ISHA 2024 Local Host Chair

Dr. Wolff is a board-certified fellowship trained orthopaedic surgeon who specializes in hip arthroscopy, hip preservation and sports medicine. He has been in practice in the Washington, DC area since 2008. He is widely recognized as an expert in the field of hip arthroscopy and preservation. He regularly lectures at national and international hip meetings and publishes research peer-reviewed orthopaedic surgery literature about hip preservation procedures, best practices as to how to perform them and how to achieve the best results for these patients. He is the vice-president of Multi-Center Arthroscopic Surgery of the Hip (MASH) Study Group that aggregates data from leading hip surgeons around the country to allow careful research to improve the outcomes for our patients. He has helped develop and design techniques and instrumentation that have made the arthroscopic treatment of hip problems easier, safer, and more reliable.

ISHA 2024 Scientific Program Chair

After graduating from medical school in Germany, Dr. Wuerz was doing research at the Biomedical Engineering Laboratory at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston before doing two years of orthopedic surgery residency at the Inselspital Bern in Bern Switzerland. After that he went to the London School of Economics for a masters in health policy and economics. After that he was doing two years of research with a NIH grant. Then he did an orthopedic surgery residency at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio. This was followed by a orthopedic sports medicine fellowship at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, Illinois, before being awarded the first traveling fellowship of the International Society for Hip Arthroscopy training at the Steadman Clinic in Vail, Colorado, and the Schulthess Clinic in Zurich, Switzerland.

ISHA President 2023/2024

Dr Paul E. Beaulé specializes in joint preserving surgery of the hip as well as hip arthroplasty. After completing his training at University of Ottawa, he pursued his fellowship training at University of California, Los Angeles and University of Southern California. Currently, he is Professor of Surgery and Head of the Division of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Ottawa and Past President of the Canadian Orthopaedic Research Society. Dr Beaulé is a member of the Hip Society, the International Hip Society, European Hip Society, and the Academic Network for Conservative Hip Outcome Research (ANCHOR). He is a two-time recipient of the William H. Harris Award, has received the Hip Society Award four times and the Kappa Delta Elizabeth Winston Award.