Course Directors

Antonia Chen, MD

Steven Haas, MD

Thorsten Seyler, MD
Orthopedic Faculty
Associate Professor of Orthopedic Surgery Associate Professor of Microbiology, Immunology, and Cell Biology
West Virginia University
Assistant Professor of Orthopedic Surgery
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
Director, Outpatient Joint Replacement Program
Washington Hospital
Assistant Clinical Professor of Orthopedics
University of Chicago, Illinois
Featured Speakers
US Representative for Tennessee’s 5th Congressional District
How Health Policy Might Change in the 2020 Election
President, American College of Lifestyle Medicine and Chief Medical Officer, Zipongo
Latest Evidence on Patient Wellness Optimization
CTO, Brado
What Your Patients Search for and How to Optimize Your Online Presence
VP Network Innovation, OptumCare at UnitedHealth Group
Best Practices in a Bundled Care Environment
VP, TMA Medical Bank
Debt and Other Financial Instruments to Grow Your Practice and Make Capital Acquisitions
Founder and Co-Host, the Voice of Healthcare
EMRs, Practice Efficiency Apps, and Wearables and Apps for Patients – What’s Out There and What’s Meaningful?
SVP of Physician Strategy and Joint Line Strategy Director, USPI
How to Build an ASC
Agenda
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Day 1Friday, February 21st
TIME
TOPIC
SPEAKER
3:00 PM
WELCOME
Speaker TBD3:30 PM
PATIENT TRIAGE
— Panel: Who I Will Not Operate On— Denying Surgery for Modifiable Risk Factors without Losing Patients from Practice
— Care Setting and Implication for Patient Selection
All4:15 PM
PATIENT OPTIMIZATION
— What Tests and Consults Are Really Necessary?— Nutritional Optimization
— Psychological Optimization
— Pain Optimization
— Special Considerations for Outpatients
Dexter Shurney MD; Thorsten Seyler MD; Ritesh Shah, MD6:00 PM
PJI PREVENTION
Antonia Chen, MD6:45 PM
BREAK
7:30 PM
DINNER RECEPTION WITH TALKS IN THE ROUND
8:30 PM
SURGEONS IN THE ROUND
— Clinical Trials I am Excited About— The Future of Orthopedics
— Things I Wished I Knew Earlier in My Career
All9:00 PM
MITIGATING MALPRACTICE
— Litigation in Adult Reconstruction— The Hospital Perspective
— The Financial Planner Perspective
Antonia Chen, MD; Gerald Hickson, MD; Baxter Webb -
Day 2Saturday, February 22nd
TIME
TOPIC
SPEAKER
7:00 AM
BREAKFAST
7:30 AM
TKA PATIENT ANATOMY AND IMPLANY SELECTION
— Patient Demographics, Genetics, and Selection of Cemented vs. Cementless Designs— Varus vs. Valgus, Constraint, and Bearing
— Custom Printed Implants – Pros and Cons
— Implant Design and Implications for Cement Viscosity
Steven Haas, MD8:15 AM
TKA CEMENTING TOPICS
— Impact of Cement Viscosity and Polymer on Interdigitation and Cement-implant Bone Strength— Ideal Mantle Thickness, Viscosity and Hand Packing vs. Gun Pressurization
— Bone Status (Sclerotic, Osteoporotic) and Cement Viscosity
— Surface vs. Full Cementation of Implant
— Patella Resurfacing: Always, It Depends, or Never
Matt Squire, MD9:00 AM
BREAK
9:15 AM
TO TOURNIQUET OR NOT
— Impact on Patient Pain, Blood Loss, Cement Fixation and Venous Embolic Material— Narrated Video: Surgical technique for tourniquetless TKA and impact on Cement Viscosity
10:00 AM
THA CEMENTING TOPICS
— Patient Demographics and Selection of Cemented vs. Cementless Designs— Stem Finish, Cement Viscosity and Wear
— Insertion Technique: Restrictors, Pressurization, Stem Insertion Speed and Impact on Revision
— Narrated Video: Cementing in the Posterior Lateral Approach
— Narrated Video: Cementing in the Direct Anterior Approach
Alexander Sah, MD; Thorsten Seyler, MD11:30 AM
NAVIGATION
— What are the right numbers to hit?— When and How to Use Robots to Justify Cost and Operative Time
— Navigation in Value-Based Care and the ASC: Role for Accelerometers?
12:00 PM
LUNCH
— Lunch Keynote: EMRs, Apps, and Wearables – A Survey of Technology in OrthopedicsMatt Cybulsky12:45 PM
TECHNIQUE LAB
1:45 PM
ADAPTING TO FUTURE MODELS OF CARE
— What’s Working and Not Working in Orthopedic Reimbursement— How Policy Might Change with the 2020 Election
— Best Practices in a Bundled Care EnvionmentThorsten Seyler, MD; Jim Cooper; Austin Weaver2:45 PM
BREAK
3:00 PM
BUILDING A PRACTICE
— Network Referrals— Digital Media Optimization
— Financing your Practice
— Building an ASC
— The Surgeon Perspective
— The USPI Perspective
— Hiring a Team
Tod Fetherling; AJ Ghergich; Blake Wilson; Ritesh Shah, MD; Matt Pate; HCA5:30 PM
BREAK
6:45 PM
SHUTTLE TO DINNER RECEPTION – GREENBRIER DISTILLERY
8:00 PM
BOURBON, WAR, AND ORTHOPEDICS – A HISTORY
Baxter Webb -
Day 3Sunday, February 23rd
TIME
TOPIC
SPEAKER
7:30 AM
BREAKFAST
8:00 AM
POST-OPERATIVE MANAGEMENT
— Wound Management— Pain Management
— ASC and Outpatient Considerations
— Strategies in a Bundled Care World
9:00 AM
MANAGEMENT OF ASEPTIC COMPLICATIONS
— Workup of the Painful Knee— Incision Strategy
— Patella fracture
— Bone Loss During Revision: Porous Metaphyseal Cones/Sleeves vs. Impaction Bone Grafting
— Management of Ligament Instability
10:15 AM
BREAK
10:30 AM
MANAGEMENT OF PERIPROSTHETIC JOINT INFECTION
— Prognostic Factors and Treatment Triage— Debridement, Antibiotics, Irrigation and Retention
— One and 1.5 Stage Revision: Rationale and Considerations
— Salvage Strategies
Antonia Chen, MD12:00 PM
SPACER WORKSHOP
12:30 AM
LUNCH
— Closing Comments1:00 PM
RETURN TO AIRPORT