AADO History
Message from the Founding President
Prof.
Kwok-Sui LEUNG, AADO Founding President,
1992-1998
The First Six Years (1992-1998) of AADO
With the new council being elected, AADO has
her 6th anniversary (in 1998). The past 6 years may be a
very short time in the development of an international society.
Nevertheless, I think it is the time for us to look back critically
on what we had achieved and what have not been fulfilled. I hope
that with the new leader and the new council, our association can
achieve more in the next millennium.
AADO was founded by a group of orthopaedic surgeons
that involved in the multicentre clinical trial in the modified
Gamma Nail in East Asia in 1992 when we organised the first Locked
Nail course in Marriott Hotel. With the friendship built up through
the study, we set our goal to promote orthopaedic trauma care in
the region with the formation of the association. We managed to
organise annual scientific meetings focused on topics in orthopaedic
trauma ( Table I ). Through these meetings
and the satellite meetings, we had facilitated the exchange of experience
and opinion in the clinical practice with many world-class experts.
The association also runs regular bioskill training course in fracture
fixation. 48 of our members had gone through the course and gained
experience through the discussion with the tutors and hand-on practice
in the laboratory. We also issued sponsorships to our members to
attend trauma courses all over the world ( Table
II ). By providing these unique chances to go to different parts
of the world, our members obtain many chances to widen their scope
of trauma care.
To maintain the dialogue between the association
and the members, Newsletter is published three times a year.
In 1997, our nurse chapter was formally established
after organising the annual meeting and evening course in 1996.
Since then, they have a very active educational program and is one
of the very active nursing society. Again, the association issues
sponsorships to our nurse members to attend overseas meetings, very
dear chance for most of our nursing colleagues.
However, I think there are still quite a lot
we can improve on what we have achieved. Like the mission statement
of the association: Progress in Trauma Care through Education and
Research, we need to consolidate the educational programs in various
aspects, to enhance communication among our members, and embark
on the support of clinical research programs. We need to extend
our activities to other countries. Plans have already been setup
to organise activities in China, Japan and India. May I invite you,
members of the association, to show your continuous support to the
new council and the president. Help to make your association become
even stronger and, through its educational and research activities,
we can improve further our service to the injured.
In these 6 years, the association becomes more
mature and the running becomes more professional although most of
the council members are "part-time" who had devoted many hours of
their evenings to plan and organise activities for the association.
I would like to take this opportunity to send them my sincere gratitude
for their contribution to the growth of the association.
Table
I - Meetings organised by AADO between 1992 - 1998
|
1992 |
International Symposium on Recent Advances
in Locked Nails |
1993 |
Biodegradable implants in fracture fixation
- with ISFR |
1994 |
First AADO International symposium on Musculoskeletal
Trauma - Complex Fractures, one day nurse course |
1995 |
The Science of Intramedullary Nailing |
1996 |
Second AADO International Symposium on
Musculo-skeletal Trauma - Biology of Fracture Healing,
Spinal and Paediatric Fractures |
1997 |
External Skeletal Fixations |
1998 |
Third AADO International Symposium
on Musculo-skeletal trauma - Osteoporotic Fractures, Periprosthetic
Fractures and Pathological Fractures, one day nurse course |
|
Table II - Sponsorships
for Members
to attend International Trauma Meetings
|
|
1994 |
1995 |
1996 |
1997 |
1998 |
AADO Hong Kong |
|
|
|
12 |
10 |
AIOD Strasbourg |
2 |
10 |
13 |
7 |
5 |
Edinburgh Trauma Meeting |
|
3 |
10 |
5 |
7 |
European Trauma Meeting |
|
|
|
|
7 |
ISFR |
|
|
|
|
1 |
Japan Fracture Society |
|
|
|
4 |
|
OTA North America |
|
|
|
1 |
6 |
Sicot |
|
|
5 |
|
|
AIOD Course for OR Nurse |
|
|
2 |
5 |
5 |
Cast Workshop for Nurses |
|
|
|
3 |
|
Nurse Course in Minneapolis |
|
|
|
|
3 |
Total |
2 |
13 |
30 |
38 |
44 |
|
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