Arthroclub is a private scientific non-profit group, acting since 2001 by a nucleus of two arthroplasty interested surgeons, Timour El-Husseini and Mahmoud El-Sebai, both professors in the department of orthopaedic surgery, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.

Egypt as many of the third world countries has variable arthroplasty practice by virtue of economical, technical, social and cultural reasons, the message of Arthroclub (Ain Shams Arthroplasty Club) is To Advance Arthroplasty Concepts in Egypt.

This message is conveyed through quarterly public meetings, each consists of a half day scientific event that contains instructional lectures on arthroplasty and related topics, presenting basic aspects as well as updates and advanced techniques to cover the whole subject every four years; special emphasis is laid to couple updates to the reality of orthopaedic practice in the Egyptian hospitals.

Each event invites members and visitors to present and discuss cases of special interest or problems, attendants are also challenged by Arthroquiz which presents questions related to the topics given and aims at stressing certain points of knowledge through question and answer approach.

Each event also creates an atmosphere for surgeons from all over Egypt to find a regular social gathering where they get to know each other on personal level and exchange ideas through professional friendship.

All arthroclub events are sponsored by Sanofi-Aventis, and all arthroclub events are supervised by the present Head of The Department of Orthopaedics, Ain Shams University, Prof. Dr. Hussein El Khatib.

This subspeciality website and its content is developped in cooperation between:
- egydoc.com [Egypt's Medical Portal] contact: webmaster@egydoc.com
- Arthroclub contact: arthroclub@egydoc.com

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