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2024 ASAP Pre-Meeting Kick-Off Webinar
We are pleased to continue our collaboration with ASAP to offer BeeMed members exclusive free access to the Pre-Meeting Kick-Off Webinar, ahead of the 2024 ASAP Meeting which will be taking place January 18-20, 2024 in Snowbird, Utah.
This first webinar will discuss Complex Primary Shoulder Arthroplasty - "Double Black Diamonds", with the international faculty;
William N. Levine, MD - Pascal Boileau, MD - Alexandre Lädermann, MD - Robert Z. Tashjian, MD - Jay D. Keener, MD - George S. Athwal, MD
The following topics will be covered: Glenoid deformity, Soft tissue loss and deltoid rupture/thinning, Post instability, Fractures, Severe Rheumatoid Arthritis, Massive humeral and glenoid bone loss
2024 ASAP Meeting Discount
Sign up for any one of the ASAP Webinars prior to the next ASAP Meeting and receive $200 off your ASAP meeting registration!
*Discount code will be sent at a later time to the email used during registration. Must be present for the entire duration of the webinar to receive the discount.
Dr. Levine is the Frank E. Stinchfield Professor and Chairman of the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at NYP/Columbia University Medical Center. He served as the 36th President of the American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons during the pandemic of 2020. He has been the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons since 2014.
Professor Pascal Boileau completed his undergraduate and graduate training in Nice, France in the University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis. ln the framework of the university resident exchange program, he was resident in Lyon. He is Board Certified in Orthopedic Surgery and Traumatology. He was Chairman of the University Institute of Locomotion and Sports of Pasteur 2 Hospital and Chairman of its Department of Orthopedic and Sports Surgery. He was in charge of Outpatient Surgery of the University Hospital Center of Nice. In November 2021 he founded the ICR (Institut de Chirurgie Réparatrice -Locomoteur & Sport/Institute for Sports & Reconstructive Bone & Joint Surgery), a private clinic member of Groupe Kantys, where he practices currently. Pascal Boileau took an active part in the academic life of the Medical School of Nice, University of Nice-Sophia-Antipolis, where he was nominated Vice-Dean in 2010, was the President of the Scientific Commission from 2010 to 2014, as well as being a member of the Administrative Council of the Medical School up to 2018. He was the President of the European Society for Surgery of the Shoulder and Elbow from 2010 to 2012 after serving as General Secretary between 2008 and 201O. He is the member of several national and international learned societies. Professor Boileau specializes in shoulder surgery and is one of the designers of the Aequalis shoulder prostheses family and has developed several surgical devices and arthroscopy techniques. Professor Boileau has won the Gisela Sturm prize (European Federation of Orthopaedics and Traumatology) of innovation in prosthetic surgery in 1997. He also won the Neer Award in 2005 for clinical research and several other prizes for his scientific work. Professor Boileau has a wide-ranging scientific activity; he has more than 180 articles published in peer-rereviewed journals, has edited 15 books, besides the more than 200 articles and chapters contributed to other publications. His papers are regularly selected for presentation in international and national meetings (more than 350). His works, studies and projects have earned him national and international recognition and he has been invited to lecture worldwide. Every two years he organizes the Nice Shoulder Course – Current Concepts, a meeting where internationally recognized experts share their knowledge, experience and views in the field of shoulder pathology and surgical treatment.
Together with his team, PD Dr. Alexandre LÄDERMANN treats traumatic and nontraumatic pathologies of the shoulder and the elbow. He is the President of Swiss Shoulder Society (Expertengruppe Schulter und Ellbogen (Swiss Orthopaedics)) and the President of the Congress of the European Society for Shoulder and Elbow Surgery (SECEC/ESSSE) and Editor of the Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Arthroplasty. Driven by his will to develop new medical techniques to improve his patients' recovery, Dr LÄDERMANN is at the heart of intense scientific activity. This has led him to create the Foundation for Research and Teaching in Orthopedic Surgery (FORE) of which he is also President.
Dr. Robert Tashjian is a Professor of Orthopaedics at the University of Utah School of Medicine in Salt Lake City, UT specializing in shoulder and elbow surgery. Dr. Tashjian received his medical doctorate from Tufts University School of Medicine in Boston, MA. He completed an orthopaedic residency at Brown Medical School in Providence, RI followed by an orthopaedic trauma fellowship at Brown under the direction of Peter G. Trafton, MD. Dr. Tashjian completed an additional fellowship in shoulder and elbow surgery at Washington University in St. Louis under the direction of Ken Yamaguchi, MD. Dr. Tashjian’s primary clinical focus centers on all aspects of primary and revision shoulder and elbow surgery including labral tears, rotator cuff tears, arthritis and fractures including shoulder arthroplasty and post-reconstructive procedures. Dr. Tashjian is an Active Member of the American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons. Dr. Tashjian is the editor of the textbooks The Unstable Elbow and Complex and Revision Shoulder Arthroplasty. Dr. Tashjian is currently the Vice-Chairman for Research in the Department of Orthopaedics as well as the co-director of the annual internationally recognized Advanced Shoulder Arthroplasty Meeting in Park City, Utah.
Dr. Keener is a Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Washington University. He is currently the Chief of Service and Fellowship Director for Shoulder and Elbow Service, Washington University, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery. He has served as faculty at Washington University for 14 years. Dr. Keener has a strong clinical interest in shoulder instability, fracture management, rotator cuff disorders, shoulder arthritic conditions and all pathologies related to the elbow. Dr. Keener completed the European American Shoulder and Elbow Fellowship in 2011. The focus of his research relates to the natural history of degenerative rotator cuff disease and clinical outcomes for rotator cuff and shoulder arthroplasty surgeries. In 2014 Dr. Keener, along with Drs. Yamaguchi and Teefey, received the Kappa Delta Ann Doner Vaughan Award for their collaborative efforts in research related to rotator cuff disease. Dr. Keener is actively involved in resident and fellowship education and has received numerous awards related to his teaching efforts.
Dr. George Athwal is originally from Vancouver, and completed his M.D. at the University of British Columbia. Following completion of his orthopedic surgery residency at Queen’s University, he spent 2 years sub-specializing in upper extremity reconstruction and trauma. Dr. Athwal completed a 1-year fellowship at the Hospital for Special Surgery, Cornell University, New York, NY. Following this, he completed 1-year at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN specializing in shoulder and elbow surgery. In 2005, he joined the Hand and Upper Limb Centre at the University of Western Ontario. He is actively involved in biomechanical and clinical research pertaining to the shoulder and elbow. Dr Athwal has been awarded the Dean’s Award of Excellence for his research contributions to the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, the Clinician Scientist Award from the Department of Surgery, a Career Development Award from AMOSO and the H.S. Cameron Teaching Award. Additionally, he has represented the Canadian Orthopaedic Association as a North American Travelling Fellow and has also represented the American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons as a European Travelling Fellow. He has published over 200 scientific articles and 40 book chapters and is an Associate Editor for the Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery and the Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Arthroplasty. Presently, he is the president of the Association of Clinical Elbow and Shoulder Surgeons (ACESS). Furthermore, he has been recognized by his peers as a leader in shoulder surgery.
Dr. Athwal’s elective practice involves all aspects of shoulder and elbow surgery, including primary & revision shoulder and elbow joint replacement, arthroscopic rotator cuff repair, instability surgery and arthroscopic elbow surgery. Dr. Athwal’s trauma practice focuses on injuries involving the shoulder, elbow, and wrist.