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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

JULY 2019

12th Oswestry Shoulder & Elbow Course 
03 July 2019 – 04 July 2019

Oswestry, United Kingdom

American Orthopaedics Society for Sports 
Medicine – AOSSM Boston 2019 Annual 
Meeting  

11 July 2019 – 14 July 2019

Boston, United States

SEPTEMBER 2019

The 38th Annual Meeting of the European Bone 
and Joint Infection Society  

12 September 2019 – 14 September 2019

Antwerp, Belgium

Intercontinental 3D Surgery Course 2019   
18 September 2019 – 21 September 2019

Munich, Germany

OCTOBER 2019
ISTA 2019 Toronto – International Society 
for Technology in Arthroplasty 32nd Annual 
Congress  

02 October 2019 – 05 October 2019

Toronto, Canada

15th ICRS World Congress Vancouver 2019  
05 October 2019 – 08 October 2019

Vancouver, Canada

The Foot and Ankle Show 2019    
11 October 2019 – 12 October 2019

Liverpool, United Kingdom

5th World Congress on Spine and Spinal 
Disorders  

16 October 2019 – 17 October 2019

Rome, Italy

Annual Meeting of the American Shoulder and 
Elbow Surgeons ASES 2019  

16 October 2019 – 19 October 2019

New York, United States

EUROSPINE 2019  
16 October 2019 – 18 October 2019

Helsinki, Finland

ESSKA Advanced Knee Arthroscopy Course: 
All about Meniscus 2019  

17 October 2019 – 18 October 2019

Watford, United Kingdom

University of Leiden Musculoskeletal 
Oncology Course   

31 October 2019 – 02 November 2019

Leiden, Netherlands