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Dear colleague and friends,
Word of Welcome
Welcome to the 20th Anniversary Annual Meeting of EORS 2012! It is a great pleasure to invite you to join this
jubilee summit of Orthopaedic Research in Europe with your abstracts, discussions, networking activities and
collegial spirit. We are sure you will share our excitement about an inspiring programme. One theme will be the
translational research between orthopaedics and dentistry, as EORS is proud to stage its 2012 meeting at the
fantastic facilities and with the full support of ACTA, the Amsterdam Centre for Dentistry.
We hope you will enjoy the rich content, high quality and broad range of topics represented by:
• 9 Workshops • 3 Presidential Guest Lectures • 13 Invited Lectures
• 150 Oral presentations • 185 Poster presentations
We extend a special welcome to our colleagues from France, “Friendship Country” of this year’s conference, a
new EORS initiative to showcase the research landscape of one country and seed new networks. There are also
a number of initiatives for young investigators to connect with experienced researchers or to steer the
discussions as session moderators. A new Young Investigator Award, both for orals and posters shall
achknowledge and stimulate the young research talents.
Building on the two decade history of successful EORS meetings, EORS 2012 will look into an exciting future!
Bernd Grimm & Edward Valstar
Conference Chairs
Dear colleagues and friends,
On behalf of the Executive Committee of EORS, I am proud to announce that EORS 2012 annual meeting is
being launched. Drs. Grimm and Valstar have deployed intensive activity and succeeded in preparing an
innovative format of a classical meeting, to host the Orthopaedic research community all around Europe in
Amsterdam this September 2012.
A renewed EORS welcomes scientists and clinicians that look across Europe for a platform to present, discuss,
interact, and therefore network with other scientists and specialists devoted to musculoskeletal science.
Amsterdam has always represented this open mind in Europe, and will be not only the 20 th Anniversary of the
Society, but also the preamble of new opportunities, like the Combined Orthopaedic Research Societies
Meeting to be hosted by EORS in 2013. To learn more and to be involved, we will be pleased to welcome you at
the 2012 EORS Annual Meeting in Amsterdam.
Enrique Gomez-­‐Barrena
President EORS
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