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	2010-09-02 First ARI researcher from the ThinkSwiss research fellowship program Fellow Justine Roberts joined the Musculoskeletal Regeneration Team at ARI.
	2010-09-02 AOTrauma Membership Launch September 1st 2010 marks the worldwide launch of the new AOTrauma membership program.
	2010-08-25 ARI selected to be a member of a prestigious European Commission funded research project The project is entitled "Gene Activated Matrices for Bone and Cartilage Regeneration in Arthritis".
	2010-08-13 Berton Rahn Research Prize Award 2010 Finnish surgeon Teppo Järvinen wins with his study on skeletal effects of estrogen.
	2010-08-02 AO Research Institute Davos hosts the summit of European Orthopaedic Research The 18th annual EORS conference took place in Davos June 30 to July 2, 2010
	2010-07-27 The eCMXI Cartilage Disc: Repair and Regeneration conference held in Davos The 11th European Cells and Materials conference took place from June 28-30, 2010
	2010-07-27 Award for an AOCID study A talk on the Locking Proximal Humerus Plate was voted best presentation at a German congress for surgeons.
	2010-07-26 Paul Pavlov honored with the AO Recognition Award 2010 The latest recipient of this prestigious award receives his prize during the Trustees Meeting 2010, Lisbon.
	2010-07-26 TK Innovation Prize 2010 awarded for the "Playground" Prof Emanuel Gautier and the ARI Innovations Team received this award during the Trustees Meeting 2010, Lisbon.
	2010-07-23 New TK Innovations Magazine & Website Update A new issue of the TK Innovations Magazine ("TK News") has been published.
	2010-07-19 Glowing appraisal of an AO book The AO Handbook: Musculoskeletal Outcomes Measures and Instruments impressed IMM’s reviewers.
	2010-07-16 Board of Trustees Meeting, July 9 -12, 2010 Lisbon, Portugal Lisbon played host to one of the largest Trustees Meetings ever with nearly 400 participants and guests contributing to the successful event.
	2010-07-12 AO Dialogue Issue 1, 2010 The newest edition of the newsletter for the AO community is now available.
	2010-07-09 AO Research Fund 2010 call for funding applications Start-up grant applications to be submitted by August 15, 2010.
	2010-07-09 AO Research Institute Davos 2009 Annual Report launched Latest activity report available online on the revamped ARI website.
	2010-07-07 eCells and Materials Journal impact factor increased High increase of impact factor makes eCM Journal number one in Trauma.
	2010-07-01 EBSJ—AOSpine's Evidence-Based Spine-Care Journal facilitates contributions from all over the world The first issue of AOSpine's Evidence-Based Spine-Care Journal—EBSJ, is out now!
	2010-06-30 2009 Annual Report launched The AO Foundation Annual Report 2009 is now available for download.
	2010-06-28 Malta, a small country with an extraordinary history, warm hospitality and great courses AOTrauma MID organizes a very successful Regional event.
	2010-06-28 AO publishes new guide to the trauma OR for operating room personnel Just launched—“Techniques and Principles for the Operating Room” by Matthew Porteous and Susanne Bäuerle
	2010-06-18 AOTrauma presence felt at the ESTES Congress in Brussels The AO was strongly represented at the 11th European Congress of Trauma & Emergency Surgery, in Brussels, Belgium, from May 15 - 18, 2010.
	2010-06-16 Swiss Society of Biomaterials Annual Meeting The 16th Swiss Society of Biomaterials Annual Meeting and General Assembly
	2010-06-10 AOER Call for letters of proposal AO Exploratory Research (AOER) calls for letters of proposal for the Collaborative Research Programs (CRP) Annulus Fibrosus Rupture and Acute Cartilage Injury.
	2010-06-04 A friendly fellowship at the Beit CURE International Hospital in Blantyre, Malawi AO SEC fellow Kevin Lakati tells the story of his intensive six month stay in Malawi
	2010-06-04 Uganda Nonoperative Fracture Treatment Course Report, March 2010 A very successful oversubscribed nonoperative fracture course was delivered in Eastern Uganda
	2010-06-03 AO Course on Principles of Operative Fracture Management for Operating Room Personnel First Edinburgh course took place March 9-11, 2010.
	2010-06-01 AO Education improves surgical education An article published in The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery makes a strong case for using the AO Learning Assessment Toolkit to improve surgical education.
	2010-06-01 ARI Injury Paper gets top honors A review article by Llinos Harris and Geoff Richards is one of top 10 cited articles in past five years.
	2010-05-21 AO presence at EFORT 2010 Congress in Madrid AOTrauma guest symposium and booth at the 11th edition of the traditional EFORT Congress taking place June 2-5 in Madrid, Spain.
	2010-05-20 Bruno Noesberger Bruno Noesberger, long-serving President of AO Switzerland, Trustee and Member of the Board of Directors, has passed away.
	2010-05-20 Successful 2010 recertification of AO Institutes An audit by the SQS (Swiss Association for Quality and Management Systems) leads to ARI and CID recertification.
	2010-05-07 AO at ESTES 2010 Congress in Brussels AO symposia, key-note lectures and AOTrauma booth at the 11th European Congress of Trauma & Emergency Surgery.
	2010-05-03 AOSpine Live Tissue Training—The Prevention and Management of Complications in Spine Access Surgery AOSpine Europe continues their commitment to provide the latest spine surgery techniques in Europe.
	2010-04-22 Pre-registration for AOTrauma Membership now live We are pleased to inform you that the Pre-registration for AOTrauma Membership is now live.
	2010-04-13 AOTrauma 5th General Meeting Clinical Priority Program: Fracture Fixation in Osteoporotic Bone This year’s meeting was held in Basel, Switzerland.
	2010-03-29 Jennifer Lansdowne obtains ACVS Membership ARI researcher gets highest level of certification in veterinary surgery.
	2010-03-24 Highly successful 5th CRC Exchange Meeting Bi-annual Davos/Homburg Collaborative Research Centre Exchange Meeting held in Davos in February 2010.
	2010-02-11 AO Foundation educational material features in Didier Cuche surgery story Surgeon Stephan Schindele, uses illustrations from the AO Hand and Wrist manual to explain the fracture surgery to Swiss media.
	2010-02-09 Fourth AO Intramedullary Nail Experts' Symposium Symposium report including case studies and video presented by surgeons during this annual event.
	2010-02-08 First American AOCID Fellow joins the team in Duebendorf Pratik P. Desai was recently selected from the University of Florida for the AOCID academic research fellowship.
	2010-02-04 AO Foundation partners with Academy for Medical Training and Simulation The academy was inaugurated at the Lucerne Canton Hospital at the end of January 2010.
	2010-01-25 AO Research Fund 2010 call for funding applications Start-up grant applications to be submitted by February 15, 2010.
	2010-01-25 eCM and EORS 2010 Conferences to be held in Davos, Switzerland From June 28-July 2 both ARI organized conferences will run consecutively at the Davos Congress Centre.
	2010-01-22 AO Foundation supports Synthes emergency initiative in Haiti A team of surgeons travels to Haiti to help earthquake victims in difficult circumstances.
	2010-01-19 Nepal hosts two milestone AOSEC courses on November 6-7, 2009 in Janakpurdham The first ORP operative workshop and second surgeon’s nonoperative course successfully delivered.
	2010-01-15 Reinhold Ganz wins the King Faisal International Prize for Medicine HRH Prince Khalid Alfaisal, announced on January 10th in Riyadh, Saudia Arabia the winners of the 2010 prize.
	2010-01-14 AOCMF and AOVET websites have now moved to a new online platform Since January 15, 2010, the websites display a new look and feel while retaining their previous web addresses.
	2010-01-12 A report by an AO ORP attending her first course as international faculty AO Principles of Operative Fracture Management Course for ORP in Zagreb, Croatia, November 10-11, 2009.
	2010-01-12 First ever ORP Principles Course in Operative Fracture Treatment offered in Kenya From November 11-13, 2009 Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital in Eldoret, Kenya was the site for the AO SEC course
	2010-01-11 New AOTrauma Handbooks—online bestseller in December 2009 AOTrauma and AO Education are happy to inform you that one of the two new AOTrauma Handbooks was the online Bestseller in December 2009 on www.thieme.com.

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