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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

Thanks to our international faculty

Dimosthenis Andreou

Andreou, Dimosthenis, M.D. Prof.

Department of Orthopaedic Oncology and Sarcoma Surgery, University Hospital Essen

Germany

Back, David, M.D., MBA, Prof.


Center for Musculoskeletal Surgery, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin

Germany

Bentzen, Andreas, M.Sc.


Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University Hospital

Denmark

Brachmann, Lukas


Education Solutions Specialist, Johnson & Johnson Medical GmbH, Hannover


Germany

Braun, Benedikt, M.D., MBA, Prof.


Department of Trauma and Reconstructive Surgery, BG Trauma Center Tübingen, The University of Tübingen

Germany

Cai, Yin, Dr.


Development Manager at Amazon Web Services (AWS), Healthcare & Life Sciences Innovation Leader, Munich

Germany

Josip Car
Car, Josip, M.D., M.Sc., Ph.D., Prof.


School of Life Course & Population Sciences; King's College London

Great Britain

Clavé, Arnaud, M.D, Ph.D.


Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Saint-George Private Hospital, Nice, France and Laboratoire de Traitement de l'Information M.dicale (LaTIM)

France

Dardenne, Guillaume

Dardenne, Guillaume, Ph.D.


Research scientist at Inserm (LaTIM)

France

Pedro Diniz
Diniz, Pedro, Ph.D., M.D.


Luxembourg Institute of Research in Orthopedics, Sports Medicine and Science (LIROMS), Department of Bioengineering and iBB – Institute for Bioengineering and Biosciences, Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa

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Luxembourg/Portugal

Duda, Georg, Dr.-Eng., Prof


Julius Wolff Institute - Einstein Center for Regenerartive Therapies, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin

Germany

Everaert, Johnatan, M.D.


Orthopedic Surgery and Traumatology, HUmani - CHU Charleroi-Chimay

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Belgium

Erlikh Fox, Tatiana, M.D.


Internal Medicine, OLVG, Amsterdam

Netherlands

Felländer-Tsai, Li, M.D., Ph.D, Prof.

Felländer-Tsai, Li, M.D., Ph.D., Prof.


Center for Advanced Medical Simulation and Training (CAMST), Karolinska Institutet & Karolinska University Hospital

Sweden

Fürnstahl, Philipp, M.D., Prof.


Assistant Professor in Orthopedic Computer Science (tenure track), University of Zurich

Switzerland

Garcia, Frederic, Ph.D


Human Motion, Orthopaedics, Sports Medicine, Digital Methods (HOSD), Luxembourg Institute of Health

Luxembourg

Glinkowski, Wojciech, M.D., Ph.D., Prof.
Glinkowski, Wojciech, M.D., Ph.D., Prof.


Department of Medical Informatics and Telemedicine, Medical University of Warsaw

Poland

Grimm, Bernd, Ph.D.


Human Motion, Orthopaedics, Sports Medicine, Digital Methods (HOSD), Luxembourg Institute of Health

Luxembourg

Conrad Harrison
Harrison, Conrad, M.D., MBA DPhil


Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Science, University of Oxford

Great Britain

Kabir, Koroush, M.D., MBA


Department for Traumatology, Orthopaedics and Sport Medicine, Helios University Hospital Wuppertal, University of Witten/Herdecke

Germany

David Keene

Keene, David, M.Sc., D.Phil., MCSP


Exeter Medical School, University of Exeter, Exeter
Royal United Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Bath

Great Britain

Lee, Paul, M.D., Prof.


Doctor, Scientist and Ai expert, Founder of MAI Motion, Founder of Regen PhD, MSK Doctors

Great Britain

Mechlenburg, Inger, M.Sc, Ph.D., D.M.Sc., Prof.


Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aarhus University Hospital

Denmark

Pförringer, Dominik, M.D., MBA, Prof.


Department of Trauma Surgery, Klinikum rechts der Isar, Technical University of Munich

Germany

Oosterhoff, Jacobien, M.D., Ph.D., Prof.


Faculty of Technology Policy and Management, Delft University of Technology

Netherlands

Osterhoff, Georg, M.D., Prof.


Department of Orthopaedics, Trauma and Reconstructive Surgery, University Hospital Leipzig

Germany

Felix Conrad Öttl
Öttl, Felix, M.D.


Department of Orthopaedics Surgery, University of Zürich, Balgrist University Hospital

Switzerland

Paggetti, Cristiano, Ph.D., Prof.
Paggetti, Cristiano, Ph.D., Prof.


School of Computing and Information Engineering, Ulster University

Great Britain / Italy

Parchi, Paolo, M.D., Ph.D., Prof.


Department of Translational Research on New Technologies in Medicine and Surgery, University of Pisa

Italy

Rossi, Stefano, M.D., Prof.


Section of Robotic-Assisted Prosthetic Surgery, Sports Trauma Unit, Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology, Fondazione Poliambulanza

Italy

Van der Weegen, Walter, Ph.D.


Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Sports & Orthopedics Research Centre, St. Anna Hospital, Geldrop

Netherland

Peter Varga
Varga, Peter, Ph.D., PD


AO Research Institute Davos

Switzerland

Ziegler, Josua


CEO punktum, Berlin

Germany

Maas, Allan


Head of R&D Innovative Smart Applications and Simulation Aesculap AG – part of the B. Braun Group
Tuttlingen

Germany

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