Annual Meeting 2026

Christian Gerber, MD, PhD, FRCS (hon) is Professor and Chairman emeritus of the Department of Orthopaedics at the University of Zürich. After Medical School at Berne and Yale he assumed posts as an intern in Neurology, Internal Medicine and General Surgery, to be subsequently educated in orthopaedics at the Universities of Berne, Paris and San Antonio. He was appointed Professor and Chair at the Cantonal Hospital Fribourg in 1992 and to the University of Zürich in 1995. He received an honorary degree of the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh, an honorary PhD from The Sapienza University in Rome, is a member of the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences and an honorary member of multiple national societies. He has authored over 480 peer – reviewed experimental and clinical investigations, mainly in his preferred field of Shoulder Surgery. His publications have been quoted over 54’000 times and have reached a H-index of 120 as documented in google scholar. He is the only four time winner of the Charles S. Neer Award, the first non-American winner of the Kappa Delta Award of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons and recipient of the Arthur Steindler Award of the Orthopaedic Research Society. In 2000 he created the ResOrtho Foundation (resortho.com) for Orthopaedic Research and Education which has supported young academic careers and was the founder of Balgrist Campus, a novel infrastructure for orthopaedic research and development in Zürich. He also created the Meyer Award (meyerward.org) for disruptive research in musculoskeletal medicine. After his retirement as a Chair, he continued to do experimental and clinical research, and ran a private practice limited to Shoulder Surgery. He currently serves as a senior consultant at Sonnenhof Spital Berne, Switzerland.

Dr Edel Fanning, BSc, MSc, PhD.

Edel is a Consultant Shoulder Physiotherapist and the founder of Sports Shoulder Performance Rehab, with over 15 years of experience treating shoulder injuries. She has worked with elite athletes across multiple sports, including rugby, football, GAA, UFC, boxing, gymnastics, and tennis.

Previously, she was the Lead Upper Limb Physiotherapist at the renowned Sports Surgery Clinic in Dublin and worked as a Shoulder Specialist Physiotherapist with the NHS in the UK. Edel holds a PhD from University College Cork, where her research focuses on the role of 3D biomechanics and performance testing in guiding return-to-sport decisions, particularly for athletes in contact and collision sports.

An international keynote speaker and educator, Edel frequently presents at leading conferences. She is also a dedicated committee member of both the European Society of Shoulder and Elbow Rehabilitation and the Irish Elbow and Shoulder Rehab Society.

08.30    Registration

AM Session                                                                                                                       Albert Theatre

09.00    Welcome Address                                                                                             Mr Kieran O’Shea

09.10   New Aspects of posterior shoulder instability                                              Prof Christian Gerber

09.50     Practical Rehabilitation Strategies After Posterior Labral Repair         Dr Edel Fanning

Q&A

10.30    Coffee

11.00    Free Paper Session                                                                              Chair: Mr Patrick Groarke

Adjudicators:    Ms Vanessa Cuddy

Mr Robert Piggott

11:50   Guest Lecture

Neurological injuries and pathologies about the shoulder: a neurophysiologists perspective

Dr Michael Alexander, Consultant Neurophysiologist, Tallaght University Hospital

12.30    Lunch

PM Session ISES                                                 Albert Theatre

13.30  Current Concepts                                   Chair:  Mr Kieran O’Shea

Management of primary and metastatic shoulder and elbow pathologies

Mr Matthew Lee

Paediatric and Adolescent Shoulder Instability

Mr Fiachra Power

14:30   Clinico-pathological conference             Chair: Ms Ruth Delaney

Case Presentations: Dr Willem Geuskens

Panel: Prof David O’ Briain, Mr J Tristan Cassidy, Prof Christian Gerber

15:30  Keynote Lecture:             Orthopaedic research: are we on track?

Prof Christian Gerber

13.30     PM Session ISERS                                                               O’Flanagan Theatre

Parallel physiotherapy workshop                                                         ISERS Committee

Return to Sport Testing (Practical Session)

Complex Case Studies

16:15    Close and Awards

16:30    Business meeting/ISES update/AGM