EPOS 29th ANNUAL MEETING Zagreb, Croatia, April 7th – 10th, 2010

STOP PRESS: Funded Orthopaedic Fellowship / Sabbatical in Cambodia

Opportunity to work in Cambodia for either 6 or 12 months

Starting from 1st February 2010
Available at short notice owing to a cancellation

Ignacio V. Ponseti, professor emeritus of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Iowa, passed away on October 18, 2009. At the moment of his death, he was preparing a lecture assisted by his beloved wife Helena.

Prof. Ponseti was born in Cuidadela, a small town in Mallorca, the largest of the Baleari Islands, the 3d of June, 1914. In 1936 he obtained his Doctor in Medicine Degree at the University of Barcelona.

From 1936 to 1939, he served as an officer in the Orthopaedic Department of the Spanish Army, where he contributed to the development of the modern treatment of war wounds and infected fractures. Owing to his republican belief, by the end of the Spanish civil war, he was persecuted by both communists and fascists, and had to quit Spain in 1939. He spent two years in Mexico and finally moved to the University of Iowa after a short stay in Canada. At that time, Professor Arthur Steindler was the head of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery. In 1944, Prof. Ponseti completed his residency, and started his academic career, reaching the position of full professor in 1957. He focused specific interest on congenital and developmental bone and joint disorders, although his clinical practice spanned across the whole range of Orthopaedic Surgery. His publications on idiopathic scoliosis, congenital dislocation of the hip and congenital clubfoot made Prof. Ponseti famous throughout the worldwide Orthopaedic Community.

In 1984, Prof. Ponseti retired from the clinical activities of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery of the University of Iowa, and became professor emeritus. The cessation of his routine clinical activity opened a second and more active professional life to Prof. Ignacio Ponseti. He concentrated all his energy on making known his personal method of clubfoot treatment, mainly based on the knowledge of pathophysiology of this congenital deformity: his book on congenital clubfoot, published by Oxford University press in 1996, will remain as a mile stone in the history of the deformity. During the last 10 years, Ponseti’s method of treatment of congenital clubfoot has been spreading all over the world.

Ernesto Ippolito

EPOS Instructional Courses on Paediatric Orthopaedics

EPOS Instructional Courses on Paediatric Orthopaedics
Vienna - Helsinki - Tel Aviv - Marseille, 2007-2009

Marie Curie Instructional Courses in Pediatric Orthopaedics Web Site

Membership Information

EPOS Membership
EPOS 2011 travelling fellowship

EPOS|IFPOS Combined Meeting, Sorrento, Italy, 11-14 April 2007

During the Sorrento 2007 EPOS|IFPOS Meeting three awards were granted.
Sorrento 2007 Awards

EPOS in the eNewsletter of EFORT

EFORT invited Prof. Shlomo Wientroub to write
an article for the e-newsletter issue of May

Prof. Shlomo Wientroub article in EFORT eNeswletter

EFORT eNewsletter - May Issue

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