Continental Breakfast & Check-In
The Union of AOSSM and AOFAS: A Welcome by Lutul Farrow, MD, Grant Jones, MD and Eric Ferkel, MD
Managing High Grade Ankle Ligament Injuries in the Athlete
Moderator: C. Thomas Haytmanek, MD and Kaitlin Neary, MD
The Intersection of Sports Medicine and Foot and Ankle – Why It Is So Important
Ned Amendola, MD
Paper 1: The Ankle Sprain: Not So Benign in the Young and Middle-aged Athlete
Kevin D. Plancher, MD, MPH
25-year-old NFL player with acute ligamentous only Syndesmotic Injury: Diagnosis and Management. Will he get back to play this season?
Kirk A. McCullough, MD
22-year professional NWSL soccer player with multiple acute high-grade inversion ankle sprains. What is the best way to do her surgically stabilizer her chronic lateral ankle instability in 2025?
David A. Porter, MD-MPH
27-year NHL player with acute ankle fracture and deltoid ligament tear: Management of Deltoid injuries in Acute Ankle Fractures: Should we be fixing be all of them? Indications and techniques for deltoid repair.
Cesar de Cesar Netto, MD
Case Presentations
Martin O’Malley, MD
- Lateral, Medial, MDI
- Syndesmosis
- Discussion of Acute High Grade Inversion Ankle Sprain – Is there a role for acute surgical management
Q&A and Discussion
Osteochondral Lesions of the Ankle
Moderators: Mark Drakos, MD and Ariana Gianakos, DO
Paper 2: Comparing Posteromedial and Centrolateral Talar Dome ROC in Young Athletes
Olivia Okoli
Paper 3: Is Articular Width or Articular Length Superior to Age to Optimize ROC Matching in Talar Dome Osteochondral Allografts?
Hubert Tuyishime, BA
26-year-old soccer player with a full thickness 0.5 cm² osteochondral lesion of the medial talar dome with concomitant bone marrow edema and anterior impingement. Is there a role for bone marrow stimulation? What are the management strategies for Small to
Richard D. Ferkel, MD
32-year-old competitive basketball player with a 1.5 cm² full thickness osteochondral lesion of the talar dome. What is the management of medium to larger lesions in both the primary and revision setting?
John Kennedy, MD, FRCS
Future treatment options for osteochondral lesions of the tibial plafond and talus. What is the role of Biologics?
Eric Giza, MD
Case Presentations
Mac Hogan, MD
Q&A and Discussion
Achilles Tendon Injuries
Moderators: Eric I. Ferkel, MD and Brian C. Lau, MD
45-year-old healthy tennis player with acute Achilles tendon rupture. Percutaneous, endoscopic, open repair versus non-operative management?
Kenneth Hunt, MD
65-year-old healthy pickle ball player with missed Achilles tendon rupture now eight months out from injury with difficulty running and being active. What are your management strategies? What is the role of tendon transfer? Open versus endoscopic? Is ther
Andrea Veljkovic, MD
Rehab strategies for return to play after Foot And Ankle surgery. What is the role of wearables for getting our athletes back on the field faster and safer.
Case Presentations
Q&A and Discussion
Kennedy Lecture: The Sports Medicine Practice and Its Evolution in Today's Consolidating Environment
Charles Bush-Joseph, MD
The origins of sports medicine date back more than 50 years and led to the formation of the AOSSM and other specialty societies. These practitioners and scientists have advanced our science and technique at a steady pace to the benefit of our patients. While the science has advanced, the practice of sports medicine remained static until the recent consolidation of medicine as a whole. This lecture will examine the evolving changes of practice, employment, patient acquisition, and compensation. System consolidation and value-based medicine will present the greatest challenges.
ACL/Knee: Everything You Kneed to Know
Moderators: William M. Wind, Jr, MD and Matthew J. Salzler, MD
Abstract Presentations
Moderator: Katherine Coyner, MD, MBA
Paper 4: Liposomal Bupivacaine-Based Regional Anesthesia Provides Excellent Pain Control and Minimizes Opioid Consumption Following Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction: A Prospective Randomized Controlled Trial
William Johns, MD
Paper 5: The Efficacy of Blood Flow Restriction Training to Recover and Retain Quadriceps Strength and Function at a 6 Months Following an Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction. A Secondary Analysis of a Double-Blind, Randomized, Placebo Controlled Cl
Brian Noehren
Paper 6: Hybrid Transphyseal ACL Reconstruction With Soft Tissue Quadriceps Tendon Autograft Results in Low Rerupture and High Return to Sport Rates in Skeletally Immature Athletes at Mid-Term Follow Up
Jesse Seilern und Aspang, MD
Paper 8: Higher Percent Load Through the Intact Meniscus Results in Higher Reduction in Meniscal Loading after partial Meniscectomy at Heel Strike in Simulate Gait
Heath P. Gould, MD
Q&A
ACL/Knee Lectures
Panel Moderators: William Wind, MD & Matthew Salzler, MD
Nacho mama's root tear. Current state of the art in management of degenerative medial meniscal root tears
Aaron J. Krych, MD
ALL for one but not for all? My indications for LET and ALL reconstruction
Adnan Saithna, MD
From bad to worst. My approach to chondral lesions in the patellofemoral joint.
Kirk A. Campbell, MD
Q&A and Discussion
Lunch Break
CAM, You Hear Me Now? Good! Hip and General Sports Medicine Update
Abstract Presentations
Moderators: Mia S. Hagen, MD and Travis G. Maak, MD
Paper 9: Testosterone Replacement Therapy Increases Odds of Tendon Ruptures Treated Surgically
Eden Epner, MD
Paper 10: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Initiatives and Faculty Roles in Orthopaedic Sports Medicine Fellowships are Associated with Increased Female Representation Among Faculty
Natasja Lessiohadi, MD
Paper 11: Is Less Really More? Long-term outcomes of advanced arthroscopic techniques for patients with acetabular retroversion without anteverting periacetabular osteotomy
Bejamin G. Domb, MD
Paper 12: Hip Arthroscopy Patients Experiencing Greater Neighborhood-Level Socioeconomic Disadvantage are More Likely to Achieve Minimal Clinically Important Differences in Functional Outcomes at 1-Year Follow-up
Jonathan S. Lee, MD
Paper 13: Global Acetabular Retroversion Is Associated with Increased Conversion to Total Hip Arthroscopy after Primary Hip Arthroscopy: A Propensity-Matched Analysis with Minimum
Stephen M. Gillinov, AB
Q&A
Hip Lectures
Panel Moderators: Marc Safran, MD and Richard Mather, MD
Loose hips sink ships! Diagnosis and management of micro instability in femoroacetabular impingement.
Andrea M. Spiker, MD
Don't scope it alone. When the scope is not enough. When I consider adding the osteotomy.
Point break. Diagnosis and management of high-risk lower extremity stress fractures
Sommer Hammoud, MD
Q&A and Discussion
Put Your Head on My Shoulder
Abstract Presentations
Moderators: Kristofer J. Jones, MD and Sara L. Edwards, MD
Paper 14: Effects of Melatonin on Sleep Quality following Arthroscopic Rotator Cuff Surgery: A Prospective, Randomized Controlled Trial
Neel K. Patel, MD
Paper 15: Professional baseball pitchers’ patterns of use and results of weighted ball training: a pilot study
Thomas J. Noonan, MD
Paper 16: Interposition Patches for Massive and Irreparable Rotator Cuff Tears: Helpful or Not? A Prospective Study of 164 Consecutive Interposition Polytetrafluoroethylene Patch Repairs
James P. Bilbrough, BMed
Paper 17: Osteochondral Defects Show Location and Size Dependent Adverse Consequences in Valgus Angulation and Radiocapitellar Contact Characteristics with an intact UCL
Ryan Lew, MS, BS
Paper 18: Interlinked Knotless All-Suture Anchors Achieve Superior Footprint Optimization and Greater Fixation Strength over Intramedullary Cortical Button for Onlay Distal Biceps Tendon Repair: A Biomechanical Study
Jim C. Hsu, MD
Q&A
Large to Massive Irreparable Rotator Cuff Tears: Recruit Locally or Hit the Transfer Portal?
Panel Moderators: Michael Freehill, MD and Greg Cvetanovich, MD
Lower Trapezius Transfer
Peter N. Chalmers, MD
Superior Capsular Reconstruction
Jonathan T. Bravman, MD
Partial Repair With or Without Graft Augmentation
Julie Bishop, MD
Balloon Arthroplasty
Eric C. McCarty, MD