Invited Faculty
Alessandro Calistri
Italy
Alessandro Castagna
Italy
Alessandro Greco
Italy
Alessandro Todesca
Italy
Alessia Pagnotta
Italy
Arun Mullaji
India
Bernardo Innocenti
Belgium
Boyko Gueorgiev
Switzerland
Clare Rimnac
United States
Claudio Ascani
Italy
Derek McMinn
United Kingdom
Ed Su
United States
Elena Silvestri (physio)
Italy
Elizaveta Kon
Italy
Emilio Romanini
Italy
Fabiano Bini
Italy
Fabio Catani
Italy
Francesco Benazzo
Italy
Francessco Falez
Italy
Gianluca Cinotti
Italy
Giulio Maccauro
Italy
Giuseppe Porcellini
Italy
Giuseppe Solarino
Italy
Gwen Sys
Belgium
Hyun Seok Song
Korea
Hyung Bin Park
Korea
JC Yoo
Korea
Jean-Alain Epinette
France
Julien Girard
France
Justin Cobb
United Kingdom
Manel Ribas Fernandez
Spain
Maristella Saccomanno
Italy
Mazda Farshad
Switzerland
Michelle Presacco
Italy
Nicola Maffuli
Italy
Olivier Verborgt
Belgium
Paolo Dalla Pria
Italy
Pasquale Farsetti
Italy
Philipp Furnstahl
Switzerland
Pier Francesco Indelli
Italy
Rafaele Russo
Italy
Richie Gill
United Kingdom
Rocco Papalia
Italy
Sang-Jin Shin
Korea
Sietske Rozie
Netherlands
Stefano Gumina
Italy
Vincenzo Salini
Italy
Walter Lacarbonara
Italy

Professor John Hollingdale
ISTA Board of Directors

Professor Nico Verdonschot
Professor in Orthopaedic Biomechanics, Radboud Medical Center & The Technical University of Twente

Professor Morteza Meftah
ISTA Board of Directors

Professor Bill Walter
Professor of Orthopedics at the University of Sydney. President of ISTA in 2012 and the Arthroplasty Society of Australia in 2023.

Byung-Woo MD, PhD
Medical Director, W-Hospital, President of Korean Orthopaedic Association.

Professor Fares Haddad
ISTA Board of Directors

Professor Gabriela Graziani
M.Eng, PhD; Assistant Professor at Politecnico di Milano. Secretary General EORS. Chair of research spine section ORS

Professor Giandomenico Logroscino
Orthopaedic Surgeon, University of L’Aquila

Koen De Smet, MD
Revision and Resurfacing expert – One of the worlds most experienced Hip Joint surgeons

Martin Richter, MD
Chief Physician of the department of Hand and Plastic Surgery at Helios Hospital Bonn Rhein-Sieg

Professor Nobuhiko Sugano
Director of the Arthroplasty Center, Kawanishi City Medical Center and Professor at Osaka University

Professor Paul Beaulé
Professor-Scientist Ottawa Hospital Research Institute. Chief of Staff at Hawkesbury and District General Hospital

Petra Heesterbeek, PhD
ISTA Board of Directors

Professor Pietro Ruggieri
Full Professor and Chair, Department of Orthopedics and Orthopedic Oncology, University of Padova, Italy

Professor Sae Hoon Kim
Department of Orthopedic Surgery Seoul National University College of Medicine. Professor, Secretary General of KSES.

Professor Sébastien Lustig
Chair of Orthopaedic Surgery at Lyon North University Hospital. An expert in knee and hip reconstruction and robotics.

Professor Thomas Gross
Private practice in Columbia, SC, USA. Specializing in outpatient hip resurfacing since 2001.

Dr. Vittorio Candela
Researcher at Sapienza, University of Rome

Dr. Emmanuel H. Masmejean
Orthopedic surgeon at the University of Paris.

Catherine Van Der Straeten, MD
ISTA Secretary General

Vani Sabesan, MD
ISTA Board of Director. Program Director (2027)

Stefano Gumina, MD
ISTA Board of Director. ISTA President 2025

Professor William Mihalko
ISTA Board of Directors

Dr. Markus Wimmer
ISTA Board of Directors. Future president 2026

Ebru Oral, BS, PhD
ISTA Board of Directors

Professor Thomas Grupp
ISTA Board of Directors

Francesco Siccardi, Eng.
ISTA Board of Directors

Yasushi Oshima, MD, PhD
ISTA Board of Directors