Venue: Te Papa, Wellington

Friday 16th October - 1pm

Instructional Course Lectures

Fracture:

1:30pm | When can I fix and when should I replace the B2 | Kong Koh

1:40pm | How I fix a posterior wall fracture | Troy Smithers

1:50pm | The osteoporotic transverse Acetabular fracture – fix and replace | Vaughan Poutawera

2:00pm | Questions

Primary Arthroplasty

2:10pm | How to approach the Femur | Jacob Munro

2:20pm | How to approach the difficult primary hip replacement | Tom Kuperus

2:30pm | Hip-Spine-Pelvis: A quick revision | Paul Monk

| How I manage the high risk instability patient |

2:45pm | Questions

2:50pm | Tea break | 10 minutes

Revision THA

3:00pm | The Difficult Acetabulum: Options for revision | Ant Maher

Infection/Tumour:

3:20pm | When to DAIR, single stage and 2 stage | Andy Vane

3:30pm | How I deal with metastases around the hip | Ant Maher

The young hip

3:40pm | Fundamentals of hip arthroscopy | Rob Elliot

3:50pm | Surgical hip dislocation – is there still a role for this? | Vaughan Poutawera

4:00pm | Understanding Graf USS for DDH | Saesol Shin

4:10pm | PAO - who am I looking for and why | Matt Boyle

Saturday 17th October

8:00am-8:30am | Registration and light breakfast available

8:30am-8:42am | Hip Fracture Registry: What we need to know 2026 | Pierre Navarre

8:42am-8:54am | Femoral Head Collapse: A proxy for delayed care | Chuck Leucker

8:54am-9:06am | Paper | Prospective evaluation of Combined Sagittal Index Guided acetabular position for posterior approach hip joint replacement | Chris Ling & Paul Monk

9:06am-9:18am | Perfecting the inpatient stay (shortening LOS, minimizing complications) | Stefan Kreuzer

9:18am-9:30am | Discussion

9:30am-9:42am | Obese patients: Should these be done by sub-specialists? | Nick Gormack

9:42am-9:54am | BMI cut offs: Right or Wrong | Hamish McLaren

9:54am-10:18am | Paper | Does Bariatic Surgery Improve Outcomes After THA and TKA? | Yazmin Johari & Matt Street

10:18am-10:30am | Discussion

10:30am-11:00am | Morning Tea

11:00am-11:12am | Ultra-short stems: Why I use them | Haemish Crawford

11:12am-11:24am | Triple Taper Collared Stems: Reducing the risk of fracture | Tim Godwin

11:24am-11:44am | Modular dual mobility: Do I need to worry about longevity | Ed Davis

11:44am-11:50am | Paper | The changing “fashion” of cementless femoral stems: 25 year review of usage and performance in the NZJR – Jihae Abou El Ela & Vincent Chan

11:50am-12:00pm | Discussion

12:00pm-12:12pm | Cephazolin’s unique R-side chain: Always use cephazolin | Tom Hills

12:12pm-12:24pm | Post-operative antibiotics: Waste of money and time? | Andrea Peat

12:24pm-12:36pm | Local antibiotic use in PJI: Evidence for or against | Amir Sandiford

12:36pm-12:48pm | ROADMAP: An update and education | Tom Hills

2:20pm-2:40pm | The Challenges of using AI to predict Failing Total Hip replacements | Vipin Asopa

2:40pm-2:54pm | Have some of us been conned?: Does enabling technology lead to better outcomes? | Matt Street & Hamish McLaren

2:54pm-3:00pm | Discussion

3:00pm-3:20pm | Young Surgeons talks

3:20pm-3:30pm | Afternoon Tea

3:30pm-3:42pm | Paper | Two-year Patient-Reported Outcomes and Their Predictors After Isolated PAO | Matt Boyle

3:42pm-3:56pm | Are we at the end with PROMS? | Paul Monk

3:56pm-4:08pm | Return to sports after hip preservation surgery | Jacob Munro

4:08pm-4:20pm | Too young for Arthroplasty, Too Arthritic for Arthroscopy: Defining the Grey Zone | Rob Elliott

4:20pm-4:30pm | Discussion

4:30pm-5:00pm | A talk with Kevin Karpik | Kevin Karpik

5:00pm | Conference close

7:00pm - 11:00pm | Combined Hip and Spine Society Dinner : Shed 5