12th European Federation of Sports Medicine Associations
Congress of Sports Medicine

Main Topics

• Towards physically active Europe. Exercise prescription for health
• Power of exercise - health benefits and their monitoring
• Aging and Sport
• Exercise and immune health
• Athlet's heart and sports cardiology
• Sudden death in sports
• Prevention, diagnosis and treatment of musculoskeletal system injuries
• Physical activity during preconception, pregnancy and postpartum period
• Physical activity for people with chronic diseases
• Physiology of bed rest and detraining
• Altitude training
• Relative energy deficiency in sport (RED-S)
• Health benefits of nutrition supplements in sport and exercise
• Drugs and antidoping in sports
• Exercise capacity and diagnostic tests
• Sport for people with disabilities
• Digital Wearables in sports medicine and sports
• Clinical and legal problems of Sports Medicine in Europe
• Other topics

Scientific Committee

Congress Presidents

• Maurizio Casasco (Italy) President of European Federation of Sports Medicine Associations
• Tomasz Kostka (Poland) President of Polish Society of Sports Medicine

Congress Honorary Presidents

• Norbert Bachl (Austria)
• Fabio Pigozzi (Italy)

Scientific Committee

Chairs

• Yannis Pitsiladis (UK) European Federation of Sports Medicine Associations
• Anna Jegier (Poland) European Federation of Sports Medicine Associations, Polish Society of Sports Medicine

Co-Chairs

Agnieszka Zembroń-Łacny (Poland) Polish Society of Sports Medicine

Members

EFSMA

• André Debruyne (Belgium)
• Chiara Fossati (Italy)
• Anca Ionescu (Romania)
• Herbert Löllgen (Germany)
• Pedro Manonelles Marqueta (Spain)
• Kirill Micallef-Stafrace, (Malta)
• Theodora Papadopoulou (UK)
• Sandra Rozenštoka (Latvia)
• Peter Schober (Austria)
• Wolfgang Schobersberger (Austria)
• Bülent Ülkar (Turkey)
• Evert Verhagen (Netherlands)

Polish Society of Sports Medicine

• Andrzej Bugajski (Poland)
• Kazimierz Ciechanowski (Poland)
• Andrzej Czamara (Poland)
• Maciej Hess (Poland)
• Hubert Krysztofiak (Poland)
• Jarek Krzywanski (Poland)
• Andrzej Pokrywka (Poland)
• Katarzyna Szmigielska (Poland)
• Wojciech Widuchowski (Poland)
• Andrzej Ziemba (Poland)

Organising Committee

Chairman

Andrzej Czamara (Poland)

Vice Chairman

Andrzej Bugajski (Poland)

Members of Local Organising Committee (Poland)

• Paulina Chylińska
• Wiktor Czamara
• Łukasz Dalecki
• Anna Jegier
• Zbigniew Kaptur
• Krzysztof Kowalewski
• Hubert Krysztofiak
• Katarzyna Krzemińska
• Bogusław Sadlik
• Łukasz Sikorski
• Iwona Tymecka-Maciąg
• Wojciech Widuchowski
• Katarzyna Wilk
• Andrzej Zalewski
• Agnieszka Zembroń-Łacny
• Andrzej Ziemba
• Dorota Zowczak

Target Audience

The experts of sport medicine, internal medicine, exercise physiology, cardiology, orthopaedics, traumatology, medical rehabilitation and physiotherapy are invited to share the advances in the area. Besides the Congress will be opened for geneticists, anti-doping specialists, nutritionists. In addition, we invite specialists in physical activity, sports for people with disabilities, physically active elderly people and people with metabolic diseases, as well as psychologists and other relevant stakeholders of the sports and physical activity sector.

Congress Programme

More details in the file: EFSMA-program.pdf

• Session. Exercise at 50 years old and beyond (90 min)
• Session. Aging and Sport (90 min).
• Session . Selected problems of the knee injury in children and adolescents (90 min)
• Session. Exercise and immune health (90 min)
• Session. Clinical and legal problems of Sports Medicine in Europe. A synthesis, summary and analysis (90 min)
• Session. Sudden Cardiac Death in Sports. (90 min)
• Session. From rehabilitation to Paralympics - challenges and threats in the sport of people with disabilities (90 min).
• Session. Biological therapies in musculoskeletal sport injuries (90 min).
• Session. Athlete's heart (90 min)
• Session. Physiology of bed rest and detraining (90 min)
• Session. Relative energy deficiency in sport (RED-S) as a challenge for modern sports medicine (90 min)
• Session. Diagnosis and monitoring of treatment of selected musculoskeletal injuries (90 min)
• Session. Physical activity for people with chronic diseases (90 min)
• Session. Altitude training. (90 min)
• Session. Power of Exercise. Health benefits and their monitoring in project “Exercise Prescription for Health” (90 min).
• Session. Drugs, doping and antidoping in sports (90 min)
• Session. Digital wearables in sports medicine and sports (90 min)
• Session. Rehabilitation in sports medicine (90 min)