Samo K. Fokter
Associate Professor
Maribor University Medical Center
Slovenia
Biography
Samo K. Fokter, MD, PhD is a Board certified consultant orthopaedic surgeon at the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery of Maribor University Clinical Centre. As the Associate Professor at University of Maribor School of Medicine, he was additionally trained in Austria, Switzerland, Germany, France, and Finland. He is current President of the Expert Council for Orthopaedics at Slovenian Medical Association and dedicates a large part of his free time to voluntary work in Mountain Rescue Service of Slovenia. His bibliography contains over 260 units, among them scientific and professional articles, published in high-quality international medical journals. He is a Founding member of Slovenian Spine Society, Honorary member of Club Italiano dell’ Osteosintesi (CIO), and Chairperson of AOSpine Society. He serves as Deputy Editor of Springer’s European Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology (EJOST), and Editorial Board member of Zdravniski Vestnik, the central Slovenian medical journal.
Research Interest
Orthopedic surgery, Arthroplasty