Prof. Mahmut Nedim Doral , M.D., is internationally recognized for his expertise in orthopedic sports medicine. He has authored over 150 scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals and over 15 book chapters in internationally published books; he also acts as a referee for four national and five international journals. His last books entitled Intraarticular Fractures, Proprioception in Sports Medicine, and Shoulder Arthroplasty were published by Springer in 2018-2019.
For over 30 years, Dr. Doral´s major research interests have been in sports injuries and rehabilitation, arthroscopic and endoscopic surgery, basic science research in tendon injuries, and knee arthroplasty. He is the chairman of the Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology and the Department of Sports Medicine at the Hacettepe University Medical School. He has been the director of the Hacettepe University Sports Medicine Center since 1995. He has been board member (2003-2009), program committee member (2004-2012), and membership committee chairman (2007-2011) of ISAKOS. He is also a past member of the scientific committee of ESSKA. He currently serves in the Executive Council of the Turkish National Olympic Committee; as executive committee chair of and newsletter editor at the Asia Pacific Orthopaedic Associations; and also as newsletter editor at EFOST. Dr. Doral served as president of the Turkish Society of Orthopaedics & Traumatology (TOTBID) (2010-2011). He was the past president of EFOST (2000-2003), Asia-Pacific Knee Society (APKS/Knee Section of APOA) (2004-2006), and the Turkish Society of Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy and Knee Surgery (2002-2004), and past chief of the Medical Committee Turkish Federation of National Basketball Team. He is the founder and past president of the Turkish Society of Sports Traumatology. He was honored as distinguished visiting professor by the University of Pittsburgh School of Engineering in 2006 and Kentucky University in 2009. He is the current elected president of APOA (Asia Pacific Orthopaedic Association) since 2018 and Founder President of The Turkish Speaking Countries for Orthopaedics and Traumatology TÜRKOT-DER in 2020. He serves as the medical chief and health system organizer of Galatasaray Sports Club Youth Teams.
Prof. Jon Karlsson , M.D., Ph.D., was born in Iceland, where he graduated from the medical school in Reykjavik in 1978 and moved to Gothenburg, Sweden, in 1981. He defended his Ph.D. thesis on Chronic Lateral Ankle Instability at the Gothenburg University in 1989 and was appointed associate professor in 1990. He has been senior consultant in the Orthopaedic Department of the Sahlgrenska University Hospital since 1991 and clinical head during 1997-2001. Since 2001, Dr. Karlsson has been the academic head at the Sahlgrenska Academy. In that capacity, he mentored 32 Ph.D. theses and was appointed chief of the orthopedic research laboratory. He is author of more than author of more than 600 peer-reviewed publications, more than 150 book chapters and over 40 textbooks in orthopaedics and sports traumatology. He was appointed professor of orthopedics and sports traumatology in 1998. He was president of the Swedish Association of Sports Medicine in 1999-2001. Since 2008, Dr. Karlsson has been editor-in-chief of KSSTA (Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy), the official journal of ESSKA. He has been program chairman of the biannual ESSKA congress for 2006, 2008, and 2010 and board member of ISAKOS since 2005. He is currently secretary of the ISAKOS Executive Board. Active in sports, Dr. Karlsson played basketball and is currently the caretaking physician of the Swedish soccer team IFK Gothenburg.
Prof. John Nyland is a sports-certified physical therapist, athletic trainer and strength and conditioning specialist. He is a member of ESSKA, the Sports and Orthopaedic Sections of the American Physical Therapy Association, the National Athletic Trainers´ Association, the American College of Sports Medicine, and the National Strength and Conditioning Association. He currently serves as professor and Program Director for the Master of Science in Athletic Training Program at Spalding University in Louisville, Kentucky, USA. He is an International Editorial Review Board member for KSSTA, the Journal of Orthopaedic and Sports Physical Therapy (JOSPT), Arthroscopy: The Journal of Arthroscopic and Related Surgery, the Journal of Athletic Training, the Turkish Journal of Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation, and Case Reports in Orthopedics. Dr Nyland is President of the JOSPT - Movement Science Media Board of Directors and serves as a rehabilitation consultant with the International Grande Hospital in Kathmandu, Nepal. He is a past recipient of the Excellence in Education Award from the Sports Section of the American Physical Therapy Association, and the John Joyce Award from the International Society of Arthroscopy, Knee Surgery, and Orthopaedic Sports Medicine. He has authored or co-authored 196 peer reviewed papers and 35 book chapters, developed the books Clinical Decisions in Therapeutic Exercise: Planning and Implementation, and Innovations in Knee Rehabilitation, and authored a home study course entitled Therapeutic Strategies for Developing Neuromuscular Control in the Kinetic Chain. Dr Nyland served on the 1996 and 2008 USA Paralympic games sports medicine staff as an athletic trainer and physical therapist, and as an International Para-Archery Classifier in 2012 and 2016.
Prof. Onur Bilge is the Associate Professor and the Chairman of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Meram Faculty of Medicine, N.E. University, Konya, Turkey. Dr. Bilge is the Associate Professor in the Department of Sports Medicine, Meram Faculty of Medicine, N.E. University, Konya, Turkey. Dr. Bilge graduated from Tevfik Fikret Francophone High School in 1996. Dr. Bilge earned his medical degree with A1 grade from Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, (English division) in 2003. He completed his orthopaedic residency training in Hacettepe University Hospital in 2009, following the realization of his thesis entitled The effect of the synovial tissue on in-vivo cartilage culture: an animal study with Prof. Dr. Mahmut Nedim Doral and his thesis was published in the KSSTA in 2011. He was an International Visiting Intern in the Université Paris VI (Pierre et Marie Curie), CHU Assistance Hôpitaux Publique de Paris Pitié-Salpetrière, Clinique du Prof. Dr. Gérard Saillant, Paris, in 2002; an International Visiting Observer Fellow in Cleveland Clinic, Sports Health Center, Cleveland, in 2012; an International Visiting Fellow in Clin Parc Leopold Sport Medicine Orthopaedic Center, Brussels, in 2012; and an International Visiting Fellow in Antwerp University, AZ Monica Hospital, Antwerp, in 2013. His major research and clinical interests lie in the treatment of cartilage diseases and avascular necrosis, limited surface arthroplasty, knee surgery, arthroscopy and sports medicine. He was awarded as The Let People Move Research Institute Award for the Best Research Paper in the EFOST Congress in Belgium in 2010, as Veli Lök The Best Young Researcher Incentive Award in 2010, as The Second-Best Thesis Study Award of Prof. Dr. Münir Ahmet Sarpyener in 2011, and as The Best Free Paper Award of Turkish Speaking Countries National Congressof TOTBID in 2014. Dr. Bilge has been a Fellow of EBOT, since his successful passing of the EBOT Exam in 2014 in Vienna. He has worked as the Secretary of the APOA-YSF (2018-2021). Dr. Bilge has been actively working as an Editorial Board member in the Knee Surgery, Sports Traumatology, Arthroscopy, official journal of ESSKA, as an Associate Editor in the Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research, and as an Associate Editor in the JAAOS (Turkish version).
Prof. Eric Hamrin Senorski is an associate professor at the department of Health and Rehabilitation, Institute of Neuroscience and Physiology, Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and works clinically as a physical therapist at a primary care clinic, Sport Rehab Sports Medicine Clinic in Gothenburg. At the clinic and in research, Dr. Hamrin Senorski focuses primarily on sports-related injuries to the lower extremities, with special interest in the knee and ACL injuries. He has a strong commitment to athletics and works with the national team at all levels. Dr. Hamrin Senorski has published widely in the areas of knee joint injuries in the rehabilitation and orthopedic sports medicine literature. He has published approximately over 100 different types of scientific publications. Dr. Hamrin Senorski is one of the founders of Project ACL, one of the world´s first rehabilitation-specific registries for patients with ACL injury, currently consisting of more than 3,000 patients. He is a clinical researcher and has several different types of methodology including register-based studies and systematic reviews. His PhD-Thesis was entitled Predictor of Outcome after Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction´. Dr. Hamrin Senorski is an active member of many national and international orthopedic organizations such as the Swedish Society of Exercise and Sports Medicine, board member of the ESSKA Basic Science Committee, and a board member of the Swedish National Knee Ligament Registry. He is on the editorial board of the journal of Knee Surgery Sports Traumatology and Arthroscopy and a reviewer for several journals including the British Journal of Sports Medicine and Journal of Orthopedics and Sports Physical Therapy.
