Unsere Ehrengäste
Prof. Jacques Menetrey
Berichtet über “High Performance in Sports and Orthopedics”
Am Freitag, 16.6. um 10:10 Uhr im Saal Europa!

Biography
- Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Sport Medicine at the University Hospital of Geneva Switzerland
- Director of the Swiss Olympic Medical Center Hirslanden Clinique la Colline in Geneva
- Medical training at the University Hospital of Geneva and at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
- Traveling fellow for the ESSKA and ASG
- Specialized in knee surgery
- Interested in muscle injury research effort to muscle healin
Research Specialty
- numerous high ranked publications and has published a textbook entitled «The Knee joint : Surgical techniques and strategies»
- Past President of the European Society of Sports Traumatology, Knee Surgery and Arthroscopy (ESSKA)
- Board Member of the Swiss Orthopaedic Surgery Society Sports Medicine
- Team physician of the Geneva Servette Hockey Club
- Medical director of the Ballet du Grand Thêatre Geneva
- Medical director of World Pro Tour IAMcycling team for four years
- worked more than 15 years in alpine skiing for Swiss Ski Federation
Prof. Carolyn Emery
Berichtet über “ 25 years of Prevention in Sports”
Am Samstag, 17.6. um 11:30 Uhr im Saal Europa!

Biography
- Professor in the Faculty of Kinesiology at the University of Calgary
- Physiotherapist and epidemiologist
- BSc in Physiotherapy at Queens University in 1988
- MSc in Epidemiology (Community Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine) at the University of Calgary in 1999
- PhD in Epidemiology (Public Health Sciences, Faculty of Medicine) from the University of Alberta in 2004
- Joint appointments in Pediatrics and Community Health Sciences, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary
- Member of the Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute, O’Brien Institute of Public Health, Hotchkiss Brain Institute and the McCaig Institute of Bone and Joint Healt
Research Current Work
- Injury prevention in youth sport and recreation, concussion, and pediatric rehabilitation
- aimed to reduce the public health burden of injury including long-term consequences (e.g. overweight/obesity, post-traumatic osteoarthritis, post-concussion syndrome)
- Chair in Pediatric Rehabilitation (Alberta Children’s Hospital Research Institute)
- Chair of the Sport Injury Prevention Research Centre at the University of Calgary (1 of 10 International Olympic Committee Research Centres in Injury and Illness Prevention in Sport)
- leads “SHRed Injuries: Preventing Injuries and their Consequences in Youth Sport and Recreation” (CIHR) and “SHRed Concussions-Surveillance in High Schools to Reduce the Risk of Concussions and their Concequences: (NFL Scientific Advisor Board)
- Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Health Sciences and Scholar of the Royal Society of Canada