Scientific Program

Thursday, January 22, 2026

Time	Topic	Faculty
7:00 AM	Welcome Announcements	Kevin Plancher, MD, MPH Parag Sancheti MBBS, MS, MCh, DNB Hon. FRCS, Hon. Doctorat Majd Marrache, MD Mark Lee, MD, FACS Brian Lau, MD, MPH
7:15 AM	Primary Total Knee Arthroplasty	Section Moderator Adolph Lombardi, MD
7:15 AM	The Knee That Haunts Me the Night Before Surgery : Preparation and My Prep for a TKA Success	Kui-chou Huang, MD
7:22 AM	PS Loyalist Vs. CR Evangelist Vs. CS Diplomat: The Never-Ending Battle for the ‘Perfect’ Knee: Does it Really Make Any Difference?	W Andrew Hodge, MD, MBA, FACS
7:29 AM	Debate: Do I Really Need to Use the Robot?	Debate Moderator Vikram Jain, MS Ortho
7:29 AM	Pro: Robotic Surgery Should Be Standard of Care	Christopher Cannova, MD
7:35 AM	Pro: Manual TKA Done Well is Equally Effective	Brian Fuller, MD
7:41 AM	Rebuttal	-
7:43 AM	Complex Primary Total Knee, No Sweat, My 20 Year Experience, 7 Tips in 7 Minutes	Herrick Siegel, MD
7:50 AM	Transitioning to Robotics UKA	Dhanshekar Raja, MBBS
7:57 AM	Case Presentations with Questions and Answers and Audience Participation The Primary TKA: Not So Simple, Dont Be Fooled! Complex Total Knee Arthroplasty Hardware And Multuple Incisions 25 Degree Valgus Knee With a Flexion Contracture Rheumatoid With Diabetes (HbA1C Cutoff), Patella Stiff Knee	Moderators Adolph Lombardi, MD Majd Marrache, MD Panel James Slover, MD Andrey Korytkin, MD, PhD W Andrew Hodge, MD, MBA, FACS Christopher Cannova, MD Brian Fuller, MD Dhanshekar Raja, MBBS Vikram Jain, MS Ortho Herrick Siegel, MD Magaly Iñiguez, MD
8:29 AM	The Shifting Sands in Distal Femur Fracture Management	Section Moderator: Motasem Refaat, MD
8:29 AM	Feature Lecture: Evolving Approaches to Distal Femur Fractures—What is Happening on the Forefront: Keeping Up With the New Innovative Approach	Mark Lee, MD, FACS
8:39 AM	Debate: 35 Year Old Cross Fit Athlete With a Simple Split Distal Femur Fracture	Debate Moderator Brian Cunningham, MD
8:39 AM	Pro: Plating is Safe, Reliable, and the Answer	Ashok Gavaskar MS orth, FRCS (Glasg)
8:45 AM	Pro: Wake Up! Nails Recover Faster. Join My Camp	Niloofar Dehghan, MD
8:51 AM	Rebuttal	-
8:53 AM	The Hoffa Fracture: You Must Use Plates Posteriorly and Anterior to Screw Fixation. 7 Tips in 7 Minutes	Robinson Pires, MD, PhD
9:00 AM	Case Presentations with Questions and Answers and Audience Participation 21 yo With the a Destroyed Distal Femur Fracture-1 Plate, 2 Plates, No Plates?	Case Panel Moderator Hassan Mir MD, MBA, FACS, FIOTA Mark Lee, MD, FACS Panel: Abdul Ghani, MBBS, MS, MRCS Motasem Refaat, MD Hassan Mir MD, MBA, FACS, FIOTA Michael Suk MD, JD, MPH, MBA Niloofar Dehghan, MD Babar Shafiq, MD Nikolay Nikolaev Doctor of Medicine David Asprinio, MD James Goulet, MD Michell Ruiz, MD, M.Sc.
9:30 AM	Break & Visit The Exhibits	-
10:00 AM	ACL Update in 2026	Section Moderator Nicholas Sgaglione, MD
10:00 AM	21 yo Gymnast Requests a Modern ACL Reconstruction: What We Know Now to Make a Bad Chapter with a Great Ending in 2026!	Vincent McInerney, MD
10:05 AM	Using New Technology, How I Have Adapted When I Treat My ACL Surgeries	Nirav Amin, MD
10:10 AM	Debate: 20 Year-Old Female Field Hockey Division 1 Athlete Wants To Play in 7 Months Post-ACL Reconstruction	Debate Moderator: Nicholas Sgaglione, MD
10:10 AM	Pro: Augmentation and New Technology Will Get Her There	Reza Jazayeri, MD
10:16 AM	Pro: No Way- She Will Have to Wait to Pass A Sport Test- Its Not Happening	Matthew Varacallo, MD, MBA
10:24 AM	Joint Preservation: It’s All About the Cartilage	Section Moderator: Kash Akhtar MBBS, BSc, MRCS, Med MD, FRSA, FRCS (Tr & Orth)
10:24 AM	Metabolic and Nurtional Optimization to Enhance Orthopaedic Surgical Outcomes	Reza Jazayeri, MD
10:29 AM	Biologic Scaffolds and More- What Really Works- Listen Up: 7 Tips in 7 Minutes	Elizaveta Kon, MD
10:34 AM	36 yo Wall Street Banker Wants to Live Forever Playing Basketball: The Role Of Osteotomy- To Preserve the Joint and Make it Last Long	Alexander Meininger, MD
10:39 AM	Update Meniscus Repair Techniques in 2026: From Simple to Complex in 7 Tips in 7 Minutes	Brian Chilelli, MD
10:44 AM	Honored Professor Lecture: Time to Replace the Meniscus: Transplantation or Artificial Scaffolds: Time to Tell You What We Know and the Best Answer	Rene Verdonk, MD, PhD
10:59 AM	Mini Debate: 20 Year-Old Male Liverpool Soccer Player With 12 Degree Varus Aligment, Displaced Radial Medial Meniscus Tear, 5mm Medial Femoral Chondral Injury, Femoral Avulsion ACL Injury	Debate Moderator Sameer Shaikh MS (Ortho), DNB(ORTHO), MNAMS
10:59 AM	Pro: Time to Fix It All- I’m Saving His Knee	Inderpreet singh Oberoi MS (Orth.), MCh Orth. (Liverpool, U.K.)
11:04 AM	Pro: Slow Down Cowboy- I’ll Show You What You Need to Do	Kash Akhtar MBBS, BSc, MRCS, Med MD, FRSA, FRCS (Tr & Orth)
11:09 AM	Rebuttal	-
11:10 AM	TKA: So Many Things to Think About Besides the Surgery	Section Moderator John Dundon, MD
11:10 AM	The 70 yo Malpractice Lawyer Walks in Quoting Registry Data and Demands A Press-Fit Knee, What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Getting You Ready for the Future	Khalid Yousuf, MD, MS, FAAOS
11:15 AM	Meet Mr. Comb-Over: Cutting Neither Muscle nor Corners in Total Knee Arthroplasty	Ryan Molli, D.O.
11:20 AM	65 yo Female Only Agrees To Surgery if I Can Guarantee Her No Pain, What Should I Tell Her? I Have New Drugs to Offer	Ron Hillock, MD, MBA
11:25 AM	Mini Debate: 62 yo Retired Policeman Asks “What’s the Best TKA Knee Fixation?”	Debate Moderator Kui-chou Huang, MD
11:25 AM	Pro: Cementless TKA and the Future is Here Now	Henry Fu MBBS (HK), MMedSc(HK), FRCS (Edin)
11:30 AM	Pro: Cement Still Reigns Supreme, Don’t Be Silly	Thomas Turgeon, MD
11:36 AM	Case Presentations with Questions and Answers and Audience Participation Primary Total Knee Optimization: Anesthesia, Analgesia, TXA, Infection Prevention, Outpatient Surgery for a Simplified Recovery: Lightning Round	Moderators Khalid Yousuf, MD, MS, FAAOS Henry Fu MBBS (HK), MMedSc(HK), FRCS (Edin) Panel Kui-chou Huang, MD Jose Antonio San Juan, MD Ryan Molli, D.O. David Liu, MD John Dundon, MD W Andrew Hodge, MD, MBA, FACS Thomas Turgeon, MD Bradley Wolf, PA Ron Hillock, MD, MBA
12:00 PM	Lunch	-
1:15 PM	Isolated PCL, MCL, And Multiligament Injuries	Section Moderators Gilbert Moatshe, MD, PhD Henri Robert, MD
1:15 PM	PCL Techniques: Update 2026 – Have We Finally Decided The Right Way	Alexander Meininger, MD
1:22 PM	Isolated MCL in 18 Year-Old American Football Player: Brace or Fix And Why- Here’s the Evidence	Reha Tandogan, MD
1:27 PM	Posterolateral Corner – How I Fix It! Tibial Based Vs Fibular Based, Interference Screws Vs Suspensory	Thomas DeBerardino MD, COL, US Army (Ret), FAOA FAANA
1:34 PM	Case Presentations with Questions and Answers and Audience Participation Multiligament Controversies Early Vs Staged, Allograft Vs Autograft, Role of External Fixation And Neurovascular Injuries	Moderators Gilbert Moatshe, MD, PhD Brian Forsythe, MD Panel Reha Tandogan, MD Chad Hanson, MD Alexander Meininger, MD Thomas DeBerardino MD, COL, US Army (Ret), FAOA FAANA Thomas Neri, MD, PhD Henri Robert, MD Sameer Shaikh MS (Ortho), DNB(ORTHO), MNAMS Herve Ouanezar Prathmesh Jain, MD Vincent McInerney, MD
1:59 PM	Live Surgery: A Hinge TKA for a Primary Knee	Moderators Ron Hillock, MD, MBA Philippe Neyret, MD, Prof Surgeon Thomas Neri, MD, PhD
1:59 PM	Live TKA Surgery and More	-
2:29 PM	Case Presentations with Questions and Answers and Audience Participation What Now! Intraoperative Complications During TKA. How I Solve the Problems	Moderators Peter Sharkey, MD David Mayman, MD Panel Lincoln Liow, MD, FRCS Joaquin Moya-Angeler, MD Dan Allison RAMAKANT KUMAR, MS Vetri Kumar M.S. Orthopaedics Prathmesh Jain, MD Herrick Siegel, MD W Andrew Hodge, MD, MBA, FACS André Ferreira, MD
3:00 PM	Break	-
3:30 PM	Tibial Plateau Fractures Suddenly Became so Complicated	Section Moderator David Asprinio, MD
3:30 PM	Why You Just Can’t Use the Schatzker Classification Anymore for Your Proximal Tibial Fractures	James Learned, MD
3:37 PM	50 yo Investment Banker With a 4 mm Split Depressed Lateral Tibia Plateau–“Fracture-Oscopy is the Best Technique”. Let Me Show You How	Timothy Alton, MD
3:44 PM	You Thought it Was but…That’s Not a Bicondylar Plateau– Tips for Extension and Flexion Variants and How to Succeed	Motasem Refaat, MD
3:51 PM	Tibial Plateau Fractures: Don’t Forget About the Ligaments. 7 Tips in 7 Minutes	Hassan Mir MD, MBA, FACS, FIOTA
3:56 PM	I Don’t Need Prone Positioning to Fix a Posterior Tibial Plateau Fracture	Ashok Gavaskar MS orth, FRCS (Glasg)
4:06 PM	Case Presentations with Questions and Answers and Audience Participation Knee Fracture Dislocations. How I Handle Calmly These Complex Cases: 22 yo soccer athlete with knee fracture dislocation plus liagment injuries–I should fix all of these at once 36 yo Laborer with Central Joint Impaction After Medial Condylar Fracture 50 Yo With a Failed Fixation but the Joint Looks Ok--Fix or Replace?	Moderators Michael McKee, MD, FRCS(C) Niloofar Dehghan, MD Panel Abdul Ghani, MBBS, MS, MRCS Hassan Mir MD, MBA, FACS, FIOTA Timothy Alton, MD Babar Shafiq, MD Said Saghieh, MD Michell Ruiz, MD, M.Sc. Swapnil Kothadia, MD Robinson Pires, MD, PhD Michael Blankstein, MD, MSc, FRCSC
4:26 PM	Pushing The Envelope With UKA	Section Moderator Alexey Karpukhin, MD
4:26 PM	MIS TKA: Does It Exist, and What Does It Actually Mean in 2026?	Jose Antonio San Juan, MD
4:31 PM	Using AI to Better Understand Outcomes That Make a Difference for Your Patients	Akash Sharma MBBS BSc (Hons) MRCS FRCS (Tr + Orth)
4:36 PM	The Lateral UKA: 5 Tips and Tricks in 5 Minutes	Brian Fuller, MD
4:41 PM	The Battle Of The Bearings; Fixed Vs Mobile UKA	André Ferreira, MD
4:46 PM	Patellofemoral Replacement a Magical Answer, Let Me Show You What Type of Prosthesis and Who Needs it and How to Make it Work Each Time	Adolph Lombardi, MD
4:53 PM	What Patients Really Do After UKA; Pickleball To Powerlifting. Did You Know, They Do it All?	Ryan Molli, D.O.
4:58 PM	Vice Chair Wrap-Up	-
5:00 PM	Non-CME Spotlight	-
6:00 PM	Focus Groups	-
6:30 PM	Faculty Dinner By Invitation Only/Industry Dine Arounds	-

Friday, January 23, 2026

Time	Topic	Faculty
8:00 AM	Ultrasound Workshop Modern Knee Orthobiologics and Ultrasound-Guided Injection Techniques: Evidence, Anatomy, and Expert Execution	Don Buford, MD, FAANA, RMSK Henri Robert, MD Prathmesh Jain, MD Emmanouil Papakostas, MD Thomas DeBerardino MD, COL, US Army (Ret), FAOA FAANA Jason Rand, PA-C
10:00 AM	Fractures that Make you Nervous	Section Moderator Michael McKee, MD, FRCS(C)
10:00 AM	40 yo Cyclist With a Communited Patella Fracture	David Asprinio, MD
10:07 AM	Solving and Age Old Problem of Fractures in the Tibia Below a TKA: Razzle Dazzle	Mark Lee, MD, FACS
10:14 AM	The Land of No Bone. An 82 yo Female with a Mid-shaft Femoral Fracture Between Her Hip and Knee Arthoplasty	Babar Shafiq, MD
10:21 AM	71 yo BMI 40 Bus Driver Seeking Advice for His Failed Reconstructed Distal Femur Fracture. What I Do Now	Aaron Nauth
10:28 AM	51 yo Asymptomatic TKA with Aseptic Loosening. Why I Intervene Now	Michael Blankstein, MD, MSc, FRCSC
10:35 AM	The Newest Innovation in Compartment Syndrome Detection. Listen Up!	Edward Harvey MD MSc FIOTA FAAOS FRCSC
10:42 AM	Case Presentations with Questions and Answers and Audience Participation Open Communited Distal Femoral Fracture The 90 Yo Mother Of The Hospital Ceo Has A Comminuted And Slightly Open Distal Femur Fracture, What Is The Best Way? 50 yo Open Fracture With Minimal Contamination And Large Devitalized Fragments--Keep or Bucket? 68 Yo With Failed Lateral Plate Fixation--Should Fix With 2 Plates?	Moderators Edward Harvey MD MSc FIOTA FAAOS FRCSC Michael Suk MD, JD, MPH, MBA Panel Niloofar Dehghan, MD Motasem Refaat, MD Aaron Nauth Robinson Pires, MD, PhD James Goulet, MD James Learned, MD David Asprinio, MD Abdul Ghani, MBBS, MS, MRCS Babar Shafiq, MD
11:15 AM	Debate: Autograft Is The Best Way Support My Tibial Plateu Articular Repair/Support	Debate Moderator Michael Suk MD, JD, MPH, MBA
11:15 AM	Pro: The Price is Right and It's Always Available	Michael McKee, MD, FRCS(C)
11:21 AM	Pro: Crazy Thoughts! Bone Substitutes Save Time and Are Much Stronger	Michael Blankstein, MD, MSc, FRCSC
11:27 AM	Rebuttal	-
11:27 AM	The Ups and Downs of Distal Femural Replacements. Words of Caution to Lead You on the Path to the Wizard of Oz	Michael Blankstein, MD, MSc, FRCSC
11:34 AM	Debate: Tourniquet	Debate Moderator Andrey Korytkin, MD, PhD
11:34 AM	Pro: I Like to See What I Am Doing During TKA	Robert Tait, MD
11:40 AM	Con: I See Fine, Do You Know How Much Pain a Tourniquet Causes	David Mayman, MD
11:46 AM	Rebuttal	-
11:48 AM	Distinguished Professor Lecture Mistakes And What I No Longer Do in My Total Knees	Javad Parvizi, MD, FRCS
12:00 PM	Lunch	-
1:15 PM	Evidence Based Outcomes: Looking Back. Did The Robot Improve Anything?	Peter Sharkey, MD
1:15 PM	Working as an Arthoplasty Surgeon in The Year 2050	Section Moderator Michael Tim Yun Ong (ORT), MBChB(UK), BSc(UK), MRCS(Edin) MSc(CUHK), FRCSEd(Orth), FHKCOS, FHKAM(Ortho)
1:22 PM	My Toolbox for TKA and What it Looks Like in 10 Years	James Slover, MD
1:27 PM	UKA Done Right (Robotically): Only Half a Knee, Twice the Precision	Alexander Aichmair, MD, MPH
1:34 PM	Debate: Robotics Vs Navigation: The Battle of the Titans	Debate Moderator Rajnish Garg, MD
1:34 PM	Pro: We Navigate Our Cars, Navigating The Knee is Just as Easy	Lincoln Liow, MD, FRCS
1:40 PM	Pro: My Robot Will Crush You and Your Navigating Idea. Step Aside	John Dundon, MD
1:46 PM	Rebuttal	-
1:48 PM	Case Presentations with Questions and Answers and Audience Participation Robotics in TKA. What’s Available. What Works. What Doesn’t Work Problems with a Robot Complex TKA After Orif Using Robot Extraarticular Tibial Defects, Robotics Are Just Better	Moderators Christopher Cannova, MD Akash Sharma MBBS BSc (Hons) MRCS FRCS (Tr + Orth) Panel Joseph Maratt Peter Sharkey, MD Rajnish Garg, MD Ashish Singh James Slover, MD Lincoln Liow, MD, FRCS John Dundon, MD Alexander Aichmair, MD, MPH Jaswinder Singh
2:13 PM	The Difficult Total Knee Made Easy	Section Moderator Bogadi Prashanth MCh, MRCS Edin, FRCS
2:13 PM	A 65 year old robotic engineer refuses surgery unless "the robot does the cut". What should I tell him?	David Mayman, MD
2:20 PM	Revision TKA Without The Struggle: Step by Step Exposure and My Secrets for Prosthesis Removal	Adolph Lombardi, MD
2:27 PM	The New Kid on the Block, the Hinged Knee Prosthesis for Complex Revision and Even Primaries	Thomas Neri, MD, PhD
2:32 PM	Case Presentations with Questions and Answers and Audience Participation The Complex Primary TKA: Anything Goes Obese Patients Hyperextension Recavatum Bilaterals	Moderators Thomas Neri, MD, PhD Joaquin Moya-Angeler, MD Panel Michael Tim Yun Ong (ORT), MBChB(UK), BSc(UK), MRCS(Edin) MSc(CUHK), FRCSEd(Orth), FHKCOS, FHKAM(Ortho) David Liu, MD Patel Kalpit, MS Julius Oni, MD BHUPENDRA PATEL KHANUSHIYA, MS Jaswinder Singh Robert Tait, MD Kui-chou Huang, MD Dhanshekar Raja, MBBS
3:00 PM	Break	-
3:30 PM	The New Frontier: Innovations in Sports Medicine	Section Moderator: Elizaveta Kon, MD
3:30 PM	Distinguished Professor Lecture The ICRS President Speaks: Translational Biologic Therapies For Cartilage Healing	Daniel Grande, PHD
3:40 PM	The Arthroscopic Robot in Sports Medicine- It's Coming!	Nick Colyvas, MD
3:45 PM	Use Of Nanotechnology & Advanced Biologic Matrices for Knee Regeneration: 5 Tips in 5 Minutes	Konrad Slynarski, MD, PhD
3:50 PM	Orthobiologics: Updates and New Thoughts	Section Moderator Daniel Grande, PHD
3:50 PM	Distinguished Professor Lecture Plasma Rich Protein– Injury Healing– My 30 Years of Experience	Ramon Cugat, MD, PhD
4:00 PM	Orthobiologics For Knee OA And Tendinopathy- Real Answers	Scott Sigman, MD
4:05 PM	Biologics in Sports Medicine in 2026- My 5 Tips in 5 Minutes	Angie Botto-van Bemden, PhD, ATC, CSCS
4:10 PM	PRP, BMAC In Elite Athletes- The When and How I Use It?	Don Buford, MD, FAANA, RMSK
4:17 PM	Time for Evidence Based Truth on Biologics; The ICRS President Speaks Out	Kenneth Zaslav, MD
4:24 PM	Adipose Derived Stem Cells to Harness Natural Healing Properties - Update 2026	Konrad Slynarski, MD, PhD
4:34 PM	Master Techniques for Complex Fractures. Sharing our secrets	Section Moderator Edward Harvey MD MSc FIOTA FAAOS FRCSC
4:34 PM	Osteotomies that Improve Surgical Exposures Around the Knee: Shhh. I’m Telling You My Secrets	James Learned, MD
4:41 PM	My secret Uncommon Reduction Tricks for Complex Knee Fractures	Abdul Ghani, MBBS, MS, MRCS
4:48 PM	My Techniques for Solving Bone Loss When Fixing Complex Fracture Around the Knee	Michell Ruiz, MD, M.Sc.
4:55 PM	Case Presentations with Questions and Answers and Audience Participation Complex Knee Fractures with Bone Loss. How I Deal with Them. 30 yo food delivery driver with nonreconstructible distal femur fracture with bone loss–best solutions.	Moderators James Goulet, MD Aaron Nauth Panel Edward Harvey MD MSc FIOTA FAAOS FRCSC Babar Shafiq, MD Brian Cunningham, MD Michael Blankstein, MD, MSc, FRCSC Said Saghieh, MD Michael Suk MD, JD, MPH, MBA Dan Allison David Asprinio, MD Hassan Mir MD, MBA, FACS, FIOTA
5:10 PM	Case Presentations with Questions and Answers and Audience Participation Compartment Syndrome: Everything That is New. How We Should All Avoid Unfortunate Lawsuits. Update 2026. 18 yo Competitive Soccer Player With Minimally Displaced Tibial Shaft Fracture and Major Swelling. 44 yo Intubated Polytrauma Patient With Swollen Leg and Open Tibial Shaft Fracture. 38 yo Substance Abuser Found Down With Tightly Swollen Thigh and Leg.	Moderators Edward Harvey MD MSc FIOTA FAAOS FRCSC Niloofar Dehghan, MD Panel Mark Lee, MD, FACS Timothy Alton, MD David Asprinio, MD Brian Cunningham, MD James Goulet, MD James Learned, MD Ashok Gavaskar MS orth, FRCS (Glasg) Swapnil Kothadia, MD Michael McKee, MD, FRCS(C)
5:25 PM	Vice-Chairs Wrap Up	-
5:30 PM	Chairman's Reception Gala Dinner in Exhibition Hall	-
7:00 PM	Industry Dine Around	-

Saturday, January 24, 2026

Time	Topic	Faculty
7:00 AM	Welcome Announcements	Kevin Plancher, MD, MPH Parag Sancheti MBBS, MS, MCh, DNB Hon. FRCS, Hon. Doctorat Majd Marrache, MD Mark Lee, MD, FACS Brian Lau, MD, MPH
7:09 AM	Trauma Economics and Mistakes I Made. Time to Come Clean	Section Moderator Hassan Mir MD, MBA, FACS, FIOTA
7:09 AM	How This Tibial Plateau Fixation Failed and What I Learned. To be Honest, That Was Never Going to Work	Said Saghieh, MD
7:14 AM	How this Distal Femur Failed and What I Learned? To be Honest, I Agree, That Was Never Going to Work.	Nikolay Nikolaev Doctor of Medicine
7:19 AM	Surprises in the Evidence About Distal Femur Fixation. Let Me Tell You the Truth. Can You Handle it?	Aaron Nauth
7:24 AM	Help! I Admit it. I Don't Know the Best Way to Fix Distal Femur Fractures	James Learned, MD
7:34 AM	How much does that cost? Economic considerations in distal femur implant choices? How Much Does That Cost? Do You Know?	Michael Suk MD, JD, MPH, MBA
7:41 AM	Case Presentations with Questions and Answers and Audience Participation The Nail Plate Era for Distal Femur Won't Last Long Need Cases ML Aware	Moderators James Goulet, MD Aaron Nauth Moderator Ashok Gavaskar MS orth, FRCS (Glasg) Panel Timothy Alton, MD Michael McKee, MD, FRCS(C) Motasem Refaat, MD Babar Shafiq, MD Said Saghieh, MD Hassan Mir MD, MBA, FACS, FIOTA Michael Suk MD, JD, MPH, MBA
8:01 AM	Kinematic vs Insall Mechanical Legacy, Dont Tell Me This New Fangled Stuff!	Magaly Iñiguez, MD
8:01 AM	Alignment, Alignment, Alignment	Section Moderator Thomas Meade, MD
8:06 AM	The Scrub Nurse Says Doctor, The Knee is Not Straight. He Says, "Don't Worry!"	Stephen Howell, MD
8:16 AM	Unrestricted Kinematic Alignment in The Ultra Severe Varus Knee; My Tips and Tricks	Vikram Jain, MS Ortho
8:21 AM	Unrestricted Kinematic Alignment, No Sweat I Got My Robot	Lincoln Liow, MD, FRCS
8:26 AM	I've Heard Enough, Stop Dancing Around, Mechanical Alignment Wins the Day	Gwo-Chin Lee, MD
8:33 AM	Alignment? I'll Show You the Only Right Way to Align a Knee	Philippe Neyret, MD, Prof
8:40 AM	The Business of Total Knee Arthroplasty	Section Moderator Ashish Singh
8:40 AM	Building an International Joint Center: What Are The Essential Elements? You Can Do It	Javad Parvizi, MD, FRCS
8:50 AM	From Hopkins to Nigeria, Conquering Deformities, Adversity and Challenges, I Don't Sweat It	Julius Oni, MD
9:00 AM	Break	-
9:30 AM	Mini Debate: 63 yo Marathon Runner With a Medial Meniscus Root Tear and a Grade 3.1 Osteoarthritis	Moderator Ryan Molli, D.O.
9:30 AM	I always repair the meniscus. He'll Do Great! No Metal for Me	Michael Redler, MD
9:35 AM	Pro: No Sweat. This is an Easy Layup. Time to Do the UKA	Alexey Karpukhin, MD
9:40 AM	Pro: You're Both Wrong. You Need to Do the TKA. Let Me Show You Why	Joseph Maratt
9:45 AM	Rebuttal	-
9:46 AM	Modern Innovative Techniques to Detect the Prosthetic Infection, Let Me List Them and Evaluate Them. Cost Does Matter	Ashish Singh
9:46 AM	Infection, Infection, Infection	Section Moderator Edward J. Mcpherson, MD Abdul Ghani, MBBS, MS, MRCS
9:51 AM	Red, Hot, And Swollen: The Modern Algorithm For A Surgeon’s Worst Call	Javad Parvizi, MD, FRCS
10:01 AM	Dare to DAIR, Tips and Tricks	Gwo-Chin Lee, MD
10:06 AM	62 yo Farmer Undergoes a 1.5 Prosthesis Exchange for PJI, It's My Way or the Highway	Edward J. Mcpherson, MD
10:13 AM	Two-Stage Exchange In TKA PJI Can Break The Biofilm Cycle	Nikolay Nikolaev Doctor of Medicine
10:18 AM	Debate	Debate Moderator Gwo-Chin Lee, MD
10:18 AM	Pro: One-Stage Revision for Chronic PJI Is The Answer	Javad Parvizi, MD, FRCS
10:24 AM	Pro: Slow Down World Traveler, 2 Stage Is The Gold Standard	Dan Allison
10:32 AM	TKA PJI and Wound Management	Case Panel Moderator Javad Parvizi, MD, FRCS Edward J. Mcpherson, MD Panel Nikolay Nikolaev Doctor of Medicine Arvind Prasad Gupta, MS Philippe Neyret, MD, Prof Ron Hillock, MD, MBA Bogadi Prashanth MCh, MRCS Edin, FRCS Robert Tait, MD RAMAKANT KUMAR, MS BHUPENDRA PATEL KHANUSHIYA, MS Julius Oni, MD
11:00 AM	World Cup of Soccer Medicine	Brian Lau, MD, MPH
11:00 AM	Match 1: First-Time ACL Injury in an Elite Soccer Athlete Case: 18-year-old winger, non-contact injury, isolated ACL Debate Points: Graft selection (BTB vs. quad vs. hamstring) Role of LET or ALL recon in primary When to clear for return: functional vs. timeline Psychological readiness and re-injury rates Does treatment in case of Elevated Posterior Slope (18-20) Does treatment change In case of Revision?	Referees Brian Forsythe, MD Bashir Zikiria, MD Players Nikolay Nikolaev Doctor of Medicine Chad Hanson, MD Nagraj Shetty, MD Bashir Zikiria, MD Alfred Khoury, MD Sameer Shaikh MS (Ortho), DNB(ORTHO), MNAMS Ramon Cugat, MD, PhD Jason Rand, PA-C Thomas DeBerardino MD, COL, US Army (Ret), FAOA FAANA Henri Robert, MD
11:15 AM	Match 2: 14 Year-Old Female Soccer Athlete With a Lateral Meniscus Bucket Handle Tear Debridement vs Repair Repair Techniques (All-Inside, Root Repair, Inside-Out) Rehab Restrictions – Brace or Not? WB Status? Managing Lateral Vs. Medial Tears in High-Load Cutting Sports	Referees Nagraj Shetty, MD Prathmesh Jain, MD Players Brian Forsythe, MD Alfred Khoury, MD Inderpreet singh Oberoi MS (Orth.), MCh Orth. (Liverpool, U.K.) Reza Jazayeri, MD Sameer Shaikh MS (Ortho), DNB(ORTHO), MNAMS Ramon Cugat, MD, PhD Chad Hanson, MD Bashir Zikiria, MD Jason Rand, PA-C Kenneth Zaslav, MD Nikolay Nikolaev Doctor of Medicine
11:30 AM	Match 3: 23 Year-Old Male International Premeir League Soccer Player With a Painful Medial Isolated Femoral Condyle Defect 2.5 cm ICRS Grade IV Lesion In Season Management—Injections? Aspirations? Biologics? Conservative Management: Biologics (PRP, BMAC), Load Management, Rehab When to Operate? What Operation? Debridement, Microfracture, OAT, OCA, MACI? Role of Unloading Osteotomy Imaging and Functional Criteria for Return Role of Second-Look Arthroscopy	Referees Kenneth Zaslav, MD Chad Hanson, MD Players Brian Forsythe, MD Alfred Khoury, MD Inderpreet singh Oberoi MS (Orth.), MCh Orth. (Liverpool, U.K.) Nicholas Sgaglione, MD Reza Jazayeri, MD Sameer Shaikh MS (Ortho), DNB(ORTHO), MNAMS Emmanouil Papakostas, MD Bashir Zikiria, MD Brian Lau, MD, MPH Jason Rand, PA-C
11:45 AM	Match 4: 25 Year-Old Recreational League Soccer Player With In-Season Proximal Hamstring With Two-Tendon and 3 cm Gap In Season Management—Injections? Biologics? Conservative Management: Biologics (PRP, BMAC), Load Management, Rehab When to Operate? What Operation? Repair, Reconstruction? Recovery and Timing for Return to Play?	Referees Reza Jazayeri, MD Sameer Shaikh MS (Ortho), DNB(ORTHO), MNAMS Players Brian Lau, MD, MPH Nagraj Shetty, MD Brian Forsythe, MD Alfred Khoury, MD Emmanouil Papakostas, MD Nicholas Sgaglione, MD Chad Hanson, MD Bashir Zikiria, MD Ramon Cugat, MD, PhD Henri Robert, MD
12:00 PM	Lunch	-
1:15 PM	My TKA Failed	Section Moderator Philippe Neyret, MD, Prof
1:15 PM	The 59 yo Policeman with a 25 Degree Valgus Deformity, How I Make it Perfect!	Michael Tim Yun Ong (ORT), MBChB(UK), BSc(UK), MRCS(Edin) MSc(CUHK), FRCSEd(Orth), FHKCOS, FHKAM(Ortho)
1:22 PM	TKA Infection Prevention - Yes To All Antimicrobial Tactics	Edward J. Mcpherson, MD
1:27 PM	A Sumo Wrestler With a BMI of 50 Proudly Admits “I Walked On My Prosthesis Until It Fractured"; The Role of Cones, Sleeves and Augments	Dan Allison
1:37 PM	The Role of a Megaprosthesis in Distal Femur Periprosthetic Fractures; How I Manage Them	Michael Suk MD, JD, MPH, MBA
1:47 PM	Difficult Knees in Obese Patients, CR Won't Fail	Nirav Amin, MD
1:52 PM	The Role of Mesh, Allograft Maybe Both, My Way of Extensor Mechanism Reconstruction	Philippe Neyret, MD, Prof
1:59 PM	Stop This Nonsense: You Need Robotics to Do a Great Revision TKA, Let Me Tell You Your Choices	Henry Fu MBBS (HK), MMedSc(HK), FRCS (Edin)
2:06 PM	When the Tumor Takes the Bone: The Role of a Megaprosthesis in Modern Limb Salvage	Said Saghieh, MD
2:13 PM	Case Presentations with Questions and Answers and Audience Participation Revision TKA: The Tough Cases Hinge Case Instability Stiff Knee/Arthrofibrosis	Moderators Herrick Siegel, MD Dan Allison Panel Adolph Lombardi, MD David Mayman, MD Dhanshekar Raja, MBBS Michael Tim Yun Ong (ORT), MBChB(UK), BSc(UK), MRCS(Edin) MSc(CUHK), FRCSEd(Orth), FHKCOS, FHKAM(Ortho) Jose Antonio San Juan, MD Thomas Turgeon, MD Andrey Korytkin, MD, PhD Rajnish Garg, MD Michael Suk MD, JD, MPH, MBA
2:40 PM	Why Did I Move To Turkey?	Javad Parvizi, MD, FRCS
2:50 PM	AI In Orthopaedic Medicine	Justin Smith, MD
3:00 PM	Break & Visit The Exhibits	-
3:30 PM	ACL Repairs: The New Answer	Section Moderator Joaquin Moya-Angeler, MD
3:30 PM	Debate: 33 yo Female Skier with Proximal ACL Femoral Avulsion Injury	Moderator Justin Smith, MD
3:30 PM	PRO: This is a Chip Shot-- I'm Going to Repair and He'll be Skiing in 3 months	Thomas DeBerardino MD, COL, US Army (Ret), FAOA FAANA
3:36 PM	PRO: Are You Crazy? The Gold Standard is ACL Reconstruction	Nirav Amin, MD
3:42 PM	Rebutal	-
3:44 PM	MPFL- How I Fix It Today- 5 Tips In 5 Minutes	Konrad Slynarski, MD, PhD
3:44 PM	Patellofemoral Instability	Section Moderator Justin Smith, MD
3:49 PM	TTO- More Than Just Medialization. I Know How to Balance The Knee	Joaquin Moya-Angeler, MD
3:56 PM	Trochleoplasty- Calm Down- I'm Not Going to Destroy the Knee Forever	Emmanouil Papakostas, MD
4:03 PM	Advances in Knee Sports Medicine Surgery	Section Moderator Matthew Varacallo, MD, MBA
4:03 PM	23 Year-Old With Posterior Slope of 9 Degrees and 2 Prior ACL Tears- Now Wants to Know if Osteotomy Will Help Me?	Alfred Khoury, MD
4:10 PM	The Pediatric ACL Update 2026- 7 Tips in 7 Minutes You'll Never Forget	Pawan Dhawan MS orthopedics, DNB orthopedics
4:17 PM	Patellar and Quadriceps Repair Techniques-- What Works in 2026!	Chad Hanson, MD
4:27 PM	Revision ACL and the Role of LET- 5 tips 5 Minutes	Arvind Prasad Gupta, MS
4:32 PM	Case Presentations with Questions and Answers and Audience Participation Techniques, Indications, and Outcomes for Augmentation of ACL Reconstructions, Patella Tendon and Quad Ruptures	Moderators Michael Redler, MD Don Buford, MD, FAANA, RMSK Panel Herve Ouanezar Jason Rand, PA-C Matthew Varacallo, MD, MBA Sameer Shaikh MS (Ortho), DNB(ORTHO), MNAMS Brian Forsythe, MD Chad Hanson, MD Gilbert Moatshe, MD, PhD Justin Smith, MD Scott Sigman, MD Arvind Prasad Gupta, MS
4:57 PM	Distinguished Professor Lecture The Pain Pathways and Medications No One Discusses In Orthopaedics: Endocannabis	Thomas Meade, MD
5:07 PM	The Sound Of The Future- Sustained Acoustic Medicine (Sam)	George Lewis, PhD
5:14 PM	How You Can improve Poor Quality Bone?	Mark Lee, MD, FACS
5:14 PM	Innovation in Orthopedic Trauma	Section Moderator Michell Ruiz, MD, M.Sc.
5:19 PM	I Need Mini Plates to Fix Most Tibial Plateau Fractures	Motasem Refaat, MD
5:26 PM	My 3 Best Time Saving Tips for Fractures Around the Knee	Niloofar Dehghan, MD
5:33 PM	Case Presentations with Questions and Answers and Audience Participation Future Directions in Plateau & Distal Femur Fixation The Nonreconstructible Articular Injury-Will Osteoarticular Allografts Work? 3D Printed Scaffolds for Periarticular Defects 88 yo With a Distal Femur Fracture--You Should Protect the Femoral Neck?	Moderators Niloofar Dehghan, MD Hassan Mir MD, MBA, FACS, FIOTA Panel Timothy Alton, MD David Asprinio, MD Brian Cunningham, MD Ashok Gavaskar MS orth, FRCS (Glasg) Swapnil Kothadia, MD Robinson Pires, MD, PhD Motasem Refaat, MD Michell Ruiz, MD, M.Sc. James Learned, MD
5:58 PM	Chair Wrap Up What I've Learned in the Last 3 Days	Kevin Plancher, MD, MPH Parag Sancheti MBBS, MS, MCh, DNB Hon. FRCS, Hon. Doctorat
6:00 PM	Meeting Concludes	-

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