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Thursday, September 24, 2026

15:00 – 16:15  Session 1a: Creating the Foundation for Knee Joint Preservation

15:00-15:15        Natural History

  • Focal Chondral Defects
  • The Meniscectomized Knee (medial/lateral/root/bucket excision)

15:15-15:30        Orthobiologics for the Knee: Techniques, Indications and Outcomes

  • Non Operative Use for Early Knee Osteoarthritis
  • Intra and Post Operative Use Around Cartilage Transplantation or Osteotomy

15:30-15.40        Bracing: Techniques, Indications and Outcomes

  • Non-Operative Applications
  • Operative Adjunctive Applications

15:40-15:55        Optimize the Environment

  • What Should a Clinician Know About PTOA
  • DMOAD: Fact or Fiction
  • Serum and Synovial Biomarkers

15:55-16:05        OCD: Young and Old…Managing it at Any Stage

  • Natural History if Left Alone
  • Surgical and Non-Surgical Management

16:05-16:15        Q&A

16:15 – 17:00  Coffee Break & Exhibition

17:00 – 18:30  Session 1b: Creating the Foundation for Knee Joint Preservation

17:00-17:10        The Subchondral Bone: Where Are we Today?

  • Evidence That it’s a Pain Generator
  • Relevance to Surface-based or Reconstructive Cartilage Transplantation
  • Treatment Options

17:10-17:25        Modern Osteotomy: Patient Specific Instrumentation and Advances in Technology

  • Perioperative Planning
  • Overview of Available Systems
  • 3D Printing
  • Unmet Need: TTO Planning

17:25-17:40        The Biomechanical Role of the Meniscus

  • Radials/Roots Medial/Lateral Effect on Contact Pressures and Stability
  • Evidence of Restoration of Natural State in Vivo or in Vitro

 17:40-17:55        The Treatment Algorithm: A View From the Top

  • Review of Most Commonly Available Cartilage Treatments with their Strengths/Weaknesses

17:55-18:10        Are we Ready for Metal in the Young Patient? 

  • What is Actual Survivorship of TKA/UKA/PFA in a 30-40 Year Old
  • Do our Prior Preservation Surgeries Hinder Outcome?
  • Detailed Outcomes: Does a Revision-Free Patient Equal a Happy Patient

18:10-18:30        Q&A

18:30-20:30     Welcome & Networking Reception

 

Friday, September 25, 2026

08:00 – 09:30  Session 2: The Patellofemoral Joint: Case Presentations and Discussion

Like the medial knee, this session will be architected to include several cases that will represent the continuum of clinical pathology and care but will include overlapping considerations for patellar instability in the setting of articular cartilage disease that will be managed in a staged or concomitant fashion. 

Panel: TBA

08:00-08:20     Case 1: Patellofemoral Pain with Chondromalacia and No Bone Loss)

  • Non-Operative Management
  • Debridement
  • Planning for the Future
  • Soft Tissue Management
  • Osteotomy? Cartilage?
  • ReLive TTO with Multiple Techniques

08:20-08:40     Case 2: Patellofemoral Chondral Damage in the 1st Time Dislocator with Fragment 

  • (Fixable/Non Fixable, Large Fragments)
  • ReLive: Fragment Fixation (transosseous suture/screws)

08:40-09:00     Case 3: Uni-polar Trochlear Defect (no PFI)

  • MACI vs OCA
  • Relative Benefit of TTO
  • ReLive: Patellar OCA, Patellar MACI

09:00-09:15     Case 4: Bipolar PF Cartilage Loss in the 30 year old

  • Bipolar OCA/MACI vs PFA
  • Isolated Osteotomy/Facatectomy/Ablation
  • ReLive: Kinamed PFA

09:15-09:30     Q&A

09:30-10:00     Coffee Break & Exhibition

10:00-12:00     Session 3: The Medial Knee: Case Presentations and Discussion

As new technology (orthobiologics, bracing, MISHA, Cartiheal, osteotomy systems, subchondral bone management, limited arthroplasty resurfacing, etc) is now available, the decision-making and indications to implement these solutions is increasingly complex.  This session will ask faculty to present consistently formatted clinical cases including edited re-live surgical videos to emphasize the indications, contraindications, surgical techniques and anticipated outcomes following their use of available orthobiologics, surgical implants, and technology when managing patients with medial knee joint dysfunction. All cartilage techniques will be represented including those in association with meniscal deficiency.  Specific emphasis will include:  the timing of surgery (single vs two-stage), isolated vs combination treatments, peri-operative patient management and a realistic presentation of outcomes using all levels of available evidence (level I-V).

Panel: TBA

10:00-10:30     Case 1: Management of the 2.5 cm2 MFC Cartilage Defect in a 20 Year Old

  • Injections, Bracing, Therapy
  • Scope/Debridement
  • MFx/OCA/OATs/MACI/Cartiheal
  • ReLive OCA
  • ReLive Arthro MACI
  • ReLive Cartiheal

10:30-10:50     Case 2: MFC OCD Lesion: Take it Out

  • Review Case Evaluating Stability, Intra-operative Evaluation of Stability
  • Treatment Methods (Drilling, Screws, etc)
  • ReLive OCD Fixation

10:50-11:00     Case 3: MFC Lesion with 4.5 Degrees of Varus

  • ReLive HTO

11:00-11:15     Case 4: Medial Knee Pain with Chonrdal Heterogeneity and Bone Marrow Signal

  • Dx Process to Determine Pain Source
  • Non-Operative Options
  • Surgical Treatment
  • ReLive Subchondral Bone Treatment

11:15-11:25     Case 5:  Management of the Lateral Tibial Plateau

  • Relive Autocart and MST
  • Relive DFO

11:25-11:45     Case 6: KL 3 Changes in the Active 40 Year-old

  • HTO
  • UKA
  • MISHA
  • ReLive MISHA

11:45-12:00     Q&A

12:00-13:00     Lunch – Industry Symposia

13:00-14:15     Session 4: The Meniscal Deficient Knee: Cases and Discussion

Similar to other sessions, this will include the continuum of care including meniscal resection, repair, root repair, and meniscal allograft transplantation. Cases will include co-morbidities.

Panel: TBA

13:00-13:20     Case 1: Post Meniscectomy Knee with Pain

13:20-13:40     Case 2: ACL Patient with Acute Bucket Medial Menicus (irreparable)

13:40-14:00     Case 3: MAT in the Revision ACL

  • ReLive: Bone Block MAT
  • ReLive: Soft Tissue/Plug MAT with Centralization/Capsulodesis

14:00-14:15     Q&A

14:15-14:45     Coffee Break & Exhibition

14:45-16:00     Session 5: Complex and Combined Treatment with Ligament Deficiency: Cases and Discussion

Like other sessions, this will include a series of increasingly complex cases in patients who present with pain and instability in addition to other co-morbidities including coronal and sagittal malalignment and revision surgery. 

Panel: TBA

14:45-15:00    Case 1: MPFL/PF Cartilage/TTO

15:15-15:30     Case 2: ACL/Osteotomy/Cartilage Transplant 

15:30-15:45     Case 3: Salvage PF OA – Shell Graft

15:45-16:00     Case 4: TBD

16:00-16:15     Q&A

16:15-17:30     Session 6: Complications and Management

Panel: TBA

 17:30   Adjourn