Dear colleagues:

One more year, we succeeded in organizing the VII International Meeting of Hip  Surgery in Young Adult. As in previous editions, it will be held in the University Hospital Infanta Leonor (Madrid).

We have organized a full-day session on Thursday 22nd and a half-day session on Friday 23rd of March 2012. It´ll be broadcast two live hip arthroscopic surgeries perform by two international experts: Bryan T Kelly (New York, USA) and Claudio Mella (Santiago de Chile-Chile).

This year we have added to the program a cadaver course where delegates will be able to perform hip conservative surgery techniques such as hip arthroscopy, periacetabular osteotomy and mini-anterior approach to the hip. This course will be held on Wednesday March 21st and has a very limited number of inscriptions.

We have also organized several round tables to promote discussion and participation by all attendees. As in previous years, participants will be divided into small groups to participate in workshops about the surgical techniques presented during the conference, encouraging contact with the speakers. In this edition there will be workshops along the two days of the congress. We present clinical cases session with active participation by the audience through a voting system; we attempt to deal with complex cases that you can send us via mail raul.martinez@clover-sgm.es.

Finally, facing the training of the assistants, we have included a legal discussion on informed consent in hip replacement; we will update our clinical practice to the legal safety standards that our profession requires.

We hope that the topics and speakers chosen are to your liking.

Kind regards

Dr. Oliver Marín Peña

Hospital Universitario Infanta Leonor – Madrid