Prof. Mayer's legacy is bound to be continued in China

10月25日至28日德国骨科和创伤外科学会（DKOU）年会在德国柏林国际会展中心盛大开幕。这是欧洲大陆最大规模的骨科全球盛会。全球60多个国家上万名骨科医生参加了这一国际盛会。世界微创脊柱大师Prof.Mayer在德国骨科与创伤外科学会年会的主席晚宴被正式授予了金色荣誉徽章。大会为了表彰Mayer大师的终身成就以及他对骨科事业所作出的全球贡献。当天晚宴上，德国骨科与创伤外科学会前主席Prof.Siebert也非常高兴曾通过Mayer大师的特别推荐在2019年两次来到中国为东莞市人民医院和佛山市第一人民医院关节外科开展国际客座教授的工作。这是非常特别而有意义的工作。Mayer大师在上世纪80年代在德国开展了第一台微创脊柱手术，1997年开发了革命性的OLIF技术。1998年接手慕尼黑大学附属骨科医院并将其私有化，任创始院长，率先在德国创立了大骨科分科体系，首次把运动医学细分到了脊柱领域。2006年合并了德国脊柱外科学会及脊柱研究学会，改名为德国脊柱学会并任创始主席，同年任欧洲脊柱学会主席。2007年国际足联卓越医疗中心落地在他的医院。2016年他开启了大师中国行。他帮助中国三甲医院的医院管理、学科建设、人才培养。成为国际化诊疗标准在中国的传导者。让千千万万中国骨科医生成为更好的自已。他首次在中国提出了：医疗必须要全球思考，这是国家使命。从慕尼黑到广州。中国一定可以再一次续写他的传奇。

DKOU 2022 - German Congress of Orthopedics and Trauma Surgery was held at Messe Berlin from 25 to 28 October. This is the largest event in the field of orthopedics and trauma surgery in Europe with around 10,000 attendees from more than 60 countries across the globe Prof.Mayer, the worldwide renowned minimally invasive spine expert, received the Golden Insignia of Honor at the president dinner of DKOU 2022, which was for his lifetime achievements and for his merits for the orthopedic specialty. At the banquet, Prof. Siebert, the former President of German Society for Orthopedics and Trauma Surgery, was happy that he visited China twice in 2019 as a visiting professor recommended by Prof.Mayer. respectively in Dongguan People’s Hospital and Foshan First People’s Hospital, which was special and meaningful. Prof.Mayer did one of the first minimally invasive spine surgeries in the 1980s in Germany, developed the revolutionizing technique of OLIF in 1997. In 1998, acting as the Founding Medical Director, he participated in the transformation of the previous Orthopedic Klinik of the University of Munich and started sub-specialization in the field of Orthopedics and sub-specialization in Sports Medicine. In 2006, the German Society for Spine Surgery and the Society for Spine Research were merged into the German Spine Society and Prof.Mayer is the Founding President. In the same year, he was the President of EUROSPINE. In 2007, Schön Klinik München Harlaching became one of the first FIFA Medical Centers of Excellence. In 2016, he started the project Master’s Visit to China via Gloryren, helping Grade Three Class A hospital in China in hospital management, specialty constructioon and talent cultivation, as a disseminator of international standard of diagnosis and treatment in China, inspiring and motivating thousands of Chinese orthopedic surgeons to become better. He introduced the concept to China that healthcare needs global thinking, which is a national mission. From Munich to Guangzhou, his legacy is bound to be continued in China.