International Dupuytren Society
The society was founded by Dr. Wolfgang Wach. It runs an independent website and forum discussing different treatment options in which patients and medical experts co-operate.
As part of its independence it does not receive payment from hospitals and is non-profit.
The philosophy is to be inclusive, discussing all types of treatment types and bringing together doctors from different treatment disciplines.
Dr. Wach has been a Dupuytrens patient himself and presented at the International Symposium on Dupuytrens Disease in Miami in 2010. In his recorded presentation he discussed receiving radiation therapy 30 years before on one hand and also at a later time receiving hand surgery on the other.
Charles Eaton, (MD, Jupiter, Florida, USA) and Prof. Heinrich Seegenschmiedt, (Hamburg, Germany) act jointly as Chairman with Dr Wach.
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