History of CAOT

On August 29, 1982, Wilson Mansfield(Ortho Tech at NC baptist Hospital) and Don Griffin(Ortho tech at Salem Orthopedics) attended the meeting in Boston where NAOT was founded. There was great encouragement to form individual state chapters. Wison and Don came back and started talking to all the local cast techs about NAOT. Scotch Cast(3M) agreed to get a list of all the Orthopedic offices and Hospitals that had an Ortho Tech. Wilson and Don wrote a letter inviting all these techs to a meeting at the Holiday Inn in Greensboro in the spring of 1983. Scotch Cast(3M) did the mailing. Approximately 14 people attended this meeting. As a special guest Joe Sherrod, President of NAOT, attended the meeting and explained what NAOT was about, and how this was education and the joining together of a group of professionals. CAOT was officially founded at that meeting. Wilson Mansfield was voted in as CAOT's first president. The next meeting of CAOT was held in the fall of 1983 at NC Baptist hospital.

Our Mission

As a state chapter of the National Association of Orthopaedic Technologists, we follow their by-laws and the same beliefs. That is to offer the educational goal of enhancing our skills and knowledge. Our responsibility is to reach out to the Orthopaedic Technologist community to encourage the importance of becoming an active member on both the state and National level.