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Dr Gojanovic is a sports and exercise physician from Lausanne. He has worked at Macolin (Swiss Federal Office for Sport) and Stanford University. Currently he heads health and performance at Hôpital de La Tour’s Swiss Olympic medical center in Geneva. 

He is the president of Sport & Exercise Medicine Switzerland (SEMS), and the editor-in-chief of SEMS journal (www.sems-journal.ch). 

The daily clinical work with patients and athletes fuels his motivation and drive for impactful change in the health and wellbeing of people and athletes alike.

He aims to contribute to the growth of SEM as an essential part of the healthcare system. This includes the increase of the awareness about the role of healthy lifestyles and overall fitness for prevention of sports-related conditions and chronic diseases alike. 

Dr Gojanovic is also an advocate for safe sport and is involved in the development of safeguarding strategies in Swiss sports.

A few links for Dr Gojanovic

• Health for Performance, what does it mean: https://sems-journal.ch/8021
• Social media: X @DrSportSante, LinkedIn: Boris Gojanovic, MD
• Podcast featured:
  • BJSM: on youth athletes, « Secrets for clinicians for elite and recreational youth athletes ».
  • Objectif Performance (in French): « Pas de performance sans santé »:
  • The Physical Activity Researcher : « How medical doctors can use activity trackers? »
  • The Scott Poynton podcast.
• Publications : Pubmed link.

Jacques Menetrey has studied medicine at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. He completed his orthopaedic training at the University Hospital of Geneva and achieved a Sports Medicine Fellowship and Research Fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. He wrote his medical thesis about “Musculoskeletal injuries in professionnal dancing” in 1995, and his privat docent thesis about “How to Improve muscle healing” in 2004, both successfully presented at the University of Geneva, Switzerland.
Jacques Menetrey is Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University Hospital of Geneva and acted as the head of the Orthopaedic Sports Medicine Unit from 2003 to 2016. He is currently the Medical Director of the Swiss Olympic Medical Center at Hirslanden Clinique La Colline in Geneva Switzerland from 2016. His main area of clinical activity is orthopaedic sports medicine focusing upon knee and muscle surgery, as well as primary knee replacement surgery. He is also the medical director of the professional ice hockey team GSHC, and has been the medical director of Alpine Skiing at the Youth Olympic Games Lausanne 2020, Doctor for the Swiss Alpine Ski Team, former medical director of the Cycling World Pro Team IAM cycling, of the Geneva Supercross, the Béjart ballet and Geneva ballet. Jacques has been the head of the Geneva basic and advanced knee arthroscopy course for more than 20 years now.
He has received more than 20 national and international awards. Jacques was AOSSM-ESSKA traveling fellow in 1999.
His research has focused upon regenerative medicine, cell therapy, and tissue engineering applied to muscle, ligament and cartilage. His clinical research has focused upon meniscal and ACL injury, as well as muscle injury. Pr Menetrey is also editorial board member and reviewer
of several national and international scientific journals in orthopaedic surgery and sports medicine, and the editor of the yearly Sports Medicine issue of the Revue Medicale Suisse. He authored and co-authored numerous peer-reviewed publications and book chapters. He notably co-edited the bestseller: “The Knee Joint: Surgical Techniques and Strategies”.
He is currently the Past-President of ESSKA.
Jacques is married with his wife Isabelle and has two brilliant sons working as environmental scientist and as airplane pilot. He enjoys being in the mountain to perform alpine skiing, ski touring, biking, and hiking. He loves living arts (Theatre, dance, concert, circus).