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2009 CSRS Instructional Course, Annual Meeting set for December
The Cervical Spine Research Society’s (CSRS) 37th Annual Meeting will be held Dec. 3–5 , 2009, at the Grand America Hotel, Salt Lake City. The program chair is Frank M. Phillips, MD. CSRS will hold its 14th Instructional Course, “Surgical Techniques Videos, Complications, Cervical Arthroplasty and Osteobiologics of the Cervical Spine,” on Dec., 2, 2009, under the direction of Program Chair Jeffrey C. Wang, MD.

Program content and online registration are available at www.csrs.org

USBJD Grant Mentoring Program seeks applications
The United States Bone and Joint Decade (USBJD) has developed a grant mentoring program to provide early-career clinical investigators an opportunity to work with experienced researchers in their fields to assist them in securing funding and other survival skills required for pursuing an academic career.

This program is open to promising junior faculty, senior fellows, or postdoctoral researchers nominated by their department or division chairs. Senior fellows or residents who are doing research and have a faculty appointment in place or confirmed may also apply. Basic and clinical investigators, without or with training awards (including K awards), are invited to apply.

Investigators selected to take part in the program attend two workshops, 12 months apart, and work with faculty between workshops to develop their grant applications. The next workshop will take place over a weekend in April or May of 2010 in Rosemont, Ill.

The deadline for applications is Jan. 15, 2010. More information and application materials can be found at www.usbjd.org/rd/?yii

Deadline extended for Hip Society awards
Submissions for the Otto Aufranc, John Charnley, and Frank Stinchfield Awards are due Dec. 1, 2009. Submissions should represent original work that has not been previously published or submitted for publication. Please indicate if your submission is a resident or fellow paper for the Frank Stinchfield Award. Submitted papers must be in publishable form. For more information, contact the CORR office (215-392-0270).

For submission guidelines, go to https://www.editorialmanager.com/corr/

AOA~Kellogg Leadership Series-final offering
Module 6 of the American Orthopaedic Association (AOA)~Kellogg Leadership Series, “Be Equipped to Better Compete in the Marketplace,” is set for Jan. 22–24, 2010, on the Evanston, Ill., campus of Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. The financial offerings of this module focus on two critically important areas of knowledge that significantly affect organizational performance: marketing and healthcare law. This module also includes interaction that puts the art of negotiation into action.

For more information and to register, visit www.aoassn.org

Improve bone health with AOA’s Own the Bone program
The AOA Own the Bone Program is a Web-based quality improvement program encouraging a multispecialty approach to patient care with the goal of reducing the risk of future fractures and promoting bone health in patients age 50 and older.

Join now and unite with current Own the Bone subscribers to help prevent future fractures by treating the underlying cause, encouraging coordinated care among specialties, promoting overall treatment of bone health, and changing physician and patient behavior.

Susbscribers have access to valuable resources including a Web-based registry to manage patients. Other benefits include tools to help implement the program, easy tracking and management of patients with real-time reporting, system-generated letters that help provide better communication between healthcare providers and patients, and a Best Practice Library with information on bone health practices and procedures at other institutions. Subscribers can add best practices to this library or integrate a best practice from another institution.

To learn more, visit www.ownthebone.org, e-mail ownthebone@aoassn.org, or call (847) 318-7336.

AAOS Now
November 2009 Issue
http://www.aaos.org/news/aaosnow/nov09/youraaos11.asp

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