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Date and Venue: December 13-14, 2024, 31A Leningradsky Avenue, Building 1, Monarch Hotel, Moscow 125284, Russia.
Event Format: classroom-based, there is no registration fee for participants.
The Order of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation dated December 29, 2023 No. 726 approved the holding in December 2024 of the XI All-Russian Priorov Forum dedicated to the 100th anniversary of Professor K.M. Sivash.

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Dear colleagues!

We invite you to take part in one of the main events of the traumatologic industry — the XI PRIOROV ORTHOPEDIC FORUM dedicated to the 100th anniversary of Professor K.M. Sivash!

Our meeting will once again open wide opportunities to get acquainted with advanced research, technologies and practical experience of famous experts in traumatology and orthopedics.

Nowadays, this event has expanded from a small scientific-practical conference into a forum where leading specialists of traumatology and orthopedics from the constituent entities of the Russian Federation and countries of the near abroad take part, where topical issues of organization and provision of specialized traumatology and orthopedics care to the population, healthcare personnel training, ways to improve the quality of medical care, introduction of high-tech medical care, standardization, expert and other issues that require revision are discussed.

We will be glad to see you as participants in the updated format of the XI All-Russian Priorov Forum dedicated to the 100th anniversary of Professor K.M. Sivash!

Priorov Forum Organizing Committee

Konstantin Mitrofanovich Sivash

Konstantin Mitrofanovich Sivash was born on February 23, 1924 in Konotop, Sumy region, Ukrainian SSR. After graduation from high school, he entered the Moscow Technological Institute of Light Industry, but did not have time to finish his studies: the Great Patriotic War broke out. K.M. Sivash joined the Red Army as a volunteer and participated in the battles for Moscow. Then he completed a training course of the Ryazan Guards Higher Airborne Command School, and after that was sent to the active army, fought in the Bryansk region. He reached a rank of a deputy regiment commander as a captain and in the battles near Bryansk (in 1943) received a severe wound in his abdomen and lung. Till 1944 in rear hospitals together with his doctors he fought for his life. Being impressed by the work of doctors, which he had to observe with his own eyes, he entered the 1st Moscow Medical Institute and successfully graduated from it in 1949. K.M. Sivash began his medical career as a surgeon at the Moscow Research Institute of Tuberculosis. Here he developed a new method of a knee joint resection and arthrodesis in tuberculosis gonitis using a compression apparatus of his own design (1950). For the first time in the Soviet Union, K.M. Sivash studied the processes of reparative regeneration of cancellous bone in resected epiphyses of the knee joint in an experiment on dogs.

After defending his Ph.D. thesis (1959) and publishing two monographs on bone and joint tuberculosis, K.M. Sivash went to work at the All-Union Research Institute of Surgical Equipment and Instruments (RISEI) and simultaneously worked as a surgeon at Hospital No. 40 in Moscow. In RISEI, Konstantin Mitrofanovich developed plates and intramedullary pins, distraction-compression plates and devices. In 1959, he received a copyright certificate for the first version of a hip joint endoprosthesis, although he first proposed it much earlier – in 1956. It was the world's first all-metal, cementless, unbreakable total hip prosthesis with a metal-to-metal rotation unit and press-fit prosthesis fitting into the acetabulum during surgery. In 1959, for the first time in the USSR, he performed total endoprosthesis surgery for ankylosing spondylitis (Behterev's disease). In 1965, K. M. Sivash successfully defended his doctoral dissertation on “Method of Total Hip Joint Replacement with Metal One in Ankylosing Spondyloarthritis”. In 1967, he was approved as a professor, and in 1969, he was awarded the honorary title “Honored Inventor of the RSFSR”.

Extremely important for K. M. Sivash (and endoprosthetics development in general) was his invitation to the position of the Head of the Scientific and Technical Department of the Priorov Central Research Institute of Traumatology and Orthopedics (CRITO) with clinical beds by the Director of CRITO – Academician of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences, Professor M.V. Volkov. At the experimental enterprise of CRITO, together with engineers and like-minded people K. M. Sivash improved the endoprosthesis, repeatedly traveled to the regions of the country with demonstration operations. Sivash's endoprosthesis gained worldwide recognition, the author operated on patients using his endoprosthesis in 47 countries of the world and in all the republics of the Soviet Union. In 1971, the license for the right to manufacture the Sivash endoprosthesis was bought from the USSR by the USA, and in 1976 – by Bulgaria and some other countries. K. M. Sivash was a member of the International Society of Orthopedic Traumatologists (SICOT) and took part in many national, regional and international scientific forums of orthopedic traumatologists, as well as published several monographs. In 1974, K. M. Sivash together with professors V. N. Guriev and M. I. Panova, engineers A. A. Kovalyov and Ye. M. Gusev were awarded the State Prize for introduction of their own endoprosthesis into industrial production and medical practice. In 1990, posthumously, K. M. Sivash together with a group of engineers and doctors was awarded the USSR Council of Ministers Prize for the use of titanium alloys in traumatology and orthopedics.

In 1989, Konstantin Mitrofanovich Sivash passed away. The tombstone of the great orthopedic traumatologist, the pioneer of endoprosthetics, bears his favorite words: “I've done everything I could, let others do more...” The work of K. M. Sivash – a doctor, a scientist, an engineer – is not lost and forgotten, it is successfully developed by his students and colleagues.

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