EVENT
UPCOMING MEETING
EVENT
The 53rd Annual Meeting of the Japan Shoulder Society
- Period
- October 30(Fri.) - 31(Sat.), 2026 (planning)
- Venue
- KUMAMOTO（KUMAMOTO-JO HALL）
3-40, Sakuramachi, Chuo-ku, Kumamoto-city, Kumamoto, 860-0805, Japan
- President
- Toshio KITAMURA（Kumamoto Orthopaedic Hospital）
- In conjunction with
- The 23rd Annual Meeting of the Japanese Society of Shoulder Function Research
President, Japan Shoulder Society
Shinji Imai, MD
(Dept. of Orthop. Surg., Shiga Univ. of Medical Science)
I am Imai from the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Shiga University of Medical Science, and I was appointed as President of the Japan Shoulder Society in October 2024. Since the Japan Shoulder Society became a general incorporated association in 2014, I was appointed as the sixth president after the first president Eiji Itoi, the second president Kazuya Tamai, the third president Yozo Shibata, the fourth president Hiroyasu Ikegami, and the fifth president Hiroyuki Sugaya. In 2024, the Japan Shoulder Society celebrates its 50th anniversary, marking it as the world's oldest association of shoulder surgeons. To commemorate this milestone, the 50th-anniversary journal has been published. I am deeply honored and humbled to contribute to the legacy of such a historically significant Society.