PROGRAMME
Venue: Te Papa, Wellington
*Draft programme subject to change
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: (35 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 | Pierre Navarre
8:42am-8:54am | PROMs: Which PROMs I use, how I collect them | Paul Monk
8:54am-9:06am | Limits of PROMs, outcome measures on the horizon | Chris Ling, Paul Monk
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? | Nick Gormack
9:42am-9:54am | BMI cut offs: Right or Wrong
9:54am-10:18am | GLP1-R and hip surgery
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 | Nick Lash
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 (?Mary Nugent)
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? | Hamish McLaren
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 | Humidifier in Surgery | Vaughan Poutawera
1:00-2:00pm | Lunch
2:00pm-2:30pm | My journey through navigation and robotics, what I have learnt and what I see coming | Stefan Kreuzer
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? | Matt Street
2:54pm-3:00pm | Discussion
3:00pm-3:12pm | Paper: Two-year Patient-Reported Outcomes and Their Predictors After Isolated PAO | Matt Boyle
3:12pm-3:24pm | Return to sports after hip preservation surgery: What are we really achieving? | Richard Willoughby
3:24pm-3:36pm | Biologics in Hip Preservation | Mike Van Neirkirk, Lyndon Bradley
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-5:00pm | Young Surgeons talks: “My Worst experience on Fellowship” (2 mins each) | "My best experience on Fellowship" | "What I'm up to now"
5:00pm | Conference close
7:00pm - 11:00pm | Combined Hip and Spine Society Dinner : Shed 5