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WELCOME PROGRAM REGISTRATION AUTHORS SPONSORS & EXHIBITORS HONG KONG

Welcome to CAOS - June 4-7, 2008


Dear Colleagues:

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Welcome to the CAOS 2008 Hong Kong home page!

It is our greatest honor and pleasure to host the 8th Annual Meeting of CAOS-International in Hong Kong in 2008. As you may have known, this will be the first time CAOS-International is having their Annual Meeting in Asia. CAOS has been developed and practiced actively in many Asian countries at the present moment. Under the guidance of CAOS-International, the very active CAOS-Asia chapter has been organising their annual scientific meetings since 2004. In 2008, together with the CAOS-International Annual Meeting, CAOS-Asia will also join the CAOS-International meeting. The newly established Chinese Society for Computer Assisted Surgery in China would also join us in this important event. I believe this extended meeting will be an extra-ordinary precious opportunity that this new technology and research activities to be promoted and developed further in Asia. Through this very important annual event of CAOS-International, world-renowned experts will meet together and share the experience and their vision on the development of the CAOS.

The meeting will be held in the Hong Kong Convention Centre, which is the most popular and well-equipped venue for International conferences in Hong Kong. We will have ample space for presentations, workshops, discussion, and exhibits.

Early June in Hong Kong will have a very fine weather as it is the beginning of the summer. 2008 is also a very important year for Hong Kong and Asia as many international events will take place in Hong Kong and Asia: 29th Olympic Games in Beijing, China with Olympic Equestrian Games in Hong Kong, 24th SICOT in Hong Kong, etc. We are committed to make the CAOS-International Annual Meeting one of the most exciting meetings with both academic and social highlights in year 2008!

I look forward to welcoming you to Hong Kong in June 2008!

Prof. Leung

Professor Kwok-Sui LEUNG, MD
President-elect 2008 of CAOS-International
Meeting Chairman


* From Confucius, 551-479 B.C.: "It is our greatest joy to welcome friends from a far!"