Present: Michel Boeckstyns (president), Martin Clementson, Ole Reigstad (treasurer), Kristo Kask, Markus Pääkkönen (secretary).
§1 Start of meeting
Meeting started 7:08 PM. The entire SSSH-board was present.
§2 Agenda
No formal agenda for the meeting.
§2 Report from SSSH Malmö-meeting:
- SSSH-Meeting in Malmö was profitable by 330 e
- Discussion regarding subvention of the travel cost and entrance fee for invited lecturers. Entrance and travel fees are covered for international invitees. Recommendation of the SSSH that invited lecturers are compensated for economy class flights only. National guest lecturers are most often not compensated for travel or accommodation, and neither for the conference fee.
- In the Malmö meeting some lecturers for SSSH Malmö were covered by a grant from a Swedish scientific nonprofit foundation
- Feedback from the Malmö meeting was generally positive
§3 Establishing roles for board members
New board for SSSH 2022-24 is:
- Michel Boeckstyns – president
- Ole Reigstad – treasurer
- Markus Pääkkönen – secretary
- Martin Clementson – member
- Kristo Kask – member
§4 Update for future Copenhagen meeting 2024
The meeting will be held August 15-17th 2024. The venue of the meeting is Panum Institute. Save the date -announcement will be declared in the next SSSH newsletter. Representatives will remind member societies not to organize national meetings during this period. Polish Society will be invited as guest society. The topic of the Moberg lecture is Jin Bo Tang: Flexor tendon repair.
§5 SSSH-webpage/newsletter: The newsletter is important in order to keep SSSH in contact with members. Currently SSSH-newsletters are sent to secretaries of the national societies. Each member will ask for the mailing list of the national society. It was discussed if SSSH has need to create a mailing list. The mailing list would be updated once a year. Discussion regarding the choice of a commercial webmaster for the webpage. Dr. Kask will do market research to find a new webmaster. Board members will ask for recommendations regarding a new webpage.
§6 Member societies.
Iceland and Latvia are encouraged to send a representative to SSSH.
§7 Scientific work
In order to increase publicity links Scandinavian references on papers in hand surgery and new dissertations should be posted in the webpage.
§8 Next newsletter
Board members were invited to send any relevant news or other material to the secretary for the next newsletter.
§9 Grants
Applications for grants will be announced in the newsletter. These will cover clinic-visits. There will be 2 grants of 500 e. Grants can be applied by SSSH members who will visit a clinic in SSSH-member country. Instructions for application will be written. Dr. Clementson will write instructions for grants.
§10 The date for next meeting and conclusion of the meeting
The next board meeting will be March 2023, via Zoom.
The meeting ended 8:00 p.m.