2004

	EUROPEAN HIP SOCIETY

GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF EHS - Lisbon 5th June 2005 (pdf version)

The General Assembly of the European Hip Society has been held in Lisbon on June 5th of June 2005 under the Presidence of Pr Tokgozoglu .

A. MINUTES of the GENERAL ASSEMBLY June 2004
The minutes of the General Assembly held in Innsbruck in June 2004 were not sent to all the Members but published on the web site of the Society and are supposed to be published in Hip International as it will be for the minutes of the General Assembly of June 2005 .

B. REPORT of the TREASURER
The fiscal year 2004 came out with a positive income to the Society of EURO 80,090 compared with last year’s income of EURO 62 . The higher amount is due to a positive income of EURO 56,247 from the EHS meeting in Innsbruck . Generally , the income of the Society derives from two sources : membership fees and investments (which are low due to the low bank interest) . Regarding investment , most of the money is invested in bonds and shares which give the Society a stable income that , generally , covers a part of the expenses of the daily operation of the Society , i.e. auditing , book-keeping and secretarial function . Since last year we have received similar membership fee of EURO 100 from both associate and full members , which has been easier to manage . The member database , introduced four years ago , has shown its efficacy by identifying non-paying members , and it has been noted that only 30 members failed to pay in 2004 . In conclusion , the economy of the Society is still stable as the cash balance is EURO 155,384 compared with EURO 75,228 last year .
I recommend that the nationale representatives try to recruit new members .
The report of the Treasurer is approved and the cotisation for 2005-2006 remains 100 EUROS .

C.    REPORT of the GENERAL SECRETARY
1.    LIST of MEMBERS
I had no database for the list of members of EHS. So I took the last Directory of Members printed in 1998 and add all the members elected at the General Assemblies since but for most of them I had no postal address. Our treasurer sent me list of members who paid their fees for 2004. At the end I have a list of names and some addresses. I will give to the National Delegates the list of members of their country to recover most of the addresses and we will have a complete data base.
I sent to all the members, even if they did not pay their fees for 2004, when I had the addresses, the modifications of the Constitution and the convocation for the General Assembly, asking to send back their E-Mail address. I had about 50 answers.
We must try to have all the E-Mail addresses because of financial reasons we can’t send the minutes of the General Assembly by Post to all the members. For that reason, I decided last year to put the minutes on the Web site of the Society and to ask to Hip International to publish them in the Journal.

2.    MODIFICATIONS of the CONSTITUTION
I sent to all members the all Constitution with the modifications proposed at the last General Assembly in Innsbruck. The modifications consist of definition of Members and officialization of the National Representatives Committee.
The definition of members : There will be Full Members , Junior Members under the age of 35 years with no fees and the possibility to receive Hip International , Companion Members , Emeritus Members and Honorary Members .
The Nationale Representative Committee : They will be proposed by National Hip Society or Group , regarding they have more than ten Full Members in the EHS .
The modifications of the Constitution are approved by the General Assembly .

3.    NATIONALE REPRESENTATIVES
There are some modifications in the list of National Representatives at their request :
-    Greece Dr Macheras
-    Irish Republic Dr Masterson
-    Netherlands Dr Bulstra asked to resign and proposed a new national representative who is not yet member of the Society. I am waiting for an application
-    Portugal Dr Cabral
-    Switzerland I have been in relation with the President of the Swiss Society and the President of the hip group but I have no name for the moment

4.    NEW MEMBERS
I have 26 applications of new members.

Czech Republic	Dr Rozkydal ( Pr Krismer and Pr Tokgozoglu accepted to be sponsors)
Finland	Dr Paavolainen , Dr Ylinen
Germany	Dr Oehme
Greece	Dr Boscainos , Dr Karachalios , Dr Kateros , Dr Lilikakis , Dr Papagelopoulos
Hungary	Dr Fekete
Norway	Dr Bierling
Spain	Dr Murcia , Dr Ribas
Sweden	Dr Flivik
Turkey	Dr Ayvaz (Junior) , Dr Bilgen , Dr Caglar , Dr Isklar , Dr Uzumcu , Dr Zorer
United Kingdom	Mr Eastaugh-Waring , Dr Gheduzzi (Companion) , Mr Lankester , Mr Mehendale , Pr Miles (Companion) , Mr Ward

The General Assembly approves the list of New Members proposed by the Executive Committee .

5. SECRETARIAT
At the last General Assembly in Innsbruck I received the mission to explore the two possibilities discussed at that time, one with Elisabeth ELSON, the other with the central office of EFORT. I have been in contact with Gabriela SKELA but it was not possible to finalise the proposals . The definition was to centralise the list of members with the addresses in order to avoid the difficulties when we change of General Secretary, to manage our Executive and National Representatives meetings and our General Assembly with the convocations and the redaction of the minutes. We did not ask for any help in the organisation of our Domestic Meetings, which is assumed by the President as far as now.
We met Gabriella Skela during the Executive Committee and we decided to try to have our secretariat at the Central Office of EFORT as it was defined above , free of charges for six months to see how much time of work it needs . We ask the General Assembly the authorization for a budget for the six months further until our next meeting .
The General Assembly give its approval for a six monthes budget for the Secretariat .

6.    RELATIONS with EFORT
The Executive Board of EFORT is waiting to involve the Specialities Societies in the organisation of their meetings. For the Congress of 2007 we have been asked to propose topics for Symposia and Instructional Course Lectures. So I asked to the National Representatives for proposal. I received some answers and I sent them to Pr THORNGREN. The other question was the designation of members to appreciate the abstracts and participate to the notation for the selection of papers for Florence Congress. With the Executive Committee we decided that it was the responsibility of the Executive Board members.
The President and the General Secretary have participated to the meeting of the Speciality Societies with the Executive Board of EFORT on June 4th 2005 . The discussion was about the responsibility of the Speciality Societies in the organisation of the EFORT Congresses , half of the Symposia and Instructional Course Lectures of their specialities and participation to the analysis of the abstracts submitted for the Congress . A protocole is going to be proposed to the Speciality Societies . The Speciality Day will be maintened . Precisions are going to be made by EFORT about the fees of that special day .
I remind you that on an other hand we decided for the Hip Day in Florence to have half day on Hip Fractures under the responsibility of Mr Bannister and half a day on hip bone tumours under the responsibility of Pr Gradinger.

D.    DOMESTIC MEETING in TURKEY 2006
The dates proposed by our President was from 31 May to 4th of June .
At that time there is the combined meeting of the Nordic Orthopaedic Society .
Our President will see how it is possible to move our meeting .

E.    EFORT Congress in Florence 2007
The topics proposed to Pr Thorngren has been :

Pr Learmonth	Minimally invasive surgery Image guided surgery Minimally invasive implants Resurfacing arthroplasty Contemporary bearing surfaces Revision total hip prostheses
Pr Soballe	Joint preserving procedures Treatment of the adult congenitally dislocated hip Periacetabular osteotomy
Pr Ullmark	Revision total hip arthroplasty with impacted grafts Biomechanical aspects of impacted grafts Histology of the host bed Positron emission tomography to evaluate the bone healing Femoral prosthese without cement locked distally and evolution of the proximal osteolysis
Pr Visuri	Stress fracture around the hip
Pr Garcia-Cimbrelo	Clinical results and wear measurements of different alternative bearing surfaces Revision surgery
Pr Macheras	Predictability of early implant migration for the long term survival Contemporary bone implant interfaces
Pr Tabutin	Total hip with double mobility in acetabular cups Primary total hip customed made Total hip after femoral osteotomies Anterior mini-invasive incision for total hip
Pr Argenson	The three dimensional anatomy of the proximal femur in osteoarthritis and the consequence for total hip arthroplasty
Dr Epinette	Total hip arthroplasty with hydroxyapatite coating : 20 years experience

The Nationale Representatives Committee propose finally :
-    A Symposium on Minimally Invasive Surgery with Pr Krismer and Pr Soballe
-    A Symposium on Contemporary bearing surfaces with Pr Garcia-Cimbrelo
-    A Symposium on Revision Total Hip Arthroplasty with Pr Ullmark and Pr Gradinger
-    An Instructional Course Lecture on Image Guided Surgery by Pr Krismer or Pr Soballe
-    An Instructional Course Lecture on Joint Preserving Procedures by Pr Soballe

F.    DOMESTIC MEETING in SPAIN 2008
It is running

G.    HIP REGISTAR
An European Society for Arthroplasty Registar has been created by Dr Labeck .
Pr Krismer is our representant .
The collection of datas are made by Nationale Organisations . the aim is to centralised the nationale productions to have an European overview .