Page 4 South African Orthopaedic Journal http://journal.saoa.org.za Page 4 South African Orthopaedic Journal http://journal.saoa.org.za CONFERENCES, COURSES & SYMPOSIA SASSH (SA Society for Surgery of the Hand) Refresher Course 23-25 February 2018 Pretoria 18th Congress SA Spine Society 24-26 May 2018 Elangeni Hotel, Durban 64th Congress of the South African Orthopaedic Association 3-6 September 2018 CSIR, Pretoria JANUARY 2018 2nd International Consensus Meeting on Orthopaedic Infections 25 January 2018 - 26 January 2018 Philadelphia, United States Focus on Arthroplasty Symposium: Unicondylar Knee Replacement 26 January 2018 - 27 January 2018 Frankfurt am Main, Germany 19th Annual AAOS/AANA/AOSSM Sports Medicine Course 31 January 2018 - 04 February 2018 Park City, United States FEBRUARY 2018 Bernese Hip Symposium 2018 01 February 2018 - 03 February 2018 Bern, Switzerland Paris Shoulder Symposium 2018 01 February 2018 - 03 February 2018 Paris, France Scandinavian Hand Surgical Dissection Course 05 February 2018 - 06 February 2018 Copenhagen, Denmark Endoprosthetics Congress Berlin 2018 22 February 2018 - 24 February 2018 Berlin, Germany MARCH 2018 AAOS 2018 Annual Meeting 06 March 2018 - 10 March 2018 New Orleans, United States Kiel Arthroscopy Course 2018 09 March 2018 - 10 March 2018 Kiel, Germany Utrecht Spine Course: Complex Paediatric Spine 09 March 2018 - 10 March 2018 Utrecht, Netherlands Annual Meeting of the Orthopaedic Research Society – ORS 2018 10 March 2018 - 13 March 2018 New Orleans, United States 12th International Congress of Sports Medicine Society of Greece / 12th Hellenic-Cypriot Conference 16 March 2018 - 18 March 2018 Thessaloniki, Greece 12th International Meeting of the Austrian Foot Society 22 March 2018 - 24 March 2018 Going am Wilden Kaiser, Austria European Pelvic Course 2018 22 March 2018 - 24 March 2018 Hamburg, Germany LOCAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES, COURSES & SYMPOSIA LOCAL SASSH (SA Society for Surgery of the Hand) Annual Congress 31 August 2018 – 02 September 2018 CSIR, Pretoria 64th Congress of the South African Orthopaedic Association 03 September 2018 – 06 September 2018 CSIR, Pretoria INTERNATIONAL OCTOBER 2018 12th EFAS International Congress 2018 04 October 2018 – 06 October 2018 Geneva, Switzerland ISHA 2018 Annual Scientific Meeting 04 October 2018 – 06 October 2018 Melbourne, Australia 39th SICOT Orthopaedic World Congress Montreal 2018 10 October 2018 – 13 October 2018 Montreal , Canada Annual Meeting of the American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons ASES 2018 11 October 2018 – 14 October 2018 Chicago, United States Annual Meeting of the Orthopaedic Trauma Association OTA 2018 17 October 2018 – 20 October 2018 Orlando, United States 26th European Pediatrics Congress 22 October 2018 – 23 October 2018 Amsterdam, Netherlands NOVEMBER 2018 6th World Congress on Controversies, Debates & Consensus in Bone, Muscle & Joint Diseases (BMJD) 08 November 2018 – 10 November 2018 Klongsan-Bangkok, Thailand 4th International Conference on Sports Medicine and Fitness 14 November 2018 – 16 November 2018 Edinburgh, United Kingdom The Bristol Hip Arthroplasty Course – BHAC 2018 15 November 2018 – 16 November 2018 Bristol, United Kingdom Instructional Lower Limb Trauma Course 19 November 2018 – 20 November 2018 Sheffield, United Kingdom DECEMBER 2018 The 17th Oswestry Foot & Ankle Course 03 December 2018 – 05 December 2018 Oswestry, United Kingdom