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Live simulcast surgery will be included in AANA Annual Meeting
Attendees should expect to find relevant information among the many symposia and podium presentations scheduled this year.
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Among new offerings at the Arthroscopy Association of North America Annual Meeting being held April 26-28 in Chicago, are live surgery simulcasts and more clinical case panels.
“Although there are plenty of scientific papers being delivered, there is a much more practical side of the arthroscopy association. It is designed to impact your practice so that when you go home you actually can do something different or better on Monday or Tuesday, when you get a chance to apply what you just learned,” Robert E. Hunter, MD, president of AANA, told Orthopedics Today. “There is a practical aspect to this and the goal is when people come ... they are challenged from the standpoint of seeing the breadth of work that is being done.”
In cooperation with Rush University faculty, AANA will live-stream four surgical procedures from the downtown Chicago Gold Coast Surgicenter.
We have never done this before, Hunter said. “We will be actually broadcasting into the lecture hall from an operating room where there will be live ability to go back and forth and talk real-time to the operating surgeon,” he said.
Mark H. Getelman, MD, secretary and program chair of AANA, noted more clinical and podium-based symposia on complex topics will be included on the program, such as massive rotator cuff tears and articular cartilage injuries of the knee. It will include 86 podium presentations and several instructional course lectures.
“We are trying to provide a broad brush stroke, if you will, so whatever attendees are looking for, there will be something for everyone,” Getelman said. “On Friday, we will run concurrent sessions to further enhance that.”
To enhance attendance, at registration, attendees could add on the Premier Orthopedic Pass, a new option that provides those who signed up for it with express registration, reserved seating in front of the screens and lounge access.
Passholders “will be given a tablet to keep and it will have all of [the meeting] information on it, so when you leave, you will have not only all the meeting materials, but you will also have your tablet to go forward with,” Getelman said.
“We are aggressively recruiting and promoting our annual meeting to international doctors and international societies in the hope we can entice them to send their leadership and...members to our meeting,” Hunter said. – by Casey Tingle
- For more information:
- Mark H. Getelman, MD, can be reached at Southern California Orthopedic Institute, 6815 Noble Ave., Van Nuys, CA 91405; email: christinen@aana.org.
- Robert E. Hunter, MD, can be reached at Orthopaedic Sports Medicine Center, 550 W. Highway 50, Salida, CO 81201; email: christinen@aana.org.
Disclosures: Getelman reports he is a board/committee member for AANA; receives research support from Histogenics, Mitek and Rotation Medical; is a paid consultant, presenter or speaker for Mitek and Smith & Nephew; and has stock/stock options with VuMedi. Hunter reports he is a paid consultant for Smith & Nephew and Zimmer Biomet and is a member of the AANA board of directors.