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FROM THE PRESIDENT
Game On!
Down time. Breather. Time out. Collaboration and
Off season. These terms definitely New Opportunities
do not apply to AOSSM. We are AOSSM has a long tradition of relationship
building—among our peers, with other
always in season, on the clock, medical and health care organizations,
suited up, and ready to play. and with corporate partners. This guiding
Keeping you, your practice, and ultimately principle remains a priority in 2020.
We continue to work with our colleagues
your patients in the game of life. at the International Society of Arthroscopy,
Knee Surgery and Orthopaedic Sports
Medicine (ISAKOS) and the European
As we jump into 2020, it is inspiring to look forward at what the year Society of Sports Traumatology, Knee
holds for AOSSM. We are off to a strong start, building on the plans and Surgery and Arthroscopy (ESSKA) this
accomplishments of the last year. Excitement, energy, and enthusiasm year to introduce a compelling new
fuel the many new initiatives and programs that are underway. session at our AOSSM Annual Meeting
in Seattle, July 9–12.
Your Society. Your Voice. Our Mission. Our partnerships extend to the
Biologic Association (BA), which hosted
Right out of the gate, we have launched our official Member Survey. Last their first Summit in early February. The
conducted in 2013, this membership survey is an essential component BA’s mission is to foster collaboration
of our member-based organization. AOSSM belongs to you. Those of us and create a unified voice in the
chosen to help guide the direction of the Society must make it a priority musculoskeletal biologics environment
to understand from you where we are hitting the mark and where we need to while advocating for the responsible use of
focus or make changes to strengthen member engagement and satisfaction. biologics in clinical practice. Together with
Detailed interviews with the Board of Directors have already taken place to other BA founding partners, AOSSM looks
provide context for the survey itself. Please watch your inbox in early March forward to working with BA in goalsetting
for an invitation to participate. Your input drives the future.
for this important clinical topic.
Other key relationships we have as
Making a Difference for the Next Generation
an organization are with our corporate
The first-of-its-kind AOSSM Million Dollar Drive continues to make partners. As you will read on page 10,
progress toward its important goals with outstanding participation from shared passion for developing best-in-
AOSSM members. Those who contribute at the Champion Level ($1,500 class learning opportunities inspires
or more) before June 15, 2020 will be memorialized on the new AOSSM true “out of box” thinking. Our dialog on
Andrews-Jobe Cup. Named in honor of two legendary figures in sports emerging topics, techniques, and delivery
medicine, Dr. James Andrews and Dr. Frank Jobe, this traveling trophy methods gives shape to pertinent and
will be unveiled at the 2020 AOSSM Annual Meeting. practical future programming.
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