Women in ESSKA Mentorship Programme

Mette Andersen
Tromsø, Norway

Aleris Hospital
1-2 days

Aleris is a private Hospital in Tromsø, Norway. Within Orthopaedics, we have specialists in Hand-, Shoulder-, Foot & ankle- and Knee-surgery. The clinic is small with 3 operating rooms in addition to the medical center. I have a mixed practice where most of my patients are knee and ankle. I also have some gen. sports injury patients like tendon injuries, groin injuries and some acute fractures in foot & ankle. About 60% of my patients are athletes. In knee and ankle, I do mostly arthroscopic procedures; ACL reconstructions, meniscal repairs, Ankle ligament repair, os trigonom etc

A visit by me could possibly be combined with a stay with Berte Bøe in Oslo - as this will give a great variety and will offer a great opportunity to see 2 very different part of Norway.

Topics covered:
1. Ankle & Foot; 2. Knee; 3. Sports Medicine;

Ana Catarina Ângelo
Lisbon, Portugal

Hospital dos SAMS de Lisboa
Up to 1 week

Exclusive Shoulder and Elbow clinics and surgery, arthroscopy and arthroplasty
3 days of clinics and 2 days of OR per week.

Topics covered:
1. Elbow; 2. Shoulder; 3. Sports Medicine;

Claudia Arias
Lima, Peru

Hospital Nacional Edgardo Rebagliati Martins - Essalud
Up to 1 week

My hospital in Lima Peru is a reference national center, we performed more than 600 surgeries in a year, I'm a knee surgeon specialized in sports medicine and knee replacement.
We will have surgeries, courses, discussion of clinical cases, research, workshops in our cadaver lab.

Topics covered:
1. Knee; 2. Sports Medicine; 3. Patelofemoral pathologies;

Clara Azevedo
Lisbon, Portugal

Hospital dos SAMS de Lisboa
Up to 1 week

The Shoulder and Elbow unit of Hospital dos SAMS and of Clínica Cirurgica de Carcavelos - Joaquim Chaves Saúde is formed by Clara Azevedo and Ana Catarina Angelo. The mentee will have the opportunity to participate in shoulder and elbow appointments exclusively and in the OR activities including shoulder and elbow arthroscopic procedures, shoulder arthroplasty and some shoulder and elbow trauma cases.

Topics covered:
1. Shoulder; Foot; 2. Sports Medicine; 3. Elbow surgery;

Ingerid Baksaas Aasen
Gjettum, Norway

Martina Hansens Hospital Dønskiveien 8 1346 Gjettum
Up to 1 week

MHH is an orthopaedic hospital that only deals with planned surgery. I am a senior consultant at the knee and shoulder department, and we do various surgeries within arthroscopic surgery and prosthetic surgery on the knee and shoulder. My department consists of 8 senior consultants. I am mostly dedicated to shoulder patients together with Senior Consultant Stefan Moosmayer, but we are all involved in both knee and shoulder surgery. If you do an internship with us, you can take part in outpatient consultations, observe collaboration with other professional groups, such as physiotherapists, and observe maybe assist in surgery. We have 8 operating theatres and 2-3 of these theatres are dedicated knee and shoulder every day.

Topics covered:
1. Knee; 2 Shoulder; 3. Sports Medicine;

Berte Bøe
Oslo, Norway

University Hospital
Up to 1 week

We are 7 consultants doing Sports Medicine, mainly knee, shoulder and hips. Our department also treats hand/elbow and foot/ankle. All together, 7 OR every weekday.

Topics covered:
1. Shoulder; 2. Knee; 3. Hip;

Christel Chapail
Mérignac, France

SOS Pied Cheville Clinique du Sport
Up to 1 month

Facility: outpatient clinic with WB CT-scan and sonography available.
Theatres: 2 half-day per week
Programme: participation in clinic and theatre sessions, in the everyday life of a foot and ankle team.
Large breadth of practice: from trauma to degenerative lesions.

Topics covered:
1. Ankle & Foot; 2. Sports Medicine; 3. Sonography, Sports surgery, Injections;

Ruth Delaney
Dublin, Ireland

UPMC-Sports Surgery Clinic
Up to 1 week

Private practice entirely dedicated to all aspects of shoulder surgery, arthroscopic and open, including sports and arthroplasty. Typically two to three days of clinic per week and two days of operating, one of which will be at another site in a larger, general hospital. UPMC-Sports Surgery Clinic is a modern, efficient, private orthopaedic-only facility and this is where most of the practice is based.

Topics covered:
1. Shoulder; 2. Sports Medicine;

Theresa Diermeier
Berlin, Germany

Unfallkrankenhaus
Up to 1 week

We are a level 1 trauma hospital with a department for sports trauma. We have OR days on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday and for emergency cases like knee dislocation we also offer spots on Thursday. We are responsible for a professional basketball team (ALBA Berlin), a cycling team (Intermarché Wanty) and handball (VfL Potsdam). The sports medicine department is part of the sports traumatology.

Topics covered:
1. Knee; 2. Shoulder; 3. Sports Medicine;

Guri Ekas
Oslo, Norway

Akershus University Hospital
Up to 1 week

Details to follow

Laura De Girolamo
Milan, Italy

Ospedale Galeazzi Sant'Ambrogio - Research Laboratory
Up to 1 week

Topics covered:
1. Musculoskeletal Regenerative Medicine; 2. Basic Science;

Elizaveta Kon
Milan, Italy

Humanitas Research Hospital
Up to 1 week

Full Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Humanitas University, Milan 
Orthopedic surgeon, Chief of Translational Orthopedics Unit, Center of Functional and Biological Reconstruction of the knee, Humanitas Research Hospital, Milan
President of Società Italiana di Artroscopia, Ginocchio, Arto Superiore, Sport, Cartilagine, Tecnologie Ortopediche (SIAGASCOT)
Director of Master Degree “Regenerative Medicine in Orthopedics” Humanitas University, Milan

Topics covered:
1. Knee; 2. Sports Medicine;

Caroline Mouton
Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Centre Hospitalier de Luxembourg - Clinique d'Eich
Up to 1 month

The Sports Clinic of the Centre Hospitalier de Luxembourg (CHL) is a centre of excellence in interdisciplinary care of all sports-related pathologies, having received ESSKA, ISAKOS, and SIAGASCOT recognition as a teaching centre. In 2008, the Department was accredited as Luxembourg Olympic Medical Center by the Luxembourgish Olympic Committee (COSL). It has a privileged partnership with the Luxembourg Institute of Health (LIH) and the Luxembourg Institute of Research in Orthopedics, Sports Medicine and Science (LIROMS) which is part of the French-speaking IOC Research Centre consortium (ReFORM).
The main specificity of the clinic is the interdisciplinary functioning covering all major aspects of orthopaedics (arthroscopy and joint replacement for knee, hip, ankle, and shoulder) and sports medicine (operative and non-operative orthopaedic surgery, non-orthopaedic sports medicine, and exercise physiology, as well as sports physiotherapy). Mentees will have the opportunity to observe activities of all departments involved in the Sports (e.g., up to 50 elective surgical procedures per week, patient evaluation in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, medical visits, patient follow-up). They will also be given the opportunity to learn how to use other technologies and facilities available on-site (e.g., knee laximetry, movement analysis, and 3D printing).
The Sports Clinic also display a strong scientific activity and publishes annually about 50 scientific contributions. Mentees will be invited to attend the weekly scientific staff meeting and present on a topic of their own choice. Current clinical research topics include but are not limited to: paediatric and adult meniscus and ACL injuries, lower-limb biomechanical analysis, injury registries (for epidemiology and imaging aspects) or chronic ankle instability. If interested, the mentee can request a personalised guidance and advices on general research methodology, data management, statistical analyses or writing skills and publication processes.
Finally, the department includes and welcomes many visiting surgeons from all over Europe every year, also offering the possibility to learn about the differences in surgical education, careers, and procedures in the EU.

Topics covered:
1. Knee; 2. Ankle & Foot; 3. Sports Medicine;

Mary Mulcahey
Maywood, IL, USA

Loyola University Medical Center
Up to 1 week

Broad mix of sports medicine cases including both knee and shoulder arthroscopy. There are 2 other sports medicine surgeons and 2 dedicated shoulder / elbow surgeons in my group who the mentee could also observe during the visit. The medical center / surgery center is located in Maywood, IL, which is about 30 minutes west of Chicago.

Topics covered:
1. ACL reconstruction; 2. Labral repair; 3. Rotator cuff repair; 4. MPFL reconstruction;

Maristella Saccomanno
Brescia, Italy

ASST- Spedali Civili
Up to 1 week

Academic hospital
Shoulder and knee surgery (office and OR)
Research 
Clinical cases discussion

Topics covered:
1. Shoulder; 2. Knee; 3. Sports Medicine;

Ciara Stevenson
Belfast, UK

Belfast Knee Clinic, Belfast Northern Ireland Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast Musgrave Park Hospital
Up to 1 week

Belfast Knee Clinic is a specialist knee clinic offering treatment from arthroscopy, meniscal repair, meniscal transplant, cartilage repair, osteotomy, partial and total knee replacement. The Royal Victoria hospital is the level 1 Major Trauma Centre for Northern Ireland where I specialise in periarticular knee trauma and multi-ligament knee dislocations. Musgrave Park Hospital is the elective hospital for Belfast.

Topics covered:
1. Knee; 2. Sports Medicine; 3. Periarticular knee trauma;

Katja Tecklenburg
Imst, Austria

Medalp Sportclinic
1-2 days

Private sports clinic in the alps with focus on winter sport injuries. 
I can offer a mentorship for outpatient work with acute knee- , shoulder and extremity injuries and a high volume of surgical cases during the winter ski season (end of December till end of April). 
If mentorship in the summer is desired: more chronic cases as well as bike injuries (downhill biking) and some football injuries with a focus on knee arthroscopic cases as well as extremity trauma cases.

Topics covered:
1. Knee; 2. Sports Medicine; 3. Ankle & foot;