Schedule - 46th Annual Vanderbilt Orthopaedic Society Meeting

Thursday April 21st, 2022

5:30 pm - 7:30 pm   Welcome Reception - Sunrise Deck

Friday April 22nd, 2022

Location: Coral Ballroom B

7:00 am – 8:00am
Registration/ Breakfast

8:00 am – 9:00 am
Symposium 1: Emerging Technologies and Controversies in Adult Spine Surgery

8:00 am – 8:15 am
Endoscopic Treatment of Spine Disorders
Ray Gardocki, MD

8:15 am – 8:30 amVirtual
Lumbar Motion Preservation
Alex Sielatycki, MD

8:30 am – 8:45 am
MIS vs. Open TLIF
Sheyan Armaghani, MD

8:45 am – 9:00 am
ALIF vs. TLIF for Treating Spoldylolisthesis
Byron Stephens, MD

9:00 am – 10:00 am
Symposium 2: The Spinopelvic Relationship

9:00 am – 9:15 am
Spinopelvic Dissociation: Percutaneous, Open, or combined?
Phil Mitchell, MD

9:15 am – 9:30 am
Lumbopelvic Fixation for the treatment of U-type Sacral Fractures
Robert Boyce, MD       

9:30 am – 9:45 am
Spinopelvic Mobility and Total Hip Dislocation: Cases and Lessons Learned
Gregory Polkowski, MD MSc

9:45 am – 10:00 am
Reconstruction after Massive Pelvic Tumor Resection
Robert Wilson, MD

10:00 am – 10:15 am
Break

10:15 am – 11:15 am
Symposium 3: Peripheral Nerve/Upper Extremity Concepts 

10:15 am – 10:30 am
Brachial Plexus’
Justin Zumsteg, MD        

10:30 am – 10:45 am
Orthopaedic E/M Coding in 2022: What You Need to know and do
Stephen Engstrom, MD, MBA

10:45 am – 11:00 am
Periscapular surgery- the "other stuff" around the spine
W. Ben Kibler, MD

11:00 am – 11:15 am
Upper Extremity
Douglas Weikert, MD

11:15 am – 12:00 pm
Keynote Lecture
Dan Spengler, MD

6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
VOS Dinner   location : Sunrise Deck

Saturday April 23rd, 2022

Location : Emerald Ballroom C

7:00 am - 8:00 am
Registration / Breakfast

8:00am – 9:00am
State of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery Address
Rick Wright, MD

9:00 am– 10:00am
Symposium 4: Emerging Technologies and Controversies in Pediatric Spine Surgery

9:00am – 9:15 am
Nonfusion options for Surgical Treatment of AISI
Ryan Koehler, MD

9:15 am – 9:30 am Virtual
Controversies in Early AIS
Craig Louer, MD

9:30 am – 9:45 am
Fusion for AIS
Gregory Mencio, MD   

 9:45 am – 10:00 am
Pediatric Spine Tumors
Herbert Schwartz, MD

10:00 am– 10:15 am
Break

10:15 am – 11:35 am
Symposium 5: Chief Resident Research & Kathy Kramer Award 

10:15 am – 10:35 am
Cell Lineage Tracing in a Mouse Spinal Fusion Model
Michael Benvenuti, MD

10:35 am – 10:55 am
A Clinical Calculator to Predict Mortality in Elderly Spine Trauma Patients
Catherine Carlile, MD

10:55 am – 11:15 am
Lowest Instrumented Vertebra (LIV) Selection in Posterior Cervical Fusion: Does Cervicothoracic Junction LIV Predict Mechanical Failure
Joseph Labrum, MD

11:15 am – 11:35 am
Surgeon Preference in ACL Reconstruction
Thomas Freeman, MD    

11:45 am
VOS Business Meeting