International Society of Arthroplasty Registries

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13th Annual International Congress of Arthroplasty Registries, June 1-3, 2024, Hamburg, Germany

Save the date for the next ISAR congress - June 1-3, 2024

On behalf of the two Chairmen of the Local Organizing Committee Jörg Lützner and Arnd Steinbrück and ISAR President Eric Bohm, we welcome you all to the 13th Congress in Hamburg, Germany. 

The meeting will be at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Hanburg and our congress organizer will be Intercongress.

Abstract submission information you will find in the document - abstract submission is open October 15 and deadline for submissions will be December 11, 2023 at 8pm UTC.

Here you will find General Information regarding the meeting in Hamburg. Here is the link  Hotel reservation for the room booking that is open now. Please note that our blocking of rooms will expire May May 3, 2024.

Conference Local Organizing Committee:

Grimberg, Alexander; Günther, Klaus-Peter; Kladny, Bernd; Lützner, Jörg (chairman); Morlock, Michael; Perka, Carsten; Steinbrück, Arnd (chairman)

ISAR Membership fee for 2023 - friendly reminder if you have not paid your fee yet

As decided at the Business meeting on May 19, 2022 there is from 2023 only one category  of members in ISAR. 

It is now time for the payment of the ISAR membership fee for 2023 (decided at the Business meeting on May 19, 2022) and invoices are on the way to the member registries. Please note that the membership fee is only possible to either pay with credit card by using the PapPal below or by bank transfer with banking details in your invoice. It is not possible to anymore pay the membership fee by check. 

12th Annual International Congress of Arthroplasty Registries, May 13-15, 2023, Montreal, Canada

The congress did take place May 13-15, in Montreal at the Omni Mont-Royal Hotel and was attended by 104 participants. There also were a few virtual key note speakers. 

Best podium presenter was:  "Comparing functional outcomes after total hip and knee arthroplasty by patient response to registry questionnaires" -        Yushy Zhou, Cade Shadbolt, Sharmala Thuraisingam, Michelle Dowsey, Peter Choong, Chris Schilling 

Best poster was: "Association of coating and architecture of the surface metal with survival of uncemented total knee arthroplasty - A comparison between 11,135 uncemented and 235,500 cemented implants registered in the Dutch Arthroplasty Register" - Raymond Puijk, Rachid Rassir, Inger N Sierevelt, Anneke SpekenbrinkSpooren, Rob G H H Nelissen, Peter A Nolte 

On Sunday May 14 the annual business meeting took place and Anne Lübbeke was elected as president elect one year. Marina Torre and James Huddleston were elected as member-at-large for one year. Claus Varnum was re-elected as Accountant for two years. Robert Nehrer was approved ad adjunct member representing AdvaMed. At the business meeting the annual report for 2022 was discussed, the accountant report and information regarding IPL. It was also decided that the annual fee 2024  for membership will be USD 1,200 as there is only one category of membership. It was also announced that the meeting 2025 will be in New Zealand, organized by the New Zealand Registry, probably in the end of February 2025. 

There was also an update regarding the 13the Annual ISAR congress to be in Hamburg, Germany, June 1-3, 2024.

Conference Local Organizing Committee:
Eric Bohm (Chairman), Cynthia Vezina (Canadian Orthopaedic Association), Michael Terner (CIHI) 

Scientific Committee:

Drs Eric Bohm, Jason Werle, Jarret Woodmas, Jesse Wolfstadt and the ISAR Steering Committee 

The Local Organizing Committee and the Scientific Committee thank everybody that participated at the congress and hope to see everybody next year in Hamburg.

11th Annual International Congress of Arthroplasty Registries, September 3-5, 2022, Dublin, Ireland

On behalf of the Chairman of the Local Organizing Committee Paddy Kenny and the President of ISAR Ola Rolfson, we thank you all that came to Dublin for the congress. 

Membership payment for 2023

10th Annual International Congress of Arthroplasty Registries (2nd Annual Virtual Congress), November 11-13, 2021

9th Annual International Congress of Arthroplasty Registries (1st Annual Virtual Congress), November 13-15, 2020

ISAR Session at EFORT virtual congress - How To Use Registry Data For Medical Device Evaluation 

Wednesday 28 October 2020 from 10:30am to 11:30am
Website for more information: https://vec.efort.org/home

• Moderators: Anne Lübbeke Wolff, Switzerland, Rob Nelissen, Netherlands

• Martyn Porter, United Kingdom What are the worldwide existing arthroplasty registries, what data is available, how can they            be accessed & how to evaluate the quality of registry data?

• Alma Becic Pedersen, Denmark Common registry statistics & interpreting registry data

• Stephen E Graves, Australia Benchmarking of implant performance

• Ola Rolfson, Sweden Patient-reported outcomes in implant surveillance

ISAR Business meeting 2020 

The ISAR Business meeting 2020 (with ISAR paying members) did take place on May 26, 2020 as a video meeting with between 49-51 participants. Ola Rolfson was confirmed as the ISAR president for 2020-2022, Eric Bohm was eleccted as president elect. As new mebers-at-large Bryan Springer and Volkmar Jansson were elected. As new secretary/treasuer Maziar Mohaddes was elected. Ronald Navarro and Mark Wilkinson were re-elected as membver-at-large. New accountat is Soeren Overgaard.  

ISAR Lifetime Achievement Award 

The ISAR Lifetime Achievement Award honors individuals who have made a significant contribution to international registry science and worldwide patient outcomes through their leadership, service, innovation, scholarship and mentorship over a minimum of 25 years.  We have formalized the process for the selection of ISAR Lifetime Achievement Award which is in the document.  

Read more in   ISAR Lifetime Achievement Award

EFORT and ISAR Workshop 

At the 21st EFORT Congress in Vienna, Austria, June 10-12, 2020, there will be a special EFORT and ISAR Workshop on Thursday June 11 at 9:00am-11:00am. Registration for the Workshop on EFORT online-registration. 

Read more in  EFORT and ISAR Workshop

New report added

“The increased demand for international performance standards in total joint replacement emphasizes the need for a standardized global benchmarking system. Global benchmarking allows comparison of device performance at specific time points to a defined standard and to the performance of other equivalent devices. A global benchmarking system can enhance international public safety and cost effectiveness through the identification and subsequent use of higher performing arthroplasty prostheses.”

Read more in Report by International Prosthesis Benchmarking Working Group May 2018 

New section with publications

We have added a new section in the navigation that contains articles and reports from Working Groups. 

9th International Congress of Arthroplasty Registries

Most welcome to the 9th International Congress in Adelaide, Australia, May 23-25, 2020. Here you will find Invitation letter from Richard de Steiger.

Registration/payment and hotel reservation is now open at the special congress website at ISAR congress website 2020  

Congress contact: Alison Fallon. Telephone: +61 403 652 145, E-mail: alison.fallon@aoa.org.au

Abstract submission is now closed. Thank you all for submitting your abstracts. Information regarding abstracts and program: info@isarhome.org. Decision will be sent out by December 20, 2019. 

Congress organising committee: Richard de Steiger, Cindy Turner, Peter Lewis and Liz Paxton.

New web site launched

Today we have launched the new web site. The web site will continuously be updated with more and new information. Please forward any information to info@isarhome.org which is the official e-mail address for ISAR.