SICOT e-Newsletter
Issue No. 57 - June 2013
In Memoriam
Lamberto Perugia
1927-2013
SICOT lost a loyal friend and colleague this year with the death of Lamberto Perugia. He was the Italian National Delegate of SICOT from 1986 to 1993 and on the Editorial Board of International Orthopaedics from 1993 to 2005.
Born in Rome in 1927, he had to move to Avezzano with the family in 1943 to escape the Nazi/fascist racial laws but returned to Rome with the Allies and worked for the British Institute for a year before returning to his studies and joining the Faculty of Medicine in the University of Rome, La Sapienza. He graduated in 1951 specialising in orthopaedics to become the Director of the Instituto di Clinica Ortopedia at La Sapienza from 1979 to 1983 and again from 1986 to 1989.
He was President of SOTIMI, the orthopaedic society of Southern Italy, from 1974 to 1975; President of the Italian Orthopaedic and Traumatology Society from 1989 to 1990; founding member and first President of the Italian Society of Sports Traumatology, SITRAS, from 1981 to 1982 and later elected Honorary President. He was founder and first President of the Society of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery, SICSeG and Director of the Italian Federation of Sports Medicine, FMSI, and Vice-President from 1988 to 1996.
Internationally, he was well known both in SICOT and also as a founding member of the International Society of the Knee (ISK) in Rome in 1977. He became Vice President of the ISK in 1985 and President in 1987 when the Society enjoyed a memorable meeting in Rome. He was also an honorary member of ISAKOS and Italian delegate of the orthopaedic department of the Union Europeénne des Médicins Spécialistes and Member of the Federazione Italiana Giuoco Calcio from 1957 to be elected President in 1974. He was also on the Medical Commission of UEFA.
In addition to his association with International Orthopaedics, he was editor of the Italian Journal of Sports Traumatology from 1981 to 1993 and director of the Italian Journal of Orthopaedics and Traumatology from 1993 to 1999.
Thus, it can be seen that whilst mourning his passing we should also be celebrating his enormous contribution to Orthopaedics and Traumatology at home and internationally. His stature was recognised by his university, the University of Rome, La Sapienza, which conferred an emeritus professorship on him in 2003. Older members of the Editorial Board of International Orthopaedics will remember him as a gentle, kind and wise colleague whose opinion was much valued. They will also remember the wonderful Editorial Board Meeting that he hosted in Rome in 1998.
Our condolences go to his wife Anna and son Dario who is also a referee for the journal.
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Born in Rome in 1927, he had to move to Avezzano with the family in 1943 to escape the Nazi/fascist racial laws but returned to Rome with the Allies and worked for the British Institute for a year before returning to his studies and joining the Faculty of Medicine in the University of Rome, La Sapienza. He graduated in 1951 specialising in orthopaedics to become the Director of the Instituto di Clinica Ortopedia at La Sapienza from 1979 to 1983 and again from 1986 to 1989.
He was President of SOTIMI, the orthopaedic society of Southern Italy, from 1974 to 1975; President of the Italian Orthopaedic and Traumatology Society from 1989 to 1990; founding member and first President of the Italian Society of Sports Traumatology, SITRAS, from 1981 to 1982 and later elected Honorary President. He was founder and first President of the Society of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery, SICSeG and Director of the Italian Federation of Sports Medicine, FMSI, and Vice-President from 1988 to 1996.
Internationally, he was well known both in SICOT and also as a founding member of the International Society of the Knee (ISK) in Rome in 1977. He became Vice President of the ISK in 1985 and President in 1987 when the Society enjoyed a memorable meeting in Rome. He was also an honorary member of ISAKOS and Italian delegate of the orthopaedic department of the Union Europeénne des Médicins Spécialistes and Member of the Federazione Italiana Giuoco Calcio from 1957 to be elected President in 1974. He was also on the Medical Commission of UEFA.
In addition to his association with International Orthopaedics, he was editor of the Italian Journal of Sports Traumatology from 1981 to 1993 and director of the Italian Journal of Orthopaedics and Traumatology from 1993 to 1999.
Thus, it can be seen that whilst mourning his passing we should also be celebrating his enormous contribution to Orthopaedics and Traumatology at home and internationally. His stature was recognised by his university, the University of Rome, La Sapienza, which conferred an emeritus professorship on him in 2003. Older members of the Editorial Board of International Orthopaedics will remember him as a gentle, kind and wise colleague whose opinion was much valued. They will also remember the wonderful Editorial Board Meeting that he hosted in Rome in 1998.
Our condolences go to his wife Anna and son Dario who is also a referee for the journal.
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