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Advisory Panel
Konstantinos N Malizos
President, European Bone and Joint Infection Society (EBJIS)
Konstantinos N Malizos is President of the European Bone and Joint Infection Society (EBJIS). He serves as
Professor and Chairman of Orthopaedics, School of Health Sciences, University of Thessaly, Greece. Professor
Malizos is also Director of the Institute of Biomedical Research and Technology. He is a member of 12
scientific societies and has authored more than 100 publications in peer-reviewed journals, 22 book chapters
and two books as editor/author. He has received nine international awards and prizes. ■
Bert Mandelbaum
Vice President, International Cartilage Repair Society (ICRS)
Bert Mandelbaum is Vice President of the International Cartilage Repair Society (ICRS). He has previously
served as Assistant Medical Director for Major League Soccer and as US Team Physician for three football
World Cups. In 2004, he was appointed to the International Federation of Football Associations’ (FIFA)
Committee on Doping Control. He also served on the Sports Medical Committee and as Medical Officer for
the Sydney 2000 and Athens 2004 Olympics. Dr Mandelbaum graduated from Washington University
Medical School in St Louis in 1980 and completed his residency in orthopaedic surgery at The Johns Hopkins
Hospital and a fellowship in sports medicine at the University of California at Los Angeles. ■
H Michael Mayer
Immediate Past President, Spine Society of Europe (ESS)
H Michael Mayer is Immediate Past President of the Spine Society of Europe (ESS) and the German Spine
Society. He is an Honorary Professor of Neurosurgery at the Paracelcus Private Medical School in Salzburg
and, since 1998, has served as Medical Director of the OrthoCenter Munich. He also heads the Spine Centre,
Munich. Professor Mayer is a member of the International Society for the Study of the Lumbar Spine (ISSLS)
and the German Orthopaedic Association, and is a founding member of the Spine Arthroplasty Society (SAS).
Professor Mayer has authored or co-authored over 130 scientific papers. ■
Jean-Yves Reginster
President, European Society for Clinical and Economic Aspects of Osteoporosis and Osteoarthritis (ESCEO)
Jean-Yves Reginster is a Professor of Epidemiology, Public Health and Health Economics and Director of the
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at the University of Liège, Belgium. Professor Reginster is also
Head of the University Centre for Investigation in Bone and Articular Cartilage Metabolism and Director of
the World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Public Health Aspects of Rheumatic
Disorders. He also serves as General Secretary of the International Osteoporosis Foundation and President of
the European Society for Clinical and Economic Aspects of Osteoporosis and Osteoarthritis (ESCEO). ■
Eivind Witsø
Vice President, European Bone and Joint Infection Society (EBJIS)
Eivind Witsø is Vice President of the European Bone and Joint Infection Society (EBJIS) and General Surgeon
and Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, St Olavs University Hospital,
Trondheim, Norway. He is also an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the Norwegian University
of Science and Technology. Professor Witsø is a Past President of the Norwegian Orthopaedic Association and
was a member of the International Working Group of the Diabetic Foot (IWGDF) between 1999 and 2006. ■
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