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Hans-Christoph Pape, MD, FACS, is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Trauma Surgery at University Hospital Zurich, Switzerland. He was previously Professor and Chairman of Trauma and Reconstructive Surgery at the Medical Center Aachen, Germany (2009-17), Division Chief of Traumatology in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, USA (2005-9), and Full Professor of Trauma Surgery at Hanover Medical School, Germany (2000-5). He has received a number of awards, including the Dieffenbach Award from the German Society of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery (2017) and the 2015 best book award from the British Medical Society. Dr. Pape is Editor in Chief of Open Access Emergency Medicine, a section editor for Injury and the European Journal of Trauma, and an editorial board member for several more journals. He has authored or edited a number of books, including The Poly-Traumatized Patient with Fractures (Springer; co-editors R. Sanders and J. Borrelli, 2nd edition 2015), and has been lead author of 93 journal papers in peer-reviewed journals and a co-author of a further 370.



Stephen Lloyd Kates, MD, is Professor (with tenure) and Chair of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, USA. He is also Associate Director of the Center for Musculoskeletal Research at the University of Rochester. Dr. Kates graduated from Northwestern University, Chicago, in 1984 and then completed residencies in Surgery and Orthopaedics at Northwestern University and University of Rochester, respectively. He is board certified by the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery. Prior to taking up his present position in 2015, he was a Professor at the University of Rochester. Dr. Kates was Founding President of the International Geriatric Fracture Society (2012-3). He is Editor in Chief of Geriatric Orthopaedic Surgery & Rehabilitation and acts as a reviewer for many other journals. He is the