Weekly Conferences

Grand Rounds and Core Curriculum Lectures are on most Friday mornings beginning at 7:00 am in the Orthopaedic Surgery Main Conference Room on Floor 2 of the Fairview Rehab Building (2512 South Seventh Street, Room 200; on the corner of Seventh Street South and Twenty-fifth Avenue South).

GRAND ROUNDS

July 2008

July 4th – NO CONFERENCE - HOLIDAY

July 11th – Management of Bone Loss in Revision Total Knee Arthroplasty,           Siddharth Joglekar, MD, 2007-08 Adult Reconstruction Fellow

July 18th – Catching the Boomerang in Orthopaedic Research:  From Bedside to Bench and Back, Denis R. Clohisy, MD

July 25th – Coding and Documentation for Residents, Kathryn Lipe, RHIA

 August 2008

Aug. 1st – Venus Thromboembolism Prophylaxis after Major Orthopaedic Surgery: Evidence-Based Medicine Review, Gregory A. Brown, MD PhD

Aug. 8th – Peripheral Nociceptive Mediators in Painful Temporomandibular Disorder - early results from a 6 year NH-funded research project investigating potential objective measures of human musculoskeletal pain.  Louis Kehl, DDS, PhD, Department of Anesthesiology, University of Minnesota

Aug. 15th – Hail to the Chiefs: A Collection of Case Presentations Given by the G5 Residents, including one entitled “I-35W Bridge Collapse: The Orthopaedic Trauma Experience.”  Jesse Botker, MD; William Cross, MD; Colleen Glisson, MD; Jason Glynn, MD; Alicia Harrison, MD; Kristofer Kimber, MD and Steven Schechinger, MD

Aug. 22nd – Knee Dislocations: 2008, James P Stannard, MD,  University of Alabama – Trauma Bureau Speaker

Aug. 29th – Resident Research Outcomes.  Marc Swiontkowski, MD; Ann Van Heest, MD and Julie Agel

September 2008

Sept. 5th – Stretching the Boundaries on Conventional Scapula Fracture Diagnosis and Management.  Peter Cole, MD; Jack Anavian, MD; Coen Wijicks, MSc; Bryan Armitage, MSc

Sept. 12th – NO GRAND ROUNDS – TRIA SPORTS TRAINING CONERENCE

Sept. 19th – Sleep Deprivation / Cognitive Impairment.  Michel A. Cramer Bornemann, MD, D-ABSM, FAASM

Sept. 26th – Periprosthetic Fracture Talks or Debate on Hemi vs. Total for Femoral Neck Fractures.  Scott B Marston, MD; Kenneth Kleist, MD

October 2008

Oct. 3rd – Biomechanical-Epidemiological Approaches to ACL Injury Risk. Timothy Hewett, PhD, Associate Professor, Director,  Sports Medicine Biodynamics Center, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center

Oct. 10th – NO CONFERENCE – GERIATRIC TRAUMA SUMMIT

Oct. 17th – G-4 Presentation.  David Hamming, MD

Oct. 24th – Investigations on Fracture Healing Under Conditions of Local and Systemic Disease.  Andrew H. Schmidt, MD; Joan Bechtold, PhD

Oct. 31st – Failed Shoulder Instability.  Scott P. Steinmann, MD, Mayo Clinic

November 2008

Nov. 7th – Odontoid Fractures:  The Axis of Evil, Robert A. Morgan, M.D., UMn. Dept. Orthopaedics/Regions Hospital

Nov. 14th – NO CONFERENCE – COLE PEDIATRIC SEMINAR

Nov. 21st – NO CONFERENCE – HCMC TRAUMA SEMINAR

Nov. 28th – NO CONFERENCE – HOLIDAY

December 2008

Dec. 5th – G-4 Presentation – Daniel Marek, MD

Dec. 12th – G-3 Resident Research Previews

Dec. 19th – Hip Surgery: Reflections After Over 30 Years.  Miguel E. Cabanela, MD, Mayo Clinic

Dec. 26th – NO CONFERENCE - HOLIDAY

January 2009 

Jan. 2nd – G-4 PRESENTATION, Walter Truong, MD

Jan. 9th – Residents Engagement Program, Sponsored by the AAOS, Bradley Nelson, MD

Jan. 16th – ORS Review 

Jan. 23rd – Topic to be determined, Robert F. LaPrade, MD PhD

 Jan. 30th – Documentation and Coding for Residents, Kathryn Lipe, RHIA

February 2009

Feb. 6th – Motor Skills Testing Results, Matthew Putnam, MD

Feb. 13th – G-4 Presentation, Jeremy Gardner, MD

Feb. 20th – OPEN

Feb. 27th – NO CONFERENCE – AAOS MEETING

March 2009 

March 6th – G-4 Presentation, Elspeth Kinnucan, MD

March 13th – TBD, Mark B. Dekutoski, MD, Mayo Clinic

March 20th – G-4 Presentation, Jeffrey Macalena, MD

March 27th – OPEN

November 2008

Nov. 7th – Lower Extremity Fractures, Stephen England, MD

Nov. 14th – CANCELLED - COLE PEDIATRIC CONFERENCE

Nov. 21st – CANCELLED - HCMC TAUMA SEMINAR

Nov. 28th – CANCELLED - HOLIDAY

December 2008

Dec. 5th – Foot Deformities, Kevin Walker, MD

Dec. 12th – DDH, Deborah Quanbeck, MD

Dec. 19th – Idiopathic and Neuromuscular Scoliosis, Tom Novacheck, MD

Dec. 26th – CANCELLED - HOLIDAY

January 2009

Jan. 2nd – Cervical Spine, Joseph Perra, MD

Jan. 9th – Overview of Cerebral Palsy, Michael Healy, MD

Jan. 16th – Congenital Spine Anomalies, John Lonstein, MD

Jan. 23rd – Septic Arthritis, Stephen Sundberg, MD

Jan. 30th – Motor Unit Disorders, Steven Koop, MD

February 2009

Feb. 2nd – Lower Extremity Congenital Malformations, Mark Dahl, M.D.

Feb. 13th – TBD

For more information, please contact Betsy Wehrwein at wehrw005@umn.edu or (612) 273-8043.