AAOS Research Symposia

AAOS/OTA/SOMOS/ORS Extremity War Injuries VI: Data-Driven Progress in Combat Casualty Care (EWI VI)

• Principal Investigators: COL James R. Ficke, MD and Michael Bosse, MD, CAPT, USNR (Ret.)
• Dates: January 19-21, 2011 at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Washington, DC
• Participants: Military and civilian orthopaedic surgeons, researchers, government, and other medical specialties (by invitation only)
• Overview of Topics:
• Session I: Clinical Outcomes - Lessons Learned from a Decade at War
• Session II: Axial Skeleton Injuries
• Session III: Long Term Disabilities in Combat Casualties
• Session IV: Challenges in Severe Lower Limb Injury Rehabilitation
• Session V: Updates on Disaster Preparedness / Disaster Relief Progress
• Gold Level Symposium Sponsors:
• Kinetic Concepts, Inc.
• Smith & Nephew Trauma
• Silver Level Symposium Sponsors:
• Stryker
• Synthes
• Bronze Level Symposium Sponsors:
• Zimmer
• EWI VI Symposium was funded in part by grant monies from the United States Army Medical Research and Material Command (USAMRMC)
• Press:

o AAOS Now (March 2011): Military, civilians partner at EWI symposium

• Final EWI VI Program Agenda

For more information on attending or sponsoring this symposium, please contact Erin Ransford, AAOS Manager, Research Development, at ransford@aaos.org.

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