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APOA Sports Meeting 2019 Incorporating Orthopaedic Research Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
The APOA Sports Meeting 2019 incorporating Orthopaedic Research was held at the Hilton Hotel in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on April 3 to 6, 2019. The meeting was superbly organized by Dr. Charanjeet Singh, Chairman of the Asia-Pacific Orthopaedic Association (APOA) Sports Injury Section, and his international and national organizing committee, including Dr. Sachin Tapasvi, Adj. Asst. Prof. Dr. Poh Seng Yew, Prof. Dr. A. Merter Ozenci, Dr. Anant Joshi, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Chanakarn Phornphutkul, Dr. Dave Lee Yee Han, Dr. Enrique Leonardo C. Pasion, Prof. Dr Hermawan Nagar Rasyid, Dr. Umer Butt, and Dato’ Dr. Badrul Akmal Hisham.
This meeting was a breakthrough meeting for Asia, welcoming more than 497 delegates from Australia, Bangladesh, Brunei, Cambodia, China, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Korea South, Mexico, Nepal, New Zealand, Oman, Pakistan, Philippines, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Turkey, and Vietnam. Fifty-eight world-renowned sports surgeon faculty members, led by Dr. Robert John Barlett, Prof. Dr. Freddie Fu, Dr. Jaap (W.J.) Willems, Prof. Dr. Michael J. Strobel, Prof. Teruhisa Mihata, Asst. Prof. Dr. Alan Getgood, and Prof. Dr. Park Jin-Young, among many others, provided highly valuable and instructive scientific sessions. The meeting was enriched with a total of 10 live cadaveric demonstrations and also saw the launch of the inaugural JB Excellence in Sports Surgery Award, created and named in honor of Dr. Robert John Barlett.
During his opening speech, Dr. Charanjeet acknowledged that the support and endorsement by ISAKOS was a huge motivating factor in attracting more delegates to the meeting. The registration fees were intentionally kept as reasonable as possible in order to allow younger sports surgeons and those with keen interest in sports surgery to attend a world- class sports meeting in our own region. The success of this meeting demonstrates that sports surgery is only in the budding stages in Asia but that there is hunger for education in this field in our region.
On behalf of the Organizing Committee, we would like to thank all of the faculty, delegates, industry, orthopaedic associations, and teams that worked behind the scenes to make this meeting a success.
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