Cluj-Napoca
Horea Benea, MD, PhD, is Associated Professor at “Iuliu Hatieganu” University of Medicine and Pharmacy from Cluj-Napoca, Romania. With more than 10 years of experience as specialist orthopedic surgeon, he is the Head of Orthopedics and Traumatology University Clinic Cluj-Napoca, a renowned public service of 110 beds, 10 specialist surgeons and 30 residents. He is the fellow of the dear departed Professor Philippe Hardy, who taught him shoulder arthroscopy in 2010-2011, in Paris, France, and of Professor Giuseppe Milano, former ESA President, who helped him perfect his practice during a fellowship in 2015 in Rome, Italy. He is an Arthroscopy DIU graduate in France, promotion 2010-2011. He is an active member of ESA Communication Workgroup for almost 6 years and founding member of Romanian Arthroscopy Society SRATS. His public and private clinical activity is focused on shoulder surgery – arthroscopy, prosthetic replacement and trauma, but he is also fond of knee, hip and ankle surgery and general orthopedic trauma. His scientific activity resulted in more than 30 ISI papers published, 10 research projects, 25 invited lectures and 50 podium or poster presentations at international events, with a special interest on cartilage and bone regeneration and implant osseointegration. The most important awards received are the ESSKA-ON Foundation Partnership Award: Best Abstract In Orthoregeneration for ESSKA 2020 Congress and the Young Researcher Prize for Surgical Sciences from UMF Cluj-Napoca in 2013. He is the organizer of an annual Hands-on Course of Knee Arthroscopy Initiation in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
