SHAPING PROGRESS TOGETHER.
SHAPING PROGRESS TOGETHER.
SHAPING PROGRESS TOGETHER.
SHAPING PROGRESS TOGETHER.
SHAPING PROGRESS TOGETHER.
SHAPING PROGRESS TOGETHER.
NEW! AT CITYCUBE BERLIN.
NEW! AT CITYCUBE BERLIN.
NEW! AT CITYCUBE BERLIN.
NEW! AT CITYCUBE BERLIN.
NEW! AT CITYCUBE BERLIN.
NEW! AT CITYCUBE BERLIN.
NEW! AT CITYCUBE BERLIN.
NEW! AT CITYCUBE BERLIN.
Dear Colleagues,
In recent years, we have learned that traditional approaches are losing significance, and we must adapt more swiftly to change. In terms of health policy, we are facing significant shifts in care structures, such as an increase in outpatient services and hospital reform, with a concentration of certain services and a reduction in the number of clinics. The financial sustainability of our excellent standards in elective and emergency care is increasingly at risk.
We are living in politically challenging times. With military conflicts in proximity, the provision of essential services, which we as doctors stand for, has taken on a whole new meaning in recent years. In our hospitals, we are now treating patients with war injuries, something we could not have imagined a few years ago – the hoped-for recovery of hospitals after the pandemic has not materialised.
There is also a global economic reorganisation taking place – the traditional alignments of Europe and the USA need to be reconsidered and reshaped. This realignment is occurring not only in sectors such as the automotive industry but also in medical technology, the importance of science, and its internationality.
It is precisely because we are facing challenges in many areas and because every change is also an opportunity that we have chosen the motto of the congress:
Shaping Progress Together.
Progress means:
- For patients: A step forward through appropriate therapy, whether conservative or surgical, coordinated among the various service providers – medical treatment, nursing, physiotherapy, etc.
- For our field of orthopaedics and traumatology: Evidence-based therapy, excellence in science, new technologies, digitalisation, big data, AI, new cross-sector care structures.
- For our professional societies: New structures, helping to shape health policy, thinking of new formats, not just, but also at the congress, with new spaces in the CityCube and new content, to be attractive with innovative training formats for our younger colleagues, and thus counteract the existing shortage of skilled workers.
- For the medical industry: Adapting to new environmental conditions, representing domestic interests in a global market, to maintain the traditionally good reputation of the German and international medical industry, particularly in O and T.
We look forward to DKOU 2025 and invite you to join us in shaping progress together.
Congress Presidents
Prof. Dr. med.
Christoph Lohmann
Magdeburg
Univ.-Prof. Dr. med.
Ulrich Stöckle
Berlin
Dr. med.
Stefan Middeldorf
Bad Staffelstein
8,000+
Delegates
50+
Nations
200
Companies
5,000
Exhibition
Topics
The submission of scientific papers on the following topics is expected to be possible from October 2024 to February 2025, with cash prizes for the best abstracts.
Main topics
- Digitalisation, New Technologies, Big Data, AI
- Joint Preservation and Replacement
- Conservative Therapy
- Sustainability
- Sports Injuries
- Care Structures
General topics
- Arthroscopic Surgery
- Geriatric Traumatology and Gerontoorthopaedics
- Pelvic and Hip Surgery
- Free Topics
- Foot and Ankle Surgery
- Joint Injuries
- Hand and Wrist Surgery
- Paediatric Orthopaedics and Paediatric Traumatology
- Knee Surgery
- Complication Management
- Osteoporosis, Osteology, and Rare Diseases
- Periprosthetic Fractures
- Polytrauma
- Primary and Revision Hip Arthroplasty
- Primary and Revision Knee Arthroplasty
- Registry Research
- Shoulder and Elbow Surgery
- Septic Surgery
- Thoracic Trauma
- Tumour Surgery
- Spine Surgery
Basic research
- Osteoarthritis and tissue degeneration
- Biomechanics and Motion Analysis
- Fracture Healing and Bone Metabolism
- Gene and Cell Therapy
- Infection, Sepsis, and Shock
- Innovation in Imaging and Diagnostics
- Materials and Implants
- Musculoskeletal Regeneration and Tissue Engineering
- Post-Traumatic Inflammation and Regeneration
- Healthcare Research
About DKOU
The German Congress of Orthopaedics and Traumatology (DKOU) is the most important congress in the field in Germany and the largest in Europe. Alongside the annual meetings of the American and Chinese specialist societies, it is also one of the largest congresses for orthopaedics and trauma surgery worldwide.
Initiators
The specialist societies and the professional association meet together, and the congress presidents and their teams are responsible for organising the programme.
Congress team
Prof. Dr. Jessica Bertrand
Dr. Agnieszka Halm-Pozniak
Sabine Knauer
Isabella Weiß
Offices
www.dgou.de, www.dgooc.de, www.dgu-online.de, www.bvou.net
Straße des 18. Juni 106-108, 10623 Berlin
Dr. med. Jörg Ansorg, office@bvou.net
Joachim Arndt, office@dgou.de
Tinija Heinlein-Müller, info@dgooc.de
Bettina Müller, office@dgu-online.de
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Organiser
Intercongress GmbH
Ingeborg-Krummer-Schroth-Str. 30
79106 Freiburg
Germany
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