Thursday, January 22, 2026 Archives

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	-

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