Volume 01 / Issue 01 / June 2013
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News and Updates
BOA and the EFORT Executive Committee host 2014 EFORT Congress in London While EFORT 2013 is just getting under way as the Journal of Trauma and Orthopaedics goes to print, plans are already progressing well for 2014. The 15th EFORT Congress will be taking place in June 2014 at the Excel Centre in London. This will be a joint meeting between EFORT and the BOA: the central theme will be patient safety - the motto for London 2014.
The EFORT education committee has planned an extensive programme covering differing topics from basic research to areas within daily practice of orthopaedics and trauma. The BOA’s own cyclical education programme will be incorporated into the meeting and will be open to all participants. The format of the meeting is specially designed to encourage interaction between participants, with symposia and instructional lectures being delivered by distinguished speakers from all over Europe. A delegation from the American Academy of Orthopaedic surgeons (AAOS) will also be joining the Congress. The Mike Freeman and Erwin Morscher Honorary lectures will be delivered by two highly distinguished orthopaedic surgeons, and the Plenary lectures of the BOA will also be included in the programme and open to all participants.
A number of Specialist Societies will be represented at the Congress and will host a series of regionally focused sessions throughout the programme. There will also be representation from industry whose symposia workshops and technical exhibits will form an important segment of the Congress as a whole. We hope that the Congress will be well-attended by members of the BOA and other UK trauma and orthopaedic surgeons – do note the date for your diary: 4 – 6 June, 2014. We also hope that many may submit abstracts for the conference, and would highlight that the timetable for this will require these to be submitted by 4 November, 2013. For BOA members’ information, we plan to hold a closed national meeting in September 2014 with a focus on clinical leadership and the future shape of the BOA.
Conference listing: Organisation Conference/meeting (BESS) British Elbow and Shoulder Society http://www.bess.org.uk
24th Annual Scientific meeting 19 – 21 June 2013, Leicester
(BSCOS) British Society for Children’s Orthopaedic Surgery http://bscos.org.uk/index.html
BSCOS Summer Meeting 28 June 2013, Leicester
(BORS) British Orthopaedic Research Society http://www.borsoc.org.uk
British Orthopaedic Research Society/ Bone Research Society joint meeting 4 – 5 September 2013, Oxford
(BSS) British Scoliosis Society http://www.britscoliosissoc.org.uk
BSS Annual Meeting 12 – 13 September 2013, Stoke on Trent
(SBPR) Society for Back Pain Research http://www.sbpr.info
SPBR Conference 14 – 15 November 2013, London
(BOFAS) British Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society http://www.bofas.org.uk
Annual Scientific Meeting 6 – 8 November 2013, Belfast
(BOA) British Orthopaedic Association http://www.boa.ac.uk/Pages/Welcome.aspx
Annual Congress 2013 1 – 4 October 2013, Birmingham
(EFORT) European Federation of National Associations of Orthopaedics and Traumatology https://www.efort.org/index.php/events-calendar/efort-event-directory
15th EFORT Congress 4 – 6 June 2014, London