Malaysian Orthopaedic Association (MOA)

Formation of Malaysian Orthopaedic Association:
In 1967, the Malaysian Orthopaedic Association (MOA) was formed with Dr. Abdul Majid Ismail as the first president. Founding members included Dr Selvakumar, Dr M Sivananthan, Dr Kannan Kutty, Dr. Pretam Singh, Dr Balasubramaniam, Dr Balasingam, Dr Mahmood Merican, Dr Mohd Iqbal, Dr Sachdev Singh, Dr Subir Sengupta and Dr K Thambyrajah. The first Malaysian Orthopaedic Congress was organized in 1968 and it was attended by a total of sixty delegates from various countries (Figure 7). In the following year, the first Malaysian-Singapore combined orthopaedic meeting was held in Singapore (Figure 8). In 1973, the MOA took up the responsibility to host the 4th Congress of Western Pacific Orthopaedic Association (WPOA) in Kuala Lumpur (Figure 9). After the establishment of the ASEAN Orthopaedic Association (AOA) in 1984, the MOA hosted the 4th AOA Congress in 1987.