TheAAOS Orthopaedic Disclosure Program

Each item below requires an answer. You will be prompted for more information after you have answered all of the questions with a “yes” or “no” response. Please report information for the last 12 months as

required by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) guidelines. After submitting your Yes/No answers, you must visit

each detail page before you may confirm and save your disclo- sure. If your answers are accurate, you may return to the sum- mary page and then confirm and saveyour disclosure. indicates a required entry

1 Do you or a member of your immediate family receive

royalties for any pharmaceutical, biomaterial, or orthopaedic product or device? Yes

I No 2 Within the past 12 months, have you or a member of

your immediate family served on the speakers bureau or have you been paid an honorarium to present by any pharmaceuti- cal, biomaterial, or orthopaedic product or device company? Yes

I No 3A Are you or a member of your immediate family a PAID

EMPLOYEE of any pharmaceutical, biomaterial, or orthopaedic device or equipment company, or supplier? Yes

I No 3B Are you or a member of your immediate family a PAID

CONSULTANT for any pharmaceutical, biomaterial, or orthopaedic device or equipment company, or supplier? Yes

I No 3C Are you or a member of your immediate family an

UNPAID CONSULTANT for any pharmaceutical, biomaterial, or orthopaedic device or equipment company, or supplier? Yes

I No

is optimizing search results in its database. For 2012 “we tried to match on name and email address,” Niesen said. “But that didn’t work because email addresses change all the time. Now we’re going to do name, email, city, state, country—any or all of those. It’s a wider parameter of search, so someone search- ing for co-authors will have more options.”

‘LessonsWere Learned’ In the end, the new submission process “took much more staff time and much more staff this time around. The membership department, switchboard, customer service, and almost all of the people in the convention and meeting-services department were helping out at one time or another,” Niesen said, noting that AAOS has already begun talking to Coe-Truman about next year’s abstracts. “The meetings we are having with Coe-Truman and our IT department willmake the process seamless in the next few years.”

58 pcmaconvene January 2012 Susan McSorley,AAOS’s director of convention and meeting

services, agrees. “Coe-Truman has been a good partner,” she said. “Lessons were learned in communication with submitters since this was a new process of submitting an abstract as well as dis- closing for the presenter and all co-authors.We have identified and worked through the areas that created challenges and look forward to utilizing the system for next year.” Coe-Trumanalso was “very happy with the way [the project]

turned out, despite any hiccups along the way,” said Jon Jenk- ins, Coe-Truman’s director of product management and devel- opment, who was one of the senior architects of the AAOS project. “Any time you go through the same process more than once, you drive efficiency. I would be very worried if we didn’t. If we got it perfect the first time I would argue that we are not working hard enough to improve.”

Carol Bialkowski is a New Jersey–based freelance writer. www.pcma.org 4 Do you or a member of your immediate family own

stock or stock options in any pharmaceutical, biomaterial, or orthopaedic device or equipment company, or supplier (excluding mutual funds)? Yes

I No 5 Do you or a member of your immediate family receive

research or institutional support as a principal investigator from any pharmaceutical, biomaterial, or orthopaedic device or equipment company, or supplier? Yes

I No 6 Do you or a member of your immediate family receive

any other financial or material support from any pharmaceuti- cal, biomaterial, or orthopaedic device or equipment company, or supplier? Yes

I No 7 Do you or a member of your immediate family receive

any royalties, financial or material support from any medical and/or orthopaedic publishers? Yes

I No 8 Do you or a member of your immediate family serve on

the editorial or governing board of any medical and/or orthopaedic publication? Yes

I No 9 Do you or a member of your immediate family serve on

the board of directors or a committee of any medical and/or orthopaedic professional society? Yes

I No Reprinted with permission from AAOS.