Who are we ?
The GRIBOI association,or Society for Injectable Osteoarticular Biomaterials is a multidisciplinary group of professionals interested in injectable biomaterials.
GRIBOI stands for "Groupe de Recherche Interdisciplinaire sur les Biomatériaux Ostéoarticulaires Injectables", at first a local French organisation led by Dr. Hervé Deramond, pioneer and founder of vertebroplasty.
The first meetings were held in Berck, at the institut Calot, and in Lille at the university hospital, followed by Calais, Lausanne, Toulouse, Shanghai, Baltimore, Oxford, Montréal, Pointe a Pître....
The board members are:
President: M Bohner (Bettlach, Switzerland)
Vice president (Europe): J. Triffitt (Oxford, GB)
Vice president (Asia): K. Dai (Shanghai, China)
Vice president (America): S. Belkoff (Baltimore, USA)
Secretary: G. Baroud (Sherbrooke, Canada)
Treasurer: To be anounced in turin
Webmaster: P. Sharrock (Castres, France)
Local organizer: G. Anselmetti (Turin, Italy)
The scientific committee is presented here:
S. Becker (Vienna, Austria)
E. Bres (Lille, France)
C. Combes (Toulouse, France)
H. Deramond (Martinique, France)
P. Hardouin (Berck, France)
J. Lemaître (Lausanne, Switzerland)
M. Liebschner (Houston, USA)
G. Maestretti (Fribourg, Switzerland)
F. McKiernan (Marschfield, USA)
M. Nilsson (Lund, Sweden)
P. Weiss (Nantes, France)
R. Wilcox (Leeds, UK)
