Cuba to host World
Congress on Orthopedics and Traumatology
Specialists from over 20 countries
will present the latest advances in orthopedics and
traumatology at the XXV Cuban International Congress
to be held in Trinidad, Sancti Spiritus.
Dr. Rodrigo Álvarez Cambras,
President of the Cuban Society of Orthopedics and
Traumatology and a member of the organizing
committee of the event which will take place between
the 22 and 27 September, informed the press that the
main topics of conversation will be back pain, joint
replacement, pediatric orthopedics and sports
injuries.
Cambras, who heads the Ministry of
Public Health’s National Group on Orthopedics and
Traumatology, added that experts will also discuss
orthoplastics (the replacement of damaged joints),
spine and lower limb surgery and the use of stem
cells to treat bone diseases.
The eminent director and founder of
the Frank Pais International Orthopedics Scientific
Complex, Havana, will give a lecture on developments
in the teaching of orthopedics and traumatology on
the final day of the congress.
According to the program for the
event, Mexican Professor Mario Armando Castellanos
will also discuss the history of orthopedics in his
country.
Representatives from Germany,
Argentina, Angola, Cuba, Mozambique, Mexico, Peru,
Bolivia, Italy, Martinique, the Dominican Republic,
Spain, Ecuador, Canada, Japan and France, among
other nations, will provide updates on guidelines
and concepts relating to global orthopedics and
establish the groundwork for future collaboration
and joint development programs.
