University of Missouri Orthopaedicassociationdept of Orth

To foster, promote, support, augment, develop and encourage investigative knowledge of orthopaedics and its many ramifications; to develop and encourage the teaching and education of the same by developing, publishing and copyrighting educational materials, and to provide specialized training for orthopaedic surgeions and others; to foster, promote, support, augment, develop and encourage education in allied professions in the recognition, prevention nad orthopaedic treatment of diseases, injuries and deformities.