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The 6th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Orthopaedic Society of Knee, Arthroscopy and Sports Medicine (JOSKAS)
July 24 – 26, 2014 Hiroshima, JAPAN
Masataka Deie,
Professor
Institute of Biomedical & Health Sciences, Laboratory of Musculoskeletal Functional Research and Regeneration
Hiroshima University
The 6th Annual meeting of the Japanese Orthopaedic Society of Knee, Arthroscopy, and Sports (JOSKAS) was held at the International Conference Center and the neighboring Hiroshima City Bunka Koryu Kaikan, Hiroshima, Japan, from July 24 – 26 with additional seminars on July 26 – 27, 2014 under the President Professor Mitsuo Ochi, who is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery in the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Hiroshima University, and Society President of Japanese Orthopaedic Society of Knee, Arthroscopy and Sports Medicine.
JOSKAS was established by the merger of the Japan Arthroscopy Association and the Japan Knee Society, both of which were originally founded by Prof. Masaki Watanabe in 1975. The inaugural JOSKAS annual meeting was held in 2009, and this year marks the 40th anniversary of our parent societies.
01 JOSKAS established the “Masaki Watanabe Award” at its inaugural 2009 meeting to show respect for the achievements of Prof. Watanabe, who has been called the “Father of Arthroscopy”. The Masaki Watanabe Award is not presented every year, but previous recipients include Prof. Ejnar Eriksson, Prof. Gary Poehling and Prof. Konsei Shino. In 2014, the recipients of the JOSKAS Masaki Watanabe Award are Prof Kazunori Yasuda, Hokkaido University, Japan and Prof.
Freddie Fu, Pittsburgh University, USA.
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The Masaki Watanabe Award was presented to Prof. Yasuda and Prof. Fu at the 6th JOSKAS meeting in Hiroshima, to recognize their great contributions to ACL injury and reconstruction. In addition to being honored with the Award, Prof. Yasuda and Prof. Fu presented the Masaki Watanabe Award Lectures.
The theme of the 2014 congress was “Creativity Brings the Future”. Prof. Philippe Neyret, France, Prof. Mats Brittsberg, Sweden, Prof. Giuliano Cerulli, Italy, Prof. Paolo Adravanti, Italy, Prof. Alessandro Castagna, Italy, Prof. Marc Safran, USA, Prof. Christopher Chuinard, USA, Dr. Andreas Gomoll, USA, Prof. Hwa-Chang Liu, Taiwan, Prof. Chih-Hwa Chen, Taiwan, and Dr. Peter Koch, Switzerland were the invited speakers. There were three invited lectures, eight symposiums, eight panel discussions, and 17 Itsukushima lunchtime seminars. The 6th JOSKAS received 953 abstracts for the congress and 2110 attended from Japan, Korea and Saudi Arabia
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JOSKAS has two important objectives: to educate young doctors about arthroscopy and joint surgery, and to enlighten the community about Locomotive syndrome (motor functional disease). The 6th JOSKAS congress included JOSKAS seminars on 26th and 27th June. The aim of the seminar was to teach young orthopaedic surgeons about arthroscopic and total knee arthroplastic surgical techniques and theory. 143 surgeons observed the techniques required for knee, shoulder, and hip arthroscopy, and for total knee arthroplasty.
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