Sports Surgery Training Centre

About

Aspetar’s Sports Surgery Training Centre (SSTC) is the first leading centre of its kind in the region, creating a centre for sports surgery that will allow the sharing of skills, experience and knowledge not only regionally, but internationally.

Our primary focus is to achieve our organisation’s mission to be a leader in sports medicine and education, and the SSTC is a unique opportunity to do this by developing and implementing the newest surgical techniques, to both enhance premium sports surgical care for athletes and patients, and increase knowledge globally.

With state of the art facilities, including 5-10 fully equipped surgical stations, ultra-modern arthroscopic towers, and a biometric security system the SSTC offers a real time surgical training programme that teaches the techniques of advanced sports surgery to surgeons from around the world. This programme includes live surgery simulations, cadaveric workshops in the wet lab, sawbones in the dry lab, video demonstrations, and anatomical education.

The SSTC also facilitates presentations, lectures and debates, with the use of a built-in sound system, LED lighting, audio and visual links, wi-fi access, and live streaming capabilities.

With personal protective equipment available on-site, full access to scrubs, lockers, changing rooms and showers, as well as Aspetar restaurants, plays a vital part in positioning Aspetar as a world-class research facility.

In October 2016 Aspetar, in collaboration with the International Society of Arthroscopy, Knee Surgery and Orthopaedic Sports Medicine (ISAKOS and the European Society for Sports Traumatology, Knee Surgery and Arthroscopy (ESSKA), successfully organised the region’s first world-class Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Master Class. Taking place at the SSTC, the course was attended by 40 surgeons from five continents of the world, who trained for two full days using surgical anatomical specimens.

Featured Experts

2016
July

Dr. Robert Smigielski- Warsaw, Poland- Anatomist

October

Dr. Freddie Fu- Pittsburgh, USA
Dr. Philippe Neyret- Lyon, France- ISAKOS President
Dr. Willem Mare van der Merwe – Cape Town, South Africa
Dr. Ali Alblooshi – Dubai, UAE
Dr. Guillermo Arce- Buenos Aires, Argentina
Dr. Sivaraman Arumugam- Nagar, Chennai, India
Dr. Nader Darwich- Abu Dhabi, UAE
Dr. Matteo Denti- Monza, Italy
Dr. Marcin Edward Domzalski- Lodz, Poland
Dr. Joao Duarte Espregueira- Mendes- Porto, Portugal
Dr. Michael Elias Hantes, Larisa, Greece
Dr. Jacques Ménétrey- Geneva, Switzerland
Dr. James Robinson- Abu Dhabi, UAE
Dr. Peter Verdonk- Zwijnaarde, Belgium
Dr. Nader Darwich- Abu Dhabi, UAE
Dr. Karim Bouattour- Sousse, Tunisia
Dr. Moncef Ben Abid- Tunis, Tunisia
Dr. Slim Mourali- Bizerte, Tunisia
Dr. Shareef Al Dbabseh- Abu Dhabi, UAE

November

Professor Niek Van Dijk- Amsterdam, Netherlands
Professor Jean Brilhault- Tours, France
Dr. SR Sundararajan- Tamil Nadu, India

December

Dr. IPS Oberoi- New Delhi, India
Dr. Ghassan Khoury- Riyadh, KSA
Proefessor Joo Han Oh- Seoul, South Korea

2017
January

Dr. Charles Brown- Abu Dhabi, UAE
Dr. James Robinson- United Kingdom

February

Dr. Alfred Khoury- Beirut, Lebanon
Dr. Mohammed Al Bluwi- Dammam, KSA
Dr. Raid Abdullah Abutalib- Madina, KSA
Dr. Dinsahw Pardiwala- Mumbai, India
Dr. Majid Al Yamani- Riyadh, KSA
Dr. Abdullah Alzahrani- Riyadh, KSA
Dr. Abdulaziz Al Qahtani- Riyadh, KSA
Dr. Hussain, Al Gawahmed- Riyadh, KSA

Special Visits

Eric Chevallier- France -French Ambassador to Qatar
Dr. Uğur Erdener – Turkey- International Olympic Committee Vice President

Completed Courses

1	2016	Oct	13	15	ISAKOS, ESSKA	ISAKOS Symposium & Workshop Series: Orthopaedic & Sports Medicine Master Class
2	2016	Oct	28	29	Smith & Nephew	NAF SPM Intermediate Knee Arthroscopy Course
3	2016	Nov	10	12	Smith & Nephew	Combined Foot & Ankle Train-the-Trainer Course
4	2016	Dec	9	10	Smith & Nephew	Shoulder Arthroscopic Master Course
5	2017	Jan	6	7	Smith & Nephew	Knee Review- Video Filming
6	2017	Feb	3	4	Smith & Nephew	Intermediate Cadaveric Knee Arthroscopy Course (KSA/MENA)
7	2017	Feb	24	25	Smith & Nephew	MENA: Intermediate Shoulder Arthroscopy Course