We welcome you to the NOF/DOS Congress 2026 in Copenhagen
Nordic collaboration is needed more than ever – we are all facing the same challenges within our health care systems in a constantly changing world.
We are proud to announce:
- A subspeciality day: an entire day dedicated to each of our Nordic orthopaedic subspecialities
- More than 150 oral presentations and additional poster presentations selected from submitted abstracts
- Educational activities, including hands-on workshops and “Meet-the-expert”-sessions
- NOF/DOS honorary lecturer: Margrethe Vestager, former executive vice-president of the European Commision: “AI and digital solutions for public health-care systems: a Nordic perspective”
- Guildal lecture: Janne Heikkinen, Orthopaedic Surgeon and Chief of Surgery, Centre for Military Medicine, Finland: “Preparing for war casualties in a Nordic perspective”
- National Society Sessions focusing on hot topics from each of the eight NOF countries
- NOF great battle session: “Operative versus non-operative treatment in specific diseases”
- “Clinical guidelines in a Nordic perspective”
- “How do we provide the best education for the next orthopaedic surgeon”
- Acta Orthopaedica sessions: “Ethics in medical writing” and “The perfect study design in orthopedic and traumatological research”
- Young-NOF premeeting with multiple educational sessions and hands-on workshops
- The first general assembly of the Young NOF
Warm regards,
Søren Kold,
President of the Nordic Orthopaedic Federation
Ole Rahbek,
President of the Danish Orthopaedic Society
Christina Frølich Frandsen,
Vice-president, Young Orthopaedic Surgeons, Denmark
January 2nd, 2026
Symposium submission deadline
January 2nd, 2026
Topic submission deadline
April 15th, 2026
Abstract submission deadline