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The long-anticipated First Triennial Meeting of the International Orthopaedic Trauma Association (IOTA) in Amsterdam this past December was a major
We appreciate the valued participation and support of the many attendees from IOTA member societies who contributed as presenters, panel members, and moderators. We congratulate the newly inaugurated members of the first class of Fellows of the IOTA (FIOTA) for their honorary recognition as global surgeon leaders as nominated by their respective societies. This first meeting undoubtedly established a very high bar for the next triennial gathering in Guadalajara in 2025, and we look forward to working on the many collaborative projects on our pathway to that next meeting.

Brendan M. Patterson, MD, President, OTA
Theodore Miclau, III, MD, Steering Committee Chair, International OTA

It was a great pleasure to bring together over 1200 participants from 30 countries (24 IOTA countries) to join the First Triennial Meeting in Amsterdam and “work together to improve the outcomes” of Orthopaedic and General Trauma. The meeting was officially opened on Wednesday, December 14th by Prof. Brendan Patterson, President of the OTA, Prof. Ted Miclau, Steering Committee Chair of the IOTA, and Prof. Ernst Kuipers, the Dutch Minister of Health and Sports. From that moment on, all participants had the opportunity to choose from presentations and symposia in six parallel sessions during the three-day congress. Sessions were organized by many of our IOTA member societies, partner organizations such as ATLS, ESTES, AO, DKOU, DSATC, as well as the Dutch Society of OR nurses (LVO) and, of course, the Dutch Trauma Society (NVT) itself, which had the honor of being the organizing society for the meeting in combination with its Annual International Dutch Trauma meeting.
The first day consisted entirely of IOTA-related offerings. An important highlight of the day was the inauguration of the Fellows of the IOTA (FIOTA), where 112 members from 19 societies were inaugurated into the first class of Honorary Fellows of our rapidly growing organization! Throughout the rest of the congress, there were many keynote, instructional course, and invited lectures, combined with scientific podium and poster presentations. Poster presenters had the opportunity to give a short, live power-pitch presentations, moderated by many of our newly inaugurated Honorary FIOTA and other IOTA members, which was highly appreciated by presenters and attendees alike. In total, the meeting featured 517 presentations in 79 sessions on 37 different topics.
The free scientific podium and short poster presentations were scored by an IOTA and NVT team of judges. From these scores, the best podium and short presentations were selected as IMPACT Award recipients, which were recognized at the Closing Ceremony. Additionally, the top five short pitch and full podium presentations were offered the opportunity to apply for a journal publication fee waiver in Injury and the OTA International (OTAI), respectively, two highly esteemed orthopaedic trauma publications. The recipients of the IMPACT Award were Luke Myhre from the USA and Dr. Thymen Houwen from the Netherlan

ds. Dr. Myhre presented on “Patient Reported Anxiety Scores Associated with Lower Physical Function in Orthopedic Trauma Patients' and Dr. Houwen presented on “Health related quality of life in patients with a bone fracture by using PROM(I)S: a retrospective cohort study”.
Throughout the meeting, there were many opportunities to meet new friends and visit with known colleagues, highlighted by two well-attended social events. On Wednesday, we enjoyed the memorable sights of Amsterdam’s famous inner-city canals on boats, with the city’s holiday and “Amsterdam Light Festival” works of art lights. On Thursday evening, at the special Conference Party held on the bank of the Amstel River, many attendees showed their best moves on the dance floor after a delicious cocktail dinner.
The next day, Friday afternoon, this First Triennial meeting came to an end at the Closing Ceremonies. After the awards and recognition presentations, the meeting was adjourned by handing over the IOTA Flag to representatives of the next triennial meeting organizing Society, FEMECOT, which will organize the 2nd Triennial meeting in Guadalajara, Mexico in 2025.

It was such a pleasure and opportunity to see so many of you at the First Triennial meeting. We look forward to meeting with everyone again, as well as many more new IOTA member society attendees and FIOTA members at the 2nd Triennial in 2025. It was a distinct honor for the Dutch Trauma Society to host this meeting in Amsterdam, and our special thanks go out to the OTA, to Ted Miclau and his team from the OTA office (Vanessa Morales, Alanna Kaiser and Kathleen Caswell), to Jerry Gaspersz and his team from the local organizing group, and to all of you who made the meeting to a success through your presence, participation, and experience while generously taking time away from your families to join us in Amsterdam.

Australia | AOA
(Australian Orthopaedic Association)
Zsolt Balogh, Kevin Tetsworth


Belgium | BOTA
(Belgium Orthopaedic Trauma Society)
Guy Putzeys, Wim Vandesande


Brazil | BOTA
(Sociedade Brasileira do Trauma Ortopédico)
Sergei T. Fischer


Colombia | SCCOT
(Sociedad Colombiana de Cirugía Ortopédica y Traumatología)
Jose Eduardo Quintero


Germany | DGOU
(The German Society for Orthopaedics & Trauma)
Bertil Bouillon


Greece | HAOST
(Hellenic Association of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology)
Christina Arnaoutoglou, Athanasios Badekas, Haralampos Dinopoulos, Christos Garnavos, Konstantinos Kateros, Ioannis Kostas-Agnantis, Athanasios Kostakos, Emilios Pakos, Stamatios Papadakis, Vasilios Psychogyios, Matthaios Savvidis, Olga Savvidou


Israel | IOA
(Israeli Orthopaedic Trauma Society)
Meir (Iri) Liebergall, Yoram A. Weil


Italy | OTODI
(Ortopedici e Traumatologi Ospedalieri d'Italia)
Antonello Barbati, Alessandro Casiraghi, Achille Contini, Andrea Fidanza, Alexander di Francesco, Mario Paracuollo


Japan | JSFR
(Japanese Society for Fracture Repair)
Hiroyasu Ikegami, Yasuo Kokubo, Takashi Matsushita, Takashi Miyamoto, Tomoyuki Noda, Atsushi Sakurai, Etsuo Shoda, Yasuhisa Ueda, Yoshinobu Watanabe, Masanori Yorimitsu


Mexico | FEMECOT
(La Federación Mexicana de Colegios de Ortopedia y Traumatología)
Augusto Alvarez Rengifo, Erika Iliana Arana Hernández, Michael Dittmar Johnson, Darío Esaú Garín Zertuche, Leonardo Lopez Almejo, Roberto López Cervantes, Drusso López Estrada, Ricardo Madrigal, Ramiro Padilla Gutiérrez, Luis Gerardo Padilla Rojas, Mariana Salazar del Villar, Víctor Toledo Infanson


The Netherlands | NVT
(Nederlandse Vereniging voor Traumachirurgie)
M. Bemelman, J.P.M. Frolke, M. Hogervorst, J Hoogendoorn, P.A. Hustinx, S.A.G. Meylaerts, K.J. Ponsen, Victor de Ridder, I.B. Schipper, P. V. van Eerten, M.H.J. Verhofstad


Pakistan | POA
(Pakistan Orthopaedic Association)
Masood Umer, Usama Bin Saeed


South Africa | SAOTS
(South African Orthopaedic Trauma Society)
Brian Bernstein


South Korea | KOFS
(Korean Fracture Society)
Beom-Soo Kim, Joon-Woo Kim, Kang-Il Kim, Byung-Woo Min, Ki Chul Park


Spain | SECOT
(La Sociedad Española de Cirugía Ortopédica y Traumatología)
Juan Boluda Mengod, Ion Carrera Fernández, Francisco Chana Rodríguez, Alberto Delgado Martínez, Jesús Gómez Vallejo


Switzerland | SGC/SSC
(Die Schweizer Chirurginnen und Chirurgen)
Hans-Christoph Pape


United Kingdom | OTS
(Orthopaedic Trauma Society)
Paul Dixon, Tim Chesser, Matt Costa, John Keating, Nigel Rossiter