AO Innovation Translation Center (AO ITC)
The AO ITC streamlines and drives innovation projects.
The AO ITC's activities include the development of clinical solutions with industrial partners, innovation gathering, proof-of-concept studies with innovators, strategic investment in IP, technology, or companies, and evidence creation through clinical research.
AO's innovation funding
Driving your idea to success, with our expertise and funding, to enhance patient care or surgeon education in the musculoskeletal area.
Clinical Science
Clinical evidence generated through AO clinical studies can be accessed in the form of journal articles, presentations at scientific meetings, final study reports, guidelines, classifications, and/or news on the AO website.
Clinical Operations
60 years of providing clinical evidence through the professional management of global clinical studies.
AO Technical Commission
Central to the AO ITC's development and valorization of innovations in trauma, spine, craniomaxillofacial, and veterinary surgery.
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Take our virtual tour
Learn how the AO Innovation Translation Center (AO ITC) develops new tools, techniques, and approaches that improve patient outcomes.
Introduction to AO ITC and AO Technical Commission
Technology Transfer and Clinical Evidence
Take the complete AO center tour and learn how education, innovation translation, and research and development work together to drive progress in our fields.
"Innovation at the AO has remained the same, finding solutions to clinical problems—meeting patient treatment needs. What has changed is implementation and the way that innovation is moving forward."
Robert McGuire, AO Past President