The IBRA Research and Education Committees (REC) are platforms supervising quality assurance and excelling professional expertise. They put emphasis on promoting individual academic and professional careers beyond geographic and cultural borders.
The three Research and Education Committees focus on the body segments head, upper limbs and lower limbs, and are named accordingly.

Core tasks of the IBRA Research and Education Committees are:

• supervising quality standards of the various courses in the continuing medical education (CME)
• evaluating course participants’ requirements in order to improve the educational offer
• assessing scholarship applications for IBRA Training Centers and confirming accepted candidates
• assessing and advising potential (multicenter) research studies of IBRA Training Centers

Christoph Pezzei, Vienna, Austria (Chairman)
Rames Mattar Jr., Sao Paulo, Brazil
Kilian Wegmann, Munich, Germany
Adam Watts, Wrightington, United Kingdom
+ representatives of donor organizations

Victor Valderrabano, Basel, Switzerland (Chairman)
Christian Plaass, Hannover, Germany
Mario Ullises Herrera, San Cristobal de La Laguna, Santa Cruz de Tenerife/Spain
+ representatives of donor organizations