2023 Annual Academic Sessions - November 2023.

Calendar of Events.

AO Trauma – Clinical Training Module (CTM) in DGH Vavuniya. – 25^th January.
Colombo Shoulder Meeting – Live operative Shoulder Arthroscopy, Replacement and stabilization workshop – 28^th January at Kings Hospital, Colombo.

Young Surgeons Forum lecture – ‘Challenges in Bone Sarcoma Management’ by Dr. V. Varunprasanth – 2^nd March.
Basic Knee Arthroplasty Course – 5^th March at NHSL.
Development of Musculoskeletal Oncology as a Subspeciality in Sri Lanka – CME Lecture and case discussion by Dr. Gurpal Singh – 23rd March.

External fixation workshop – National Hospital Kandy – 23^rd April.
New Year Celebrations organized by Orthopod’s wives circle – 30^th April.

Outreach Programme – Moneragala- 12^th 13^th 14^th May
Clubfoot management workshop – 28^th May – LRH.

AO– Primary trauma care and non-operative fracture management course – 16^th, 17^th June – Waters Edge, Battaramulla.

2^nd Cadaveric Spine Course – 15^th July – NHSL.
Young Surgeon’s forum and MD external examiner’s lecture.

Basic Hip Arthroplasty Course – 13^th August at NHSL.
Research and Publication workshop by Dr. Sumedha Aamarasekara and Dr. Hiran Amarasekara – 19^th Augest.

Basic Arthroscopy Cadaver workshop – Anatomy Department- University of Sri Jayewardenepura – 8^th and 9^th September.
Pelvis Trauma Symposium at Sri Lanka Surgical Congress 2023.
Pediatric Hip live surgery workshop with Mr. Ramanan Vadivelu and Dr. Avi Shah at LRH – 19^th and 20th September.

Zimmer complex Hip Live operative workshop – 5^th 6^th October.
AOA – Basic principles of fracture management for ORPs– 16^th, 17^th October.
AOA – Basic principles of fracture management – 18^th, 19^th, 20^th October.
Pre-congress workshop on Wrist and Hand surgery with Greg Bain 30^th 31^st October.

SLOA Annual Academic Sessions – 2^nd,3^rd,4^th November 2023 Cinnamon Grand, Colombo.
Post-congress workshop on Paediatric foot and ankle with Dr. Maryse Bouchard – 6^th and 7^th November.
AO Spine workshop – 25^th, 26^th November – Theme -Trauma and Infection.

Annual Academic Sessions.

President, SLOA

Dr. Bandujeewa Piyasena.

Sri Lanka Orthopaedic Association (SLOA) represents the Orthopaedic surgical fraternity of Sri Lanka. SLOA is committed to the improvement of the standard of care given to Orthopaedic and Trauma patients. This is done by joining hands with the Ministry of Health to improve the Orthopaedic services of the hospitals and provide optimum care to a wider population. SLOA is also committed to further enhance the knowledge and capabilities of the Sri Lankan Orthopaedic Surgeons by continuous medical education. This is facilitated by the numerous CME programmes in our schedule conducted by national and international resource persons.