McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine faculty member Savio L-Y. Woo, PhD, DSc , University Professor of Bioengineering and the Founder and Director of the Musculoskeletal Research Center, University of Pittsburgh, has been elected an Honorary Member of the European Federation of National Associations of Orthopaedic Sports Traumatology (EFOST). This prestigious honor is bestowed on an individual for exemplary efforts in support of international sports medicine. Dr. Woo is the only non-surgeon to receive such an honor from this federation of clinicians. He will be presented the “Mark of Honor” during the EFOST Meeting being held in Brussels, Germany, November 2010.
After the First World Congress Sports Traumatology which was held in Palma de Mallorca in May 1992, Dr. Hans Paessler from Germany and Dr. Jean Claude Imbert from France had the idea of founding a new organization in Europe dealing with sports traumatology based on the association of different nations. The idea was to create a Federation of National Sports Traumatology Societies and not a simple society of individual members, with the purpose of coordinating and improving knowledge of sports-related injuries. The mission of EFOST is to spread the idea of a common effort in the field of sports traumatology in Europe, coordinating the Societies, and creating new ones in countries with no such organizations.
Congratulations, Dr. Woo!
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European Federation of National Associations of Orthopaedic Sports Traumatology
Bio: Dr. Savio Woo