2026 ANNUAL CONFERENCE

The 31st annual ANZORS (Australian & New Zealand Orthopaedic Research Society) conference will be held from 5 to 7 December 2026 at Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia. 

Professor Hanna Isaksson is Professor of Biomechanics at the Department of Biomedical Engineering, Lund University, Sweden, where she leads the Biomechanics research group and serves as vice-head of MathKOA. Her expertise is in musculoskeletal tissue mechanics, using methods from material science and solid mechanics to address research questions of relevance to orthopaedics, focusing on understanding how tissue structure, composition and mechanical function are related in health and disease through both experimental tissue characterisation and advanced computational modelling.

Professor Hicham Drissi is Professor of Orthopaedics and Professor of Cell Biology at Emory University School of Medicine, where he serves as Vice Chair for Research in the Department of Orthopaedics and as Director of the Emory Musculoskeletal Research Center. He is also a Research Scientist at the Atlanta VA Medical Center and site director for the VA CReATE Motion Center. He holds a Ph.D. from Paris Descartes University. Professor Drissi’s research focuses on defining the cellular and molecular pathways that govern skeletal tissue development and repair, with direct translational applications to orthopaedic problems ranging from osteoarthritis to skeletal dysplasia and fracture healing. 

Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at the Australian National University and Director of the Trauma and Orthopaedic Research Unit at the Canberra Hospital and the John Curtin School of Medical Research,

Professor Smith’s main areas of clinical interest include hip and knee replacement surgery, knee reconstruction, joint preservation surgery of the hip and knee, and complex revision joint replacement surgery. Prof Smith is the current Director of the Australian Orthopaedic Association National Joint Replacement Registry and former chair of the Australian Orthopaedic Association (ACT Branch),