The Asia Pacific Orthopaedic Association (APOA) is an organisation of orthopaedic surgeons mainly from the Asia-Pacific region. It was founded as the Western Pacific Orthopaedic Association in 1962 by seven orthopaedic surgeons, meeting in Manila,

Members come from some forty countries from around the world, but mainly from the seventeen Member Chapters. These are Australia, Bangladesh, China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Myanmar, New Zealand, Pakistan, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam Turkey and Sri Lanka. The name was changed to the Asia Pacific Orthopaedic Association on the 9th of April 2000, at a Special Council Meeting in Australia.

India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and China were admitted as Member Chapters at that meeting. At the 2004 Triennial Congress Turkey and Sri Lanka were received as new Chapters.

APOA Executive Committee

Name	Title	Country
Dr Po-Quang CHEN	President	Taiwan
Dr Wen Jer CHEN	1st Vice President	Taiwan
Dr Yukihide IWAMOTO	2nd Vice President	Japan
Dr Myung-Sang MOON	Immediate Past President	Korea
Dr Haroon Khizir Taqi RAZA	President Elect	India
Dr Hee-Kit WONG	Honorary Secretary	Singapore
Dr Keith D K LUK	Honrary Treasurer	Hong Kong
Dr David FANG	Editor	Hong Kong
Dr K S SIVANANTHAN	Educational / Financial Committee Chairman	Malaysia
Dr Jae-Yoon CHUNG	Membership Committee Chairman	Korea
Dr David CHOON	Newsletter	Malaysia
Dr John BARTLETT	Ad hoc Committee	Australia