Ex-Officio Functions



ICORS Representatives


Holger Jahr

Uniklinik RWTH Aachen

Aachen, Germany

hjahr at ukaachen.de


Boyko Gueorguiev

AO Research Institute Davos

Davos, Switzerland

boyko.gueorguiev at aofoundation.org



EORS New Investigator (NI) Committee


Luca Ambrosio (Chair)

Department of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery

University Campus Bio-Medico of Rome

Rome, Italy

luc.ambros at gmail.com



Awards Committee


Girish Pattappa

Julius-Maximilians-University of Würzburg

Würzburg, Germany

girish.pattappa@uni-wuerzburg.de


Gabriela Graziani

Department of Chemistry, Materials and Chemical Engineering “G. Natta”

Polytechnic University of Milan

Milan, Italy

gabriela.graziani at polimi.it



EORS Sponsoring and Promotion


Stijn Bolink

Department of Orthopaedics

Deventer Hospital

Deventer, The Netherlands

stijn.bolink at mail.com


Gianluca Vadalà

Department of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery

University Campus Bio-Medico of Rome

Rome, Italy

g.vadala at gmail.com





Equal Representation


Elizabeth Balmayor

Department of Instructive Biomaterials Engineering

Maastricht University

Maastricht, Netherlands

e.rosadobalmayor at maastrichtuniversity.nl


Li Zhen

Regenerative Orthopaedics Program

AO Research Institute Davos

Davos, Switzerland

zhen.li at aofoundation.org


Clara Ruiz-Fernandez 

Santiago University Clinical Hospital

Santiago de Compostela, Spain

ruizfdez.clara at gmail.com


Social Media


Claudia Siverino (Chair)

AO Foundation

Davos, Switzerland

claudia.siverino at aofoundation.org


Melanie Haffner-Luntzer (Co-Chair)

University of Ulm

melanie.haffner-luntzer at uni-ulm.de


Mehar Dhillon (Co-Chair)

Department of Orthopaedics

Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research

Chandigarh, India

mehardhillon16 at gmail.com


Training and Education


Laura Saldaña (Chair)

Hospital La Paz-IdiPAZ

Madrid, Spain

laura.saldana at salud.madrid.org


Fabrizio Russo (Co-chair)

University Campus Bio-Medico

Rome, Italy

fabriz.russo at gmail.com