Patellofemoral Foundation/IPSG Consensus Meeting March 6, 2008 Patellofemoral Foundation (PFF) General Agreement Statement Patellofemoral Foundation Board of Directors meeting with Jack Bert, incoming president of the Arthroscopy Association of North America (AANA), in San Francisco on March 6, 2008 |
EducationIn March 2008, the Patellofemoral Foundation (PFF) Board of Directors met in San Francisco at the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons meeting. Representatives from our major benefactor, Smith and Nephew Endoscopy, attended as well as Lieve Van den Berghe, Vice Preident of DJO International and organizer of the Patellofemoral Consensus Group. The Board of Directors welcomed Jack Bert, incoming president of the Arthroscopy Association of North America(AANA), to the meeting and discussed a strategic alliance of the PFF with AANA to promote education of orthopedic surgeons about the patellofemoral joint. A proposal regarding this relationship is being submitted to the AANA Board of Directors At its Board of Directors meeting April 2008, The Arthroscopy Association of North America (AANA) approved a formal relationship with the Patellofemoral Foundation (PFF) as a way of fostering and promoting patellofemoral research and education. AANA March 2008 The Board of Directors of the Patellofemoral Foundation is pleased to welcome Ruth Tureckova of Kova Consulting in Westerly Rhode Island to be the first head administrator for the Patellofemoral Foundation.
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Dr Stukenborg Colsman visited with Dr Fulkerson in July 2007 These pictures show a dissection of the MPFL and an anteromedial tibial tubercle transfer osteotomy performed on a cadaver knee. |
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At the May 2007 ISAKOS meeting in Florence Italy, Dr. Christina Stukenborg-Colsman,
Associate Professor of Orthopedic Surgery at the University of Hannover, Germany,
was awarded the 2007 PFF/ISAKOS patellofemoral travelling fellowship.
Dr. Elvire Servien of Lyon France was awarded the 2008 fellowship. At the same meeting, Dr. Kuroda presented impressions from his travel in 2006. Dr. Svend Erik Christiansen presented his PFF/ISAKOS award winning research in which he found that there is no advantage to acute repair of the medial PF ligament after acute dislocation of the patella. Also, the PFF helped sponsor a one day consensus meeting, in collaboration with DJOrtho (www.djortho.com) regarding origins of patellofemoral pain in Florence Italy. Information from that meeting is posted on this website. |
Dr. Christina Stukenborg-Colsman
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April 2007 John Elias and Andrew Cosgarea have reported new and exciting results from their PFF funded research. In a computer model of knees with dysplastic trochleas, they have established that proximal realignment (MPFL reconstruction) creates greater patellofemoral articular loads than tibial tubercle transfer. This important work helps to further clarify the need for distal alignment in controlling patellar instability when the trochlea is flat and there is lateral tracking of the patella. |
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Travelling Fellows
In February 2007, the 2007 and 2008 ISAKOS/Patellofemoral Foundation
Travelling fellows were selected from 12 very strong applications by Dr Philippe
Neyret and an ISAKOS selection committee. They will be announced at the May
2007 ISAKOS meeting in Florence.
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Dr. Ryosuke Kuroda, 2006 ISAKOS/Patellofemoral Foundation Travelling Fellow |
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Dr. Kuroda is a leading Japanese knee surgeon from Kobe, Japan. He works with Dr Kurosaka and manages a stem cell laboratory as well as a busy clinical practice. He is at the cutting edge of cartilage resurfacing research using stem cells. |
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Dr. Kuroda visited with Drs Farr and Fulkerson in March 2006. |
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New Board Members
The Patellofemoral Foundation board is very pleased to announce that Eric Jania of the
Musculoskeletal Transplant Foundation has joined the board of directors.
His resume is in the Board od Directors section.
Dr. Jack Farr of Indianapolis has also joined the PFF Board. Dr. Farr is treasurer of the International PF Study Group,
and his participation on the PFF Board promises to foster a strong relationship of the two groups.
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The Hartman Patellofemoral Research Fund
The Patellofemoral Foundation is pleased to initiate The Hartman Patellofemoral Research Fund
in recognition of Mr. J. William Hartman. Mr. Hartman, president of Hartman Newspapers, Rosenberg Texas,
expressed unhesitating and early support of the concept and mission of the Patellofemoral Foundation
with his most generous Founding Benefactor pledge.
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Dr.
Kuroda and Dr. Fulkerson