AT 2012 ORS-ICHTS MEMBERSHIP MEETING

Feb. 4th, 2012, Moscone Convention Center, San Francisco, CA

New in 2012 Membership Meeting

The ORS will video-telecast 2012 ORS-ICHTS Meeting. Webster Jee Young Investigators will be highlighted at the meeting by giving short presentation of their successful stories.

Brief Description

The International Chinese Hard Tissue Society (ICHTS) will hold 2012 ORS-ICHTS Membership Meeting on February 4th (Saturday), 2012 at San Francisco, California. This meeting is organized to provide a forum for ICHTS members to exchange the information in frontiers of recent musculoskeletal research, to bridge the knowledge gap between the scholars from different research fields, to promote young investigators in the field for successful career developments, and to share the successful experience in career development with senior researchers. To recognize the achievement of young ICHTS members, five (5) Webster Jee Young Investigator Awards will be given at the meeting. The winners will be announced before the membership meeting and they will receive an award certificate and a $300 check at the meeting. All applicants are asked to attend the meeting because the award will be given only to the recipients who attend. Applicants may find details about the 2012 ORS-ICHTS Membership Meeting on the ICHTS website: http//www.ichts.org.

Eligibility

1) Current ICHTS member

2) First author of accepted ORS abstracts for 2012 annual meeting

3) Current graduate and/or medical student,

4) Post-doc or equivalent

5) Junior faculty and professionals who obtained PhD or MD less than 5 years, and

6) Has not received the award previously.

Selection

The accepted ORS abstracts in both blind and un-blind formats should be submitted to both of the following e-mail addresses: ruiyunfeng@126.com and ichts.org@gmail.com no later than December 10, 2012. All submitted abstracts will be peer reviewed in blind by a panel appointed by ICHTS Award Committee. The top scored abstracts will be selected as the winners of Webster Jee Young Investigator Award. As a general rule, no more than one award will be given to the applicants from the same research group.

ICHTS 2012 ORS Webster Jee Award Committee

Prof. Gang Li (Hong Kong, Chair); Prof. Xiaodu Wang (USA); Prof. Cao Xu (USA); and Prof. Tianfang Li (USA)