Corporate Partnership Opportunities

The AAOS offers a variety of promotional opportunities that are available exclusively to exhibitors. There is a marketing channel for every budget, all offering the opportunity to showcase your company, increase your booth traffic, and make the most of your Annual Meeting exhibit experience.

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Promotional Opportunities for the AAOS 2018 Annual Meeting are available!  Promotional Opportunities

For questions, please contact:
Ken Schott
Exhibits Coordinator
847-384-4186
schott@aaos.org

AAOS is pleased to offer exhibit space at most of our CME courses.  Regional courses typically offer 6'x 6' exhibits, while courses held at the OLC Education and Conference Center in Rosemont, IL offer 6'x 30" tabletop exhibits. 

Exhibits are open during all breakfasts, lunches and refreshment breaks.  If the course offers a reception, exhibits can also be open during this time.  

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For any exhibit questions, please contact:
Jason Raymond
Exhibits Communications Specialist
847-384-4174
cmecourses@aaos.org

Help us support opportunities for surgical bio skills workshops and summer internship programs for female and underrepresented minority medical students. This is an investment in our future. The diversity of the orthopaedic profession must improve to best serve our patients and encourage the best and the brightest to join us.

The Perry Initiative Orthopaedics in Action Curriculum (OiA) Curriculum
In order to reach more students earlier in the talent pipeline, AAOS is seeking funding for a new in-classroom sawbones laboratory module/curriculum kit targeting middle and high school students across the U.S.  Administered by The Perry Initiative in collaboration with AAOS, OiA fills a pressing need in STEM classrooms to demonstrate how science and math concepts are used to solve real-world problems; and it satisfies Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and Common Core Standards. 

The Perry Initiative Medical Student Outreach Program (MSOP)
Help expand an established outreach program designed to engage and excite more female and underrepresented minority medical and pre-med students about orthopaedic medicine.  Administered by The Perry Initiative in collaboration with AAOS, these programs are held at major medical/academic centers across the U.S. The curriculum includes lectures, hands-on surgical skills workshops, and mentoring. 70% of the first class of workshop participants successfully matched in orthopaedics or other competitive surgical residencies.  

Nth Dimensions | AAOS Orthopaedic Summer Internship Program
Partner in the one of the most comprehensive and effective diversity programs we offer. Administered by Nth Dimensions Educational Solutions in collaboration with AAOS, this intensive eight-week clinical/research internship is especially designed for first year female and underrepresented minority medical students. Scholars shadow a preceptor in clinic/surgery and prepare and present a poster at a national medical meeting.  All scholars participate in a program to improve performance on the USMLE Step 1 and attend the AAOS Annual Meeting the following spring.

For more information, please contact:
Tricia Arnold, MBA
Staff Liaison - AAOS Diversity Advisory Board
847-384-4153
arnold@aaos.org

Each year, AAOS' educational programs support more than 3,000 orthopaedic surgeons, residents and allied health professionals as they strengthen their knowledge and surgical skills through events, webinars and hands-on instruction in the state-of-the-art Orthopaedic Learning Center. More than $1 million in industry-funded grants were awarded in the past year.

Educational grant opportunities are available for:

• Continuing medical education courses, including the full spectrum of seminars, symposia, workshops and programs AAOS offers each year,
• Educational programs specifically for orthopaedic residents, including surgical skills courses and webinars,
• International education courses, inclusive of the current "Train-the-Trainer" AAOS-Romania Shoulder Program,
• Live and on-demand webinars, a frequently accessed and convenient format for ongoing orthopaedic education,
• Research and Advocacy programs, inclusive of the annual symposia series, "Extremity War Injuries," that serves to define current knowledge regarding management of extremity war injuries for NIH, Congress, the Department of Defense, orthopaedic surgeons, researchers, industry, and other relevant governmental agencies.

Corporate partners realize significant value from:

• Brand exposure and increased name recognition among thousands of leading orthopaedic professionals who attend AAOS educational programs each year.
• Promotional awareness before, during and after each educational program.
• Acknowledgement to all attendees at the AAOS Annual Meeting.

For more information, please contact:

Angela Buckley, MPA
Corporate Engagement Specialist

American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons
9400 West Higgins Road
Rosemont, IL 60018-4976
Phone: 847-384-4335
E-mail: buckley@aaos.org

By supporting the AAOS International Scholars Program, you will help orthopaedic surgeons from countries with limited resources gain the knowledge they need to improve the lives of their patients. International Scholars attend a surgical skills course of their choice at the AAOS Orthopaedic Learning Center and spend 3 to 5 days as observers at a US leading hospital mentored by AAOS volunteers. Your donation will make a lasting impact on the quality and outcomes of orthopaedic care worldwide.

For more information, please contact:
Anna Gurevich
Coordinator, International Outreach and Scholarships
+1-847-384-4170
international@aaos.org

Sponsorship opportunities are available for the following PR initiatives: 

A Nation in Motion^® campaign
Orthopaedic care is a journey thousands of people embark on each day. The A Nation in Motion^® campaign and website, ANationInMotion.org, offers hundreds of inspiring orthopaedic patient success stories, and expert bone and joint health information to help patients fight for their mobility, to show the value orthopaedics bring to the lives of millions of patients each year. For more information about this campaign, visit ANationInMotion.org.

For more information, please contact:
Melissa Leeb
Director, Public Relations
847-384-4030
leeb@aaos.org

Communities in Motion
This year, the Academy pilots “Communities in Motion”—a new event and extension of its A Nation in Motion^® campaign—to show people of all ages how they can have fun and exercise together to prevent injuries and build strong bones for life. The community event features a series of interactive challenge station highlighting specific bone and joint areas, and the importance of building strength, greater flexibility, and balance for each area of the body. Experts also will demonstrate exercises that participant can do on-site as well as adapt for at-home sessions. To sponsor event giveaways or learn more about getting involved, visit ANationInMotion.org/Communities.

For more information, please contact:
Kayee Ip
Digital, Public and Media Relations Strategist
847-384-4035
ip@aaos.org