NOF Instructional Course: Hand and Wrist Fractures Tromsø Norway - August 25-27 2010 The Nordic Orthopaedic Federation (NOF), in cooperation with the Norwegian Orthopaedic Association and the Norwegian Society for Surgery of the Hand, has the pleasure of inviting you to this course. General course information The course is set to take place in Tromsø, Norway. Being aimed at orthopaedic surgeons and other surgeons involved in the treatment of hand and wrist fractures, its duration is set to 2 ½ days, from Wednesday afternoon until Friday afternoon.
The program of the course has been designed with the intent to deliver an up to date and in-depth coverage on central issues regarding fracture treatment in hand surgery. The course objective is to provide the participants with tools to enable them to make independent, well founded decisions regarding diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of patients with fractures and dislocations of the hand. In addition to traditional lectures, d iscussion groups with problem case presentations have been included in the program.
Course lecturers and faculty We have the pleasure of announcing the distinguished hand surgeons Karl Prommersberger, Phd, Professor  (Germany) and Makoto Tamai, PhD (Japan) as invited speakers at this course. The two have been invited to hold lectures on distal radius fractures, sequelae thereof, wrist injuries and wrist anatomy. The course faculty consists of lecturers from the nordic hand surgery societies and the Scandinavian Society for Surgery of the Hand: Chair: Hebe Kvernmo, MD, PhD, Norwegian Society for Surgery of the Hand/Norwegian Orthopaedic Association Co-Chair: Jan-Ragnar Haugstvedt, MD, PhD, Norwegian Society for Surgery of the Hand / Scandinavian Society for Surgery of the Hand Yngvar Krukhaug, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Norwegian Society for Surgery of the Hand Ole Fosse, MD, Norwegian Society for Surgery of the Hand Peter Jørgsholm MD, Danish Society for Surgery of the Hand Mati Merila, MD, PhD, Estonian Society for Surgery of the Hand Jorma Ryhänen, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Finnish Society for Surgery of the Hand Niels Thomsen, MD, PhD, Swedish Society for Surgery of the Hand