Scientific Chairman Welcome
Rami Sorial
2026APAS Scientific Chairman
Combined APAS And MSHKS ASM 2026
Guest Nation for 2026 is SINGAPORE
I would like to invite you to attend the 26th annual scientific meeting which is planned for August 2026 in Kuala Lumpur.
As we recall the wonderful scientific exchange and social events that many of us enjoyed in Saigon in 2025 and the excellent input from our colleagues who joined us from the Vietnamese Arthroplasty & Arthroscopy Society, we now similarly look forward to collaborating with our colleagues from the Malaysian Society for Hip & Knee Surgeons.
The conference will run over 4 days from Wednesday 26 August - Saturday 29 August 2026 and the venue will be the beautiful Shangri-La hotel in KL. As in previous years there will be a half day event on the first day Wednesday August 26 including industry masterclasses and the APAS instructional arthroplasty course aimed at our junior colleagues. The main scientific program will commence on Thursday August 27 with the opening ceremony and plenary sessions in the morning.
Our guest nation for this conference will be Singapore and we welcome our colleagues from Singapore to join us for this conference with a number of prominent speakers invited from their society. APAS as we have every year will ensure a mix of excellent academic interchange, presentations on current arthroplasty topics and advances that keep us focused and questioning value and affordability of today’s technology. Debate and panel discussions will no doubt fire up some of our faculty as they share with you the range of pathology and clinical cases that have challenged them over the past few years. We will also be looking for your contributions in the form of in-session surveys and free paper podium contributions with great value prizes for our best papers from emerging younger surgeon scientists.
APAS would not be the same without the warm social comradery that flows from one conference to another with great events planned for our faculty evening and the grand gala dinner for all attendees.
They say that Durian is the king of fruits at least in the Asia Pacific region so we compare APAS similarly as the king of arthroplasty conferences to attend in the Asia Pacific region so don’t miss out on the breadth of experiences and knowledge shared from over 100 international faculty.
Finally, I would like to thank our industry partners who will join us for APAS 2026 as their continued and valuable support makes these meetings possible.
So with warm anticipation I am looking forward to welcoming you all to the 26th APAS conference in Kuala Lumpur in August and as our president David Choon has indicated why not come for the durian experience!