
Course Conveners
The EAHM 2025 will bring together leading specialists in anterior hip from around the world. The names listed here are confirmed. Any additional members will be listed as confirmed as we move towards the meeting.

Professor Richard Field, UK
Professor Field is a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon specialising in the management of hip-related problems. He is the UK’s most experienced surgeon in anterior (DAA) hip replacement. He is a Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at St George’s University of London. His NHS clinical practice is undertaken solely at the South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre (SWLEOC), where he was the Director of Research from 2004-2021. Professor Field completed his medical training at the Westminster Hospital in 1980. After being awarded a PhD from the University of Cambridge in 1988, he completed his specialist training in Orthopaedics in London, Cambridge and Melbourne. He was appointed as a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at St Helier Hospital, Surrey in 1994 and moved to SWLEOC in 2004. Professor Field has served as a board member of the British Hip Society (BHS) and as a board member and President of the International Society for Hip Preservation Surgery (ISHA). He is currently serving as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Hip Preservation Surgery (JHPS) and as the HCA chair for National Joint Registry (NJR) surgeon audit.

Dr Frédéric Laude, France
Dr Laude is a surgeon specializing in Orthopedics. He only treat surgical problems related to the hip joint. He manages both the hip pain of young patients due to hip impingement or periacetabular osteotomy of the pelvis for instability, but also of course the installation of minimally invasive anterior hip prostheses of which I was one. pioneers more than 25 years ago.

Dr Kirstoff Corten, Belgium
Prof. dr. Kristoff Corten is a prominent orthopaedic surgeon specialized in hip surgery and renowned innovator in DAA THA surgical technique at Ziekenhuis Oost-Limburg (Belgium).
He was trained in the Catholic University of Leuven, the University of Western Ontario (Canada), the Mayo Clinic Minnesota (US) and the Schulthess Clinic Zurich (Switzerland).

Prof.Dr.med Michael Leunig, Switzerland
Dr. Michael Leunig is an international expert in hip surgery. He is a professor and head of hip surgery at the Schulthess Klinik, Swiss Olympic Medical Center in Zurich, Switzerland. His work, as a leader of the group of hip surgeons in Switzerland who have revolutionized hip surgery, led to development of the knowledge base and the modern techniques for hip disorders that have become the foundation of the field. For these reasons, the top hip surgeons of the world travel to learn from him, and he has been invited to the most prestigious international meetings to present his work. His accolades include the publication of numerous textbooks and book chapters, publication of over 100 scientific papers, and hundreds of lectures. Patients travel from across Europe and beyond to receive his care, and he routinely treats elite athletes from sports.

Mr Jonathan Hutt, UK
Mr Hutt is a leading consultant orthopaedic and specialist hip surgeon based in London with over 20 years’ experience. He consults privately at The Princess Grace Hospital, treating both adult and young patients with hip problems.
In the UK, Mr Hutt is one of only a few surgeons to have specialised in all aspects of hip surgery, including advanced joint preservation techniques such as minimally invasive periacetabular osteotomy for hip dysplasia, hip arthroscopy for femoro-acetabular impingement, and hip reconstruction. When joint preservation is not an option, Mr Hutt has extensive experience in hip replacement using both the direct anterior and the posterior approach. He also offers revision hip replacement procedures. Mr Hutt originally qualified from the University of Oxford in 2000 and Imperial College London in 2003. He completed his orthopaedic training on the prestigious South West Thames deanery before going on to accomplish double fellowship training: in arthroplasty, joint preservation and lower limb reconstruction at Université de Montréal in Canada, and in young adult hip surgery at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital in London. As a prominent figure in his specialty, Mr Hutt was awarded with the distinguished Rothman-Ranawat travelling fellowship by the American Hip Society in 2022.
Faculty

Dr Paul E. Beaulé, Canada
Paul E. Beaulé MD FRCSC was born and raised in Québec City where he studied au Petit Séminaire de Québec. He completed his Medical School and Orthopedic Residency in Ottawa prior to completing two years of fellowship in Los Angeles under the tutelage of both Drs Harlan Amstutz (1998) and Joel Matta (1999). He practiced at UCLA from 2000-2005 specializing in joint preserving surgery of the hip as well as arthroplasty of the hip. In 2005, he returned to the University of Ottawa and is now Professor of Surgery, Scientist at the Ottawa Hospital Institute, currently Chief of Staff at Hawkesbury and District General Hospital and Director of Research and Innovation for Division of Orthopaedic Surgery. He served as Head of the Division of Orthopaedic Surgery from 2015-2021 and Past President of the Canadian Orthopaedic Research Society (2019) and Vice President of IHSA. He is a member of the North American, European and International Hip Society. He is a recipient of the William H. Harris Award twice, the Hip Society Award four times and the Kappa Delta Elizabeth Winston Award. Dr Beaulé has published over 330-refereed papers with an h-index of 68, 300 abstracts and has given more than 200 lectures and workshops in several areas in orthopaedic research.

Dr Josip N "Chuck" Cakic, South Africa / Croatia
Dr Josip Nenad Cakic MD, PhD, FCS(SA)Orth, MMed(Orth) WITS, known as Chuck, was born in Zagreb, Croatia.
Medical qualification, Hi completed his MD, at the School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, Croatia, in 1989 and following his internship and registration, he emigrated to South Africa in 1991, Following his gratuation from WITS University as a FCS(SA)Orth, Chuck joined the Hip and Knee Arthroplasty Fellowship with Prof. Dr F.A. Weber, finding specific interest in the hip. He also completed a MMed (Orthopaedic Surgery) Degree with the Research thesis: Do African Children with Slipped Capital Femoral Epiphysis have metabolic bone disease? He continued to work closely with Prof Weber for many years, and achieved his PhD in Orthopaedic Surgery, based on Research thesis: South African experience with cross-linked ultra high molecular weight polyethylene in total hip arthroplasty.
Through his work with Professor Weber, Dr Cakic started looking in to different surgical approaches for hip replacement. Dealing with younger, sports orientated patients in his practice, muscle sparing surgery was logical way forward and he started to adopt the Anterior Minimal Invasive Surgery technique.
Dr Cakic serves as Past President of The International Hip Preservation Society - ISHA. He is a founding member and past president of South African Society for Hip Arthroscopy – SASHA, International member of AAOA – American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons and member of ISAKOS – International Society of Arthroscopy, Knee surgery and Sports Medicine. He is also is serving as member of the Editorial Board of the JHPS – Journal of Hip Preservation Surgery , Review Board of AJSM – American Journal of Sports Medicine and Review Board of South African Orthopaedic Journal

Professor Justin P Cobb, UK
Professor Cobb has been Chair of Orthopaedics at Imperial College for the last 20yrs. The MSk lab, which he runs, is a group of surgeons, scientists and engineers focussed on the musculoskeletal system, investigating pathological processes and developing ways of treating them. Last century, he founded Acrobot with his engineer colleague Brian Davies, delivering haptic robots for arthroplasty. This was acquired by MAKO in 2008. This century, Embody-Orthopaedic, another spin out from the lab, was founded with his engineer colleague Susannah Clarke. H1, its first product was CE marked in 2024. After 25 years at King Edward VII Hospital for Officers, last year he moved his clinical practice to Cleveland Clinic London which is now the global reference centre for H1. He was awarded a CVO by the King for looking after his parents and the rest of the Royal Family for the last 18 years. His wife Iona is a real doctor. They have 4 children, 5 grandchildren and a dog.

Dr Charles DeCook, USA
Former AHF president (2021-2022) Dr. Charles DeCook is a board-certified orthopaedic surgeon who specializes in knee and hip replacements. An expert in the field, he has performed over 10,000 total joint replacements and 7,000 anterior hip replacements to date.
In addition, he has revolutionized rapid recovery after joint replacement surgery and has helped create Total Joint Specialists – an orthopaedic practice in Georgia.
Dr. DeCook works with industry partners to improve surgical techniques, design state-of-the-art implants, create new technologies and implement tools that lead to greater value for patients and healthcare. He travels extensively both nationally and internationally to teach, and improve the technique of hip and knee replacements. Dr. DeCook completed his medical degree at Rush Medical College. He then completed orthopedic surgery and family medicine residencies at Wake Forest University School of Medicine. He rounded out his medical training with a fellowship in adult reconstruction from the Anderson Clinic.

Mr Karuppiah Mahalingam, Ireland
Mr. Mahalingam graduated from Madras University Medical School, South India, in 1977. He obtained his Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (FRCS) in 1990, following comprehensive training in General Surgery and Orthopaedics in the Republic of Ireland. From 1994 to 2005, he served as a Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at Cork University Hospital—one of Ireland’s premier tertiary referral centres for trauma and elective orthopaedic surgery. His areas of special interest included surgical management of spinal, acetabular, and pelvic trauma, as well as elective orthopaedics, arthroplasty, and sports injuries. Since 2005, Mr. Mahalingam has been in full-time private practice. He initially practiced at Shanakiel Hospital in Cork and Bon Secours Hospital in Tralee, and now works exclusively at the Mater Private Hospital in Cork.
He is a high-volume arthroplasty surgeon, has performed over 8,000 total joint replacements. A strong advocate of minimally invasive surgery since 1993, he has been a leading voice in promoting and training of Direct Anterior Approach (DAA) for total hip replacement since 2008, inspired by Dr. Frédéric Laude in 2010.
Since 2013, he has successfully performed over 3,500 consecutive Bikini Incision Hip Replacements. In addition to his surgical career, Mr. Mahalingam has a keen interest in healthcare informatics. He founded KM Medical Software Ltd., a company focused on developing patient management systems, orthopaedic outcome scoring tools, and mobile health applications for iOS and Android. In 2020, he successfully sold the company to the Clanwilliam Group in Ireland.

Dr Joel Matta, USA
Anterior Hip Foundation Founder, Dr. Joel Matta is a leader in the field for treating, evaluating, diagnosing and treating complex orthopaedic hip disorders. He has been engaged in pioneering work to advance and teach anterior approach hip surgery since the mid-1990s, having learned about the method in France. He was interested in the ability of the approach to reduce the likelihood of dislocation. Since that time, he has further refined the surgical approach to ensure that the procedure is more repeatable and easily adopted, while reducing error and complications by both high- and low-volume surgeons. To achieve this, he has focused not only on teaching the technique to surgeons in the USA and internationally, but also developing the right tools to facilitate the approach.
His innovations include the HANA table, an orthopaedic designed to help surgeons gain good visibility and access during anterior approach hip replacement surgery. It features leg spars that allow for hyperextension, abduction, adduction and external rotation of the legs. Its fully radiolucent carbon fiber construction enables unobstructed intraoperative imaging. He has also designed orthopedic products including, fracture fixation implants, orthopedic surgical instruments, primary and revision hip replacement prostheses. Additionally, he has promoted the use of imaging technology during surgery for real time feedback to make it possible to measure leg lengths and cup orientation accurately. When Dr. Matta initially taught the anterior approach, less than one percent of surgeons were using the anterior approach. Today, more than 50% of percent of surgeons, especially younger surgeons, are using the anterior approach technique.

Dr Joseph M. Schwab, USA /SWI
Dr. Joseph M. Schwab, current AHF president, is a board-certified orthopaedic surgeon who specializes in treating complex hip disorders. Dr. Schwab completed his medical degree and orthopaedic surgery residency at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. He then completed a one year fellowship in hip preservation and reconstruction at the University of Bern Hospital in Bern, Switzerland under Prof. Dr. Klaus Siebenrock, sponsored by the Maurice Müller Foundation of North America.

Dr Jochen Hofstätter, Austria
Jochen Hofstaetter is a consultant orthopaedic surgeon at the Orthopaedic Hospital Vienna Speising, which is one of the biggest orthopaedic centers in Europe where >11.000 procedures are performed annually. He is treating complex hip disorders and is performing hip joint preservation surgery, primary as well as complex revision arthroplasties. Orthopaedic residency was done at the Medical University of Vienna under Prof. Kotz. Fellowships were done at Children’s Hopsital in Boston, USA and the Royal Adelaide Hospital, Australia. Jochen also has a great interest in clinical research and is leading the Michael Ogon Laboratory for Orthopaedic Research and is Co-Director of the MSK Center of Excellence at the Vinzenz Group. Moreover, he is organizing the Vienna Hip Meeting which takes place every other year.

Dr Panayiotis Christofilopoulos, Switzerland
Dr. Panayiotis Christofilopoulos is a Swiss-trained orthopedic surgeon expert in the field of hip reconstruction and hip preservation surgery. He has held the position of Chief Surgeon in Hip and Pelvic Surgery at Hôpital de La Tour since 2015. Before that, he served as Deputy Chief at the University of Geneva Orthopedics Service, where he was team leader in Hip Surgery. Dr. Christofilopoulos has authored more than 40 PubMed-indexed articles in the field of Orthopedics and is vice-president of the Foundation for Research in Orthopedics (FORE). He is a member of the Swiss Orthopedics Hip Expert Group, the ESSKA Hip Preservation Associates (EHPA) committee, AO Recon, European Hip Society and other specialized societies. He offers two Fellowship positions (EFORT and HAOST), assumes the training of two orthopedics residents (ISFM) and is co-chair of the teaching committee for Orthopedics at Hôpital de La Tour.

Dr Stefan Kreuzer USA/SWI
As a board-certified and fellowship-trained joint replacement surgeon, Stefan Kreuzer, MD, has pioneered the development in Minimally-Invasive and Computer-Assisted hip and knee replacement surgery. He is also appointed as an Assistant Professor at Baylor College of Medicine. He serves on several medical advisory boards and is actively involved in training, lecture and demonstration of surgical techniques for surgeons all over the world. Dr. Kreuzer acts as consultant to many device companies to assist them with further advancing care for patients. As the founder of INOV8 Research in 2019, he is involved with many clinical research studies in addition to his clinical practice, and has devoted his career to improving the quality-of-life for the patient in need of joint replacement surgery.
A native of Switzerland, Dr. Kreuzer moved to the United States in 1983. He graduated from medical school at the University of Texas in San Antonio in 1995, and completed his orthopedic surgery residency at the University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston, Texas. He then undertook a fellowship in Adult Joint
Reconstruction at the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas in 2001. Dr. Kreuzer has performed over 15K hip and knee joint replacement surgeries and is one of the few pioneers in the world to also perform revision total hip replacement through the anterior approach. Dr. Kreuzer is a world expert on robotic knee joint replacement surgery. He is currently using the Corin ApolloKneeTM for every outpatient total knee arthroplasty, primary and revision. He also uses the Naviswiss imageless navigation system for all of his total hip replacement surgeries, primary and revision. Dr. Kreuzer performs the majority of his hip and knee surgeries, in the ambulatory surgical center (ASC), INOV8 Surgical at Memorial City. Our ASC is a specialized
facility that provides surgical services and the same-day discharge care. This allows for quicker recovery, smoother postoperative duration and a better outcome.






Prof Michael Nogler, Austria
Prof. Dr. Michael Nogler is a specialist in orthopaedics and traumatology and tenured professor for experimental orthopaedics at the Medical University of Innsbruck.
In the course of his training, he has completed numerous research stays and further training at international universities.
His research interests include minimally invasive arthroplasty, revision arthroplasty, as well as orthopaedic infectiology, computer-assisted orthopaedic surgery, and robotics. Prof. Nogler is the recipient of numerous research awards and has an international track record.
Prof Georgi Wassilew, Germany
I am Prof. Dr. Georgi Wassilew, Secretary General of the AE – German Society for Endoprosthetics (AE) and Deputy Scientific Director and Vice Dean at Greifswald University Hospital.
I have been working in medicine and clinical research for over 15 years, focusing on arthroplasty, revision arthroplasty, and joint-preserving surgery. I studied and received my doctorate from Humboldt University in Berlin and am a member of several professional societies and committees.
My expertise includes planning and conducting studies, developing guidelines and standards, teaching and supervising students and young researchers, as well as networking and collaborating with national and international partners.
My goal is to improve the quality and safety of arthroplasty, optimize patient care, and promote innovation and knowledge transfer in this field.
Dr Luc Kerboull, France
Luc Kerboull, based in Paris, France, is currently a President de la commission médicale d'établissement at Clinique Arago.
Luc Kerboull brings experience from previous roles at Espace Medical Vauban. Luc Kerboull holds a Habilitation à Diriger les Recherches in Arthroplastie Totale de Hanche du sujet jeune @ Université Paris 5.
With a robust skill set that includes Dispositif médical, Hôpitaux, Services de santé, Recherche clinique, Orthopédie and more.
Dr Cesare Faldini, Italy
After earning his degree from Pisa University, he began working as Professor Sandro Giannini's assistant at Istituto Ortopedico Rizzoli in Bologna in 1996. Chairmen of the Department of Rizzoli Sicilia from 2011 to 2016; Assistant Professor in 2001; Associate Professor in 2006. As the first surgeon to specialise in joint replacements, spine, foot and ankle, paediatrics, upper limb, and trauma surgery, he has performed over 6000 procedures. He is a recognized instructor for total hip arthroplasty in complex hip deformities such as trauma sequaele, dysplastic hip, slipped capital disease, femoral head necrosis and severe limb shortening.
He has performed more than 1000 Spine surgery, such as instrumented lumbar arthrodesis, degenerative scoliosis, spinal stenosis, disc protrusions (author of a book of 250 pages on degenerative spine).
He has published more than 40 papers in the “scence citation index” such as Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research, Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (American Edition), Spine, Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma, Biomaterials. Moreover, he has published almost 60 papers in international Journals, more than 25 in the Italian Journal of Orthopaedic and Traumatology, almost 40 in scientific journals and books edited in Italy.
Dr Fabian Kalberer, Switzerland
Dr. Fabian Kalberer is a board-certified orthopaedic surgeon who specializes in surgical problems related to the pelvic and hip joint.
After graduation in Zurich (Switzerland), he started the orthopaedic residency at University of Zurich, Balgrist (under Prof. Ch. Gerber) and then at University of Berne, He then worked at Inselspital (under Prof. R. Ganz) as junior staff member. He rose to vice head of the hip and pelvic unit at University Hospital Balgrist in Zurich.
Since 2021, he has worked as a hip and pelvic surgeon in a private hospital in Winterthur (Switzeland).
He performs conservative hip surgery including pelvic and femoral osteotomy, surgical hip dislocation and hip arthroscopy. He also specializes in prosthetic hip reconstruction and its revision.
He started using the anterior approach for primary THA and revisions in 2004.
Ms Irrum Afzal, UK
Irrum graduated from Imperial College, London with a Distinction in Masters of Public Health (MPH) and was subsequently appointed to lead the orthopaedic research department under the supervision of the Academic Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeons at the South West London Elective Orthopaedic Centre.
Irrum has comprehensive knowledge of quantitative, qualitative research, statistics and research governance and is a professional member to the Institute of Clinical Research (MICR) and the Research Quality Association (MRQA). Irrum uses this knowledge to deliver and manage multiple research and audits projects with the aim to improve evidence based medicine in Orthopaedics.
Irrum has published in various peer-reviewed journals and often presents at national and international meetings. Irrum supports the SWLEOC Outcomes Database and Patient Reported Outcome Measures at SWLEOC. Irrum works closely with the consultants at SWLEOC and the management team providing them with regular outcome data. Irrum plays an active role in the Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation and the Imperial College Alumni service.