President of TASES
Prof. Dr
Ivan Micić
- Head of the Clinic for Orthopedics and Traumatology, UKC Niš
- Faculty of Medicine, University of Niš
Niš · Serbia
Founded 2022
Knowledge that reaches the operating room.
TASES brings together traumatologists across Southeast Serbia and connects them with orthopedists and traumatologists at home and abroad — through its congress, shared experience, and joint work on treating musculoskeletal injuries.
About the association
A professional body, not an institution.
TASES brings together, on a voluntary basis, physicians practising traumatology across Southeast Serbia, and operates throughout the Republic of Serbia. Its purpose is to move knowledge about treating musculoskeletal injuries and disorders faster to the people who operate.
- Type
- A non-governmental, non-partisan, non-profit, humanitarian and professional organization.
- Seat
- Clinic for Orthopedics and Traumatology “Academician Prof. Dr Milorad Mitković”, UKC Niš
- Reach
- Brings together physicians across Southeast Serbia; operates throughout the Republic of Serbia.
Goals and tasks
Eight commitments we hold ourselves to.
The association's statutory goals — how we measure whether we are doing our job.
Studying current literature and gathering the latest findings on musculoskeletal injuries and disorders.
Helping younger physicians reach new knowledge more easily, at home and abroad.
Encouraging creative work toward simpler and less expensive treatment of musculoskeletal injuries and disorders.
Following and taking part in national and international professional and scientific meetings.
Cooperating with domestic and foreign experts, associations, companies and organizations.
Promoting the prevention of complications and disability in musculoskeletal injuries and disorders.
Studying the options for surgical and conservative treatment of fractures and other injuries.
Working on research projects and advancing new, minimally invasive methods.
Upcoming meeting · 3rd TASES Congress
TASES 2026
Three days of lectures on Kopaonik, with orthopedists and traumatologists from Serbia and abroad. Papers are accepted until the abstract deadline.
- 27–29 November 2026
- Dates
- Kopaonik · Hotel Grand
- Venue
- 30+
- Invited speakers
- 2,017 m
- Pančić's Peak
Speakers
More than thirty invited orthopedists and traumatologists.
Domestic and international invited speakers from ten countries — all have confirmed their participation in the 3rd TASES Congress.
Assoc. Prof. Dr
Darko Laketić
- KBC “Dragiša Mišović”
- Institute of Anatomy, Faculty of Medicine, Belgrade
Belgrade · Serbia
Dr
Nenad Petkov
- City General Hospital “8th September”, Skopje
North Macedonia
Prof. Dr
Igor Kaftandjiev
- Acibadem Sistina Hospital, Skopje
North Macedonia