It is with great pleasure that we invite our colleagues to the NZOA ASM 19-21 October 2025. 
The theme of the meeting is “Complications and Complaints.” 

The meeting will feature plenary sessions on revision arthroplasty and revision instability / arthroscopic surgery. These sessions will cover Hip, Knee, Ankle, Shoulder, and Elbow.

The international orthopaedic guests for the meeting are Pascal Boileau, from France, and Jegan Krishnan, from Australia. Both have extensive involvement in global orthopaedic education. Pascal Boileau is a giant in shoulder surgery and Jegan Krishnan has worked extensively with teaching in India, China, and Africa.

There will be a medicolegal session covering the complaints process. This will feature presentations from:

• The Health and Disability Commissioner, Morag McDowell,
•  The Chair of the Medical Council of New Zealand, Dr Rachelle Love, 
• ACC Treatment Injury presentation, Denis Atkinson and 
• Medicolegal Lawyer, Jonathan Coates. 

Open lectures on resilience and managing stress, will be given by Nick Petrie and Silken Laumann. 
Nick is a researcher and speaker on leadership, reliance, and burnout prevention. 
Those of you who heard him speak at the 2023 ASM in Nelson will have been mesmerised by his wisdom and his own life experiences, from professional rugby to cancer survivor to Harvard Masters graduate and inspirational speaker and author. 

Silken Laumann is a household name in Canada, being a 4-time Olympian single skulls rower, 3-time Olympic medallist, Canadian of the year 1996 after overcoming dramatic adversities. She dedicates her time now to helping others and has a mental health charity – “Unsinkable.”

The Gala dinner at the Skyline, will be fun with presentations from All Blacks, Richie McCaw, Israel Dagg and Colin Slade to our visiting speakers and allied orthopaedic association presidents.

The Pre-meetings on 18-19 October are with our Shoulder and Elbow Society and the Foot and Ankle Society. The guests for the NZSES meeting are Pascal Boileau, France, Jeff Hughes, and Sumit Raniga from Australia. The guests for the Foot and Ankle Society are Anish Kadakai from Chicago and Murray Penner from Vancouver. 

The venue for both pre-meetings and the ASM is the Memorial Hall in Queenstown. 

There will be golf and easy trail cycling options for recreation on the Sunday 19th October afternoon.
Welcome drinks will follow the sports afternoon back at Memorial Hall, along with our sponsors.

Co-convenors for the ASM are Richard Lloyd, Nick Lash and Brad Stone.

Queenstown is a wonderful venue for enjoyable meetings. 
We hope you join us.