Dear colleagues,

Due to the recent Coronavirus (COVID-19) developments in Germany and Europe, we have taken the decision to suspend the following workshops in April and May 2020 in Berlin, Germany AND Barcelona, Spain:

•  Workshops on Prosthetic Joint Infections (PJI) on 6-7 April, 2020 in Berlin, Germany –  suspended
•  Workshops on European Concepts in Implant-Associated Infection on 24-25 April, 2020 in Barcelona, Spain –  suspended
•  Workshop on Fracture-Related Infections (FRI) on 4-5 May 2020 in Berlin, Germany – suspended

The Workshop “Modern Concepts in Management of Implant-Associated Infections” is a great opportunity to get up-to-date information about prevention, diagnosis and combined (medical and surgical) treatment of Implant-Associated Infections. The Workshop will take place on 14^th-15^th May 2020 in Bratislava, Slovakia.

For more detailed information click here .

Download the program here (you find the updated version attached).

Register here.

The Workshop “European Concepts in Implant-Associated Infections” will be organized in cooperation with La Societat Catalana de Cirurgia Ortopèdica i Traumatologia, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and Sociedad Española de la Rodilla and will take place on 24^th-25^th April 2020 in Barcelona, Spain.

Download the program here (you find the updated version attached).

Register here.

We are pleased to announce that the workshop “Modern Concepts in Management of Implant-Associated Infections”, which was held on 24th April 2019 in Kharkiv, Ukraine, was a major success. The workshop provided the attendees with the opportunity to gain insights into the prevention, diagnosis and combined (medical and surgical) treatment of prosthetic joint infection and implant-associated infections after fracture fixation, with particular emphasis on the interdisciplinary approach and efficient modern concepts.

The Workshop “Modern Concepts in Management of Implant-Associated Infections” will be organized in cooperation with Sytenko Institute of Spine And Joint Pathology, National Academy of medical Sciences of Ukraine and will take place on 24^th April 2019 in Kharkiv, Ukraine.

The Workshop “Modern Concepts in Management of Implant-Associated Infections” was organized in cooperation with Krasnoyarsk Regional Clinical Hospital & Krasnoyarsk State Medical University. It was held on February 22, 2019 in Krasnoyarsk, Russia. Here you can download all Workshop related materials.

https://tinyurl.com/yxnf9wuk

Thank you to the orthopaedic department at Royal Darwin Hospital for the opportunity to present on orthopaedic infection, PRO-IMPLANT Foundation and Stimulan. We managed to avoid getting eaten by the crocs, stung by the box jellyfish and bitten by the king brown snakes...  With Andrej Trampuz hashtag#proimplantfoundation PRO-IMPLANT Foundation

More than 700 shoulder surgeons from accross the world are meeting these days in Paris. Find the presentation “New Strategies in Diagnosis and Treatment of Infection of the Shoulder” form the “Paris International Shoulder Course” on 14 February 2019 HERE.

The Oxford Bone Infection Conference (Thursday 21st and Friday 22nd March 2019 at the Oxford Examination Schools) aims to facilitate multidisciplinary team working in the management of complex bone and joint infection. International experts in microbiology and infectious diseases, orthopaedics, plastic and reconstructive surgery are invited each year to present their work.

The movie shows step-by-step instructions how to add antibiotics into PMMA bone cement. This method can be used for preparing spacer and fixation cement.

The next Workshop on PJI (in German language) will take place on 13.-14.5.2019 in Bochum and is organized by the Aesculap Academy. During the interactive 2-days workshop, modern diagnostic, prevention and treatment concepts will be presented and discussed.

The Workshop will provide an up-to-date knowledge and practical approach to infections in orthopaedicand trauma surgery. It covers prevention, diagnosis, treatment principles, with particular emphasis on the interdisciplinary approach and modern innovative concepts.

The course is a mix of lectures, interactive case discussions and practical hands-on workshops.

There is a 38th Annual meeting of the European Bone and Joint Infection Society taking place on 12 - 14 September 2019 in Antwerp, Belgium. Mark your calendar with the following dates:

The Infectiology Group of PD Dr. med. Andrej Trampuz at the Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin has an open position for a PhD student to work on an cooperative European project focused on „Antibiofilm therapy using Local Application of Bacteriophages“. For further information click here.

The Workshop “Management of Orthopedic Implant-Associated Infections: Current concepts and Future Challenges” is organized in cooperation with Queensland University of Technology & University of Queensland. It will be held on February 8-9, 2019 in Brisbane, Australia.

A new flyer is available for the PRO-IMPLANT Workshop on Implant-Associated Infections is available (flyer), the updated program is available here. The Workshop will take place on 13 March 2019 in Bratislava, Slovakia and is organized in cooperation with the Slovak Orthopedic and Traumatologic Society (SOTS).

Updated Pocket Guides in other languages are available for free. In order to download them, you need to login  or register. 

In cooperation with local organizers, Dra. Bárbara Flor de Lima (Infectious diseases specialist) and Dr. Francisco Guerra Pinto (Orthopedic & trauma surgeon), PRO-IMPLANT is organizing a workshop on Modern Concepts in Management of Implant-Associated Infections on Saturday, 2 March 2019 in Lisbon

PRO-IMPLANT is sponsor of a prospective interventional clinical trial, evaluating the role of intravenous fosfomycin in the treatment of PJI, holding the acronym “PROOF-Study” (Prosthetic Joint Infection Outcome with Fosfomycin). In this study, the outcome of a fosfomycin-containing antibiotic regimen is investigated. Currently, 8 of 25 study centers in Germany are already recruiting patients in this study.

Dear colleagues and friends,

we are proud to announce that the PRO-IMPLANT Foundation is an organisational partner of the Spine Experts Group 2018 Annual meeting (SEG 2018). We will be host of Spinal infections section of the congress which will be held from November 30th till December 1st, 2018 in Hotel International in Zagreb, Croatia.

Few places are still left for the interactive PJI Workshop (in German) on 5.-6.11.2018 in Berlin, moderated by Dr. Hinnerk Baecker and Dr. Andrej Trampuz. During the workshop, modern diagnostic, prevention and treatment concepts will be discussed. See the program flyer.

This workshop is accredited for “Fortbildungspunkte”. Register here

Watch life talks from the China "roadshow" in with Chinese interpretation (under "Read more..." below).

In addition, review articles on PJI were published in the Korean “Hip & Pelvis Journal” by Cheng Li et al. (in English) and in “травм а тология и ортопедия россии” by Svetlana Bozkhova et al. (in Russian).

PRO-IMPLANT Foundation just issued drafts of three new Pocket Guides on Cardiovascular Infections, which can be all downloaded here for free:

The Pocket Guides summarize the latest evidence and practical recommendations on diagnosis and treatment of these complex infections in a technologically rapidly evolving medical field. They were developed in close cooperation with the German Heart Center Berlin (Deutsches Herzzentrum Berlin, DHZB, www.dhzb.de), Director Prof. Volkmar Falk and his team of heart surgeons: Eugenij Potapov, Christoph Starck, Felix Schönrath and Robert Hammerschmidt.

PRO-IMPLANT Foundation issued a new Pocket Guide on Infections after cranial neurosurgery, which you can downloaded here. This Pocket Guide was developed in cooperation with Dr. Anna Conen (Deputy Head of Infectious Diseases, Aarau, Switzerland) and Prof. Peter Vajkoczy (Director the Clinic for Neurosurgery at Charité Hospital Berlin). For more information see review article here.

16th Meeting of the International Society of Applied Cardiovascular Biology (ISACB) took place on September 16-19,2018 in Bordeaux, France.

Watch the keynote lecture from Dr. Andrej Trampuz at ISACB 2018 here. 

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