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.

Nathalie Bini
Torino, Italy

I had the chance to meet dr Leclercq during my last two years of med school and I have been passionate about spasticity ever since. I had the chance to spend more than two years in total at the Institut de la Main in Paris, to be part of the "Surgical Skills in Upper Limb Spasticity" Masterclass since the first one and to be involved in many anatomical and clinical studies on hyperselective neurectomy, having completed more than 75 dissections of upper limbs motor nerves. In Italy I've been trained at the Hand and Microsurgery Department guided by Doctor B. Battiston at CTO Hospital of Turin. Currently I run a consultation for children affected by spasticity, and I am also in the hand surgery team at the Pediatric Hospital Regina Margherita in Turin.

Bertrand Coulet
Montpellier, France

Professor Bertrand COULET received his medical training in Montpellier, France in contact with Prof. Yves Allieu and Prof. Michel Chammas within one of the renowned schools of French neuro-orthopedics.
In addition to conventional surgery of the upper limb, he takes care of all paralysis of the limbs in:
- Spastic patients,
- Tetraplegics,
- Brachial plexus and nervous trunk paralysis.

His activity is shared between the Department of Hand and Upper Limb Surgery and the Neuro-Orthopaedic Institute of the University Hospital of Montpellier and the PROPARA Center.
The surgery of the spastic is currently a major axis of development of neuro-orthopaedics concerning the methods of evaluation, as well as the surgical techniques and strategies.
The organization of such training courses under the impulse of Dr. Caroline Leclercq constitutes a superb opportunity for sharing and disseminating surgical techniques in this complex and rapidly developing field.

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.

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.

Jean Gabriel Prévinaire
Berck-sur-Mer, France

Dr Previnaire JG is a physical medicine and rehabilitation physician, consultant in spinal cord injury and spasticity. After training in UCLouvain (Brussels, Belgium) and Oswestry (UK), he has been working at Fondation Hopale in Berck-sur-Mer since 2004 (north of France), the largest French rehabilitation facility for neurological conditions and orthopaedic injuries that includes 300-bed inpatients and an outpatients clinic.
He is involved in the neuro-orthopaedic program with a recognized expertise in Botulinum Toxin and Intrathecal Baclofen therapies. He has worked closely with Dr Caroline Leclercq for the last 5 years to set up a specific multidisciplinary team for the management of upper limb spasticity in Berck-sur-Mer.
Dr Previnaire has been involved in post-graduate teaching in France and abroad for many years.

Pascal Rigaux
Berck-sur-Mer, France

Dr Rigaux is a physical medicine and rehabilitation physician, consultant in Traumatic Brain injury, stroke, Multiple sclerosis and spasticity. After training in UCLouvain (Brussels, Belgium) , he has been working at Fondation Hopale in Berck-sur-Mer since 1991 (north of France), the largest French rehabilitation facility for neurological conditions and orthopaedic injuries that includes 300-bed inpatients and an outpatients clinic

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.