This supplement to The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery includes the best of the scientific exhibits displayed at the seventy-sixth Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, held in Las Vegas, Nevada, in February 2009.
The scientific exhibits were graded by the Committee on Exhibits on the basis of their content, presentation, and overall value to our specialty. This year, the Committee reviewed 262 abstracts, of which eighty-nine were selected to be presented at the Annual Meeting. Publication of the following eighteen selected exhibits highlights these outstanding projects and gives the reader of The Journal an opportunity to review the innovative surgical techniques, basic-science research, and outstanding long-term clinical studies presented in this format at the meeting. The Committee on Exhibits has seen an increase in submissions for exhibits and believes that the publication by The Journal of the best projects has stimulated this increase over the years.
On behalf of the Committee on Exhibits, I would like to once again thank the Council on Education and James D. Heckman, MD, Editor-in-Chief of The Journal, for their continued support and encouragement of this project. Personally, I would like to thank the members of the Committee on Exhibits for the time and energy that they spent on grading abstracts as well as judging the scientific exhibits that were presented at this year's meeting. None of this would have been possible without the tremendous assistance of our Academy staff members, Pat Whitaker and Kathy Fornelli.
Committee Members:
J. David Blaha, MD
A. Seth Greenwald, DPhil(Oxon)
Michael H. Huo, MD
Alfonso Mejia, MD
Michael P. Mott, MD
David L. Nelson, MD
Martin Plotkin, MD
William H. Seitz Jr., MD
Jeffrey L. Visotsky, MD