Today in the Resource Center Theater

The Resource Center Theater brings you brief presentations to make your life and your practice easier. Orthopaedic surgeons, Academy staff, and topic experts explain ways to reduce your expenses, put greater efficiencies into your coding, build an orthopaedic legacy, and master a new, powerful orthopaedic search program on the Internet. Check the scheduled listings below for topics that interest you. The Resource Center Theater is located in the Moscone West Lobby, Level 1.

10:30 a.m.
Culturally Competent Care: An Orthopaedist’s Responsibility
Raj Rao, MD

11:00 a.m.
See the Power of the X…Orthopaedic CodeX
Howard Mevis, director of electronic media, evaluation programs, course operations, and practice management group

11:30 a.m.
AAOS Member Advantage Program: Insurance – Term Life, Disability, Long-term Care
Presented by Pearl Insurance

12:00 p.m.
AAOS Member Advantage Program: Revenue Management – Don’t Let Rejected Claims Cut Your Practice to the Bone
Presented by Gateway EDI

12:30 p.m.
AAOS OrthoPortal, E-books, and Patient Education
William A. Grana, MD, MPH,
OrthoPortal editor-in-chief, and Jane Baque, senior manager of publications websites

1:00 p.m.
Clinical Practice Guidelines: Why They Matter
Members of the AAOS Evidence-Based Practice and Guidelines Oversight Committees

1:30 p.m.
AAOS Education Funds: Upholding Educational Excellence
Bonnie Emberton, director of development, Orthopaedic Research and Education Foundation (OREF)

2:30 p.m.
Periacetabular Osteotomy – A Brief Overview
Christopher E. Pelt, MD, assistant professor, department of orthopaedic surgery at the University of Utah

3:00 p.m.
OREF Annual Campaign Volunteers: Making More Possible, Thanks to You
Ramon Jimenez, MD, and Richard Haynes, MD

3:30 p.m.
AAOS Member Advantage Program: Group Purchasing
MedAssets

4:00 p.m.
Making Sense of MOC
Shepard R. Hurwitz, MD, executive director, American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery

5:00 p.m.
See the Power of the X…Orthopaedic CodeX
Howard Mevis, director of electronic media, evaluation programs, course operations, and practice management group

5:30 p.m.
AAOS OrthoPortal, E-books, and Patient Education
William A. Grana, MD, MPH,
OrthoPortal editor-in-chief, and Jane Baque, senior manager of publications websites

2012 Annual Meeting News
Tuesday through Friday, February 7 – 10, 2012.
http://www.aaos.org/news/acadnews/2012/AAOS4_2_9.asp