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Minutes of the General Assembly Meeting - Madrid 2009

Minutes of the General Assembly meeting

Madrid – Congress Hall

September 18. 2009

1) Welcome by the President

J. Willems welcomed the participants and thanked E. Calvo and S. Antuna for their input in the organization of this meeting.

2) Appointment of Jochen Eulert

Jochen is appointed Honorary Member of the society by a secret vote of the members. J. Willems thanked him for his great contribution to shoulder surgery in Europe and to the foundation and development of our society.

3) The Madrid meeting

E. Calvo presented the figures of the congress. We have got 535 submissions and 838 online registrations and 171 on site registrations. 85.6 % of the submitted papers were accepted as oral or poster presentation. The number of exhibitors is satisfactory and the 11 workshops will take place during lunch time..

4) The 2010 Closed meeting

The business meetings will take place on Saturday 4. September 2010 and the General Assembly on Sunday 5^th 2010.

J. Willems presented the different options we have for the diner.

A modest fee will be asked to the partners. The reservations will be accepted on a “first come first served” basis.

S. Copeland and A. Wallace presented the city of Edinburgh and the conference venue.

5) 2011 congress in Lyon

G. Walch presented the city of Lyon and the congress venue. The congress will take place in the congress centre Sept 14.-17., 2011.

6) Renewal of the committee members

J. Willems announced that the Board of Directors appointed P. Boileau as President Elect ; he will become President next year in Edinburgh. A. Castagna was elected by a great majority of votes to become General Secretary.

R. Hertel was leaving the committee and J. Willems thanked him for his great input into the society. B. Jost was elected by secret vote on the Executive Committee. He will take the chairmanship of the Membership committee.

J. Bruguera will chair the Education Committee.

Renewal of Subcommittee members:

R&D Committee: M. Pfahler will be replaced by U. Brunner.

Eastern Countries support Committee: N. Cicak will be replaced by I. Szabo and J. Fabis by A. Farron.

Membership Committee: M. Demirhan will enter the committee in replacement of F. Handelberg.

7) 2012 SECEC congress applications

We have got 3 applications: Liverpool, Istanbul, and Dubrovnik. Each candidate presented the congress venue and the city. After a secret vote Dubrovnik will host the 2012 SECEC congress.

8) Report from the Education Committee

Travelling fellowships: because of the problems we had during the last intra European fellowship it appeared that rules are needed. The rules will be published on the website before applying. The applicants must accept the rules before submitting their application.

The main companies will be contacted to sponsor the fellowships. Companies will not influence the choice of the centres.

The DVD prize will be awarded to M. Scheibel (Germany).

The topic of the SECEC 2011 DVD is “Surgical technique around the elbow”; it will be distributed in Lyon.

9) Report from the Membership committee

The great improvement is the online application process which allows us to have all the 43 applications on a CD.

The application process must be improved and a meeting with CYIM is needed. J. Bruguera proposed that every 3^rd month the applications will be reviewed by the National Delegates and then by the Membership Committee members. Applicants will be accepted as “Temporary members” until the next general assembly.

DIERICKX	Carl	Ordinary
VAN DEN BOGAERT	Gert	Associate
BONNEVIALLE	Nicolas	Junior
CESAR	Matthieu	Junior
COULET	Bertrand	Ordinary
GODENECHE	Arnaud	Ordinary
HUGUET	Dominique	Ordinary
GREINER	Stefan	Ordinary
HOFFMANN	Frank	Ordinary
JEHMLICH	Steffen	Associate
LILL	Helmut	Ordinary
PATZER	Thilo	Junior
RAISS	Patric	Ordinary
RITSCH	Mathias	Associate
VOIGT	Christine	Ordinary
FANDRIDIS	Emmanouil	Associate
GIGIS	Ioannis	Associate
AVANZI	Paolo	Associate
CERCIELLO	Simone	Junior
FRANCESCHI	Francesco	Ordinary
GIARDELLA	Antonio	Junior
MARKOPOULOS	Nikolaos	Associate
VINCI	Enzo	Associate
GRZEGORZ	Adamczyk	Associate
SZYLUK	Karol	Junior
RUI	Claro	Junior
HUGUET	Jordi	Associate
SILBERBERG	José	Associate
SENNERBY	Ulf	Associate
LAEDERMANN	Alexandre	Ordinary
CHAMBLER	Andrew	Ordinary
THOMAS	Michael	Ordinary
TYTHERLEIGH-STRONG	Graham	Ordinary

10) Report from the Website Committee

The abstract submission and review was now perfectly working and from this year on we had on line applications and registrations. R. Norlin is willing to make the homepage more attractive. Links from/to National societies will be made; more videos will be available on line and the committee was planning to have a literature searching system. M. Zumstein will replace P. Magosch as Webmaster

11) Report from the R&D Committee

The winner of the Didier Patte Prize is R. Benson (UK).

The Research grant 2009 has been awarded to Ville Aarima (Finland).

J. Willems would like to create two best paper prizes, one for the best basic research paper, one for the best clinical paper.

12) Report from the Eastern Support Committee

Several congresses have been organised during the last year in eastern countries.

In 2010 the 2^nd course in Zagreb will be organised by N. Cicak; M. Wambacher will run a cadaver course and in June a meeting in Poland will be support by the SECEC.

13) Report from the JSES

R. Emery was finishing his term this year. F. Gohlke will succeed him as International Deputy Editor N Pouliart and D. Stanley were appointed Associate Editors.

The largest contribution is always coming from North America (140 papers submitted). Europe has submitted 69 papers. F. Gohlke announced that one of the projects is to increase the number of issues. He also thanked all the reviewers who worked very hard for the Journal.

Cases reports are well accepted in the US but not in Europe. B. Mallon is trying to decrease the number of case reports. More and more elbow papers are submitted.

The impact factor increased to 1.827 (it was 0.729 in 2005).

The ExCom members thanked Roger Emery who has worked very hard to improve the review process and the backlog.

14) Creation of a SECEC Web Journal

P. Boileau was very disappointed since he did not get any positive answer from the companies. The Brazilian web journal looks very interesting but O. Lech did not send him the budget. P. Boileau will contact Dr Moya (Argentina).

15) Report from the Treasurer

F. Gohlke presented the final balance for 2008 and the figures of 2009.

Despite reminders only 74.2 % of Ordinary members paid their fees and 61.4 % of associate members.

He underlined that we do need the benefit of the congress.

16) Renewal of the National Delegates

H. Georgousis will replace P. Symeonides in Greece.

I. Nowak replaces H. Rahme in Sweden.

P. Lubiatowski will replace J. Fabis

BS Olsen will replace Viggo Johanssen

The French members must appoint their national delegate.

Agenda

5 - 8 September 2010

11th International Congress on Shoulder and Elbow Surgery

http://www.icses2010.com/

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23rd SECEC-ESSSE Congress (Lyon, France)

23rd SECEC-ESSSE Congress
(Lyon, France)

14-17 September, 2011

The 23th congress of the European Society for Surgery of the Shoulder and the Elbow will take place in Lyon (France) under the Presidency of Gilles WALCH.