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2008 AGM
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year's Annual General Meeting of AOUK was part of the celebrations
of the First 50 years of AO
The meeting was held at the
Royal
York Hotel over the weekend of 15th-16th November
and was well attended by members and their families |
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You will be able to read the
minutes of the meeting here, in due course when they are published |
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The Long Bone,
Hand, CMF, ORP and Vet Specialty Sections held meetings for their
members
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Guest speaker
Prof Geoff Richards from the AO Research Institute
Davos gave a lecture on the "Role of implant surfaces
in fracture fixation: the effect of polishing"
Geoff (left) is seen here
being congratulated by AOUK President Paul Szypryt |
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| The highlight
of the weekend was the banquet, held at Castle
Howard, the setting for Brideshead Revisited which provided
the theme for the occasion |
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The evening
commenced with a reception for the 120 members and their guests
who attended |
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AOUK President Paul Szypryt (right) and
his wife Louise (left) presented Sue Watkins (centre)
with a gift to acknowledge her considerable work over many
years in the AOUK Education Office
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Special thanks went to conference organisers
Shadia
& Richard Smith, seen here with AOUK Secretary Val
Chipchase in front of the new exhibition stand
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2008
AOUK Trauma Research
Prize
This annual award was made
at the AGM, with the three finalists presenting their papers |
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Alexia Karantana, SpR Y3
at the Queens Medical Centre Nottingham, reviewed the "Epidemiology
and outcome of hip fracture in women up to 65 years"
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Daren Forward,
Consultant Trauma Surgeon at the Queens Medical Centre Nottingham,
presented his paper entitled
"Can a locking plate outperform a cephalomedullary
nail in subtrochanteric femur fractures?" |
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| AOUK
President Paul Szypryt is seen here presenting the winner's
cheque to Dr Rozalia Dimitriou from the T&O
Department of Leeds University for her paper
"Is there a genetic predisposition to fracture non-union?" |
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Read what the AO Foundation has to say about Manawar
Fazal, this year's winner of the Anne Murphy
Memorial Prize
Read the August
2008 newsletter
Find out what happened during the ORP
Courses at Leeds in June/July 2008
See the latest ORP news on the AO
Foundation website
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