CAMSUP

Le coin des fellows

ou "POST GRADUATE STUDENTS"

Depuis 2021, le Centre Alpin de la Main et du Membre supérieur propose un fellowship.

Initiated in 2021, the fellowship program proposed by the Alpine Hand and Upper extremity Surgery offers opportunities to trained orthopaedic or plastic surgeon to specialize in specific fields.
The 6 senior surgeons are all members of scientific societies such as French hand society (GEM- SFCM), arthroscopic French society.
Two have the European hand diploma of the FESSH wich allows the group to integrate the FESUM (fédération des Services Urgences Main) and to be a referal center for hand traumas.

Dr Alastair FAULKNER (from Glasgow - UK)

Dr Alastair FAULKNER joined us for a short period of three months, from august to october 2025. He is from UK, south of London, and graduated in Scotland. He was oﬀered a position of hand and upper limb surgeon near Glasgow, starting in november , reason why his fellowship lasted only three months. He made the most of it, assisting for a high number of variions surgeries. He was particularly interested in Trapezo metacarpal and total wrist prosthesis and had the opportunitie to have extensive training at KeriMedical lab. He acquired skills in shoulder field, trauma and also arthroscopy and prosthesis. He equally made the most of his free time. As an epicurian, he tried all the best restaurant of the area. « More than us who have been living here for years and years » as said the operating theater staﬀ. He was appreciated for his so polite and so british attitude enhanced by his artistic personality. Yes Alastair is a true artist and we permit us to paste under there a link for his website.

Dr Benjamin TREFFENE (from Brisbane- Australia)

Benjamin is interested in all upper limb surgery as he will start his practice within this exact field as he returns to Brisbane. Particularly with Trapezo metacarpal prosthesis. He went to a course in Keri’s Company anat lab shortly after arriving. He is also very interested with shoulder prosthesis. He was keen to see navigation with exactech. He assisted a meeting with Blueortho in Grenoble and exactech in Bordeaux , did participate to Efort meeting in Lyon and Fessh meeting in Helsinki, making the most of being closeby to attend these exciting conferences. He came with his Lovely family , his wife Amy and two little kids, Mathilda and Ruben. They did enjoy skiing and riding their bikes. He immediately integrated himself with all Medipôle de savoie’s team thanks to his friendly and respectfull behavior and forced our respect riding Mont Ventoux and col de L’iseran in a row.

Dr Larisa ZAHAN

Novembre 2021 – Mai 2022
Larisa came from in Romania.
Before joining us , she was Resident in the orthopaedic unit of Thonon les Bains Hospital.
She is an enthousiastic surgeon, most interested in hand surgery We can guess that she enjoyed her fellowship, in operating theater as in sharing good time with the whole team.

Dr Angelo MOSCA

Mai 2023 – octobre 2023

Angelo joined the team in mai 2023, just after a 6 months period in Universitary hospital of Grenoble , pediatric surgery unit Pr aurelien
Angelo graduated in Milano -Italy
He has special interest in sport injuries and shoulder surgery. But enjoys also to take in charge all types of upper limb traumas.

He is actually leading a research work on humeral hemiarthroplasties with more than 10 years followup. Also fantastic tiramisu cooker, strong coffees addict and supposed to be a carbonara pastas maestro we’ll see.

Docteur Carmen ION

Docteur Carmen ION has spent 6 months with us, starting in june 2024.

She graduated in Romania and just arrived from Martinique.
She has spécial interest in pediatric Surgery
Among shoulder prosthesis and rotator cuff arthroscopic repairs, not very exciting for her , she assisted to pediatric trauma surgeries.

Unfortunately, Camsup is not the referral center for congenital hands with Grenoble and Lyon University hospitals close by.
However she enjoyed to be part of the team and participated enthusiasticly to long days in operating theatre or Daily clinics.
She left our unit for a position as assistant in paediatric surgery in Reims.

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