Saturday, January 24, 2026 Archives

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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