Willem Schreurs started his career in orthopaedics as a PhD student on the femoral bone impaction grafting technique under the supervision of Professor Tom Slooff. After finishing his PhD and orthopaedic residencies he was appointed as hip surgeon in the same Department of Orthopaedics, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen in 1996. In addition to clinical work, throughout his whole career Schreurs has always been involved in basic and clinical research. A highlight in his career was the period that he served the European Hip Society as President (2016-2018), an honourable task and a very special experience with the opportunity to make a lot of friends in the international field. From 2019 he has been the special Professor on behalf of the Dutch Arthroplasty Registry (LROI), another highlight.