4th Combined Congress
of the ASAMI-BR & ILLRS societies
hosted by
The British Limb Reconstruction Society
27th - 30th August 2019
ACC Liverpool, UK
Guest Speakers
Lessons from the Masters - How to make crawling patients stand and walk?
Wednesday 28th August 08:15-08:55 (Hall 1A)
Professor Qin Sihe (China)
President of ASAMI China; President of ILLRS China; President of Chinese External Fixation Society; President of Chinese Limb Reconstruction Society; Director of Qinsihe Orthopedics Institute; Director of Orthopedic department of Chinese National Rehabilitation Hospital of NRRA; Honorary President of Chinese National Rehabilitation Hospital of NRRA; Honorary professor of Russian Ilizarov Scientific Center.
Prof. Qin Sihe has engaged in orthopedic surgery for 40 years, conducted orthopedic surgery in 35075 cases, including 23520 cases of poliomyelitis sequelae, which is the largest data from single center in the world, "Polio Sequelae Surgery"have been published in 2007.
He is the first Chinese doctor went to Russia to study Ilizarov technique, he launched ASAMI China in 2003 and then applied and transformed Ilizarov technology to the whole China. Since 2002, more than 7000 cases of deformities were corrected by external fixator in Qinsihe Orthopedics Institute and Chinese National Rehabilitation Hospital, which has become a biggest center for severe lower extremity deformities and complicated orthopedic diseases in China.
He proposed “Natural Reconstruction Theory”and “28 words Orthopedic essential” to guid clinical practice of lower limb deformity correction and functional reconstruction. He put forward a new classification and surgical strategy of Poliomyelitis Sequelae, a procedure of bilateral sacral spinalis muscle transfer to gluteus muscle, and epiphyseal stimulation for the knee deformity in children，and "Common carotid artery epineurial sympathectomy for Cerebral Palsy", which has been popularized in the whole country.
More than 200 papers and 10 books were published by Qin’s team, such as"Surgery of lower extremity deformity", "Surgery treatment of Cerebral Palsy", "Pediatric Orthopedic Surgery", and "Limb Lengthening and Reconstruction", etc. The manuscript of “Lower limb Deformities” will be published by Springer in October 2019.
Prof.Qin Sihe is a practitioner and active advocate of the combination of Medicine and Humanities, Science and Art. He has published more than 60 papers on "Medicine, Humanities, and Philosophy", “Evolution and Orthopedics” and so on.
Lessons from the Masters - Superankle procedures for Paley Type 3A, B, C
Wednesday 28th August 08:55-09:15 (Hall 1A)
The 2nd G. A. Ilizarov Memorial Oration - "Progress in and from Limb Reconstruction"
Friday 30th August 12:40-13:10 (Hall 1A)
Dror Paley (USA)
Dror Paley, MD, FRCSC, is the founder and director of the Paley Orthopedic & Spine Institute in West Palm Beach, Florida. He is a board-certified, fellowship-trained orthopedic surgeon, internationally recognized for his expertise in limb lengthening and deformity correction. Dr. Paley trained under the guidance of Professor Ilizarov of Russia in 1986, and introduced the Ilizarov method to the United States and Canada. Dr. Paley organized the first Ilizarov course in 1987 and the first ASAMI North America (Limb Lengthening and Reconstruction Society) meeting in 1989. He served as the first president of this subspecialty society (now called the LLRS-Limb Lengthening and Reconstruction Society). He was the past president-elect of the International Limb Lengthening and Reconstruction Society and the Chairman of the Combined Meeting of ILLRS, LLRS, and ASAMI International-BR.
Dr. Paley has performed more than 25,000 limb lengthening and reconstruction-related procedures Patients come to his institute from all 50 United States and from more than 85 countries over six continents (North and South America, Europe, Asia, Africa, and Australia). He has published 134 articles in the peer-reviewed literature and has authored and edited five books and 71 book chapters. Dr. Paley has lectured and demonstrated surgery in more than fifty countries and provides training for specialists through a yearly surgery tutorial, as well as a fellowship program.
Lessons from the Masters - Femoral bone loss: technique of bone transport
Wednesday 28th August 09:15-09:35 (Hall 1A)
Professor Maurizio A. Catagni (Italy)
In 1982, after a trip to Kurgan by Dr. Villa and Prof. Catagni from Lecco, the association for the study and application of the Ilizarov method (ASAMI), with president Cattaneo, was founded with the aim of spreading Ilizarov's method in Italy. Since then a spread has begun through congresses and courses attended by many Italian surgeons; since 1984 the method has begun to spread in France, Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, Mexico and Brazil. Meanwhile in Lecco, patients from all over Italy continued to suffer, from difficult-to-resolve diseases, which were treated with excellent results.
Since 1987, after a month-long trip to Canada and 1 month to the United States, visits by North American Orthopedic Surgeons began, and from 1989 began a two-month study program for 2 English-speaking Orthopedics (12 per year ); this program continues today in addition to a program for Orthopedics of the 3rd world that live in the Hospital for free, thanks to the availability of the current Administration. At least 1500 Italian and 2000 foreign doctors attended the Orthopedics Department.
Prof. Catagni takes part every year in numerous Congresses and Courses in various countries, from America to Europe, to the Middle East and the Far East. During these trips demonstrative surgical operations are performed. Currently there are 27 national ASAMI organisations abroad with a number of members of a few thousand.
Since 1981, approximately 5,000 operations have been carried out using the Ilizarov method on both local patients and those from all over Italy and several from abroad. For the renowned competence of the regional reference center of the Ilizarov methods of Lecco, the School of Specialization in Orthopedics of the University of Milan has appointed Prof. Catagni for the education of specialists.
Lessons from the Masters - A theme on guided growth
Wednesday 28th August 09:35-09:55 (Hall 1A)
Dr. John Herzenberg (USA)
John E. Herzenberg, M.D., F.R.C.S.C., is Director of Pediatric Orthopedics at Sinai Hospital and Director of the International Center for Limb Lengthening at the Rubin Institute for Advanced Orthopedics. Dr. Herzenberg is a pediatric and adult orthopedic surgeon who has been listed in U.S. News Top Doctors as being in the top 1% of his field. He is also one of the world’s foremost practitioners of the Ponseti Method, which is used to correct clubfoot deformity.
After completing medical school at Boston University, he completed his residency in orthopedic surgery at Duke University and subspecialty training in pediatric orthopedics at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. Dr. Herzenberg trained in limb lengthening directly with Professor Ilizarov in the USSR in 1989 and subsequently in Lecco, Italy, with Professor Maurizio Catagni. After five years on the faculty of the University of Michigan, Dr. Herzenberg moved to Maryland and was Professor of Orthopedic Surgery at the University of Maryland, where he now serves as Clinical Professor. Dr. Herzenberg co-founded the Maryland Center for Limb Lengthening & Reconstruction at Kernan Hospital. He later co-founded the International Center for Limb Lengthening at Sinai Hospital of Baltimore in 2001.
Dr. Herzenberg has coauthored two books, 50 book chapters, and over 150 journal articles. He lectures throughout the world on topics related to limb lengthening and pediatric orthopedics. He co-chairs the annual Baltimore Limb Deformity Course where over 250 surgeons come to Baltimore to be trained by him in limb lengthening and deformity correction. He directs an intense one-year fellowship program and also trains surgical residents. He is credited with reintroducing the Ponseti method of conservative clubfoot treatment, and he co-developed the Precice internal lengthening nail as an alternative to external fixators for limb lengthening.
Dr. Herzenberg is married, has three adult children, and enjoys personal fitness training and Bible study. He travels with his family to developing countries such as Nicaragua, Colombia, Ecuador, Haiti, Ethiopia and Uganda on yearly Operation Rainbow missions to provide orthopedic care to disabled children. In recognition of 18 years of international volunteering, he was given the Pediatric Orthopedic Society of North America’s 2016 Humanitarian Award.
Special International Symposium - Biological treatment of non-union of long bones
Thursday 29th August 08:30-08:50 (Hall 1A)
Dr. Fernando de la Huerta (Mexico)
Orthopaedic Surgeon
Professor, Orthopaedic and Trauma Reconstruction
Mexican Institute of National Health Care system
Founder ASAMI México 1986
AO Senior Trustee
Special International Symposium - The clinical application of lower leg perforator flaps and supermicrosurgery
Thursday 29th August 08:50-09:20 (Hall 1A)
Professor Yong-Qing Xu (China)
Yong-Qing Xu, is director of the 920th Hospital of the People's Liberation Army Joint Service Support Force (formerly Kunming General Hospital of Chengdu Military Region). Yong-Qing Xu also holds the following positions: Chairman of the Chinese Medical Association Microsurgery Branch; Chairman of the 10th Professional Committee of the Rehabilitation and Reconstructive Surgery of the Chinese Society of Rehabilitation Medicine; Chairman of the Yunnan Trauma Society; Chairman of the Yunnan Orthopaedic Association; Chinese Microsurgery Associate Editor-in-Chief.
Special International Symposium - Digital techniques in complex limb deformity
Thursday 29th August 09:20-09:50 (Hall 1A)
Professor Xinlong Ma (China)
President of the Affiliated Tianjin Hospital of Tianjin University
Director of Tianjin orthopedics research institute
Chairman of North region of AO trauma, China
Standing Committee Member of Chinese Orthopedics Association (COA)
Standing Committee Member of Chinese Association of Orthopaedic Surgeons (CAOS)
Chairman of orthopedics branch of Tianjin Medical Association
Chinese Journal of Orthopaedics: Associate editor-in-chief
Journal of ORTHOPAEDIC SURGERY: Associate editor
Prof. Xinlong Ma has been working on clinical orthopedic and basic reach for more than 30 years. He focuses on precise, personalized and intelligent orthopedic surgery for complex deformity correction, and develops a customized system of individualized surgery design with independent intellectual property rights. More than 150 complex cases including limb deformity, spine tumor, long bone tumor have been successfully treated with this customized system in recent years.