OTdigital 2025 -

2025 Program Highlights

	Friday, 7. March 2025
11:00 am	Registration & Welcome Coffee
12:00 pm	Welcome & introduction David Back & Koroush Kabir
12:30 pm	Keynote I AI for Healthcare – Better data, better insight, better outcome Yin Cai
1:30 pm	SESSION 1 - The patient's digital journey in O&T CHAIRS: Inger Mechlenburg, Wojciech Glinkowski From diagnostics via clinics to rehab - today´s digital options for the patient´s pathway Wojciech Glinkowski Towards a Comprehensive Digital Wearable Tracking System of the Patient Recovery Journey after Extremity Trauma Benedikt Braun Blood flow restriction Exercise after Achilles tendon rupture treated Non-surgically (BEAN trial) using tele-rehabilitation Andreas Bentzen Building Digital Rehabilitation Platforms: Experiences from Developing and Deploying Web Platforms in Trauma Trials David Keene Multinational Electronic Data Collection in Distal Radius Acute Fracture Trial: Cast vs. Splint Inger Mechlenburg Discussion
2:30 pm	Break
3:00 pm	Industry presentations
4:00 pm	Break
4:15 pm	SESSION 2 - Training the next generation CHAIRS: Li Felländer-Tsai, Paolo Parchi Digital tools in surgical training of today and tomorrow – the OR-X experience Philipp Fürnstahl Core findings of an international Delphi consensus on Digital Health Competencies Tatiana Erlikh Fox Medical students´digital pathway – digital impacts from an O&T perspective Li Felländer-Tsai Surgical Education in TKA with the aid of a robotic platform pros and cons Stefano M.P. Rossi Discussion
5:15 pm	Panel discussion From medical school to specialization - do we need a digital training pathway in O&T? Yin Cai, Paolo Parchi, Tatiana Erlikh Fox, Lukas Brachmann Moderator:Koroush Kabir
6:15 pm	Summary and conclusion David Back & Koroush Kabir
	Get together dinner

	Saturday, 8. March 2025
9:00 am	Start-up Pitch Dominik Pförringer
9:30 am	SESSION 3 - Which digital solutions are ready for use in the OR? CHAIRS: Cristiano Paggetti, Arnaud Clavé Personalized surgery and massive patient care management: an incompatibility made possible with CAOS Guillaume Dardenne Is there enough evidence for me to invest into a robot for my sugeries? Johnatan Everaert From Scalpel to Digital Surgery: Redefining Precision Surgery with AI and Real-Life Motion Analytic Paul Lee TKA and Robotics. Where are we now? Where are we going? Arnaud Clavé Discussion
10:30 am	Break
11:00 am	Panel discussion The Impact of AI on O&T in the Next Decade Pedro Diniz, Georg Osterhoff, Walter van der Weegen, Josua Ziegler Moderator: David Back
12:00 am	SESSION 4 - Digital outcomes & biomarkers - tools, possibilities, evidence, limits CHAIRS: Bernd Grimm , Benedikt Braun Personalized TKA based on functional phenotyping Allan Maas Beyond PROMS: Less questions, better insights, higher compliance: Ecological Momentary Computerised Adaptive Testing (EMCAT) Conrad Harrison Consumer Cameras to democratize Motion Analysis Frederic Garcia Objectifying Shoulder Outcomes (using real-life activity monitoring with accelerometers) Peter Varga Discussion
1:00 pm	Break
2:00 pm	Poster session Moderators: David Back & Koroush Kabir
2:45 pm	SESSION 5 - Large language Models in O&T - Potentials and Hazards CHAIRS: Jacobien Oosterhoff, Georg Osterhoff How to evaluate the performance of LLMs in orthopaedic research? Felix Conrad Öttl Can ChatGPT help me with my muskuloskeletal tumor diagnosis? Dimosthenis Andreou AI will see you now - an interactive avatar in the Orthopaedic practice? Walter van der Weegen AI meets pre-injury performance: Predicting match participation in elite soccer players - a winning combination? Pedro Diniz Discussion
3:45 pm	Venture pitch and digital poster presentation - award ceromony HOSTS: Dominik Pförringer, David Back & Koroush Kabir
4:00 pm	Closure and summary David Back & Koroush Kabir