Who we are
Our concept of sports medicine
Reflecting on AO Sports courses
In this interview with Yves Acklin we focus on knee injuries and deformities and we find out more about the AO Sports Advanced Course. Yves tells Hannah Shellswell about his most significant insights and lessons learnt from the AO Sports courses over the last few years.
AO Sports: A new knee model for courses
AO Sports has introduced a new knee model in the AO Advanced Course in Knee Injuries and Deformities. Find out about its benefits and how it is changing the participants’ experience and impacting their practice. In this interview with AO Faculty member Ryan Martin, he demonstrates how it works in practice and shares his vision for how this could be developed in the future.
Chairperson and task forces
Jim Stannard, Chairperson
James P. Stannard, MD, is a clinician-scientist with an active orthopedic surgical practice. Along with his busy medical practice in Columbia, Missouri, United States, he holds advanced leadership roles across the University of Missouri academic health system, including chairman of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Hansjörg Wyss Distinguished Chair of Orthopaedic Surgery, and medical director of the Missouri Orthopaedic Institute, where he is chief medical officer for procedural services.
Shoulder task force
Martin Jäger
Head of Shoulder surgery, Department of Orthopaedics and Trauma Surgery University Hospital
Freiburg, Germany
Amon Ferry
Orthopedic surgeon and sports medicine, Arizona Sports Medicine Center
Scottsdale, United States
Shiyi Chen
Chair, Orthopedic Sports Medical of Huashan Hospital, Fudan University
Shanghai, China
Knee task force
Mauricio Kfuri
Orthopedic surgeon, University of Missouri Health Care
Columbia, United States
Yves Acklin
Site manager, Bethesda Spital, and team leader, sports/knee orthopedics, University Hospital Basel
Basel, Switzerland
Jiwu Chen
Senior consultant, executive director of sports medicine, Raffles Hospital
Shanghai, China
Principles task force
Jim Stannard
Chairman, University of Missouri Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
Columbia, United States
Christoph Katthagen
Senior physician, Universitätsklinikum Münster
Münster, Germany
Seth Sherman
Orthopedic surgeon, Stanford Sports Medicine Clinic
Redwood City, United States
Saeed Al Thani
Orthopedic surgeon, Orthocure Medical Center
Dubai, United Arab Emirates