International Cartilage Repair Society

Committees

New Committee Structures

Prepared by the Committee on Committees: Ken Zaslav (Chair),

Members: Wayne Gersoff, Deepak Goyal, Lisa Fortier

Election Section: Prepared by Anthony Hollander, Susan Chubinskaya
April 15, 2010

The following Report represents all approved changes to The Committee Structure of the ICRS as approved by General Board March 2010.

1) According to the By Laws, new committees can be formed by the General Board to function now through the Scientific Meeting Sitges/Barcelona. All current committee members in existing committees would stay on until the next annual meeting in Sitges/Barcelona. New Committee members for all standing committees will be selected using the guidelines below for the Sitges/Barcelona Congress.

2) Committees shall strive to have equal representation of clinicians and scientists.

3) Beginning in Sitges/Barcelona and according to our actual bylaws, the General Board shall be composed of the President, the Vice President, Secretary-General, the Treasurer and the Past President (these 5 positions also forming the Executive Board), the Chairperson of each Standing Committee, the Chairperson of the Editorial Board and the upcoming Meeting Chairperson.

4) New charters have been written to specify duties and obligations of each committee so each committee member knows what exactly is in their purview.

5) Committees shall have in their Charter the need to submit a written report to the General Board two times between the International ICRS Congress meetings. The first report will be due 6 months after the Congress meeting or selection of the committee members, whichever occurs last. Committee Chairs will submit a written report to the Executive Committee to show a work plan for the coming year and a three year plan. A second presentation will be made 6 months before the next Congress so the Executive committee can review what has been done and have responses ready for the General Board meeting. Each standing committee Chair will make a 2-3 minute report at the General Board and General Membership Meetings to inform on committee progress, projects and achievements. This will keep all General Membership informed of committee decisions and let the General Membership see these committee leaders in action.

6) Standing Committees will be defined as follows:

A. The following existing committees will remain as Standing Committees:

1- Finance Committee

2- Membership and By Laws Committee

3- Scientific Programme Committee

          4- Education and Meetings Committee.
                (incl. Subcommittee on Developing Regions)
          5- Communication and Publication Committee

B. The following New Standing Committees have been formed:

1- Regulatory and Industry Liaison Committee

2- Emeritus Committee: i.e. Committee of Past Presidents

3- Fellowship, Scholarship and Research Grant Committee

Election Procedures

7) Working Groups:

A. Working groups (non-standing committees) can be formed by the General or Executive Board to advise on certain issues of scientific, clinical, or administrative concern to the Society. Interested members wanting to start a working group can petition for such a group to be formed and all interested General Members will be able to serve if they so desire. These committees will be formed with a specified mission and time period and will report their suggestions, and/or findings to the Executive committee annually. The By Laws already provide for these groups as follows:

Ad-hoc Committees or Working Groups

Committees, not authorized as standing committees, are called ad-hoc committees or working groups. The intention of ad-hoc committees or working groups is to identify a problem, gather information, discuss this within the group and summarize their findings in a report that is available to all members, present the report if agreed by the executive board at the next general meeting. Working groups or ad hoc committees may be initiated in two ways:

1. by the General Board or the Executive Board.

2. By any member of the society who can identify a relevant issue and gather support of at least 2 Members of the General Board. Such a proposal can be ratified electronically by a majority of the General Board.

The General Board and all members are committed to helping these working groups in any way.

In the past, such successful working groups have contributed to the Society’s knowledge about Histology, Rehabilitation after Cartilage Injury and Repair, Cartilage Imaging and Committee Structure.

The members of these previous Working Groups are hereby thanked for their excellent contributions and work however, as all have completed their original mission and none are currently active, all will be disbanded and new groups can be formed by Petition by any member.

B. YSOS: This working group is made up of former Cartilage Fellowship and Scholarship winners from throughout the world and has been active in all past Congresses and several interim meetings. We suggest that since it is an exclusive club, and not open to all, it should remain an Affiliated Club just like the other National Cartilage Clubs in India, South America etc. In this way it will maintain a close affiliation while not being a standing committee. Since we want to continue to foster new ideas and growth among young scientists and surgeons, this group should have 1 ex officio spot on Education/Meetings committee and 1 on the Membership committee. These ex officio members will be elected by the YSOS members and serve at the pleasure of the YSOS members as ex officio committee members of these ICRS committees.

8) The following current Standing Committee Members will stay in place until the Sitges/ Barcelona meeting as per the By-Laws.

Education: Stephan Nehrer / Christoph Erggelet / Alberto Gobi / Tom Minas

Meeting Committee: Mats Brittberg / Christoph Erggelet / Simon Gortz / Konrad Slynarski

Scientific Program Committee: Bruce Caterson / Christoph Ergelet / Michael Buschmann, Alberto Gobbi, Jos Malda, Kai Mithoefer, Norimasa Nakamura

Finance Committee: Brian Cole / Christoph Erggelet / Lisa Fortier / Susan Chubanskaya / Stephan Nehrer / Bert Mandelbaum

Communications Committee: Mislav Jelic / Gerjo Van Osch / Peter Verdonk

Membership Committee: Stefan Marlovits / Rodrigo Mardones

9) The following Interim Committee Members have been selected to serve on the newly formed standing committees until they are reconfirmed by the General membership in Barcelona.

Regulatory and Industry Liaison Committee:
Interim Chair, Ken Zaslav

Members: Leanna Caron, Bert Mandelbaum, Jack Farr, Michael Buschmann, Daniel Saris.

Emeritus Committee:
Interim Chair: Lars Petersen

Members: All Past ICRS Presidents (except the immediate Past president who is still serving on the Executive Committee)

Fellowship, Scholarship and Research Grant Committee:
Interim Chair: Elizaveta Kon

Members: Constance Chu, Andreas Gomol, Peter Verdonk, Roland De Angelis (Genzyme), Karel Fol (Tigenix), Henning Madry ( ex officio)

Meeting Committee Sub. Comm. on Developing Regions:
Interim Chair, Deepak Goyal

Election Procedures

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