Davos Courses 2018

 

 

This year’s Davos Courses offered by AOSpine are fully booked. We look forward to welcoming the participants from December 8–11, 2018 to a learning experience focused on minimally invasive spine surgery (MISS).

 

 

For updates during the event please follow us on Facebook and Twitter #AODavosCourses2018 to get the latest news.

 

Check out the final program and find more information about the Davos Courses here.

 

Held each year since 1960 in the AO spirit of peer-to-peer collaboration and pioneering inquiry, the Davos Courses offer surgeons at all stages in their career a unique opportunity to come together, share experiences, and learn from the best in their field.

 

AO Foundation President Robert McGuire says: “We look forward to your participation in the 2018 Davos Courses which will provide an excellent opportunity to develop international friendships as well as intellectual exchange on the management of many musculoskeletal disorders.”

 

If you would like to stay up to date about this year’s courses, please follow AOSpine on the social media channels. Browse AO Davos Courses 2018 Welcome Magazine here

 

 

The AO Foundation celebrates 60 years of transforming surgery,

changing lives

 

This year, the AO Foundation celebrates its 60th anniversary, and there will be several special events during the Davos Courses 2018 to mark 60 years of transforming surgery and changing lives.

 

On November 6th, sixty years ago, the AO Foundation was established at the Hotel Elite in Biel, by a group of Swiss surgeons: Maurice E Müller, Robert Schneider, Hans Willenegger, Martin Allgöwer, and Walter Bandi, who came together to champion revolutionary techniques of internal fixation that achieved unprecedented results in healing bone fractures.

 

Defying conventional wisdom, the group expanded the practices and philosophy of the organization, originally known as the Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Osteosynthesefragen (Association for the Study of Internal Fixation) or AO. With the establishment of the AO, the founders dedicated their lives to improving patient care by donating their time and talents to developing the AO on a purely voluntary basis.

 

The AO’s founders developed a new standardized approach to fracture treatment, offering surgeons the tools, techniques, and training they needed to radically improve patients’ quality of life.

 

 

 

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It was clear to the founders that teaching surgical skills and applying the new AO principles couldn’t be achieved only through lectures or documentation; they taught the new techniques using face-to-face practical exercises beginning in 1960 with the first AO Davos Courses. Since then, the AO has been the gold standard in postgraduate surgical education worldwide.

 

The same commitment shown by our founders lives on today through AO surgeons that continue to break the mold with new treatments and further the AO Foundation’s mission of promoting excellence in patient care and outcomes in trauma and musculoskeletal disorders.

 

The vision of our founders transformed orthopedic care by enabling cooperation amongst surgeons with a focus on improving patient outcomes.  Every day millions of patients worldwide benefit from the new techniques delivered by AO trained surgeons, saving the health care systems billions of Swiss Francs.

 

Today the AO is a global organization with a unique place in surgical history. It builds on this legacy every day—raising surgical treatment standards across the world—and remains committed to improving patient care and outcomes.

 

Milestones of the AO Foundation’s history during the last 60 years:

 

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