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Hi all

Cross posting in the interest of all

Just like to bring this below to readers attention as there may be many who would like to join i-FAB (International Foot and Ankle Biomechanics Community)

"It has been just 6 months since we launched the i-FAB initiative and presented the vision of closer collaboration between people from academic, industry and clinical practice related to foot and ankle biomechanics. Following a day of foot and ankle sessions we gave a 15 minute introduction to the aims, objectives and activities the i-FAB initiative hopes to pursue. We got a positive response and just short of 40 membership applications on the day!

Since the launch in early July membership has grown steadily, and now stands at 216. We expect to see this exceed 260 by the time of the i-FAB congress in September 2008. Who knows how many people there are worldwide working on biomechanics research related to the foot and ankle? It is one of i-FAB’s aims to uncover this global community.

We now have on line registration available http://www.i-fab.org/joinifab.htm and would like to ask all existing members to consider sending an email to all their collaborators, colleagues and contacts to invite others to join. Membership is presently free and creating a critical mass of people will be essential to delivering on the i-FAB objectives."

Reproduced from www.i-FAB.org

Cheers Dave Smith

 

Dear All,

1st i-FAB newsletter available here: http://www.i-fab.org/newsletter1.htm

1st i-FAB Congress will be held 4-6 September 2008 hosted by Dr Alberto Leardini and colleagues from the Movement Analysis Laboratory, Istituti Ortopedici Rizzoli, Bologna, Italy. Keynote speakers:

George Arangio (MS Hershey Medical College, Pennsylvania State University): ‘Sailing charted Seas: Biomechanics and the Orthopedic Surgeon’

Peter Cavanagh (Cleveland Clinic): ‘Foot Complications of Diabetes’

Harold Kitaoka (Mayo Clinic): ‘Advances in biomechanics of posterior tibial tendon dysfunction and flatfoot deformity’

Mario LaFortune (Nike Sport Research Laboratory): ‘The role of research in the development of athletic footwear’

Sorin Siegler (Department of Mechanical Engineering and Mechanics Drexel University): ‘Advances in Image-based Biomechanics of the Human Ankle’

Marco Viceconti (Laboratorio Tecnologia Medica, Istituti Ortopedici Rizzoli): ‘Multiscale modelling and team science: the future of orthopaedics biomechanics’

Kind regards

Joshua Burns PhD, B App Sc (Pod) Hons
NHMRC Australian Clinical Research Fellow
Institute for Neuromuscular Research, The Children's Hospital at Westmead
Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Sydney, Australia
Email: joshuab2@chw.edu.au