Orthopedics Today Hawaii 2013 adds more faculty, sessions

The sports medicine program will feature a new session on injections and injectables.

Issue: April 2012

I am pleased to share with you that Orthopedics Today Hawaii 2013 has rounded into the strongest program that we have had and offers our largest number of faculty members. This year, as part of day one of the 4-day course, the sports medicine program faculty adds two returning veterans from our previous Orthopedics Today courses, John P. Fulkerson, MD and Freddie H. Fu, MD, DSc(Hon), DPs(Hon). Dr. Fulkerson will update us on his life’s work on the patella and extensor mechanism starting with anterior knee pain and take it all the way to end-stage degenerative joint disease.

To conclude the extensor mechanism session, Ormonde M. Mahoney, MD, and Dr. Fulkerson will have an interactive session on the role of replacement surgery for patients with advanced end-stage conditions. We will continue to use our audience response system throughout the program to gauge what the clinician attendees are doing and how this may be similar, different or stimulated by new thinking from the faculty.

From left: Douglas W. Jackson, MD, Nicholas A. Sgaglione, Donald H. Johnson, MD, FRCS(C), Jack M. Bert, MD, participate in a panel discussion on the anterior cruciate ligament at Orthopedics Today Hawaii 2012.

Image: Houck K, Orthopedics Today

Dr. Fu will join our other returning faculty – Donald H. Johnson, MD, FRCS(C); Jack M. Bert, MD; Nicholas A. Sgaglione, MD; and John D. Kelly IV, MD, in lively point-counterpoint sessions on the current – and at times controversial – surgical techniques related to ligament, meniscus and articular cartilage.

I am particularly looking forward to the new session on injections and injectables. The topics will include:

What Works?
How to Sort What To Do and What Not to Do
The Caines
Viscosupplementation
Cortisone
PRP in the Office and the OR
Prolotherapy; and
Marrow Aspirates and Mesenchymal Stem Cells

We are excited to introduce an elective course on coding on the afternoon of day one. William R. Beach, MD, and Jack M. Bert, MD, well-known surgeons in this area of orthopedics, are the session’s moderators. This is an ideal time in a relaxed and small setting to make sure you are not overcoding or undercoding. In this new world of more frequent audits and compliance issues, orthopedic surgeons are greatly helped by being in the forefront and understanding coding. This elective course is an opportunity to make sure you are up-to-date on the latest in coding.

In continuing an Orthopedics Today Hawaii tradition, attendees and faculty will meet at the end of the first day for the popular Banyan Tree Sessions. This is an opportunity for one-on-one interaction with the faculty members about their presentations or to seek advice on challenging cases.

Orthopedics Today will preview the shoulder and elbow program of Orthopedics Today Hawaii 2013 in next month’s issue.

— Douglas W. Jackson, MD
Chief Medical Editor, Orthopedics Today
Course Director, Orthopedics Today Hawaii 2013