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 19th Congress of The South African Spine Society 30 May 2019 – 01 June 2019 CSIR International Convention Centre, Pretoria Congress organiser: Hendrika van der Merwe, tel: +27 (0)21 981 3081; website: congress@saspine.org Combined 65th South African Orthopaedic Congress 2019 – ‘Unity in Diversity’ 02 September – 06 September 2019 ICC Durban Includes the following sub-specialty groups: 1. SA Arthroplasty Society (SAAS) 2. SA Knee Society (SAKS) 3. SA Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons (SASES) 4. SA Foot Surgeons’ Association (SAFSA) 5. SA Orthopaedic Trauma Society (SAOTS) 6. SA Paediatric Orthopaedic Society (SAPOS) 7. SA Society for Hip Arthroscopy (SASHA) 8. Launch and inaugural meeting of the SA Orthopaedic Oncology and Limb Preservation Society (SOLS) Contact: Chairman of the SAOA Congress Committee: Dr Ian Stead, email: iwstead@gmail.com INTERNATIONAL APRIL 2019 5th International Knee Update 04 April 2019 – 06 April 2019 Davos, Switzerland ICJR 7th Annual Revision Hip & Knee Course – Rochester 2019 04 April 2019 – 06 April 2019 Rochester, United States Utrecht Spine Course Spinal Trauma 2019 12 April 2019 – 13 April 2019 Utrecht, Netherlands 2nd International Conference on Orthopedics, Rheumatology and Osteoporosis 15 April 2019 – 16 April 2019 Milan, Italy Atlanta Trauma Symposium 2019 18 April 2019 – 20 April 2019 Atlanta, United States MAY 2019 EUROSPINE Spring Specialty Meeting 2019 02 May 2019 – 03 May 2019 Frankfurt am Main, Germany 32nd Annual Meeting of the European Musculo Skeletal Oncology Society – EMSOS Florence 2019 15 May 2019 – 17 May 2019 Florence, Italy 35th Annual Meeting Cervical Spine Research Society – Rome 2019 22 May 2019 – 24 May 2019 Rome, Italy IACES 2019 – Madrid International Advanced Course on Elbow Surgery 23 May 2019 – 25 May 2019 Madrid, Spain JUNE 2019 8th International Congress of Arthroplasty Registries ISAR 2019 01 June 2019 – 03 June 2019 Leiden, Netherlands ISAR 2019 01 June 2019 – 03 June 2019 Leiden, Netherlands 29th Conference of the European Wound Management Association – EWMA 2019 05 June 2019 – 07 June 2019 Gothenburg, Sweden 14th IFSSH and 11th IFSHT Triennial Congress Berlin 2019 17 June 2019 – 21 June 2019 Berlin, Germany