CAOS-International

Since 1995 five CAOS-Symposia (Computer Assisted Orthopaedic Surgery) were held in Bern and Davos, Switzerland.
In 1997 started CAOS/USA, the North American program, which was held since then on an annual basis.
With the foundation of CAOS-International, the sixth CAOS-Symposium has become the First Annual Society Meeting in 2001.
In the same year we still continued with CAOS/USA.
From 2002 on CAOS/USA has been integrated into the annual meetings.

The Inaugural Meeting of our International Society for Computer Assisted Orthopaedic Surgeryplace on February 19, 2000 in Davos at 7:00 a.m. During this assembly, the membership accepted the draft of the by-laws for the Society proposed by Lutz-P. Nolte and Anthony M. DiDioia. After discussion, the by-laws were unanimously approved and the foundation of the Society was established. In our first vote, the executive officers were unanimously elected, composed of the following members:

Dr. Lutz-P. Nolte
Dr. Anthony M. DiGioia
Dr. Pietro F. Reggazzoni
Dr. André Bauer
Dr. Branislav Jaramaz
Dr. Willy A. Kalender

President
First Vice-President
Second Vice-President
Secretary General
Treasurer
By-Law Chairman

All officers accepted their position. In addition, the membership accepted to CAOS-International as the offcial abbriviation of our society.

COMMITTEES 2000/01

COMMITTEES 20001/02