limb of the United Kingdom has been elected to Secretary General. Limb’s background includes serving as Honourary Secretary of the British Orthopaedic Association, and member of the EFORT Education Committee.
Members at Large for the next term include the re-elected Prof. Dr. Leszek Romanowski, of Poland, who has served in this role since June 2014. Prof. Dr. Antonio Cartucho was selected as a new member at large for 2016 to 2018.
New EFORT Finance Committee members are Prof. Dr. Karsten Dreinhöfer of Germany and Prof. Dr. Jacek Kaczmarczyk of Poland.
Dreinhöfer, medical director and head of the Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Medical Park Humboldtmühle, Berlin, has previously held the office of 12th EFORT Congress President.
Kaczmarczyk is a member of the Board for the Polish Orthopaedic and Traumatology Society and vice president of the Polish Spine Society. In addition, Prof. Dr. Benn Duus of Denmark has been re-elected to a 2nd term. He will serve in this office for an additional 3 years.
DGOU, the German Society for Orthopaedics and Trauma, is a scientific specialist society with approximately 10,700 members, headquartered in Berlin. DGOU is a new national member society, the only German society that is a member of EFORT.