CONTENTS
1) Toronto Annual Meeting – a Resounding Success!
2) Hip Hip Hooray!
3) New Orthopaedic Opportunity in China
4) Resident Research Award Winners

1) TORONTO ANNUAL MEETING – A RESOUNDING SUCCESS!
The 61^st Annual Meeting of the COA and the 40^th Annual Meeting of CORS was held earlier this month in Toronto. The meeting was, by all measures, a resounding success. The Private Health Care in Canada debate was heard by a packed audience and delivered the anticipated lively discussion as several different perspectives were put forward by the faculty. Look for more coverage of the debate in a future edition of the COA Bulletin. The first ever Tips & Tricks sessions were well received by attendees as various experts demonstrated their own techniques to address common clinical challenges by way of short video vignettes. You can access all of the meeting essentials by going to the COA web site and clicking on link at the top of the COA home page: www.coa-aco.org. Please mark your calendars for next year’s Annual Meeting in Halifax, June 1-3.

2) HIP HIP HOORAY!
Thank you for making the Canadian Orthopaedic Foundation’s 15^th Hip Hip Hooray! a very special event. We couldn’t have done it without you! The Foundation staff is busily collecting the preliminary totals and will report the results in the August/September issue of Hip Hip Hooray! Times.

3) NEW ORTHOPAEDIC OPPORTUNITY IN CHINA
Health Volunteers Overseas (HVO) is pleased to announce the opening of a second orthopaedic education and training programme in China. This programme is designed to teach the teachers in specific sub-specialty areas at the Division of Orthopaedic Surgery in the Second Affiliated Hospital of Wenzhou Medical School in Wenzhou, China. The primary goal of this programme is to enhance the level of sub-specialty expertise within the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery in such areas as: trauma, sports medicine, MSK oncology, upper extremity, spine, foot and ankle as well as other sub-specialties. HVO volunteers will fully participate in the orthopaedic weekly schedule. Activities include; participation in clinics, operating rooms and teaching sessions.

HVO member Alan Giachino, M.D. (Ottawa, ON) will serve as the Programme Director. "Wenzhou is a working city and not on the normal tourist route. This means that the populace rarely sees a North American and the reception is excellent. The community is safe and the interaction with the orthopaedic surgeons is very rewarding," remarks Dr. Giachino.

The Second Affiliated Hospital is the public teaching hospital affiliated with Wenzhou Medical College. The hospital is ranked in the highest quality level of teaching hospitals. Volunteers traveling to China are asked to fulfill assignments of three to four weeks. Volunteers must be either board certified or board eligible orthopaedic surgeons with sub-specialty training.

A private, non-profit membership organization, HVO was founded in 1986 to improve global health through education. For more information about volunteering, please contact the HVO Programme Department at (202) 296-0928 or visit www.hvousa.org.

4) RESIDENT RESEARCH AWARD WINNERS
Hosted by resident Co-Chairs, Drs. Daniel Penello and Anna Kulidjian, the Canadian Orthopaedic Residents’ Association (CORA) held a very successful Annual Meeting in Toronto on June 1. Over 90 residents from 14 out of the 16 orthopaedic training programmes in Canada attended the event. CORA offers awards to the three papers of most outstanding quality that were presented during the meeting. This year, the top prize – the J. A. Nutter Award for the best paper overall - was presented to Dr. Matthew Di Silvestro from the University of Calgary for his paper entitled, Patients with Traumatic Anterior Shoulder Instability Have Restricted External Rotation Range of Motion. Dr.DiSilvestro’s paper will be included in the scientific programme at the upcoming 2007 COA Annual Meeting in Halifax.

Dr. Michael Weber from the University of British Columbia received the COSA Award for the best science paper for his presentation, Detection and Quantitative Microscopic Evaluation of Osteoarthritis and Osteoporosis by Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). The Alexandra Kirkley Award for best clinical paper was presented to Dr. Sonja Mathes from the University of British Columbia, for her paper, Timing of Operative Management In the Treatment of Open Fractures: Does Delay to OR Increase the Risk of Complications? Congratulations to these award winners!