AGENDA
Moderator: Paul Wakim, DO
Location: Sierra Ballroom
| 7:30 AM | Registration | Sierra Ballroom Foyer |
| 8:00 AM | Breakfast/Networking with Exhibitors Practical Ways to Improve Your Medical-Legal Reports – DWC Rater Perspective |
Mark Evans, DWC Rater |
| 8:30 AM | Important Principles in Performing an Upper Extremity Evaluation | Richard Braun, MD |
| 9:00 AM | Important Principles in Performing a Lower Extremity Evaluation | Tye Ouzounian, MD |
| 9:30 AM | Important Principles in Performing a Spine Evaluation | TBD |
| 10:00 AM | Networking with Exhibitors | Expo Hall |
| 10:30AM | New Cases and Important Case Law from the WCAB | Dane Gilliam, JD Bentley & More |
| 11:30 AM | Expectations of a QME/AME Defense Applicant |
Gary Sax, JD Bradford & Barthel, LLP Keith More, JD Bentley & More, LLP |
| 12:30 PM | Lunch | |
| 12:45 PM | Exhibitor-Sponsored Educational Session | |
| 1:15 PM | Mock Trial – Presiding Judge Robert Rassp Case 1 Case 2 |
Judge Robert Rassp Gary Sax, JD – Defense Keith More JD – Applicant |
| 2:15 PM | Add or Combine Impairment – Kite and Vigil Cases | Judge Robert Rassp Paul Wakim, DO |
| 3:15 PM | Networking with Exhibitors | Expo Hall |
| 3:45 PM | Required Elements in a Medical-Legal Report DWC Process of Reviewing Medical-Legal Reports What Gets a QME/AME in Trouble? |
George Parisotto, DWC Administrative Director * |
| 4:15 PM | How to Avoid Unconcious Bias When Performing an Evaluation | Lesley Anderson, MD |
| 4:45 PM | AME vs QME – Which One is Preferred by the Parties? | TBD |
| 5:15 PM | Raffle – Tickets to Universal Studios/Warner Bros Studios (Must be present to Win)
Adjourn |
*Invited not yet confirmed
Moderator: Milton Little, MD
Location: Sierra Ballroom
| 7:00 AM | Registration Breakfast/Networking with Exhibitors |
Sierra Ballroom Foyer |
| 7:30 AM | Exhibitor-Sponsored Educational Session | |
| 8:00 AM | Presidential Speaker Innovation and Equity in Orthopedics … Orthopaedic Care in 2030 Round Table Discussion
Q&A |
Moderator: Ray Raven, MD, MHCI, MBA Ezekiel Emanuel, MD Michael Suk, MD, JD, MPH, MBA Basil Besh, MD Michael Klassen, MD Ronald Navarro, MD |
| 9:00 AM | Protecting your Medical Records from Being Hacked – How to Reduce Your Risk? | Dipak Reddy |
| 9:10 AM | Q&A | |
| 9:20 AM | Smart Investing for Orthopaedic Surgeons | Kimberly Workman, MD |
| 9:40 AM | Break Networking with Exhibitors | |
| 10:10 AM | Employment and Collaboration with Healthcare Systems – Tools for Success and Mutual Benefit |
Moderator: Russell Nord, MD |
| Employed/Foundation Model | Brad Graw, MD * | |
| Collaborating with Hospitals and Healthcare Systems: Navigating and Optimizing Incentives and Partnerships |
Derek A. Haas* | |
| Know Your Worth – The Power of Benchmarking Data | Russell Nord, MD | |
| Private Practice Alignment with a Hospital or Healthcare System – Pearls and Pitfalls |
Robert Fields, MD* | |
| 11:10 AM | Optimizing the Value that you Bring to Your Institution Panel and Q&A Same faculty as Surgeon Reimbursement Models |
Moderator: James Chen, MD |
| 11:40 AM | Exhibitor-Sponsored Educational Session | |
| 12:10 PM | Lunch | |
| 12:40 PM | Practical AI Applications in Orthopaedics Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare: Fundamentals and Practice Application – Where we came from and where are we now? |
Moderator: Milton Little, MD Ray B. Raven, MD, MHCI, MBA |
| 1:00 PM | AI Medical Assistant | Charles M. Lawrie, MD, MSc; FIOS Health |
| 1:20 PM | Predictive Analytics – Machine Learning Predicting Hip Fractures | Anirudh Gowd, MD |
| 1:40 PM | AI in the Operating Room – Accuracy and Efficiency Q&A |
Sean Rajaee, MD |
| 1:00 PM | Cultural Competency Impact of Value-Based Care – Social Dependents of Health and How to get Paid |
Erica Taylor, MD |
| 2:15 PM | Why Does it Matter in Small Groups and Practices | Nicole Mitchell, MBA, CDP |
| 2:30 PM | What is the Role of an In-Clinic Social Worker, Why is This Important | Caryn Lindsey, LCSW, PMH-C |
| 2:45 PM | Q&A | |
| 3:40 AM | Break Networking with Exhibitors | |
| 3:30 PM | Keynote Speaker – The Future in Orthopaedics Blue Shield Shared Savings Program – Is it Working? |
Michael Suk, MD, JD, MPH, MBA Moderator: Michael Klassen, MD |
| 3:30 PM | What did We Do to Earn Savings? Who is Participating in the Ortho Program? Have They Received Shared Savings? Q&A |
TBD Laura Fox, Blue Shield* |
| 4:00 PM | What did We Do to Earn Savings? Who is Participating in the Ortho Program? Have They Received Shared Savings? Q&A |
TBD Laura Fox, Blue Shield* |
| 4:30 PM | Residency Programs – How They Help Enhance Your Practice and Elevate Orthopaedic Care | Moderator: Guy Paiement, MD* William Holmes, MD* Thomas Golden, MD* |
| 5:00 PM | Empowering Physicians: Unleashing the Art of Advocacy in Your Practice | Tal David, MD |
| 5:15 PM | US Senator Alex Padilla * | |
| 5:30 PM | State Legislation Update | Kim Stone, Esq |
| 5:45 PM | Adjourn | |
| 6:00 PM | Presidential Reception | Sierra Patio |
*Invited not yet confirmed
Moderator: Milton Little, MD
Location: Sierra Ballroom
| 6:00 AM | 5K Fun Walk & Run – Meet at the Hotel Lobby | Lincoln Yee, MD |
| 7:00 AM | Registration Breakfast/Networking with Exhibitors |
Sierra Ballroom Foyer |
| 7:30 AM | Resident Award Papers | Moderator: Milton Little, MD |
| J. Harold LaBriola, MD Resident Award Lloyd W. Taylor Resident Award The Luskin Orthopaedic Institute for Children OREF Resident Award Q&A |
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| 8:00 AM | Regenerative Medicine | Donald Buford, MD |
| 8:30 AM | Great Debates and Updates – Hand/Upper Extremity | Moderator: Ryan DellaMaggiora, MD |
| Distal Radius Fractures: To Fix or Not? | Eugene Tsai, MD | |
| Proximal Humerus Fractures: Watch, Fix, Replace? | Carol Lin, MD MA | |
| Humeral Shaft Fractures: Did Sarmiento Get it Right? | John Garlich, MD | |
| Case Discussion | Q&A | Meghan McCullough, MD | |
| 9:30 AM | Break Networking with Exhibitors | |
| 10:00 AM | Great Debates and Updates – Trauma | Moderator: Charles Moon, MD |
| Periprosthetic Distal Femur Fractures: Decisions | Donald Desanto, MD | |
| Tibial Plateau Fractures – But What About Your Total Knee Replacements? | James Learned, MD | |
| Young to Middle Aged Femoral Neck Fractures | Joseph Patterson, MD | |
| Case Discussion | Q&A | Kelsey Bonilla, MD | |
| 11:00 AM | Challenging Trauma Cases for the General Orthopaedist | Moderator: Joshua Gary, MD |
| How Intertrochs, Pertrochs, and Subtrochs Go Wrong? | Henry Goodnough, MD | |
| It’s Just a Tibial Nail. What Can Go Wrong? | Damayea Hargett | |
| Femoral Nails: Retrograde or Antegrade? | Sarah Blumenthal, MD | |
| Case Discussion | Q&A | Jason Davis, MD | |
| 11:00 AM | Resident and Fellow lunch session – How to adjust to life as an attending | Johnny (Juntian) Wang, MD Rebecca Burr, MD Kelsey Bonilla, MD Meghan McCullough, MD Landon Polakof, MD Orrin Franko, MD |
| 12:00 PM | Adjourn | |
| 12:00 PM | Golf Tournament | Brookside Golf Club |
| 7:00 PM | Seafood Buffet Gala Dinner | Cafe Sierra Hilton Hotel |
Moderator: James Chen, MD
Location: Sierra Ballroom
| 7:00 AM | Registration Breakfast/Networking with Exhibitors |
Moderator: James Chen, MD Sierra Ballroom Foyer |
| 7:30 AM | Business Meeting | Ray Raven, MD, MHCI, MBA |
| 8:00 AM | Resident Award Papers | COA Resident Awards | |
| 8:30 AM | Radiation Safety Unique to Orthopaedics | Isabel Newton, MD |
| 9:30 AM | Latest Trends and Technologies In Joints | Moderator: Scott Ball, MD |
| What is the target in TKA? Mechanical, Kinematic or Somewhere in Between? |
Stefani Bini, MD | |
| Hitting the Target in TJA: Advances in Enabling Technologies in Hip and Knee Replacement Surgery | Alexander Sah, MD | |
| Making Spinopelvic Analysis Simple in THA | Nathanael Heckman, MD | |
| Dual Mobility – Don’t Stress Hitting the Target, Make it Bigger! | Erik Zeegen, MD | |
| 10:30 AM | Break Networking with Exhibitors | |
| 10:45 AM | Great Debates and Updates – Sports Medicine | Moderator: Natasha Trentacosta, MD |
| ACL repair: Where did we Come From and Where are We Going? | Jonathan Koenig, MD | |
| Orthobiologics and Innovations in Non-Operative Sports Medicine | Keith Feder, MD | |
| Orthobiologics and Augmentation in Operative Sports Medicine | Ronna Parsa, DO | |
| Innovation and Augmentation in Shoulder Surgery | Sharon Hame, MD | |
| Q&A | ||
| 11:45 AM | Great Debates and Updates – Foot and Ankle | Moderator: Ajay Gurbani MD |
| Posterior Malleolar Fractures, Evolving Indications for When and How to Fix | Max Michalski, MD | |
| Current state of Total Ankle Replacement, New Gold Standard Versus Fusion? | Eric Tan, MD | |
| Achilles repair : Open Versus Percutaneous/MIS | Tom Harris, MD | |
| Syndesmosis – Assessing Reduction and Types of Fixation | Arash Aminian, MD | |
| Q&A | ||
| 12:45 PM | Final Raffle ( Must be present to win) Adjourn |