EFSMA

19/10/2026

Over the years EFSMA and FIMS - International Federation of Sports Medicine supporting and partnering with MEDICA-TradeFair so the countdown is on! We will be there. What about you ?

In just four weeks, the international sports medicine and sports science community will come together in Düsseldorf for two days packed with cutting-edge insights, groundbreaking innovations and inspiring discussions at the 14th MEDICA MEDICINE + SPORTS CONFERENCE, on November 18th and 19th.

From brain health and longevity to AI-powered performance monitoring and the latest game-changing technologies, discover ideas, research and solutions shaping the future of sports and health. Ready to explore what’s next in sports medicine? Here’s what awaits you this November at the 14th MEDICA MEDICINE + SPORTS CONFERENCE:

The following topics are on the agenda of the two-day conference:

Brain health – Optimizing cognition in elite sports and healthy brain ageing
Longevity boosters – Deep-diving into the world of nutrition and supplements
Exercise is Medicine – Implementing international best practice
The obesity epidemic – Understanding and addressing challenges
Peak performance – Transforming elite athlete performance monitoring with AI, technology and interdisciplinary approaches
Game changers – New and upcoming solutions for sports and health
Speakers among others: ESA astronaut Dr. Matthias Maurer (How astronauts train for space missions), Prof. Dr. Thorben Hülsdünker (Train your brain and make it fast), Prof. Dr. Yannis Pitsiladis (The role of technology to support prevention), Dr. med. Percy Marshall (From data to decisions - Integrated performance medicine in premier league football), Prof. Dr. med. Mats Börjesson (The Gothenburg physical activity on prescription study), Prof. Dr. med. Jürgen Steinacker (The Global Alliance for the Promotion of Physical Activity), Prof. Dr. Nadja Schott (Motor-cognitive performance as a window into brain health in older adults), Dr. med. Lutz Graumann (What works, what doesn't - and who paid for it? A clinician's filter for the supplement gold rush), Prof. Dr. med. Stefan Isenmann (Sports and exercise for the prevention of neurovascular and neurodegenerative diseases), Prof. Dr. Dr. Christine Joisten (Preventing obesity - A public health challenge), Dr. med. Kerstin Holze (Loneliness as a health risk - Club sports as a way out of loneliness) and Dr. med. Jens Hinder (Performance and sports medicine in professional cycling).

Learn more about program highlights here.
The conference is accredited with 10 CME points by the North Rhine Medical Chamber.

Get your ticket 🎫👇🏼
https://www.medica-tradefair.com/ticketshop2

The congress ticket also gives you access to the MEDICA exhibition area with approx. 5,000 exhibitors. This also includes the MEDICA SPORTS HUB.

THIS YEAR’S SPECIALS:

6th annual INTERNATIONAL SPORTS PHARMACY SYMPOSIUM, November 16.
One full day event focused on developments in pharmacological support for athletes and safe medication use in sports.

61st WT Wearable Technologies Conference EUROPE, November 16-17.
Two days of conference sessions featuring leading international experts and innovators from the wearable technology sector. Key topics include Precision Diagnostics, Smart Wound Care, the Use of AI, From Pre-Op to Recovery, and Longevity.

The MEDICA SPORTS HUB - interactive activity area, where visitors can test innovative sports and health equipment for themselves and exchange ideas with international stakeholders and exhibitors from the field. Practical presentations on the MEDICA SPORTS HUB STAGE round out the program, combining knowledge with real-world applications.

Get your ticket now: https://www.medica-tradefair.com/ticketshop2

See you in Düsseldorf!

18/10/2026

14/10/2026

So glad to see our partners and members of our committee being active in their national sports medicine community!
Congratulations, Dr Kirill Micallef Stafrace and RehabX

Thank you for your outstanding leadership and commitment to advancing sports medicine locally in and globally! We are incredibly proud to have you on our team and look forward to your continued impact!
See you in Rome for the Executive Committee Meeting!

14/10/2026

Once again Congratulations to the newly elected FIMS - International Federation of Sports Medicine executive committee board and committees chair under the leadership of Professor Pigozzi who has been re elected President and special congratulations to our EFSMA fellows our President Maurizio Casasco our Sec General Sandra Rozenštoka,
Prof Pedro Manonelles Marqueta & Prof Bülent Ülkar ! Prof. Yannis Pitsiladis was appointed as a chair of scientific committee! Congratulations for your election success 🙏🏻

FIMS Council of Delegates Re-Elects Fabio Pigozzi as President and Elects the 2026–2030 Executive Committee

On 25 September 2026, the FIMS Council of Delegates met during the ###IX FIMS World Congress of Sports Medicine in Santiago, Chile, and elected the Executive Committee for 2026–2030.
Prof. Fabio Pigozzi (Italy), Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Rome “Foro Italico”, was unanimously re-elected President, while Prof. José Kawazoe Lazzoli (Brazil) was unanimously re-elected Secretary General.

Vice Presidents elected were Prof. Sandra Rozenstoka (Latvia), 1st; Dr Ana Virginia Cintrón-Rodríguez (Puerto Rico), 2nd; Prof. Maher Zahar (Tunisia), 3rd; and Prof. Patrick Yung Shu Hang (Hong Kong, China), 4th. Rafael Augusto Robles Cabrera (Guatemala) was elected Treasurer.

Executive Committee members, in order of votes received, are Prof. Bülent Ülkar (Türkiye), Prof. Mark Hutchinson (USA), Prof. Pedro Manonelles Marqueta (Spain), Prof. Günther Neumayr (Austria), Prof. Xia Zhang (China), Dr Andrea Mattiozzi (Uruguay), Dr Andrew Jowett (Australia) and Dr Khaled Massoud Hassan Hussein (Egypt).
Prof. Eduardo Enrique De Rose (Brazil) continues as Honorary President for Life.

Commission Chairs appointed as ex officio Executive Committee members are Prof. Yannis Pitsiladis, Prof. Dimitri Constantinou, Dr Christian Schneider and Prof. Maurizio Casasco.

Full election details on the FIMS website
https://www.fims.org/news-events/news/fabio-pigozzi-re-elected-fims-president/

14/10/2026

‘Rethinking ‘science-based’ policy in sport: complexity, evidence and the limits of reductionism’

Congratulations to our board members
Our President Maurizio Casasco our chair of science Professor Yannis Pitsiladis and our Sec General Sandra Rozenštoka for the new publication initiated by FIMS - International Federation of Sports Medicine and its President Professor Fabio Pigozzi !

What does it actually mean to call an eligibility policy "science-based"?

Let us move beyond polemics and generate rigorous, independent, population-specific and sport-specific evidence-wherever it leads.

Science must determine the conclusion, not be asked to justify one already chosen.

Here is your open access link to read !

🔗 https://doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2026-112025

29/09/2026

A gene is not a performance test.
Our new paper has just been published in Frontiers: "Integrated Physiological and Performance Profiling of an Elite Athlete with Differences of S*x Development."

Hot pressed just published !
Congratulations to our chair of science Professor our Secretary General Sandra Rozenštoka and the entire team

https://Inkd.in/eAWiqRWS

28/09/2026

Congratulations Prof Pigozzi !
From the President of EFSMA to the re elected president of FIMS - International Federation of Sports Medicine !

Medicina dello sport, confermato nel board della federazione mondiale

'Orgoglioso di questo risultato, con Pigozzi organizzazione sempre più accreditata'

Il presidente della Federazione italiana e di quella Europea di medicina dello sport, Maurizio Casasco, è stato riconfermato a Santiago del Cile, nel corso della riunione dei delegati internazionali, membro dell’esecutivo della Federazione mondiale, guidata – per il quarto mandato consecutivo – da un altro italiano, il prof.Fabio Pigozzi.

“Sono molto orgoglioso di questo risultato - ha dichiarato Casasco -. E voglio soprattutto complimentarmi con il prof. Pigozzi, a cui mi lega una profonda amicizia, perché con il suo lavoro ha saputo trasformare la FIMS (120 i paesi aderenti in tutto il mondo) in un’organizzazione sempre più accreditata a livello internazionale.

Ed è un importante riconoscimento per la medicina dello sport italiana - ha continuato Casasco, che è anche deputato di FI -. In Italia è nata nel 1957, prima nel mondo, la scuola di specializzazione in medicina dello sport. E il nostro Paese è stato anche il capofila nel complesso iter che ha portato al recente riconoscimento della specialità a livello europeo”.

28/09/2026

And after a very successful world conference It s a time for congratulations!

We warmly congratulate the newly elected FIMS - International Federation of Sports Medicine Council of Delegates

Professor Fabio Pigozzi was re- elected as a President and there are new member at 2026-2030 Executive Committee

Santiago, Chile, 25 September 2026

On 25 September 2026, in Santiago, Chile, the FIMS Council of Delegates convened during the ###IX FIMS World Congress of Sports Medicine and elected the new Executive Committee for the 2026-2030 term.

Prof. Fabio Pigozzi (Italy), Professor of Internal Medicine at the University of Rome "Foro Italico", was unanimously re-elected as President.

Prof. José Kawazoe Lazzoli (Brazil) was also unanimously re-elected as Secretary General.

The elected Vice Presidents are:

1st Vice President: Prof. Sandra Rozenštoka (Latvia)
2nd Vice President: Dr Ana Virginis Cintrón-Rodríguez (Puerto Rico)
3rd Vice President: Prof. Maher Zahar (Tunisia)
4th Vice President: Prof. Patrick Yung Shu Hang (Hong Kong, China)

Rafael Augusto Robles Cabrera (Guatemala) was elected Treasurer.

The elected Members of the Executive Committee, listed in order of votes received, are:

Prof. Bülent Ülkar (Türkiye)
Prof. Mark Hutchinson (USA)
Prof. Pedro Manonelles Marqueta
(Spain)
Prof. Günther Neumayr (Austria)
Prof. Xia Zhang (China)
Dr Andrea Mattiozzi (Uruguay)
Dr Andrew Jowett (Australia)
Dr Khaled Massoud Hassan Hussein (Egypt)

Prof. Eduardo Enrique De Rose (Brazil) continues to serve on the Executive Committee as Honorary President for Life.

During its first meeting, the newly elected Executive Committee appointed the Chairs of the FIMS Commissions, who serve as ex officio members of the Executive Committee:

Prof. Yannis Pitsiladis (Hong Kong, China), Chair of the Scientific Commission
Prof. Dimitri Constantinou (South Africa), Chair of the Education Commission
Dr Christian Schneider (Germany), Chair of the Interfederal Commission
and our president Prof Maurizio Casasco (Italy), Chair of the Development Commission.

Congratulations to all and special wishes to European board members ! So proud of you !

27/09/2026

Day 1 FIMS - International Federation of Sports Medicine world congress Santiago 🇨🇱 !

Message from the Scientific Committee chair Professor Yannis Pitsiladis

From FIMS governance to packed scientific sessions; from athlete health to exercise medicine; from established leaders to the next generation; and from centuries-old observations to artificial intelligence — this is the breadth of modern sports medicine.
And most importantly, people were talking, questioning, participating, challenging each other and enjoying being together again as one international community.

One world. One international sports medicine community.

27/09/2026

DAY 2 IN SANTIAGO - BIG QUESTIONS, BRAVE CONVERSATIONS

Another post- reflections from the president of the scientific committee FIMS - International Federation of Sports Medicine Prof Yannis Pitsiladis

Another extraordinary day at the 39th
FIMS World Congress of Sports Medicine - although for me it has involved plenty of running between scientific sessions, meetings and FIMS responsibilities!
What I have managed to experience has been exceptional.

The day began with our FIMS President, Prof. Fabio Pigozzi, delivering an important message on The Olympic Health Legacy. The legacy of sport cannot simply be medals and performances. It must also mean healthier, more active and longer lives.
Then came one of the sessions I had most been looking forward to: s*x, gender and eligibility in sport.

Dr Madeleine Pape, OLY gave a courageous and thought-provoking presentation on SRY gene screening in women's sport, challenging sports medicine to examine the evidence, ethics, athlete consequences and our professional responsibilities.

And I was particularly proud to listen to Dr Blair Hamilton
I had the privilege of being involved in Blair's PhD journey at the University of Brighton, and watching her deliver such an inspiring, scientifically grounded and deeply human contribution today was very special.
Blair reminded us that behind every policy, eligibility rule and scientific argument are real athletes and real lives. We do not have to agree on every aspect of these difficult questions, but we must listen, challenge assumptions, generate better evidence and treat one another with respect.

Then I was running again!

The afternoon brought another major
FIMS Special Session, which I had the privilege of co-chairing with President Pigozzi: The Future of Anti-Doping:
Science, Detection and Sports Justice.
Prof. Olivier Rabin presented WADA's vision for the future of science and innovation, from emerging technologies and new substances to the continuing evolution of anti-doping science.
Prof. Michael Geistlinger brought the equally essential perspective of sports justice, law and athletes' rights.
Together they raised fundamental questions: What can science detect?
What should sport regulate? What constitutes sufficient evidence? And how do we protect clean sport while protecting the individual athlete?
And then another part of FIMS: the Council of Delegates, bringing together our national sports medicine associations to discuss the governance, priorities and future of our Federation.
A World Congress is not only where we present science — it is where an international community decides how we turn science into action.
And Day 2 is still not finished!




new substances to the continuing evolution of anti-doping science.
Prof. Michael Geistlinger brought the equally essential perspective of sports justice, law and athletes' rights.
Together they raised fundamental questions: What can science detect?
What should sport regulate? What constitutes sufficient evidence? And how do we protect clean sport while protecting the individual athlete?
And then another part of FIMS: the Council of Delegates, bringing together our national sports medicine associations to discuss the governance, priorities and future of our Federation.

A World Congress is not only where we present science — it is where an international community decides how we turn science into action.