Daniel Saris (Vice President)
 

Daniël Saris (1966) Amsterdam The Netherlands. Graduated University of Amsterdam Medical School in 1992. During orthopedic residency he did a fellowship at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester MN USA under Prof. Shawn O’Driscoll of the Cartilage and Connective Tissue Research Laboratory  and Prof. Kai-Nan An of the orthopaedic biomechanics laboratory.

His PhD  thesis completed in 2002 at the University of Utrecht was titled  “Joint Homeostasis in Tissue Engineering for Cartilage Repair”. It  first introduced the now generally accepted concept of joint  homeostasis.

In 2000 Daniël joined as staff member in the department of  Orthopaedics at the UMC Utrecht. In March of 2010 dr Saris was appointed as Professor of Reconstructive Medicine at the University of Twente. Prof dr Saris is co director of the  Biological Joint Reconstruction research program and head of the  orthopaedic residency program at the University of Utrecht. He describes his goal and driving force as a wish to satisfy natural curiosity into optimizing  the regenerative biological capacity of the musculoskeletal system,  improve treatment and understanding of knee afflictions and to help in  building an international network for ICRS with high potential and  productive group dynamics.