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ISHA – The Hip Preservation Society is delighted to announce that it has selected the city of Fukuoka, Japan as the location of its 17th Annual Scientific Meeting. Taking place at Fukuoka International Congress Center on 2nd to 4th October 2025, the Meeting will bring together worldwide arthroscopic and open hip surgeons, sports physicians and rehabilitation professionals to present and exchange their knowledge, best practice and important results from their research. The 2025 Annual Scientific Meeting marks ISHA’s first in-person congress in the Asia-Pacific region since its 2018 Meeting in Melbourne, Australia, and will be the first Annual Scientific Meeting to take place in East Asia. 

Local Host Chair Dr Soshi Uchida MD PhD, an internationally renowned orthopaedic sports medicine surgeon based at Wakamatsu Hospital of the University of Occupational and Environmental Health in nearby Kitakyushu, said of the announcement: “It is my great honour and privilege to welcome friends, colleagues and all of the hip preservation community to Fukuoka City, which is a gateway to the world, especially the rest of Asia.”

In keeping with ISHA’s mission to lead the way in education and research around preservation of the hip, the 2025 Annual Scientific Meeting will showcase the latest research, technology and expertise in orthopaedic surgery and sports medicine, and will be accompanied by a dedicated Physiotherapy Programme and meeting of the Japanese Arthroscopy Society. It is intended that, as well as allowing ISHA’s international audience to tap into specialist local expertise, the 2025 Annual Scientific Meeting will allow the Society to continue to spread awareness and knowledge of hip preservation, to the benefit of patients across the Asia-Pacific region. Surgeons, trainees, researchers, physiotherapists and allied health professionals from around the world are invited to submit their abstracts from January 2025.

For more information please visit the official event page.