Pre Course Tutors Introduction
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James A. Fernandes |
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Orthopaedic Consultant,
Children's Limb Reconstruction Services, Children's NHS Foundation, Sheffield, UK. Specializing
in pediatric limb reconstruction, skeletal dysplasia, DDH, and general orthopedics. Former
President of the British Society of Limb Reconstruction, Secretary of the British Society of
Pediatric Orthopaedic Surgery, Treasurer of the British Skeletal Dysplasia Organization and
President of the World ASAMI-BR and ILLRS held in Liverpool, UK, in 2019. |
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Shawn R Gilbert |
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Professor of Orthopaedics,
University of Alabama, and Director of Orthopaedics, Alabama Children's Hospital. Member of the
American College of Orthopaedic Surgeons, the American Orthopaedic Association, the Pediatric
Orthopaedic Society of North America, and the Scoliosis Research and Limb Lengthening and
Reconstruction Society, has held leadership positions in children's hospitals, state orthopaedic
societies, and national orthopaedic organizations. Dr. Gilbert specializes in pediatric
orthopaedics, especially in the treatment of scoliosis, hip dysplasia, talipes equinovarus,
Perthes, Blount's disease, and other deformities. He has published more than 90 papers on cell
and animal experiments related to bone and growth plate development, and the effects of obesity
on children's musculoskeletal system. |
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Alexander Gubin |
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Deputy Director, Doctor of
Medicine and Doctoral Tutor, Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, St. Petersburg
University, Russia; Deputy Director of Scientific Research, Olimp Clinic Network
(Voronezh/Moscow); Member of the Council of the Russian Association of Spine Surgeons; SICOT
State Representative; former Director of the Ilizarov Center in Kurgan,
2010-2020. |
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Gamal Hosny |
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Former Head of Orthopaedics,
Benha University/Hospital, Egypt, a world trailblazer in the field of orthopaedic surgery, he
has been a pioneer in the Ilizarov technique of bone lengthening and deformity correction in the
world since 1983. He established and led the Center for Bone Lengthening and Correction of
Deformities at the Haram Hospital, which has successfully performed thousands of reconstructive
limb surgeries. He has served as President of the Egyptian Orthopaedic Society and President of
the International ASAMI and Bone Reconstruction Society, and has made great contributions to
shaping the global orthopaedic medical pattern. |
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Qikai Hua |
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Chief Physician, Department of
Bone and Joint Surgery, First Affiliated Hospital of Guangxi Medical University, China. He has
been engaged in the diagnosis and treatment of difficult orthopedic diseases such as delayed
union and nonunion of fractures, orthopedic and functional reconstruction of limbs for a long
time, and has made great achievements in the treatment of chronic refractory limb wounds. In
2019, he published an article on the treatment of severe diabetic foot with transverse tibial
bone transfer in Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, and in 2020, he wrote an expert
consensus on the treatment of diabetic foot with transverse tibial bone transfer. He served as a
member of the Chinese Department of the International Limb Lengthening and Reconstruction
Society and the chairman of the Expert Committee on Bone Transfer for Diabetic Foot Treatment of
the Chinese Association of Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western
Medicine. |
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Alexander Kirienko |
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The famous Italian foot and
ankle deformity correction expert is good at using Ilizarov technique to treat foot and ankle
deformity. Former Head of Foot and Hand Surgery, Ilizarov Center, Kurgan, Russia. Since 1992, he
has worked in the Ospedale san Raffaele of Milan, Italy. Head of the External Fixation
Department at the Istituto Clinico Humanitas in Rozano, Milan, since 2001. Advances in Ilizarov
Apparatus Assembly, published in 1984. Ilizarov Technique for Complex Foot and Ankle Deformities
published in 2004. Member of AAOS, ASAMI International, USA LLRS. |
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Om Lahoti |
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Orthopaedic surgeon at King's
College Hospital, London, UK, who completed research training in paediatric orthopaedics and
limb reconstruction at Sheffield Children's Hospital and Kurgan Ilizarov Centre. Between
2020-2022, he was chairman of the British Association for Limb Reconstruction. His areas of
expertise include lower extremity disease in adults and children, limb reconstruction for
complex trauma, foot and ankle deformities, and post-polio residual
deformities. |
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Sergey S. Leonchuk |
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Sergey S. Leonchuk, MD, PhD
Russian Ilizarov Scientific Center for Restorative Traumatology and Orthopedics
head of the 6th orthopedic department,
member of ASAMI Russia |
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Gang Li |
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Professor, Department of
Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong;
Research Fellow, Li Ka Shing Institute of Health, The Chinese University of Hong Kong; Research
Fellow, Shenzhen Research Institute, The Chinese University of Hong Kong; Doctoral Supervisor.
Research Interests: Biology of stem cells, principles and clinical applications of fracture
healing and limb lengthening techniques, tissue engineering and clinical applications of stem
cells. By means of communication, First author or co-author in Biomaterials, Nature
Communications, Nature Medicine, Nano letters, Advanced Functional Materials, ACS Nano, Advanced
Materials, JBMR, Stem Cells, Bone and other academic journals and magazines have published more
than 300 papers, which have been cited more than 15500 times, H index 70, i-10 index 227.
Currently, he is a member of the International Committee of the American Orthopaedic Research
Association, a representative of the International Joint Orthopaedic Research Association in
China, a senior member of the Asian Department of the International Society of Tissue
Engineering and Regenerative Medicine, a chairman of the International Limb Lengthening and
Reconstruction Association in China, and a Secretary-General of the Orthopaedic and
Reconstruction Committee of the Chinese Orthopaedic Association. |
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Dror Paley |
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Medical Director, Paley
Orthopaedic and Spine Institute, USA, with an international reputation for limb lengthening and
reconstruction. His Principles of Deformity Correction is regarded as the Bible of orthopaedic
surgery, and the CORA deformity analysis method has become the gold standard of orthopaedic
deformity planning. He went to the Soviet Kurgan several times to receive training under
Professor Gavril Ilizarov. In 1987, Dr. Paley introduced the Ilizarov method to the United
States and Canada. He was the founder and first president of the Limb Lengthening and
Reconstruction Society in 1989 and the founder and first president of the Limb Lengthening and
Reconstruction Society International in 2015. Dr. Paley has developed more than 100 surgical
procedures, Include: SUPERhip, SUPERknee, SUPERankle, SHORDT, Paley-Weber patelloplasty,
ulnarization, Paley rotationplasty, modified Judet quadricepplasty, Paley XUNION for CPT, MHE
forearm correction, Prolongation of four-stage achondroplasia, etc. |
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Sihe Qin |
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Director of Orthopaedic and
Reconstructive Surgery, Rehabilitation Hospital Affiliated to China National Rehabilitation Aids
Research Center, Chairman of the Conference. Honorary Professor, Russian State Ilizarov Centre.
He has been engaged in orthopedic surgery-surgical correction of limb deformities and
disabilities for 45 years. As of December 2023, he has presided over 37763 cases of limb
deformities and disabilities, covering more than 230 diseases. He is the doctor with the largest
number of patients with limb deformities and disabilities in the world, and has built the
largest database of surgical cases of limb deformities and disabilities in China. He is the
first person from mainland China who went to Russia to study and introduce Ilizarov technology,
initiated the establishment of ASAMI China, and led the transformation of Ilizarov technology in
China by combining surgery with external fixation (Ilizarov technology) to treat 11238 cases of
limb deformities and disabilities. Editor-in-chief of 19 Chinese books, editor-in-chief of the
English version of "Lower Limb Deformity Correction and Functional Reconstruction" was published
by the world-renowned publisher Springer in 2020, and six books of "Limb Morphology and
Functional Reconstruction" series were funded by the National Publishing Fund in 2021 and
published in September 2023. "Large Data Analysis of Functional Reconstruction of Limb
Deformities" was published by Science and Technology Literature Publishing House in 2024, and
"Atlas of Limb Deformity"-Atlas of Limb Deformities was published by Spinger in August 2024.
Chairman of the Chinese Section of the International Society for the Application and Research of
Ilizarov Technology (ASAMI) and the International Society for Limb Lengthening and
Reconstruction (ILLRS). |
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Saw Aik |
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Dr. Saw Aik is Professor
Emeritus of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, and Chairman of the 7th World
Congress on Limb Reconstruction. As an orthopedic surgeon, he specializes in pediatric
orthopedic and limb lengthening corrective surgery (LLRS). He has served as the President of
ASAMI Malaysia, the Malaysian Orthopaedic Association and the Asia Pacific Pediatric Orthopaedic
Association. He is currently a member of the Council of the ASEAN Orthopaedic Association, the
Secretary-General of the Asia-Pacific Medical Editors Association and the Editor-in-Chief of the
Malaysian Orthopaedic Journal. Over the past 20 years, it has recruited many trainee doctors from Asian and African countries, visited hospitals in developing countries, and provided volunteer services and training for doctors. In 2015, he was appointed as the Director of the Silent Teacher Program at the University of Malaya Medical School. |
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Mikhail P. Teplenky |
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Head of the Department of Pathology of Large Joints, Head of the Laboratory of Orthopaedic Surgery of Bones and Joints for Children and Adults, Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon of the Highest Rank, Member of the Thesis Committee of Ilizarov Center, Kurgan, Russia. Teplenky is a member of SICOT and Russian ASAMI, specializing in the correction of children's lower limb deformities, especially hip deformities. His use of Ilizarov technology to reconstruct congenital and acquired deformities of the hip joint is absolutely beyond your imagination. Domestic doctors who have listened to his lectures are all amazed by his wonderful cases, which arouses a strong interest in exploring the secrets of Kurgan. |
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Kevin Tetsworth |
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He is a well-known orthopaedic specialist in Brisbane, Australia, and is internationally recognized as an expert in deformity correction, limb lengthening, high-energy trauma, bone defects, post-traumatic limb rescue and reconstruction, osteomyelitis and fracture-related infections, complex revision arthroplasty and prosthetic joint infections, and osteointegration of amputees. He has published more than 250 papers, including 1 monograph and 16 monograph chapters, with more than 7500 citations. |
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Peter H. Thaller |
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Senior Consultant, Bethel Clinic and University of Munich, Berlin, Germany, Lecturer, University of Munich, Head of 3D Surgery and Clinical Tissue Regeneration (3D-Surgery and Clinical Tissue Regeneration). Gerhard Küntscher Society、Deutsche Gesellschaft für Orthopädie und Unfallchirurgie、 Member of Berufsverband der Deutschen Chirurgen and Limblengthening and Reconstruction Society. He is good at limb lengthening, deformity correction and total intramedullary bone lengthening, and has rich clinical experience. |
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Chao Wan |
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Researcher, Doctoral Tutor, Postdoctoral Cooperation Tutor, Co-Director of Key Laboratory of Regenerative Medicine, Ministry of Education, School of Biomedical Sciences, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen Research Institute, Chinese University of Hong Kong. He has long been engaged in basic and applied research on molecular mechanism of bone and joint lesions, drug targets and prevention and treatment strategies of integrated traditional Chinese and Western medicine, tissue engineering and regenerative repair. More than 80 papers have been published in influential academic journals in this field, including PNAS, JCI, Nat Med, Cell, Bone Research, Biomaterials, etc., and have been cited more than 5800 times. He co-edited 2 monographs and co-edited 5 books. |