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The American Orthopaedic Association
222 South Prospect Avenue
Park Ridge, IL  60068
(708) 698-1640

   Disabilities Served: Orthopaedic disabilities.

   Users Served: Medical and other health care professionals.

   The Organization: The American Orthopaedic Association was founded in 1887.
   Its purpose is to furnish leadership and to foster advances in orthopaedic
   sciences and art.  The goals and objectives of the organization are to
   provide a forum for the exchange of knowledge pertaining to the
   musculoskeletal system and the science of orthopaedics; promote continuing
   education by all available means including the annual meeting, conferences,
   workshops, and symposia sponsored by the association; support traveling
   fellowships; and encourage participation of its members in other
   educational programs.  The organization also seeks to stimulate research,
   investigation, and teaching in the methods of preventing, correcting, and
   treating diseases of the musculoskeletal system that arise from congenital,
   developmental, inflammatory, neoplastic, degenerative, metabolic,
   traumatic, or other causes.

   Membership in The American Orthopaedic Association is achieved by those who
   have made significant contribution to education research and the practice
   of orthopaedic surgery.

   Information Services: In addition to the annual meeting, The American
   Orthopaedic Association supports varied educational programs.  The ABC
   Exchange Fellowship began in 1948 and now is an established program in six
   English-speaking countries.  In 1953, the association initiated the survey
   that resulted in the organization of the Orthopaedic Research and Education
   Foundation.  The first Orthopaedic Residents' Conference was held in 1968
   under the sponsorship of the association.  The North American Traveling
   Fellowship program for the United States and Canada began in 1970.  In
   addition, The American Orthopaedic Association sponsors an International
   Visiting Professorship and the Hatcher Fellowship in Orthopaedic Pathology.
   The Bristol-Myers Squibb/Zimmer Annual Award for distinguished achievement
   in Orthopaedic Research has been an annual award at the association meeting
   since 1988 and is based on an orthopaedic research grant program begun in
   1983.  In addition, there is an annual American Orthopaedic
   Association/Zimmer Resident Travel Award to the Annual Meeting.
   International communications are enhanced further by combined and joint
   meetings between the orthopaedic associations of various countries and The
   American Orthopaedic Association.