EUROPEAN FOOT AND ANKLE SOCIETY

CIP Europe 1959 to…… In the beginning there was CIP and there was Europe.We, Europeans, certainly own to the founders of CIP a great gratitude for bringing together all medical doctors interested in foot and ankle surgery in 1958. At that time it was the only organisation that was uniting world-wide people with interest in the field of footpathlogy, not only surgeons but also physicians, rheumatologists and radiologists and many more, for example biomechanical engineers and orthopedic technicians and shoemakers, from Europe, Asia to South America The presence and contribution of the European countries within CIP has always been very large. For the first 23 years the presidents of the society were Europeans, from France,Spain,Belgium and Italy. If we look to existence of CIP over the 41 years maybe we should better speak about a European supremacy. All except one president came from Europe.

European Foot and Ankle Societies 1993 EFFAS ESFAS But as the interest for foot and ankle pathology, and foot and ankle surgery was growing over the last 20 years younger colleagues became active within the field. Although in the early ninthies, even when telecommunication and travelling became more popular, a great need was felt to create a new, more active society within Europe to bring together and have a more lively exchange of knowledge within our continent. Also more possibilities for research within the discipline were felt to be necessary. And it was almost simultaneously that in Italy in 1993 two European Foot and Ankle societies undepently from each other were founded.

European Federation of Foot and Ankle Societies Milan, 1993 9 National societies medical doctors European part of CIP Dr. Zollinger . The EFFAS, the European Federation of foot and Ankle Societies, founded in Milan was constituted by the national societies of foot and ankle medicine and surgery from Europe, formerly united in the CIP. In fact EFFAS acknowledged itself as the European part of CIP, the first president was Prof.Dr. Zollinger The members of EFFAS therefore were the supporting national societies and every society entered with almost all its members. The statutes of EFFAS followed the EFFORT (the European Federation Orthopedics and Traumatology). Each national society paid the contribution to EFFAS for his members.

European Society of Foot and Ankle Surgeons Torino,1993 individuals mainly orthopedic surgeons Dr.Pisani The ESFAS , founded in Torino was a society formed by individuals mainly all orthopedic surgeons, the first president of the ESFAS was Dr. Pisani

European Foot and Ankle Society Founded in Koln Germany 1998 PRESIDENT Prof Greta Dereymaeker, M.D., PhD (Belgium) VICE-PRESIDENT Mr. Michael Stephens, M.D., FRCI (Ireland) SECRETARY Mr. Eric Anderson, M.D. (Scotland-UK) TREASURER Dr. Hakon Kofoed, M.D. (Denmark)

Mission and Task of EFAS Unite all medical doctors interested in Foot and Ankle pathology to improve the quality of Footcare in Europe Organise meetings Instructional courses and congresses Organise Subcommittees Scientific/ membership/educational/ journal Travelling fellowships Stimulate and encourage Research

EFAS COUNCIL 1998 PRESIDENT Prof Greta Dereymaeker, M.D., PhD (Belgium) VICE-PRESIDENT Mr. Michael Stephens, M.D., FRCI (Ireland) SECRETARY Mr. Eric Anderson, M.D. (Scotland-UK) TREASURER Dr. Hakon Kofoed, M.D. (Denmark) MEMBERS at large Dr. Per Henrik Agren, M.D. (Sweden) Dr. Daniel Frank, M.D. (Germany) Dr. Beat Hintermann, M.D.,PhD (Switserland) Dr. Pedro Magro, M.D. (Portugal) Prof. Francesco Malherba, M.D. (Italy) Dr. Jan Willem Louwerens, M.D. (Netherland) Dr. Ramon Rochera, M.D. (Spain) Dr. Hajo Thermann, M.D. (Germany) Dr. Bernard Valtin, M.D. (France) Prof. Nicolaus Wülker, M.D. (Germany)

European Foot and Ankle Societies 2 journals Surgery Barcelona

Foot and Ankle Surgery Offical Journal EFAS

Official Journal of European Foot and Ankle Society Foot and Ankle Surgery Official Journal of European Foot and Ankle Society Editors: S.Giannini, N. Wulker Review Editors: T. W. Smith, M.Stephens Liaisonpersons to EFAS: F Malherba, P Diebold Edited by Blackwell Science .

Official Journal of European Foot and Ankle Foot and Ankle Surgery Official Journal of European Foot and Ankle Society Founding editor: Leslie Klenermann Editors: S.Giannini, Tom smith, M.Stephens Review Editor: Renee Fuhrmann EFASrepresentatives: EFAS president, Renee Fuhrmann Edited by Elsevier since 2002

Presidents of EFAS 1998-2000 02-04 04-06 2000-2002

First Instructional course Dr Hans Trnka Dr Dereymaeker

Instructional courses EFAS Wien Austria (1999) Bologna Italy (2000) Veldhoven the Netherlands (2001) Geneva Switserland (2002)   Bristol UK (2003) Heidelberg Germany (2004) Copenhagen Denmark (2005) Barcelona Spain (2006)

EFAS Congress : Stockholm June 15-17, 2000 Chairman: Dr. P H Agren

EFAS Congress 2 yearly 2000 Stockholm 2002 Sevilla 2004 Montpellier 2006 Prague

EFAS: part of the Orthopaedic world EFORT Specialty day 1999 Brussels Belgium 2002 Rhodos 2003 Helsinki Finland 2005 Lissabon Portugal 2007 Florence Italy

EFAS: part of the International world COMFAS Venice Italy IFFAS triennial meeting 1999 Kyoto Japan 2002 San Francisco USA 2005 Naples Italy 2008 Bahia Brazil

Every year two young foot and Ankle surgeons are selected

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Members the European Foot and Ankle Society Austrian Foot Society Belgian Society of Medicine and Surgery of the Foot British Orthopaedic Foot Surgery Society Danish Foot and Ankle Society French Society of Medicine and Surgery of the Foot German Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society Hellenic Foot and Ankle Society Italian Society of Medicine and Surgery of the Foot Portugese Society of Medicine and Surgery of the Foot Spanish Association of Medicine and Surgery of the Foot Swiss Foot and Ankle Society 2006 : Litharian – Czech- Slovacian Scoiety Individual members of Europe Affiliated members from all over the world

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