SSSH 2024 congress at Herlev Hospital (Copenhagen) August 22-23rd 2024
The meeting is organized in collaboration with the Danish Association for Hand Therapists. Moreover, the Polish Society for Surgery of the Hand will be the guest too.
Invited speakers:
From Scandinavia: Hand surgeons Martin Clementson (S), Peter Jörgsholm (DK), Ole Reigstad (N), Maria Wilcke (S), Robert Gvozdenovic (DK), Torsten Schriever (DK), Teemu Karlalainen (Fi), Torben Bæk Hansen (DK), Magnus Tägill (S), Asgeir Amundsen (N)
Hand Therapists: Elisabeth Ekstrand (S), Linda Evertsson (S), Alice Ørts (DK), Susanne Boel (DK) Other: Sif Gylfadottir (neurologist), Thomas Kluge (painter)
From outside Scandinavia: Hand surgeons: Joseph Dias (UK), David Warwick (UK), Jin Bo Tang (China), Piotr Czarnecki (PL) - Polish FESSH delegate: Ireneusz Walaszek (PL) Polish IFSSH delegate: Paweł Reichert (PL) The President of PTCHR:, Guillaume Herzberg (F)
Hand therapists Sarah Mee (UK), Willemijn de Ridder (NL) Other Miriam Marks (researcher/therapist) (CH)
The scientific sessions will integrate lectures and free papers by hand surgeons as well as therapists.
Special sessions will be devoted to “Scaphoid Injuries” and “The Psychological Factors of Treating Hands”, and some of the talks will revolve around controversies of “Digital nerves”, “Evidence-based treatments” and “Complications” in hand surgery and rehabilitation. Prof. Jin Bo Tang will give the Moberg lecture entitled “Flexor tendon surgery in the hand: dogmas, challenges and current practice”, and we organized sessions on what´s new in the treatments of “Distal Radius Fractures in elderly populations” and “TFCC injuries”.
Important dates
Abstract submission opens: December 1, 2023 Abstract submission deadline: April 15, 2024
Author notification: May 8, 2024 Early bird registration deadline: May 31, 2024
Welcome ceremony at Copenhagen City Hall: August 21, 2024 Congress “Dinner & Dance”: August 22, 2024
Head here for Abstract submission and registration