Athens – Hotel Hilton

Friday 22. September 2006 - 17.30

 

1) G. Walch welcomed the Executive Committee members and thanked Georgia, Pan Symeonides and John Feroussis for their tremendous work during the past year.

 

2) The 2006 Athens congress:

They have more than 800 registrations. Despite our reminders regarding the gala dinner, the companies did not register to the dinner and we have to find a better way to attract the participants to this event. G. Walch underlined the great organization of this congress and the high scientific level of the papers.

 

3) The 2007 Closed Meeting:

P. Habermeyer presented the organization of the closed meeting which will take place near Frankfurt. The congress venue is only 15 min from the airport in a 5 stars hotel. Intercongress will be in charge of the organization for a cost of Euros 5,800. The prices of the rooms will be Euros 140 for a single room and Euros 160 for a double room. The society will cover the gala dinner and the barbecue. The business meetings will take place on Friday. Scientific session will be on Saturday and Sunday until 13.00. He expected 100 people. The deadline for submission of the abstracts is April 31st.

 

4) The 2008 Congress in Bruges:

G. Declercq presented the Bruges concert hall which will be the congress venue. Large tents will be added in front of the building, where the scientific exhibition will take place. The participants will have to go through the scientific exhibition during the coffee breaks.

An announcement will made at the ICSS in Brazil.

The topics of the symposia and instructional courses have not been chosen.

The registration fee will stay the same as this year. Presidential dinner and a Belgian night are already organised. The cost of the Belgian night will be included in the registration fee.

G. Walch reminded that we accept only one half day parallel sessions.

 

5) The 2007 EFORT congress:

The EFORT sent us a pre contract which seems to be unacceptable. The SECEC/ESSSE is ready to participate and to organize the scientific session about shoulder surgery. It is now impossible to turn down the proposition for the Florence meeting in 2007. There is no specialty day in Florence. P. Habermeyer and G. Walch will chair a symposia but the EFORT doesn't give us any financial support. G. Walch proposed that 2 Executive members will be in charge of the discussions with the EFORT. P. Habermeyer and J. Willems will be in charge of the discussions with F. Langlais, who is the next President. Our position must be in accordance with the other sub specialty societies. We already know that the spine society doesn't want to cooperate.

The question is : do we consider that the society is officially involved in the Florence congress or do we consider that the members are involved individually ? The EFORT must give us at least free registration and the SECEC will pay for the flights and the accomodation expenses. We have to put pressure on the EFORT.

Registration is free for the speakers and our society will pay for one night accomodation and economic flight.

The Executive committee will present a report in front of the General Assembly next year.

 

6) The 2009 SECEC/ESSSE congress: applications

We received 3 applications : Dubrovnik, Madrid, Stockholm. After a 3 min presentation at the desk, the ordinary and associate members voted. Madrid was selected for the 2009 SECEC/ESSSE congress.

 

7) Report from the Education Committee:

J. Kiss presented the SECEC/ESSSE travelling fellowships :

Korean travelling fellowship : Dr Yong-Girl Rhee and Dr Kwang Jin Rhee were attending the Athens meeting. They will visit 3 centers : P. Habermeyer, R. Hertel and G. Walch.

Europe/USA travelling fellowship : Dr M. Rickert and I. Szabo were travelling in the US until October 4.

Japan/Europe travelling fellowship : Dr Suenaga and Dr Yamamoto were attending the Athens congress. They will travel inside Europe until October 21. and will visit 8 centers.

Patronage : it was decided to grant our patronage to :

• the course organized by the EITS in Strasbourg (France),
• the congress organized by L. Lafosse in Annecy (France)
• the course about shoulder arthroscopy in Geneva organized by Pierre Hoffmeyer and Dominique Gazielly
• the 3rd. Meeting on Fracture prosthesis of Shoulder in Berlin (organiser Falk Reuther)

The DVD prize winner will be announced at the General Assembly (Laurent Lafosse – France). He will receive Euros 1,000. The video will be published on our website.

Australia/Europe travelling fellowship : Greg Bain accepted our proposal of an unilateral fellowship (2 Australian fellows will come to Europe) The Education Committee has now to look for host centres. The fellows will start their tour at the closed meeting in Frankfurt.

It was agreed that an combined “Asian” fellowship will start from 2010.

J.F. Kempf and D. Stanley will enter the committee in replacement of J. Kiss and L. Neumann. A. Castagna becomes Chairman.

 

8) Report from the Website Committee:

W.A.Wallace stepped down and G. Walch thanked him for all the job he has done over the last years and for his contribution to the development of the website. Petra Magosch will be the new webmaster. The website will be modified within 2 or 3 months but without any extra costs. The abstracts selection system will be upgraded to avoid the problems we had in the past. R. Hertel will present new rules for the abstract selection process before mid of November. L. Porcellini and S. Lambert will enter the committee in replacement of A. Wallace and I. Nowak.

 

9) Report from the Membership Committee:

The Membership Committee received 31 applications which have been assessed by the Membership committee :

Ordinary Members : M. Babacan (Turkey), A. Cartucho (Portugal), S. Frostick (UK), F. Grassi (Italy), S. Kamineni (UK), M. Kettler (Germany), I. Micic (Croatia), P. Paladini (Italy), D. Petré (Belgium), G. Sforza (Italy), O. Verborgt (Belgium)

Associate Members: C. Ascani (Italy), M. Boroni (Italy), F. Campi (Italy), M. Cicarrelli( Italy), P. Collin (France), P. Debeer (Belgium), JM Glasson (France), O. Gosselin (France), D. Liem 'Germany), F. Marco (Spain), A. Panagopoulos (Greece), E. Prudnikov (Russia), D. Prudnikov (Russia), M. Sener (Turkey), T. Viljakka (Finland)

Corresponding Members: J. Sanchez Sotelo (US)

The general assembly approved the list of new members.

D. Gazielly proposed, in order to open the society to the younger surgeons, to change the rules for associate membership : The participation to 3 SECEC congresses will allow to be accepted as associate member. Over and above that the old rule is valid : those who reach 12 points by publishing abstracts will be admitted.

D. Gazielly and O. Gagey stepped down and were replaced by P. Boileau and J. Monteiro. P. Boileau will become Chairman.

 

10) Report from the Eastern Countries Support Committee:

Gilles Walch thanked J. Jerosch who stepped down and who made a great job as Chairman of this committee. He organized many meetings in the Eastern countries and opened our society to our eastern colleagues. J. Jerosch is replaced by J. Kiss as Chairman, D. Gazielly by M. Wambacher and K. Zyto by A. Ekelund.

 

11) Report from the R & D Committee:

The main task of the R & D Committee will be to provide guidelines for abstract selection. Ralph Hertel reminded that the rule “one speaker, one paper” must be strictly respected. We have to limit the abstracts to 400 words.

N. Pouliart sent to all the members a questionnaire about shoulder scoring. The results will be given to the R & D Committee.

We received only one application to the SECEC/ESSSE research grant. The Executive committee decided to allow Euros 15,000 to this study (C. Charousset and LD Duranthon – France).

A. Wallace and I. Nowak are replaced by L. Porcellini and S. Lambert. R. Norlin becomes Chairman.

 

12) Report from the Editorial Board of the JSES:

R. Emery announced that despite the difficulties they had with the review process 300 articles have been submitted (until 09/01/06). The Editorial board is looking for additional reviewers. The list of reviewers is published on the back of the Journal.

All submissions and reviewing process are now made through the internet. He receives from the Journal a financial support which seems to be insufficient. Elsevier will be asked to provide a financial help but if they do not agree, SECEC/ESSSE will have to support financially the European editorial board.

R. Emery insisted on the fact that the e-issue is probably the evidence for the near future, which will allow us to facilitate the archiving.

G. Walch thanked R. Emery and F. Gohlke for the tremendous work they have done. P. Mansat enters the Editorial Board in replacement of J.O. Sojejbjerg.

 

13) Renewal of the Executive Committee members:

D. Gazielly, L. Celli and A. Wallace stepped down ; the executive committee proposed P. Boileau, A. Castagna and A. Carr. The General Assembly approved by secret vote the new members.

 

14) Renewal of the National Delegates:

In Hungary I. Szabo replaces J. Kiss.

In Italy S. Gumina has been elected in replacement of C. Rovesta.

In Poland J. Fabis stays national delegate.

In Portugal A. Cartucho becomes national delegate in replacement of J. Monteiro.

In Sweden U. Lillkrona replaces R. Norlin.

In Turkey O. Guven is replaced by M. Demirhan.

The Executive Committee insisted on the key role of the National Delegates.

 

15) Report from the Treasurer:

The society is healthy thanks to the benefit of the Rome congress (Euros 100,321.73). The most difficult problem is to collect the annual fees. Last year we cancel members who did not pay over the last 2 years. F. Gohlke proposed to show the list of members who did not pay during 2 consecutive years at the general assembly.

After exhausting the agenda, the President dissolved the meeting.