Benefits of attending:

• Identify and discuss controversies, current treatment guidelines and subspecialty topics in orthopaedic surgery
• Design a clinical approach for the management of orthopaedic fractures and soft tissue injuries resulting from trauma
• Review the evaluation and management of common wrist problems and arthritis
• Define current treatment options in complications of proximal humeral fractures
• Develop innovative and effective methods to promote the restoration of function through tissue regeneration and repair

Key topics:

• Current update of LBP management - from head to toe
• Sacroiliac joint pain: diagnosis and interventional management
• Micro-discectomy vs endoscopic transforaminal discectomy: medically-based evidence
• Treatment for first-time dislocation of the shoulder
• Diagnosis and treatment of injuries to the AC & SC joint & clavicle
• Diagnosis and treatment of common athletic elbow injuries
• What's new in the treatment of ankle and foot trauma?

Speaker Faculty:

Activity director:

• Dr Mark S. Schickendantz, Professor of Surgery; Director, Center for Sports Health, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Local chair:

• Dr Ayman Fahim, Consultant Orthopaedic, Board Certified, Expert in MSK US, Abu Dhabi, UAE

Scientific committee:

• Dr In-Ho Jeon, Shoulder Elbow Surgeon, Asan Medical Centre, College of Medicine, University of Ulsan, Seoul, Korea
• Dr Lennard Funk, Professor: Orthopaedics & Sports Science, Consultant Shoulder Surgeon, Wrightington Hospital & The Arm Clinic, Manchester, UK
• Prof Dr Victor Valderrabano, President, Swiss Society for Orthopaedic Traumatology Sports Medicine (GOTS); Specialist:  Orthopaedics & Traumatology, Foot & Ankle, Arthritis and Sports Surgery; Head: Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Pain Clinic, Basel, Switzerland

Speaker faculty:

• Dr Ali Noorani, Consultant Trauma & Orthopaedic Surgeon, BMI Healthcare, OS Clinic and St Bartholomew's & The Royal London Hospital Upper Limb Service, London, UK
• Dr Cameron Anley, Orthopaedic Surgeon, Stellenbosch University, Tygerberg Academic Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa
• Dr Issam Mardini, Specialist Orthopaedic Surgeon, Emirates Hospital, Dubai, UAE
• Prof James Ficke, Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Johns Hopkins Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
• Dr Joshua Rothenberg, Director of Regenerative Medicine/ Interventional Sports Medicine; Spine Specialist, BocaCare Orthopaedics, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA
• Dr Lucia Heras, Consultant Wrist & Hand Surgeon‎, Burjeel Hospital, Abu Dhabi, UAE
• Dr Mohamed Ibrahim, Consultant Anaesthesia & Critical Care, Burjeel Hospital, Abu Dhabi, UAE
• Dr Nick Shamie, Spine Surgeon; Chief of Orthopaedic Spine Surgery; Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Neurosurgery, UCLA School of Medicine, UCLA Medical Center, Santa Monica, California, USA
• Dr Nima Heidari, Consultant Foot, Ankle and Limb Reconstruction Surgeon, BMI Healthcare and St Bartholomew's & The Royal London Hospital, London, UK
• Prof Dr Nobuyuki Yamamoto, Orthopaedic Surgery, Department of Orthopaedics Surgery, Tohuku University, Sendai, Japan
• Dr Osama Attia, Specialist Orthopaedic Surgeon, Mediclinic, Dubai, UAE
• Prof Per Kjærsgaard-Andersen, President, European Federation of National Associations of Orthopaedics and Traumatology (EFORT); Head of Section for Hip and Knee Replacement, Department of Orthopaedics, Vejle Hospital, Vejle, Denmark
• Prof Dr Philip Schoettle, Medical Director, Knee and Hip Institute Munich, Munich, Germany
• Dr Robert A. Hymes, Associate Professor; Section Chief -Orthopaedic Trauma; Director of Clinical Research, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, VCU School of Medicine, Inova Fairfax Medical Campus, Fairfax, Virginia, USA
• Dr Reto Sutter, Deputy Head of Radiology, Balgrist University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland
• Sarah Rahimi, Prosthetist & Orthotist, Department of Orthotics and Prosthetics, University of Social Welfare & RehabilitationSciences, Tehran, Iran
• Dr Syed Mohsin Ali, Consultant Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgeon, Royal Bahrain Defence Forces Hospital, Riffa, Bahrain
• Dr Takuro Wada, President, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Saiseikai Otaru Hospital, Otaru, Japan

Faculty disclosure

The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Center for Continuing Education has implemented a policy to comply with the current Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education Standards for Commercial Support requiring resolution of all faculty conflicts of interest. Faculty declaring a relevant commercial interest will be identified in the activity syllabus.