Guest Speaker


Dr Romain Seil

Prof. Seil is a Luxembourg-native orthopaedic surgeon whose main areas of interest are orthopaedic sports medicine as well as primary and revision knee arthroplasty. He trained in Luxembourg, Belgium, Germany and USA. He was appointed extraordinary professor in orthopaedic surgery at the University of Saarland in 2007. Prof. Seil has been working at the Centre Hospitalier de Luxembourg from 2004 where he currently serves as CMO of the Division of Neurosciences and Musculoskeletal Diseases.

Prof. Seil is co-director of the IOC-accredited French-speaking Research Centre for Prevention of Injury and Protection of Athlete Health Network ReFORM. He is co-founder of ESSKA’s Pediatric ACL registry. He received several awards for his scientific work, co-edited several books, (co-)authored several hundred peer-reviewed publications and book chapters. He is a founding member of ESSKA’s Journal of Experimental Orthopaedics, co-editor, editorial board member and reviewer of several scientific journals in orthopaedic surgery and sports medicine.

Prof. Seil is a member of many national and international societies, among which ISAKOS and the ACL study group. He has been appointed honorary member of several scientific societies in Europe. He is past president of ESSKA and GOTS (www.gots.org) and president of LIROMS (www.liroms.lu). He chairs the medical and scientific commission of the Luxembourgish Olympic Committee (COSL) and is a board member of the Sports Medicine Society in Luxembourg and the Luxembourg Institute of High Performance in Sports (LIHPS). He was an ESSKA-AOSSM travelling fellow in 2001 and godfather in 2019.


 Dr Andy Williams

Knee surgeon at, and founder of Fortius Clinic, London; Reader at Imperial College, London; and Honorary Senior Research Fellow, University of Oxford. 

 
Fellowship in Brisbane, Australia with Peters Myers / McMeniman. Senior Lecturer / Honorary Consultant at The Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore ’97-00 then 15 years as consultant at The Chelsea and Westminster Hospital.
Exclusively ‘sports knee’ surgery. 80% of patients are professional athletes.
 
He has published over 120 peer-reviewed articles. His study of knee motion employing weight-bearing, ‘dynamic’ MRI was awarded The Hunterian Professorship by The Royal College of Surgeons of England for 2005-2006. Current focus is on the MCL after a period of work on the anterolateral soft tissues and surgery. He was a lead editor of the 39th Edition of Gray’s Anatomy. He was on the executive of British Association for Surgery of The Knee. He sits on the Editorial Board of The American Journal of Sports Medicine, and previously the that of The Bone and Joint Journal. He was awarded the ABC Travelling Fellowship (2002). He was named in the UK’s Top 100 Doctors by the Times newspaper in 2011. He is the first UK member of The Herodicus Society, a U.S. sports surgery organisation.