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What is Your Academic Medical Center Strategy?

AOC Member Institutions Spend $4B per year in Orthopaedic Implant/Device and Biologics.

Academic Medical Centers (AMC) in orthopaedics are tasked with providing top-shelf orthopaedic care – all while conducting educational research that will shape the future of our field and training the orthopaedic surgeons of the future. At the AOC, our mission is to help AMCs achieve their three-pronged mission, while ensuring our Corporate Partners have unparalleled access to AMC decision makers and receive invaluable market insight.

AOC membership spans 5,400 members across 170 university-based Orthopaedic Departments and an additional 60 health systems in private practices. The most prestigious orthopaedic institutions in the world rely on the AOC for peer-to-peer networking, the exchange of ideas, and direction in establishing best practices across business, leadership, education and research.

Engage the Future of Orthopaedics

with an AOC Corporate Partnership

As the top decision makers at nearly every academic orthopaedic medical program in the US, AOC members are at the forefront of what’s next in orthopaedics. From training residents and fellows in orthopaedic surgery – your customers of the future – to conducting research using the latest industry innovations in the field, the member institutions of the AOC represent a powerful audience for our Corporate Partners.

AOC Collaboration Opportunities & Deliverables

The AOC utilizes its unique position, as convener of the elite national academic orthopaedic community, to strengthen MedTech/AI/Pharma Companies in the orthopaedic space (or who desire to be in the orthopaedic space) with critical collaborations and insights to enhance Company’s visibility, access, and engagement to AOC members and key leaders. The AOC is ideally situated to help unite all parties more effectively, fostering greater collaboration opportunities, accelerating progress, and utilizing economies of scale to reduce research costs. Contact us for details!

Our Most Requested Deliverables – Customized to Your Needs:

1. Delphi Consensus Survey*

The Delphi Consensus Survey is custom-designed with questions that target a company’s most pressing strategy needs, including priorities, barriers, and market concerns. Expert perceptions of the topic are polled, and responses are gathered in aggregate, with a summary of key themes emerging from a diverse group of orthopaedic leaders from around the country. By design, this Delphi Consensus Survey represents the subjective experiences orthopaedic leaders have with respect to a given product or market, and stands in contrast to the more data-driven White Paper.

2. White Paper*

The White Paper prioritizes a rigorous analysis of topics relevant to product/company strategy. This begins with a broad review of the clinical evidence, including efficacy,complications, and published costs. These insights form the foundation for economic analysis and understanding the market in which the product lives, including existing adoption barriers. Finally, current policy and political trends are considered, including impact on both product and overall market. These findings power the creation of forward-looking guidance that can inform strategy going forward.

3. Strategic Insights via AOC Expert Panel to Accelerate Company Pathway

To provide Company with essential insights from key stakeholders across the academic orthopaedic landscape, the AOC will recruit, organize, and facilitate a 60-minute Focused Panel of 6-8 AOC Surgeon Leaders for Company on a topic of your choosing to be used anytime during the year. Tremendous value for relationship building and validating Company’s value propositions and customer preferences. Ask about our “All Chair Panel.”

4. Single Case Studies and National Multi-Institutional Projects

The AOC quickly recruits and organizes projects across our national community of influential orthopedic leaders, boosting visibility, evaluation, and validation for new technologies among key decision-makers. Our curated process and national platform streamlines technology evaluation, reducing costs and time-to-market by leveraging AOC economies of scale. With a rigorous, structured approach, AOC enhances commercial success and academic collaboration with strategic insights that can be leveraged for strengthening discussions with your Board, your investors, your leadership team, and with those who would utilize your technology.

5. Panel Presentation During Main Session of National Symposium

For select AOC Corporate Partners, Company may appoint one leader to participate with 4 other MedTech/AI/Pharma C-Suite Leaders as part of a 45-minute AOC Moderated Panel focused on collaborations to evaluate, validate, and educate around new technology. Featured during the main program of the AOC National Symposium, your Company will have 5 minutes of exclusive presentation time during this important educational session.

6. Panelists’ Meeting with 40+ Chairs & Vice Chairs During National Symposium

Following the Panel Presentation above, your Company’s Panelist and a few attendees from your Company will be invited to meet for 30 minutes in a facilitated conversation with other Panelists and AOC Chairs, Vice Chairs, and Division Chiefs to continue off-line dialogue and meaningful exchange in a small group setting.

7. Recognition as an AOC-Approved Vendor

Company is eligible for listing and promotion as an “AOC Approved Company.” If validated by an AOC member department, Company will be listed on the AOC Connect website as an approved vendor and recommended to institutions for consideration. Listing would feature the Company name, website URL, a sales contact and contact information. This information would also be disseminated via email to all AOC members on a quarterly basis. Company may also promote its status as an “AOC Approved Company.”

8. Year-Round Digital & Print Marketing Package

  1. Twice annual communications written by the company (i.e., special offers, company news, etc.) and disseminated to all AOC members

  2. Rotating digital ads across our members-only site, Members.MyAOCConnect.com

  3. Company logo displayed across the AOC Website and also JobsInOrtho.com

  4. Full color, half-page ad in our National Symposium Agenda

9. National Symposium Experience/Immersion with AOC Members

  1. Company will receive 4 paid registrations to attend all sessions of the AOC Business & Leadership Symposium

  2. 2.5 days of Breakfast and Lunch to include Thursday and Friday AOC Cocktail Reception for 4 Company Attendees

  3. A standard table-top booth for Company display

*Although the Delphi Consensus Survey and the White Paper can be requested individually, their value is maximized in tandem. While each has value, the subjective nature of the Delphi Consensus Survey and the objective nature of the White Paper serve as independent, expert-driven analysis companies may use as they see fit, whether externally for marketing or internally for strategy.

+ AOC Matchmaking Opportunity Available

The AOC is uniquely positioned as the ultimate matchmaker across the elite academic orthopaedic community. Please ask us about our matchmaking services that we can provide for à la cart projects that can be customized for companies who are seeking to accelerate and scale strategic pathways in specific ways.

Interested in Learning More?

Contact Michael Gagnon, Founder and CEO, AOC Connect, at the information below, or simply fill out our form.

919-740-0038 • Michael@aoc-ortho.com

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