I and the staff of the secretariat are honored to take this opportunity of organizing the APOA 2010 Congress in Taipei.

By collaborating with the Taiwan Orthopaedic Association and the National Taiwan University Hospital, we have the best team to ensure a perfect meeting. The autumn sky in Taipei will provide a best atmosphere to accommodate participants of this meeting, which will surely a convenient platform for the elite scientists, clinicians as well as researchers, to share their precious experience on the field of orthopaedics.

To attend a meeting in Europe or North America make you feel like a guest. But to attend the APOA Meeting and meet orthopaedic surgery from Asian Countries make you feel like chatting with neighbors. The distance is the key issue: we are so close to each other.

Last WPOA Meeting held in Taiwan was in 1979. At that time 1 was only a resident. 31 years later, 2010, APOA will take place in Taiwan again. As the congress chairman, 1 will be your host. Welcome all of you to visit Taiwan. Again, to renew friendship with each other and to share your prestigious clinical experience with each other and we will show you around with our warmest hospitality.

I hereby welcome you to join the Congress, meet the best colleagues in the Asia Pacific region, and advocate your expertise to promote the welfare of people of your and ours.

With the Best Regards