The future of orthopaedics lies in its subspecialties. These areas of expertise should be a major focus for SICOT and a domain in which the organisation strives to excel. SICOT subspecialties must be represented by leading international experts—this is the vision of SICOT’s future.
The Board of Subspecialties (BOSS) represents all subspecialties and embodies the highest standards of SICOT’s specialty education and training. It guides young orthopaedic surgeons as they explore subspecialty pathways, while also recognising the importance of maintaining a strong foundation in general orthopaedics. SICOT subspecialties are global in scope, not regional, and all subspecialty committees fall under BOSS. These committees report to the President Elect, who serves as the head of BOSS. In this role, BOSS collaborates closely with all SICOT academies and councils.
Advantages of uniting all subspecialties include:
- Coordinated development of specialty curricula
- Educational initiatives aligned in purpose and direction
- Creation of training programmes, fellowships, courses, and discussion groups
- Organisation of specialty meetings and conferences around the world
- Strengthening advanced training and certification in the subspecialties
BOSS, under the leadership of the SICOT President Elect, is responsible for:
- Coordinating all subspecialties
- Developing subspecialty curricula
- Overseeing subspecialty educational programmes, courses, cadaveric training, and discussion groups
- Organising subspecialty meetings and conferences
- Managing training programmes and fellowships
- Certification processes
- Developing subspecialty content for the SICOT Diploma Exam and any advanced specialty examinations
- Establishing higher-level subspecialty exams to recognise training, assess knowledge, and certify expertise in each subspecialty
If you would like to contact any of the chairs or vice-chairs below, please send an email to hq@sicot.org.
Hatem Said (Egypt)
BOSS Chair
2024-2026
Digital Orthopaedics & AI
Chair
Vice-chair:
Khaled Emara
Members: Mustafa Alnaib, Andre Fernandes, Philip Hitov, Mohamed Imam, Tao Ji, Swapnil Keny, Chun Man Lawrence Lau, Meir Marmor, Chopperla S K S K Dattatreya Ram, Amit Kumar Yadav, Kartik Logishetty (Past-Chair)
Foot & Ankle
Chair
Vice-chair: Moez Ballal
Members: Mohd Yazid Bajuri, Felipe Chaparro, Yanyu Chen, Andries Johannes Cornelissen, Nermine Habib, Ahmed Hassan, Bedri Karaismailoglu, May Labidi, Cristian Ortiz, Vinod Panchbhavi, Si-Hyeong Park, Rahul Upadhyay, Li Zongxian, Lucky Jeyaseelan (Past-Chair)
Hand
Essam Elkaref
Chair
Vice-chair: Yuan Hui Andrew Chin
Members: Hossam Elden Abodonia, Ahmed Naeem Atiyya, Sughran Banerjee, Bruno Battiston, Sze Ryn Chung, Ahmed Farghaly, Efrain Farias Cisneros, Ahmed Nouh, Moradi Roshanak, John Ashutosh Santoshi, Frédéric Schuind, Sanjeev Kakar (Past-Chair)
Hip Arthroplasty
Marco Ezechieli
Chair
Vice-chair: Stanislav Bondarenko
Members: Saadedine Hichem Amouri, Jose Felix Castillo Saenz, Amol Chavan, Carlos Higuera, Esteban Holguin, Chun Man Lawrence Lau, Jatinder Singh Luthra, Vikrant Manhas, Zulenice Nazareth Monagas Garcia, Jesus Moreta, Anzhela Mulyk, Leila Nebchi, Olga Pidgaiska, Florian Radetzki, Nicolas Restrepo (Past-Chair)
Infections
Chair
Vice-chair: Hemant Sharma
Members: Mustafa Akkaya, Zaid Al Shahwanii, Andrea Angelini, Jean-Emile Bayiha, Prateek Behera, Ahmed A. Elsheikh, Carlos Higuera, Andrew Tabu Kaggwa, Amparo Ortega-Yago, Senthil Vishnu, Konstantinos Sidiropoulos, Sumit Sural, Yangguan Wu, Pietro Ruggieri (Past-Chair)
Knee Arthroplasty
David Liu
Chair
Vice-chair: Vaibhav Bagaria
Members: Ahmed Abdelazeem, Ali Albelooshi, Claudia Arias, Nicolaas C. Budhiparama,Saurabh Gupta, Nuthan Jagadeesh, Sebastien Lustig, Nguyen Thai Bao Nguyen, Mahmoud Tayel, Sujit Tripathy, Ahmed Yaseen, Mojieb Manzary (Past-Chair)
Limb Reconstruction
Jiancheng Zang
Chair
Vice-chair: Gamal Hosny
Members: Ahmed Abdelaziz, Mofakhkharul Bari, Yasser Elbatrawy, Khaled Emara, Rajiv Kaul, Scott Nelson, Pietro Ruggieri, Sanjeev Sabharwal, Ghassan Salameh, Gracielle Silva Cardoso, Mauro Vivas, Reggie Hamdy (Past-Chair)
Orthopaedic Microsurgery
Pierluigi Tos
Chair
Vice-chair: Efrain Farias Cisneros
Members: Abdelaziz Ali, Mohammed Almahmood, Marko Bumbasirevic, Margaret Fok, Haidar Kassir, Vasileios Kontogeorgakos, Khalid Mohamed, Victor Requena, Kapil Sugand, Abhijeet Laxmikant Wahegaonkar, Qingtang Zhu, Mohammed Kotb (Past-Chair)
Orthopaedic Rehabilitation
Chair
Vice-chair: Tatiana Guerschman
Members: Gokhan Ayik, Sakti Das, Aline Ferreira, Mariam Ibrahim, Santosh Jeevannavar, Sanjay Keshkar, Chor Yin Lam, Mariana Rosa, Samundeeswari Saseendar, René Verdonk, Muhammad Zain-Ur-Rehman, Hassan Zemerly, Alaric Aroojis (Past-Chair)
Paediatrics
Mohamed Abdelaal
Chair
Vice-chair: Saleh Alsaifi
Members: Pervez Ali, Rashid Anjum, Federico Canavese, Hehsam Elbaseet, Nirmal Raj Gopinathan, Indranil Kushare, Luis Eduardo Loyo Soriano, Devarani Pancharatnam, Daria Pavlova, Sivashanmugam Raju, Ayesha Saeed, Basel Touban, Gamal Hosny & Alaric Aroojis (Past-Chairs)
Shoulder & Elbow
Kilian List
Chair
Vice-chair: Samundeeswari Saseendar
Members: Mahmoud Faisal Adam, Ali Al-Hamdani, Cameron Anley, Humberto Arrué, Girinivasan Chellamuthu, Sherif Elnikety, Hany Elsayed, Erica Kholinne, Christos Koukos, Denny Lie, Georgios Mamarelis, Prem Haridas Menon, Usama Saleh, Daniel Moya (Past-Chair)
Spine
Muzahem Taha
Chair
Vice-chair: Shah Alam
Members: Kabir Abubakar, Efe Levent Aras, Ali Aswad, Amer Aziz, Andres Baez, Aju Bosco, Joshua Decruz, Hassan Elgeadi Saleh, Muhammad Siddique Hamid, Md. Ziaul Hasan, Abdullah Hewa, Ahmed Jahwari, Arkadii Kazmin, Chinmay Nath, Khalid Salem, Nanfang Xu, Bhavuk Garg (Past-Chair)
Sports Traumatology & Arthroscopy
Tahsin Beyzadeoglu
Chair
Vice-chair: Saseendar Shanmugasundaram
Members: Raid Abutalib, Muhammad Adeel Akhtar, Rohan Bidwai, Christine Yuen Shan Lai, James Sir Young Loh, Nestor Moreno-Moreu, Gratien Nzayikorera, Massimo Piracci, Mohamed Rashed, Khaled Sarraf, Samundeeswari Saseendar, George Skarpas, Jegathesan T, Seow Hui Teo, Umer Butt (Past-Chair)
Trauma
Marc Hanschen
Chair
Vice-chair: Devendra Agraharam
Members: Hayder Al Saadi, Mykola Ankin, Osama Farouk, David Ferguson, Ashok Sunil Gavaskar, Ali Jarragh, Michael Kushner, Emmanouil Liodakis, Kaustav Mukherjee, Rajeev Naik, Olaniran Orekha, Pankaj Kumar Sharma, Michel Paul Johan Teuben, Erik Tortosa, Vivek Trikha, Ilir Hasani (Past-Chair)
Tumours
Joseph Benevenia
Chair
Vice-chair: Andreas Mavrogenis
Members: Tessa Balach, Ivan Bohacek, Osman Civan, Walid Ebeid, Amr Elsayed, Joseph Ippolito, Tao Ji, Recep Ozturk, Raja Bhaskara Rajasekaran, Vishnu Senthil, Mihir Thacker, Shinji Tsukamoto, Raymond Yau, Tomas Zamora, Andrea Angelini (Past-Chair)
