Hi Darlene,

Here at Montefiore employees have been banned from any international business related travel. However on Friday my Chairman decided we will not be going to AAOS this year. He think’s its too risky and unless something should change, unfortunately I won’t be at ARCOS this year. Our residents are very disappointed, but apparently many New York City hospitals aren’t letting their doctors travel to AAOS.

Courtney

Hi Darlene
Here at Loyola (suburb of Chicago), just received an email regarding banning any business travel until the end of the month. Our residents and faculty will no longer be attending AAOS as well as myself not be able to attend ARCOS. Many hospitals in the Chicagoland area are being placed on a no business travel ban.

The UT Health Science Center has only stopped international travel at this time. As of today, I plan to attend the meeting. UTHSC did issue a statement outlining reimbursement if a meeting is cancelled due to the virus.

Here at NY-Presbyterian Hospital and Columbia University Irving Medical Center all international travel is banned and all travel to conferences is banned indefinitely. Myself, all of our coordinators, all of our faculty and all trainees had to cancel our trips to the ARCOS and AAOS annual meetings.

I’m in Michigan and our institution has banned all out-of-state business travel (personal travel is fine) for non-essential trips. Conferences/presentations are not considered “essential” so I won’t be attending ARCOS and our faculty/residents won’t be attending AAOS.

Over the weekend, our hospital (OHSU in Portland, Oregon) announced that they are prohibiting all business-related travel, domestic and international. Personal travel is not affected.

As of now, Henry Ford Health System in Detroit is still allowing our travel to continue. So happy because I always get so much out of the ARCOS conference. I have been monitoring the AAOS website and they are still planning to proceed with their annual meeting/conference.