Dear Colleagues:

------Welcome to the 12th Congress of CAOS Asia! Since its inception the meeting has moved throughout the Asia Pacific Region gathering strength and interest. It is now the turn of Chiayi city to be the host.

------Taiwan is famous for its technical prowess and creativity. We can look forward to an exciting meeting with cool presentations and novel ideas about how to improve our accuracy in orthopaedic procedures whilst reducing cost and time of surgery.

------I am positive that the Congress organization under the able leadership of Prof Robert Hsu will harness the efforts of the wide range of local and international faculty and the natural beauty of Chiayi to provide a very memorable meeting.

David S K Choon.

Dear Colleagues:

------It gives me a great pleasure to announce that the 12th CAOS- Asia Pacific Meeting 2015 will be held in Chiayi, Taiwan on 25th April, 2015. This yearˇ¦s meeting will be held during the 68th Taiwan Orthopaedic Association (TOA) Annual Scientific Conference 2015 and Association Research Circulation Osseous (ARCO) 2015 . It definitely would be a good opportunity for scientific exchange and strong networking for the participating surgeons.
------It was a great success with invited speakers the city of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia from 29th May to 1st June 2014. And we are facing the 12th gathering in Chiayi, Taiwan. The society will be the premier academic organization to concentrate on the most important issues in Arthroplasty, Spine, Traumatology and Oncology surgeries and technologies. We sincerely invite you to give a presentation during the session.
------Chiayi is a county in the central south region of Taiwan with delightful climate and famous tourist attractions. Not to mention the mouth-watering gourmet and the hearty hospitality of the Taiwanese people. It only take 1 hour by high speed rail train from the International Airport. April in Taiwan is the best time to enjoy sightseeing across the tourist attractions of Taiwan. We will do our best to make the meeting enjoyable and memorable.

I look forward to meeting all of you in Chiayi, Taiwan.

Robert Wen-Wei. Hsu, MD
Chairman, CAOS - Asia Pacific 2015