SCIENTIFIC BOARD

President

Grégoire Chick, MD PhD

Consultant Hand surgeon, Dept of Hand, Wrist & Nerve Surgery, LATOUR Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland.

Ass. Professor of Clinical Orthopaedic Surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College, Cornell University, NY, US.

Board certified specialist in Hand Surgery (since 1999) and Orthopedic Surgery (since 1996).

Publications and presentations:

• 3 books : Acute and Chronic Finger Injuries in Ball Sports (Sports and Traumatology), Paris, Springer-Verlag; 2013, 868p., Manuel de Chirurgie de la Main et du Poignet, Urgences (Hand and wrist emergencies), Paris, Masson-Elsevier; 2014, 320p., Pathologies chroniques de la main et du poignet (Hand and wrist chronic conditions), Paris, Masson-Elsevier; 2015, 345 p.
• 75 peer-reviewed scientific publications and 86 book chapters in international text books
• 80+ presentations at national and international meetings, including keynote speaker, moderator and chair

PhD – Postdoc: PhD thesis at Gent University (be). “Benign peripheral nerve tumours: diagnostic and therapeutic aspects of resectable and unresectable tumours” Ghent University. Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences.

Fellowship Training Centre in Hand and peripheral nerve Surgery (FMH), Geneva, Switzerland.

Reviewer of Journal of Hand Surgery Eu, British Journal of Sports Medicine

Member of Swiss, French, American, South African societies for surgery of the Hand (SGH-SSCM, SFCM, ASSH, SASSH)

Philippe Bellemère, MD

Specialized in Hand Surgery and Microsurgery, Philippe Bellemère is a Hand Surgeon at Institut de la Main, Nantes, France

Past President (2017) of the French Society of Hand Surgery (SFCM)

Member of the following societies: American Society for Surgery of the Hand (ASSH), International Wrist Investigators’ Workshop, European Wrist Arthroscopy Society (EWAS), French Society of Orthopaedic surgery (SOFCOT)

Alain Tchurukdichian, MD

Independent Surgeon at Dijon-Bourgogne Private Hospital and Drevon Clinic Hospital, and part-time medical practitioner at Dijon University Hospital.

Member of the following societies: French Society of Orthopaedic Surgery (SOFCOT), French Society of Hand Surgery (SFCM), American Society for Surgery of the Hand (ASSH)