It is the purpose of FESSH to promote hand surgery in Europe at all levels, harmonize and improve training across all European countries and unite all European hand surgeons. The FESSH Congress is one step forward achieving that goal. The idea is to organize an annual meeting for surgeons with a special interest in hand surgery to increase their knowledge in the field of hand surgery but also to enable networking with others working in the field of hand surgery in an open culture.
The following tasks fall under the responsibility of the Congress Committee:
- Management of the FESSH Congress (organisation, structure and financial parts, CME accreditation)
- Congress Manual
- Evaluation of bids
- Educational afternoon of the FESSH Congress
- Patronage of meetings
- Member of EACCME
Contact: congress@fessh.com
MEET THE COMMITTEE MEMBERS
Piotr Czarnecki, MD, PhD, is Chief of the Orthopedics, Traumatology and Hand Surgery Department at Poznan University of Medical Sciences, Poland, where he has served since 2011 as upper extremity consultant and lecturer. His clinical and academic interests focus on congenital deformities, nerve surgery, and secondary posttraumatic reconstructions.
He has been closely involved with FESSH for many years, serving as FESSH National Delegate for Poland since 2017 and as a member of the Hand Trauma Committee (2017–2023) and EBHS Examination Committee (2017–present). Within his national society, he was President of the Polish Society for Surgery of the Hand (2019–2021) and Secretary of the Polish Orthopaedics and Traumatology Society (2018–2020).
Since 2023, he has served on the FESSH Council and Executive Committee, and chairs the FESSH Congress Committee, overseeing the organization of the FESSH Congresses, focusing on a program balanced between scientific discussion and practical education.
European Board Diploma in Hand Surgery (EBHS) – 2010
Enrico Carità, MD, co-chair of the FESSH Congress Committee is an Orthopaedic Hand, Wrist and Elbow surgeon working in Verona at Clinica San Francesco. Since he had European Diploma in Hand Surgery in Answer in 2012 he started actively collaborating in SICM and SICSeG Societies taking part of their board and different committees and groups of research. He is currently involved in the board of the Italian Society for Surgery of the Hand (SICM) as a member and member of FESSH Examination Committee. His main fields of research and clinical practice are wrist surgery and arthroscopy, degenerative disorders and prosthesis, post-traumatic problems and peripheral nerve sonography and surgery.
Nikolai Karpinski : Observer from the Communication Committee Email: socialmedia@fessh.com