 The society prides itself of its continued and successful activities to advance the education of clinicians, allied health professionals and the public in the nature of and management of diseases impacting upon the skeleton.The ANZBMS developed from a series of bone research symposia held in the late 1970s and early 1980s throughout Australia and New Zealand, which eventually led to the founding of the society at the Auckland Bone Symposium in 1988, with Professor Thomas John (Jack) Martin as its inaugural president.The first annual meeting was held in Perth in 1990.