Meeting Information and Schedules

Dear Fellow ORS Members, Colleagues, and Guests,

On behalf of the Orthopaedic Research Society, I’m extremely pleased to invite you to attend the 54th Annual Meeting of the Orthopaedic Research Society, to be held in San Francisco, on March 2-5, 2008. San Francisco is one of our favorite locations for the ORS Annual Meeting, and we are looking forward to an exciting program.

The ORS Annual Meeting continues to be an extraordinary conference enabling members and non-members to bring new engineering, scientific and clinical discoveries to a forum, for open discussion and debate. This is the most important activity of our Society, and the Program Committee, Topic Chairs, and over 160 volunteer abstract reviewers are working very hard to put together a program that will help to bring us up to date on the best, late-breaking research in our field.

In addition, our program will showcase many educational symposia and workshops, industry-related events, and other activities that have become a hallmark in our Society’s emphasis on the importance of training and mentoring of orthopaedic residents, graduate students and post-docs.

Finally, we are also excited this year to host special activities to mark the 25th Anniversary of our Society’s Journal of Orthopaedic Research. The Editorial Advisory Board, editors, reviewers and, of course, our many members and non-members who have authored papers in the JOR will all be able to join in this celebration.

We thank you for your continuing support of the ORS, and we look forward to seeing you in San Francisco in March of 2008.

Sincerely,

Alan J. Grodzinsky, ScD
President
Orthopaedic Research Society

Paperless Workshop Handouts
The ORS Annual Meeting is paperless for workshop handouts! Onsite you will receive a Program book, CDROM and other information at check in, but paperbased workshop handouts will not be distributed. So be sure to download or print the handouts you would like to have. Handouts will be available online to download in February 2008.

ORS will have a limited number of stations to print handouts on-site. To avoid lines, we encourage you to make your selections in advance before arriving in San Francisco.

1:30 pm - 3:30 pm

Your opinion matters!
ORS leadership is conducting a series of forums targeted to various membership categories in an effort to enhance the value of ORS membership. Your attendance is important. Please come prepared with questions, comments, suggestions for a dynamic and focused discussion.

Create Your Own Schedule
Create Your Own Schedule for the Annual Meeting of the Orthopaedic Research Society. All programs and events, including podium, short talks, workshops, and more are included in the online scheduler, allowing you to choose and create your schedule for the Annual Meeting. You can also include personal appointments/events. Your schedule can be viewed, printed or downloaded to Microsoft Outlook. The schedule will be available in January on the ORS website at www.ors.org.