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Scientific Agenda
CME Credits: Applied for 15 CME Credits at the Bayrische Landesärztekammer.
12 December (Thursday)
13:45 - 19:30
Part I: Patient Patient Profiling in Cartilage Repair: What Determines Success?
14:00 - 15:00
Session 1: Clinical Evaluation of Patients Assigned for Cartilage Repair
12 min
1.1 How Does Patient History and Previous Treatments Influence Outcome ?
12 min
1.2 Bad Healers versus Good Healers: How I Choose my Patients
12 min
1.3 Metabolic Disorders and its Influence on Cartilage Repair Outcome
12 min
1.4 Joint Homeostasis and its Relevance in Cartilage Repair
15:00 - 16:00
Session 2: Imaging in Cartilage Repair: What Matters ?
12 min
2.1 Conventional Radiographs: What Should we do and What is Important ?
12 min
2.2 MRI Evaluation of Cartilage Defects
12 min
2.3 Early Degeneration and Joint Profiling by Imaging Technologies
12 min
2.4 Imaging of Cartilage: Future Perspectives
16:00 - 16:45
Coffee Break
16:45 - 17:45
Session 3: Functional Assessment of Cartilage Patients Prior to Surgery
12 min
3.1 Functional Assessment of Cartilage Repair Patients Prior to Surgery: The Physio View
12 min
3.2 Influence of Alignment on Cartilage Repair Outcome
12 min
3.3 Influence of Stability on Cartilage Repair Outcome
12 min
3.4 Molecular Characterization of Cartilage Repair Patients
17:45 - 18:15
Session 4: Key Note Lecture
20 min
4.1 Inflammation in Cartilage Repair: Relevance and Treatment Options
18:15 - 19:30
Welcome Reception
13 December (Friday)
08:45 - 18:15
Part I: Patient Patient Profiling in Cartilage Repair: What Determines Success?
09:00 - 10:00
Session 5: Standards in Cartilage Repair - Update Session
12 min
5.1 Bone Marrow Stimulation - Current Relevance and Update
12 min
5.2 Biomaterials: Current Relevance and Update
12 min
5.3 Cell and Tissue derived Therapies: Current Relevance and Update
12 min
5.4 Osteochondral Transplantation (Allograft and Autograft): Current Relevance and Update
10:00 - 10:45
Coffee Break
10:45 - 11:45
Session 6: Early Osteoarthritis and Prevention
12 min
6.1 Who is at Risk for Knee Osteoarthritis and What can be Done for Prevention
12 min
6.2 Injection Concepts in Knee Osteoarthritis
12 min
6.3 Early Osteoarthritis: Where is the Limit for Cartilage Repair
12 min
6.4 Can Injections Help to Support Surgical Cartilage Repair
11:45 - 12:15
Session 7: Key Note Lecture
20 min
7.1 Patient Profiling in Cartilage Repair: What Can we Learn from the Crime Scene ?
12:15 - 12:45
Lunch Break
12:45 - 13:15
Industry Symposium 1
13:15 - 13:45
Industry Symposium 2
13:45 - 14:45
Session 8: Case Session and Discussion
15 min
8.1 Case 1
2 min Case Presentation, 1 min Voting, 7 min Discussion, 5 min How I did it and why.
15 min
8.2 Case 2
2 min Case Presentation, 1 min Voting, 7 min Discussion, 5 min How I did it and why
15 min
8.3 Case 3
2 min Case Presentation, 1 min Voting, 7 min Discussion, 5 min How I did it and why
15 min
8.4 Case 4
2 min Case Presentation, 1 min Voting, 7 min Discussion, 5 min How I did it and why
14:45 - 15:15
Session 9: Key Note Lecture
20 min
9.1 What Can we Learn from Profiling and Employee Recruitment
15:15 - 15:45
Coffee Break
15:45 - 16:15
Session 10: Key Note Lecture
20 min
10.1 My Learnings in Cartilage Repair Within the Last 20 Years
16:15 - 17:15
Session 11: Beyond Defect Size …. What Influences Outcome ?
12 min
11.1 Role of Subchondral Bone
12 min
11.2 Relevance of the Meniscus for Cartilage Repair
12 min
11.3 Artificial Intelligence: What can we Learn from Big Data
12 min
11.4 What Should Influence Treatment Choice Except for Defect Size
17:15 - 18:15
Session 12: Podiums Discussion & Farewell: Can Patient Profiling be Changed for Better Outcome
19:30 - 23:30
Course & Faculty Dinner
14 December (Saturday)
08:00 - 16:00
Part II: Juvenile Cartilage Lesions
08:00 - 09:00
Session 13: Foundations of Juvenile Cartilage Regeneration
12 min
13.1 Epiphysis: Why Children are Different
12 min
13.2 Specific Juvenile Cartilage Lesions
12 min
13.3 Monitoring and Prevention - Can we Influence the Future?
12 min
13.4 Orthobiologics in Children - Is That Even Possible?
09:00 - 10:00
Session 14: Concomitant Factors for Treatment Success
12 min
14.4 Do Children Rehab Different?
12 min
14.1 Discoid Meniscus: What (not) to do
12 min
14.2 Lower Extremity Deformities
12 min
14.3 Hyperlaxity and Ligamentous Instability
10:00 - 10:30
Coffee Break
10:30 - 11:45
Session 15: Osteochondritis Dissecans (OCD)
Session Co-organized with ROCK/ROCKET Group
12 min
15.1 Pathogenesis and Healing Prediction of OCD
12 min
15.2 Conservative Options: Do we Really Need to Operate?
12 min
15.3 Suture Bridge Fixation
12 min
15.5 Particulated Cartilage
11:45 - 12:15
Session 16: Cartilage Across a Lifespan: A Patient Journey
(Patient Interview/Case Presentation)
12:15 - 12:45
Lunch Break
12:45 - 13:15
Industry Symposium
13:15 - 14:00
Session 17: Joint Specific Juvenile Problems
12 min
17.2 Patellofemoral
14:00 - 14:30
Session 18: Farewell / Initiation of an ICRS Consensus on Juvenile Cartilage Lesions