Faculty

Caroline Leclercq
Paris, France

Institut de la Main
21 rue Georges Bizet
75116 Paris, France
Tel 33 (0)1 84 13 04 52
caroline.leclercq_at_institutdelamain.com

Former President of the French Society for Surgery of the Hand.
Member of the French "Académie de Chirurgie"
Honorary member of the British (BSSH) and the Australian Society for Surgery of the Hand
Member of the American (ASSH), Hellenic, and Colombian Societies for Surgery of the Hand
Former Assistant Editor of the European Journal of Hand Surgery

Dr Caroline Leclercq studied medicine in Paris, France, and specialized in hand surgery under the guidance of Professor Raoul Tubiana and Professor Alain Gilbert. Following a travelling fellowship in the United States, she joined the Institut de la Main in Paris.

She has developed experience in the treatment of paralysis of the upper limb, especially in the fields of tetraplegia and spasticity, and is a consultant in 9 neurological rehabilitation centres (both adult and children).

She is the author of 7 books and more than 100 scientific articles and book chapters, and has presented more than 70 oral presentations at National and International Society Meetings. She is heavily involved in post-graduate teaching, both nationally and internationally.

Her main fields of interest, besides paralytic and spastic upper limb, are Dupuytren's disease, sports injuries, and hand tumors.

Graine Colgan
Dublin, Ireland

Ms Colgan, MB BCh BAO BA MCh MRCS FRCS (T&Orth) EBHS is an Orthopaedic Hand & Wrist Surgeon specialising in Spasticity in Dublin, Ireland. She graduated from Trinity College, Dublin in 2000, and now works in Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Cappagh National Orthopaedic Hospital Dublin, and runs a National Adult and Paediatric Spasticity Service in the Central Remedial Clinic, Clontarf, Dublin, and National Rehabilitation Hospital, Dun Laoghaire.

She completed a 1 year interface fellowship in hand and wrist surgery with both Orthopaedic and Plastic Surgeons, in Dublin, and she successfully passed the European Board of Hand Surgery Diploma exam in 2018.

She has spent time in Texas Scottish Rite, Dallas as a visiting hand fellow, and was the Congenital Hand Surgery Fellow in Great Ormond Street Hospital, London 2018-2019. She also trained with Caroline Le Clercq in Institute De La Main, Paris in 2019.

She has a strong research and academic background, and has two higher degrees by research theses (MCh, Trinity College, Ireland & MSc in Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgery, Warwick, UK). She has numerous publications and a book chapter.

She is a member of the Irish Hand Surgery Society, and in addition she is the Head of Orthopaedic Department, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, and the Assistant Director of Training for the Irish National Orthopaedic Higher Surgical Training Programme.

Charlotte Jaloux
Marseille, France

Dr Charlotte Jaloux obtained her medical degree from Marseille University in 2012. She then completed her residency training in Plastic and reconstructive surgery in Marseille (France). Subsequently, she completed subspecialty training at the Institut de la Main in Paris under the guidance of Dr Leclercq. Dr Jaloux is currently an academic reconstructive plastic and hand surgeon in Marseille (France) and has been head of the department of Hand Surgery and Limb reconstruction since 2021. Dr Jaloux is additionally a researcher at the institute of Neurophysiology. She completed her PhD in nerve regeneration in 2022. She is actively involved in the treatment of both adult and children spasticity and related pathology at the Marseille University Hospital as well as in several rehabilitation centres in the region.

Paolo Panciera
Treviso, Italy

Specialist in Orthopedics and Traumatology, Specialist in Hand Surgery, Specialist in Microsurgery

Dr Paolo Panciera studied medicine and specialized in Orthopedics and Traumatology in Padova (Italy). Then he spent a long period in Paris (Institut de la Main-Director Prof. Alain Gilbert), where he got the university Diplomas in Hand Surgery and Microsurgery.

In Verona (Italy) he obtained the master’s degree in Hand Surgery, second level. Since 2014 he is Director of the Hand and Spasticity Surgery Service at the Villa Salus Hospital (Mestre/Venice).

He was the Chairman of the Second International Symposium on surgery of the spastic upper limb (Venice, 2019) and was part of the faculty of the third (Amsterdam 2021-webinar) and of the fourth Symposium (Amsterdam 2022-on site).

He is a permanent member of the Faculty of the Master Class: surgical skills in upper limb spasticity, yearly held in Budapest.

In the 2022 IFSSH/FESSH Congress in London his free paper about spasticity has been selected as one of the Best Papers of the Conference.

He is author of book chapters and scientific articles, and has presented several oral communications at National and International Congresses.

Simon Pickard
Gobowen, UK

I am an Orthopaedic surgeon based at the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital. Trained on the Stoke-Oswestry rotation in the UK and then fellowships in hand surgery at the Pulvertaft Hand Center and Oxford. My day-to-day practice includes general orthopaedic trauma and elective upper limb surgery Within this I have a specific interest in neuro-orthopaedic surgery and bio-engineering. To this end the service involves MDT clinics in UK spinal injuries units covering the North West, Midlands and London, neurorehabilitation clinics covering Stoke on Trent, Wolverhampton, North Wales and Shropshire as well as peripheral nerve injury clinics. The later specifically includes 3D modeling of bony surgery with KLS Martin and 4D modeling of muscle function and surgical manipulation with Keele and Aberdeen Universities and use and development of upper limb exoskeletons as a rehabilitation tool with Liverpool University.

Nadine Sturbois-Nachef
Paris, France

Member of the French Society for Orthopedic and Traumatologic Society (SOFCOT) and of the French Society for Surgery of the Hand (SFCM)
Member of the board of CANOSC (Canadian Advances in Neuro-Othopedics for Spasticity Congress)

Dr Nadine Sturbois-Nachef was raised in the Middle-East, then studied medicine in Montpellier, France. Former Chef de Clinique of the University of Lille, France, she specialized in hand surgery under the guidance of Professor Christian Fontaine. She developed her skills in neuro-orthopaedics at Hopital de Garches (Pr Denormandie) and at the Institut de la Main (Dr Leclercq). She joined the Institut de la Main in Paris in 2021.
She has a Master‘s Degree in Surgical Sciences, and is currently preparing a PHD in Neurosciences.
She is the author of 23 scientific articles and book chapters, and has presented more than 15 oral presentations at National and International Society Meetings.
Besides spasticity of the upper and lower limbs, her main field of interest is the peripheral nerve, and she is involved in teaching both nationally and internationally.