Programs Make “Specialty Day” Special

Tomorrow is Specialty Day at the AAOS Annual Meeting. Specialty Day is dedicated to educational programming created by many of the orthopaedic specialty societies represented in the Board of Specialty Societies (BOS).

As BOS Chair Gregory A. Mencio, MD, notes, “With the orthopaedic community continuing to grow with cutting-edge technology and medical advancements, we need to ensure that we have a forum to share ideas, knowledge, and experiences. Specialty Day provides the opportunity to showcase new developments, exchange information, and interact with one another.”

Each society’s final program will be available in the individual meeting rooms, but here’s a preliminary peek at the programs that make Specialty Day so special.

American Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Society (AOFAS)
Program Cochairs: John G. Anderson, MD, and Donald R. Bohay, MD
Lakeside, Room E450
7:00 a.m.–5:05 p.m.
Program highlights: An early-bird symposium on using technology to enhance your practice, followed by four symposia (case presentations by a panel of masters; valgus ankle with flatfoot; bunion surgery; and challenges and case presentations in flatfoot); three paper sessions (forefoot/miscellaneous; hindfoot/midfoot; and ankle); a journal club on significant articles in 2012 and their impact on practice; and the presidential address and updates. Beginning at 3:00 p.m., the AOFAS and the Orthopaedic Trauma Association (OTA) will hold a joint session on “Controversies and Complications in Trauma of the Foot and Ankle.”

American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine (AOSSM)
Program Chair: Mark D. Miller, MD
Lakeside, Room E354b
7:30 a.m.–5:10 p.m.
Program highlights: Eight scientific sessions (knee: anterior cruciate ligament (ACL); knee: other; hip and pelvis; elbow; shoulder: instability; shoulder: cuff and biceps; team physician; and ankle). Three point/counterpoint debates (ACL femoral tunnel placement; coracoid transfer versus allograft for glenoid deficiency; subpec versus suprapec). Clinical vignettes focus on elbow ulnar collateral ligament injuries in athletes. A combined session with the Arthroscopy Association of North America begins at 3:00 p.m. and includes a series of cast studies followed by question-and-answer sessions.

American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons
Program Cochairs: Brian J. Cole, MD, MBA, and Peter J. Millett, MD, MSc
Lakeside, Room E353
7:25 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
Program highlights: Eleven paper sessions (two on rotator cuff and one each on shoulder trauma and arthroplasty, instability/superior labrum anterior-posterior [SLAP] tears, elbow/soft tissue, elbow/arthritis and fractures, shoulder arthroplasty, acromioclavicular joint reconstruction, clavicle fractures, outcomes research, and nerve injuries). Four symposia (case-based approach to managing failed instability, massive cuff tears in young patients, common elbow fractures and their management, and shoulder and elbow in sports).

American Society for Surgery of the Hand and American Association for Hand Surgery
Program Cochairs: Craig M. Rodner, MD, and David S. Zelouf, MD
McCormick Place, Room S105
7:30 a.m.–5:05 p.m.
Program highlights: Seven sessions (Dupuytren’s/sympathectomy, wrist trauma, elbow, hand/digital trauma, digital/basal joint arthritis, and wrist arthritis). Video demonstrations of more than 40 surgical procedures will be shown.

Arthroscopy Association of North America (AANA)
Education Chair: Benjamin S. Shaffer, MD
Lakeside, Room E354a
7:50 a.m.–5:10 p.m.
Program highlights: Nine sessions (shoulder instability; shoulder cuff—repairing partial thickness tears; shoulder cuff—repairing full thickness tears; shoulder SLAP/biceps; ACL instability; knee articular cartilage; knee patellofemoral joint; knee meniscus; and hip). Beginning at 3:00 p.m., AANA and AOSSM will have a combined afternoon symposium (see listing under AOSSM).

Federation of Spine Associations
President: Warren D. Yu, MD
McCormick Place, Room S102
8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.
The Federation of Spine Associations includes the American Spinal Injury Association, Cervical Spine Research Society, North American Spine Society, and Scoliosis Research Society, each of which is responsible for one section of the program. In addition, each society will present an update on “what’s new in spine surgery” as part of the lunchtime program.

Hip Society/American Association of Hip and Knee Surgeons (AAHKS)
Program Chair: Robert T. Trousdale, MD
McCormick Place, Room S100a
7:55 a.m.–5:10 p.m.
Program highlights: Seven symposia (primary total hip replacement, metal corrosion of modular connections in total hip arthroplasty [THA], THA bearing surfaces, revision total hip replacement technical pearls and video vignettes, infection, complications of THA, metal-on-metal complications) plus one symposium dedicated to “my worst case competition.” In addition, The Hip Society Awards will be presented and Presidential Guest Speaker Prof. Carsten Perka, MD, will discuss the European perspective on the future of hip arthroplasty.

Knee Society/AAHKS
Program Cochairs: Adolph V. Lombardi, Jr, MD, and Craig J. Della Valle, MD
McCormick Place, Room S100b
7:55 a.m.–5:15 p.m.
Program highlights: Ten symposia (nonarthroplasty options for the middle-aged patient with degenerative joint disease, current issues in partial knee arthroplasty, lessons learned from long-term follow-up, assessing the outcomes of total knee arthroplasty [TKA], bioengineering advances in TKA, efficiency and cost considerations in TKA, challenges in TKA, achieving alignment in TKA, infection, and “my most difficult case” contest). The Knee Society Awards will also be presented.

Limb Lengthening and Reconstruction Society (LLRS)
Program Cochairs: Joseph R. Hsu, MD, and Austin T. Fragomen, MD
McCormick Place, S103a
8:00 a.m.–5:30 p.m.
Four sessions (burden, diagnostics, and obstacles; débridement and antimicrobial therapy; bone defects; and the near future) and the best papers from the 2012 LLRS annual meeting will be presented.

Musculoskeletal Tumor Society
Program Cochairs: Michael P. Mott, MD, and Robert H. Quinn, MD
McCormick Place, Room S104
8:00 a.m.–3:45 p.m.
Program highlights: Basic science update, what to do when limb salvage fails, what is new and on the horizon in education for orthopaedic oncology, debates on whether to use chemotherapy for synovial sarcoma, and the role of the surgeon in treating desmoid tumors. The day ends with a game of “Orthopaedic Jeopardy.”

Orthopaedic Trauma Association
President: Robert A. Probe, MD
Lakeside, Room E451
7:30 a.m.–5:05 p.m.
Program highlights: The evidence base for surgical fixation of different fractures, managing osteoporotic fractures, trauma technique videos for upper and lower extremities, and case-based management of nonunions. In addition, the Bovill Award will be presented and the day ends with a joint session with the AOFAS on complications in trauma of the foot and ankle.

Pediatric Orthopaedic Society of North America
Program Chair: Ernest L. Sink, MD
McCormick Place, Room S103b
8:00 a.m.–4:45 p.m.
Program highlights: Four symposia (dysplasia, spine, practice management, and foot, sports, and trauma), as well as case-based discussions on dysplasia and trauma and a debate on the future of the pediatric orthopaedist.

For more information on Specialty Day programs, visit the specific society’s website or view the Specialty Day Preliminary Program at www.aaos.org/annual

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