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3rd TASES Congress · Kopaonik

Congress programme

Three days of invited lectures, a free papers session and a nurses and technicians session — by day and hall.

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27–29 November 2026 · Hotel Grand, Kopaonik

09:00 – 09:50

Registration

Hall 1

09:50 – 10:00

Opening of the Congress

Hall 1

10:00 – 13:00

Plenary Session I — invited lectures

Hall 1

  • 10:00 – 10:15

    Doc. dr Vladan Stevanović

    Elbow endoprosthesis in Serbia — is it time for a new beginning?

  • 10:15 – 10:30

    Dr Novak Jovanović

    Fractures of the proximal humerus

  • 10:30 – 10:45

    Prof. dr Srđan Ninković

    Surgical treatment of anterior shoulder instability

  • 10:45 – 11:00

    Dr Nenad Petkov

    Role of tendon transfers for posterosuperior rotator cuff tears

  • 11:00 – 11:15

    Doc. dr Vladan Stevanović

    Contemporary management of rotator cuff tears — balancing evidence, experience and emerging technologies

  • 11:15 – 11:30

    Dr Luigi Piscitelli

    Rotator cuff tears: when to operate and when to treat conservatively? My personal experience

  • 11:30 – 11:45

    Dr Christos Koukos

    Serratus anterior plication

  • 11:45 – 12:00

    Dr Christos Koukos

    Pectoralis minor release

  • 12:00 – 12:15

    Dr Luigi Piscitelli

    Reverse shoulder prosthesis — where are we now? My personal experience and my surgical approach

  • 12:15 – 12:30

    Dr Nenad Petkov

    Glenoid bone defect in RSA — importance of preoperative planning

  • 12:30 – 12:45

    Dr Novak Jovanović

    What after total shoulder arthroplasty?

  • 12:45 – 13:00

    Discussion

13:00 – 14:30

Lunch (buffet style with soft drinks)

14:30 – 18:30

Plenary Session II — invited lectures

Hall 1

  • 14:30 – 14:45

    Doc. dr Darko Laketić

    New insights into the arterial vascularization of the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL)

  • 14:45 – 15:00

    Dr Jens Stueber

    Supply strategy of a distal semitendinosus tendon rupture in young athletes — a case report

  • 15:00 – 15:15

    Prof. dr Srđan Ninković

    Treatment of knee LCL injury

  • 15:15 – 15:30

    Dr Zoran Nestorovski

    ACL / PCL / ALL reconstruction

  • 15:30 – 15:45

    Dr Jens Stueber

    Guidelines and supply reality of anterior cruciate ligament rupture in Germany

  • 15:45 – 16:00

    Prof. dr Aleksandar Matić

    Tibial eminence — small fragment, big dilemma (ACL reinsertion in adolescents)

  • 16:00 – 16:15

    Prof. dr Aleksandar Artemjev

    “Acute shortening” technique in the treatment of severe (including gunshot) fractures of the tibia and their consequences

  • 16:15 – 16:30

    Coffee break

  • 16:30 – 16:45

    Prof. dr Viktor Kamnar

    Surgical management of recurrent diffuse tenosynovial giant cell tumor of the foot with tarsal bone invasion

  • 16:45 – 17:00

    Prof. dr Viktor Kamnar

    Locally recurrent and metastatic giant cell tumor of the distal femur

  • 17:00 – 17:15

    Dr Bianca Ailing Metzner

    Minimally invasive Pes Cavus correction: from concept to clinical practice — MIS technique for Pes Cavus correction

  • 17:15 – 17:30

    Prof. dr Aleksandar Artemjev

    Ilizarov method in prevention and treatment of knee osteoarthritis

  • 17:30 – 17:45

    Prof. dr Nikola Bulatović

    Treatment of acetabulum fractures using the KL approach

  • 17:45 – 18:00

    Prof. dr Saša Milenković

    Surgical treatment of complex acetabulum fractures

  • 18:00 – 18:30

    Discussion

14:30 – 17:45

Plenary Session III — invited lectures

Hall 2

Moderators: Branko Ristić, Slaviša Zagorac, Predrag Stojiljković

  • 14:30 – 14:45

    Doc. dr Slaviša Zagorac

    Orthopedic surgeon in forensic medicine practice — “the cautious are rarely wrong”

  • 14:45 – 15:00

    Prof. dr Branko Ristić

    Orthopedic surgery: yesterday, today, tomorrow

  • 15:00 – 15:15

    Prof. dr Goran Tulić

    Paradigm of the orthopedic surgeon of the 21st century

  • 15:15 – 15:30

    Prof. dr Radmila Matijević

    Fracture prevention: friend, not foe, of orthopedic surgery

  • 15:30 – 15:45

    Asist. dr Oliver Dulić

    The effect of intraoperative application of BMAC (bone marrow aspirate concentrate) in patients with avascular necrosis of the femoral head treated with decompression and revascularization with autograft augmentation — the result of a ten-year follow-up in 48 patients

  • 15:45 – 16:00

    Prof. dr Dragoljub Živanović

    Articular knee fractures in children

  • 16:15 – 16:30

    Prof. dr Dragoljub Živanović

    Fractures of the distal third of the forearm in children — therapeutic dilemmas

  • 16:30 – 16:45

    Dr sc. med. Igor Kostić

    The importance of fixation of the posterior malleolus in ankle fractures

  • 16:45 – 17:00

    Doc. dr Predrag Stojiljković

    Risks in the treatment of femur fractures in polytrauma

  • 17:00 – 17:15

    Doc. dr Milan Mitković

    The significance of dynamization in extramedullary fixation of femoral shaft fractures

  • 17:15 – 17:45

    Discussion

09:00 – 13:30

Plenary Session IV — invited lectures

Hall 1

  • 09:00 – 09:15

    Prof. dr Goran Tulić

    My path through the hip: Me, myself and I…

  • 09:15 – 09:30

    Prof. dr Ulrich Noeth

    How digitalization and artificial intelligence will change our work as arthroplasty surgeons

  • 09:30 – 09:45

    Prof. dr Zoran Baščarević, dr Marko Vujačić

    The impact of spino-pelvic mobility on total hip arthroplasty

  • 09:45 – 10:00

    Dr Njegoš Čvorak

    Preventing surgical site infection (SSI) in arthroplasty

  • 10:15 – 10:30

    Prof. dr Nemanja Slavković

    Place of short femoral stems in modern hip arthroplasty

  • 10:30 – 10:45

    Asist. dr Danilo Jeremić

    Minimally invasive anterior (Bikini) approach in total hip arthroplasty — step by step

  • 10:45 – 11:00

    Asist. dr Danilo Jeremić

    Rotation of the pelvic ring — a technical innovation in the minimally invasive anterior (Bikini) approach to total arthroplasty

  • 11:00 – 11:15

    Dr Njegoš Čvorak

    Preventing postoperative hip dislocation and component impingement

  • 11:15 – 11:45

    Discussion

  • 11:45 – 12:00

    Coffee break

  • 12:00 – 12:15

    Prof. dr Igor Kaftandjiev

    Current concepts in the management of proximal femoral fractures in the geriatric population

  • 12:15 – 12:30

    Prof. dr Igor Kaftandjiev

    Femoral periprosthetic fractures following total hip arthroplasty: concept of management

  • 12:30 – 12:45

    Prof. dr Branko Ristić

    Arthroplasty after failed osteosynthesis of extracapsular hip fracture

  • 12:45 – 13:00

    Prof. dr Zoran Baščarević, dr Andreja Baljozović

    Diagnosis and treatment of periprosthetic infections

  • 13:00 – 13:30

    Discussion

13:30 – 15:00

Lunch (buffet style with soft drinks)

15:00 – 19:00

Plenary Session V — invited lectures

Hall 1

  • 15:00 – 15:15

    Prof. dr Ulrich Noeth

    Automated robotic kinematic alignment — the new standard in knee arthroplasty?

  • 15:15 – 15:30

    Dr Zoran Nestorovski

    Optimal time for UKA

  • 15:30 – 15:45

    Prof. dr Nemanja Slavković

    The role of implants with increased stability in primary knee arthroplasty

  • 15:45 – 16:00

    Prof. dr Predrag Rašović

    Arthroplasty procedures in hemophilia

  • 16:00 – 16:15

    Prof. dr Aleksandar Matić

    Complicated primary knee arthroplasties

  • 16:15 – 16:30

    Dr Miloš Stojanović

    Management of patellar instability after total knee arthroplasty: is MPFL reconstruction the solution?

  • 16:30 – 16:45

    Discussion

  • 16:45 – 17:00

    Coffee break

  • 17:00 – 17:15

    Prof. dr Nikola Bulatović

    Periprosthetic fractures in TKA

  • 17:15 – 17:30

    Dr sc. med. Slađan Timotijević

    Total knee arthroplasty after medial unicompartmental knee arthroplasty

  • 17:30 – 17:45

    Asist. dr Oliver Dulić

    The influence of early postoperative cooling of the knee on the early postoperative recovery in patients with a total knee prosthesis

  • 17:45 – 18:00

    Dr Bianca Ailing Metzner

    Minimally invasive Hallux valgus correction

  • 18:00 – 18:15

    Dr Bore Bakota

    Polytrauma in geriatric patients

  • 18:15 – 18:30

    Doc. dr Slaviša Zagorac

    New technologies and AI in spinal pathology

  • 18:30 – 19:00

    Discussion

21:00 – 23:30

Dinner with Faculty

10:00 – 12:00

Free papers session

Hall 1

10:00 – 12:00

Nurses and technicians session

Hall 2

12:00 – 12:30

Congress closing ceremony

Hall 1

Leadership

Congress leadership

Congress President
Prof. dr Ivan Micić
President of the Scientific Board
Mr sci. dr Saša Karalejić
President of the Organizing Committee
Dr Ivan Đorđević