PROGRAMME

Venue: Te Papa, Wellington

*Draft programme subject to change



Friday 16th October - Afternoon 
Instructional Course Lectures

The young hip (60 mins)

  •  Fundamentals of hip arthroscopy (15 mins)
  •  PAO – who am I looking for and why (15 mins)
  •  Surgical hip dislocation – is there still a role for this? (15 mins)
  •  Understanding Graf USS for DDH (15 mins)

Fracture: (30 mins)

  • When can I fix and when should I replace the B2 (10 mins)
  • How I fix a posterior wall fracture (5 mins)
  • The osteoporotic transverse Acetabular fracture – fix and replace (15 mins)

 Primary Arthroplasty (65 mins)

  • Selecting the best femoral stem for your patient in 2026 (15 mins)
  • How to approach the difficult primary hip replacement (15 mins)
  • Hip-Spine-Pelvis: A quick revision (10 mins)
  • How I manage the high risk instability patient (15 mins)
  •  AVN of the hip, does anything work better than THA? (10 mins)

 Revision THA (20 mins)

  • How I perform an ETO (5 mins)
  • How I make a long-stem taper-fluted stem look easy (5 mins)
  • Cup – Cage:  How to fix a difficult problem (10 mins)

Infection: (25mins)

  • When to DAIR, singe stage and 2 stage (15 mins)
  • How I perform my single stage revision (10 mins)

Tumour (15 mins)

  • How I deal with metastases around the hip (15 mins)


Saturday 17th October 

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

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

8:42am-8:54am | PROMs:  Which PROMs I use, how I collect them

8:54am-9:06am | Limits of PROMs, outcome measures on the horizon

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

9:18am-9:30am | Discussion

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

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

9:54am-10:06am |  GLP1-R and hip surgery | Endocrinologist Prof. Rinki Murphy

10:06am-10:18am | TBC

10:18am-10:30am |  Discussion

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

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

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

11:24am-11:36am |  TBC

11:36am-11:45am | Modular dual mobility:  Do I need to worry about longevity

11:45am-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?

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

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

12:48pm-1:00pm | Discussion

1:00-2:00pm | Lunch

2:00pm-2:30pm | My journey through navigation and robotics, what I have learnt and what I see coming. (Key note speaker) 

2:30pm-2:42pm |  AI and anterior hip | Charles Lawrie

2:42pm-2:54pm | Have some of us been conned?:  Does enabling technology lead to better outcomes?

2:54pm-3:00pm | Speakers on how they use enabling technology for revision THA |  Key note speaker and  others 

3:00pm-3:12pm | Hip Dysplasia in Adults: When to Scope, When to Osteotomise, When to Replace?

3:12pm-3:24pm | Return to sports after hip preservation surgery: What are we really achieving?

3:24pm-3:36pm | Biologics in Hip Preservation

3:36pm-3:48pm |  Too young of a THA, Too Arthritic for Arthroscopy: The Grey Zone Hip | Predictors of failure, role of scope vs early THA, Honest outcome data

3:48pm-4:00pm | Discussion

4:00pm-4:20pm | Afternoon Tea

4:20pm-4:40pm | Clinical Cases: “My Worst mistakes and what I learnt” (5 mins each) | Young surgeons returning |                DAA | Posterior | Trauma | Nav/Robotics

4:40pm -5:10pm | Free papers | 5 mins each

5:10pm | Conference close


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