Conference Schedule
07:45 Registration and Coffee
08:15 Introduction to the meeting
CM Gupte & Rahul Bhattacharyya
08:30 – 10:40 Session 1: Osteotomy and Knee Joint Preservation
Chairs: Rags Khakha / A Getgood
08:30 Decision making behind HTO/DFO: How do you select the right patient?
Oday Al Daddah
08:40 Planning for a HTO/DFO: What measurements are important?
Sanjay Anand
08:50 Surgical technique: HTO/DFO (manual instrumentation)
Mike Risebury
09:00 Osteotomy and PSI - where are we at now?
Rags Khakha
09:10 Coronal plane malalignment and ACL reconstruction: key considerations and surgical technique
Pete Thompson
09:20 Posterior tibial slope and ACL reconstruction: where are we at now?
Al Getgood
09:30 Questions
09:40 Meet the Experts Session (2 x 5 min cases)
A Getgood / R Khakha
09:50 Coffee
Session 2: ACL (10:10 – 11:30)
10:10 Biomechanics and surgical anatomy of the anteromedial and posterolateral corner: Key aspects
Rahul Bhattacharyya / S Tapasvi
10:20 ACL and PLC reconstruction: decision making and surgical technique
A Getgood
10:30 ACL and AMRI: decision making and surgical technique
Andy Williams
10:40 Revision ACL: decision making and surgical technique
Adil Ajeud
10:50 BTB ACL in elite sports
Andy Williams
11:00 Quads ACL in elite sports
Roberto Rossi
11:10 Questions
11:20 Meet the Experts Session (2 x 5 min cases)
Session 3: Patella Instability and Tendinopathy (11:30 – 12:30)
Chairs: C Hing / CM Gupte
11:30 Trochleoplasty: Who, when and how?
C Hing
11:40 Patella instability in extension v flexion: key considerations
A Metcalfe
11:50 Patella tendinitis: current update on treatment
Sanjay Anand
12:00 Questions
12:10 Meet the Experts session
Session 3: The Great Cartilage Debate (14:30 – 15:45)
Chairs: N Smith / Leela Blant
14:30 OATS: When and How? (surgical technique video with key technical pearls)
R Patel
14:40 AMIC: When and How? (surgical technique video with key technical pearls)
J Murray
14:50 Mince Cartilage: When and How? (surgical technique video with key technical pearls)
K Akhtar
15:00 OCA: When and How? (surgical technique video with key technical pearls)
M McNicholas
15:10 ACI: When and How? (surgical technique video with key technical pearls)
L Blant
15:20 Orthobiologics: What is the current evidence
I Murray
15:30 Questions
15:45 Coffee
Session 4: Meniscus (16:00 – 17:00)
Chairs: Rahul Bhattacharyya / Sanjeev Anand
16:00 Meniscal repair surgical techniques - all inside, inside out, outside in, radial tears and horizontal cleavage tears
S Tapasvi
16:10 Biological augmentation of meniscal healing: what is the current evidence?
K Sarraf
16:20 Degenerate meniscus tears: non-operative v indications for surgery
Rhidian Thomas
16:30 MAT surgical technique - How I do it?
N Smith
16:40 Meet the expert's session – case based discussion (2 x 5 min cases)
Session 5: Paediatric Knee (17:00 – 18:00)
Chairs: Nic Nicolaou / Stephen McDonell
17:00 ACL prevention in the adolescent knee
M Bailey
17:10 Osteochondral injuries in the Paediatric Knee: an update
Sanjeev Anand
17:20 LEAP in the paediatric patient
Nic Nicolaou
17:30 Discoid lateral meniscus: how I treat it
Stephen Mc Donell
17:40 Questions
17:50 Meet the Experts Session (2 x 5 min cases)
18:00 Meeting close
CM Gupte / Rahul Bhattacharyya