Musculoskeletal Injections Manual

Baris Kocaoglu is Professor of orthopaedics and sports medicine at Acibadem MAA University Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul Turkey. His current duties are: Editor of ESSKA Academy and Associate editor of KSSTA journal. He made his sports medicine fellowship at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinic, Iowa City, USA between 2006-2007. He finished ESSKA-AOSSM Travelling fellowship at 2019. He worked as a chair of ESSKA U-45 Committee at 2020-2022 period. He was faculty member of many the cadaver courses, national and international meetings at Sports medicine field. He has 96 SCI and SCI-ex indexed publications and he is the corresponding author at 76 of them. He has 10 international book chapters on Sports injuries field. He is also the leading editor of ESSKA books; 'Basketball sports medicine and science' and 'How to present a scientific study'.

Dr. Lior Laver (ISR), MD, is s Sports Orthopaedic surgeon, from Israel and currently based at the Hillel Yaffe Medical Center (HYMC) in Hadera, Israel - A Technion University Hospital. Dr. Laver's main practice involves arthroscopic treatment of sports related injuries of the knee, hip and shoulder. His main field of research is treatment outcomes and return to sport decision making in athletic populations. He is also the co-chair of ESSKA-ORBIT (The European Orthobiologics initiative) as well as a board member of the European Sports Medicine Associates (ESMA) section in ESSKA. Dr. Laver is currently the head physician at the Israeli Football Association and is also one of the lead consultants of the Medical and Health sciences platform at the European Handball Federation (EHF). He brings a unique perspective, combining his personal experience as a former professional handball player at high international level and the hands on medical experience that he has accumulated internationally with some of the highest level organizations such as the FC Barcelona football club in Spain, Duke University athletics department (football and basketball) in the US and Israeli top clubs as Maccabi Tel-Aviv football club, Bnei-HaSharon basketball club, the Israeli national teams in volleyball and of course - handball. Dr Laver is the lead editor of 2 recent sport-specific sports medicine books: "Basketball Sports Medicine and Science" and "Handball Sports Medicine - basic science, injury management and return to sport".

Laura de Girolamo, PhD was born and grew up in Italy, where she received her MSc in Biology and Ph.D from the University of Milan. She got her post-doctoral training between the Galeazzi Orthopaedic Institute and other international centres among which the Brigham and Women's Hospital - Harvard University of Boston. She is currently the Director of the Orthopaedic Biotechnology Laboratory of the Galeazzi Orthopaedic Institute in Milan and of the platform RE.GA.IN® (Regenerative Galeazzi Institute). Her basic and translational research focus is on mesenchymal stem cells, particularly derived from adipose tissue and tendons. The goal of Dr. de Girolamo's laboratory is to derive biological solutions aimed to promote cartilage, tendon and bone regeneration by improving activity and clinical therapeutic potential of MSCs. She served as PI or co-PI in several research projects collaborating with national and international research centres. She is author of more than 100 peer-reviewed papers and 10 book chapters in orthopaedics and regenerative medicine. She has been invited speaker at several national and international congresses and courses. From 2016 to 2020 she was Chairwoman of the Basic Science Committee of the European Society of Sports Traumatology Knee Surgery and Arthroscopy (ESSKA) and she is currently co-leading the ESSKA Orthobiologics Initiative. From 2016 she is Chairwoman of the Research Committee of Italian Knee Surgery Arthroscopy Sports and Cartilage Society (SIAGASCOT). She was co-founder of the Italian Mesenchymal Stem Cell Group (GISM) an

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