International Shoulder Group

We are pleased to announce two updates regarding the ISG conference next year. The first is that selected papers will be published as full articles in a special issue of Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing (MBEC) following the conference. The second is that the ISB has kindly agreed to award a number of travel grants for students wanting to attend technical group meetings next year. For details of this scheme, see the ISB website.

Now the voting for the ISG board is closed, I am happy to inform you on the election results:
 
we had 36 e-mail votes, all of which were valid. Each member was allowed to vote for five board members from a list of six candidates, whose CV's were added to the invitation.The spread of votes was as follows:
  
John Borstadt:  26
Ed Chadwick:   34
Andrea Cutti: 35
Clark Dickerson: 24
Cathy Holt: 28
Andrew Karduna: 30
 
 
which means that John, Ed, Andrea, Cathy and Andrew are elected for the new board. 
 
I would like to congratulate the new board with this result  and am confident that they will do a good job!!!
 
yours,
 
Dirkjan Veeger

We are pleased to announce that the 2012 meeting of the International Shoulder Group will be held at Aberystwyth University in Wales. Dates and other details will be announced in due course. We look forward to welcoming you to this beautiful coastal town in the west of the U.K. Find us on the map or check out the Conference Brochure (pdf) to see where we are and what we have to offer!

Following a very successful 8th meeting of the International Shoulder Group in Minneapolis recently, the committee would like to thank the local organisers from the University of Minnesota for all their hard work, and the attendees for a good range of podium and poster presentations and stimulating discussions. The abstracts of all papers presented are attached here, and longer articles of selected papers will appear in a special journal issue in due course. 

Dear Friends,

It is with great pleasure that I can inform you that the international journal "Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing" (Springer) has just published a Special Issue on Shoulder Biomechanics (Vol. 47, No. 5), gathering some of the works presented at our last meeting in Bologna. Among the papers,

Blana D et al "Combined feedforward and feedback control of a redundant, non-linear, dynamic musculoskeletal system"

and

Steenbrink F et al "Arm load magnitude affects selective shoulder muscle activation"

have been awarded with the two Young Investigator Awards sponsored by the Biomedical Engineering Group of the University of Bologna and Springer Verlag, and are "Open Access".

Kindest Regards,

Andrea G. Cutti