PROGRAMME 

Venue: Memorial Hall, Queenstown

Theme: Managing Complications and Complaints in Orthopaedics 


Saturday 18th October 

Foot & Ankle and Shoulder & Elbow Societies in Memorial Hall, Queenstown

Combined morning tea, lunch, and afternoon teas with trades 

Combined NZFAS & NZSES DINNER | 6:30pm

Venue: The Cargo Collective, Arthurs Point

Sunday 19th October 

Foot & Ankle Society in Memorial Hall | 8:30am – 1:00pm

Sunday afternoon sport | Golf; Jack's Point Golf Club. Tee off at 12:00pm. 

Mountain biking; cycle the stunning Shotover Trail. Grade 2 (easy) ride. Meet at Queenstown Bike Hire at 1:30pm

Sunday evening welcome drinks | 5:00pm -7:00pm Memorial Hall

Sunday dinner – own arrangements

Monday 20th October 

7:00am - 8:00am | Registrations open at Memorial Hall

7:00am - 7:30am | Enovis Gold Sponsor Breakfast 

8:00am -  8:20am | Welcome from locals - Russell Fowler and Nic Buckley


 Carousel Presidents - Khalid Mohammed: Chair 

8:20am -8:27am | Australian perspectives on future relationship with RACS - Mark Moroney, Australian Orthopaedic Association 

8:27am - 8:34am | The Bone and Joint Journal -Fergal Monsell, British Orthopaedic Association 

8:34am - 8:41am | Managing and under resourced orthopaedic workforce - Odette Koch, South African Orthopaedic Association 

8:41am - 8:48am | Mentorship - Olufemi Ayeni, Canadian Orthopaedic Association

8:48am - 8:55am | Maintenance of certification - Kyle Jeray, American Orthopaedic Association

8:55am - 9:02am | Managing complaints relating to competence - Paul Tornetta, American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons


Revision Surgery. Master's Tales - Olufemi Ayeni & Jegan Krishnan: Chairs

9:05am - 9:25am | Revision Shoulder arthroplasty  -   Prof Pascal Boileau , France

9:25am - 9:45am | Revision Elbow arthroplasty  -   Mr Jeff Hughes, Australia

9:45am - 10:05am  |  Complications of Hip Arthroscopy - Mr Matt Brick, New Zealand

10:05am - 10:25am | Revision Ankle arthroplasty - Dr Murray Penner, Canada


10:30 am – 10:35 am | Enovis Gold Sponsor Update

10:35am – 11:00am | Morning Tea


Plenary Lectures

11:00am - 11:30am | The challenges of orthopaedic training and credentialling in the developing world. His work as a teacher and examiner in India, China, and Africa - Jegan Krishnan

11:30am - 12:00pm | Career highlights and challenges, including globalisation of French shoulder surgery - Pascal Boileau


12:00pm – 1:00pm | Lunch

12:30pm - 1:00pm | Smith & Nephew Pty Ltd Gold Sponsor Lunch


 Complaints | Alex Malone: Chair

1:00pm -1:20pm | HDC Commissioner -  Morag McDowell

1:20pm - 1:40pm | ACC Treatment Injury - Denis Atkinson

1:40pm - 2:00pm | NZMC Chair - Rachelle Love

2:00pm - 2:20pm  | Medical Lawyer -  Jonathan Coates 


2:30pm - 2:35pm | Smith & Nephew Pty Ltd Gold Sponsor Update

2:35pm - 3:00pm Afternoon tea


 Interest Session | All partners invited and encouraged to attend | Richard Lloyd & Perry Turner: Chairs

3:00pm - 3:30pm |  Resilience, managing stress, mental health - Silken Laumann  

3:30pm - 4:00pm |  Surgeons managing complications and complaints - Nick Petrie


4:00pm - 4:07pm | All Inside Posterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction - ASEAN Travelling Fellow - Andri Lubris

4:07pm - 4:14pm | A Philippine Experience in the Management of Periprosthetic Joint Infection (PJI) - ASEAN Travelling Fellow - Peter Quiaoit

4:14pm - 4:21pm | Artificial Intelligence based risk stratification & dressing selection for lower limb wound management: a model development study using deep convolutional neural networks -  Hong Kong Ambassador - Sum Lik Cheung 

4:21pm - 4:28pm | Gender differences in foot & ankle sports injury rates in elite athletes: A systematic review and meta-analysis of 25,687,866 athlete exposures - Trans Tasman Travelling Fellow - Andrian Talia


4:30pm – 5:45pm | New Zealand Orthopaedic Association AGM


6:30pm | Gala Dinner at Stratosphere Restaurant, Skyline (gondola included in dinner ticket)

All Blacks Colin Slade, Richie McCaw and Israel Dagg will be signing AB jerseys for the visiting Presidents and invited speakers 


Tuesday 21st October


7:30am - 8:30am | Registrations open at Memorial Hall


8:30am - 10:00am | Free Papers Session A8:30am - 10:00am      Free Paper Session A

Paediatrics and General Orthopaedics | BREAKOUT ROOM ONE -  Mr John McKie, Dr Pierre Navarre: Moderators 

Format: 9 papers. 7 minute presentations per presenter, broken onto three groups. Each group will have three surgeons presenting sequentially and then nine minutes (~3min per presenter) questions from the floor at the end of each group of 3. 


8:30am - 8:37am |  Sheena Seewoonarian (Seewoonarain S, Coltman J, Cavadino A, Sorhage A, Stott S)

- A national analysis of surgical treatment of hip displacement in cerebral palsy

8:37am - 8:44am | Jacob Coltman (Coltman J, Stott S, Chong J, Sorhage A, Cavadino A)

- Botulinum Toxin A (BTX-A) Injection Use in Children with Cerebral Palsy (CP) in Aotearoa New Zealand: A National Look

8:44am - 8:51am | Suyog Nagarkar ( Lemanu D, Recordon J, Senthi S, Nagarkar S, Unasa H)

- Outcomes of Slipped Upper Femoral Epiphysis at Middlemore Hospital from 2004-2024

                                                      ____________________________________________

9:00am  - 9:07am | Anna McDonald (McDonald A, Sandiford A, Navarre P)

- Paediatric Acute Haematogenous Osteomyelitis – a fifteen-year review in Southern New Zealand                                                

9:07am -  9:14am | Cindy Ou ( Ou C, Baker J, Masters R)

- The effects of a challenge state intervention on patients undergoing elective orthopaedic surgery

9:14am - 9:24am | Alex Boyle (Boyle A, Lucaciu A, Bernstein D, Harris M, Prasad A,  Tobert D)

- Risk Stratification in Orthopaedic Surgery: An evaluation of current tools, and lessons from the United States

                                                             _____________________________________

 9:30am  - 9:37am | Savannah Adams (Adams S; Lloyd R)

- Family planning by current female orthopaedic registrars and fellows and the implications for orthopaedic workforce planning in Aotearoa.

9:37am  - 9:44am | Hamish Clay  (Clay H, Maheno T)

- Coping and Resilience After Adverse Surgical Events For Orthopaedic Surgeons in New Zealand

                                                            _______________________________________

8:30am - 10:00am | Free Paper Session B

Spine | BREAKOUT ROOM TWO - Mr Chris Hoffman, Mr Perry Turner: Moderators

 Format: 9 papers. 7 minute presentations per presenter, broken onto three groups. Each group will have three surgeons presenting sequentially and then nine minutes (~3min per presenter) questions from the floor at the end of each group of 3. 


8:30am - 8:37am | Karen Toh (Toh K, Cheok T, Martin R, Baecker H)

- Clinical Outcomes Following Early versus Delayed Decompression in Patients with Thoracolumbar Spine Injuries: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

8:37am - 8:44am | Katherine Borowczyk (Borowczyk K, Shunmugam M, Rudolph T, Patel A)

- Mortality Rates in Elderly Patients with Traumatic Spinal Cord Injury

8:44am - 8:51am | Joe Baker ( J. Cunningham, D. Sreenivasan, S. Manners, J. F. Baker, C. J. T. Spence)

- Surgical humidification (Humigard™) reduces bacterial load in an open spine animal infection model

                                   ________________________________________________________________________________

9:00am - 9:07am | Geonhoo Park ( Park G, Baecker H)

- Retrospective study of radiographic Alignment in Cervical Myelopathy                         

9:07am - 9:14am |  Maksymilian Osiowski (Osiowski M, Osiowski A, Siłka W, Preinl M, Stolarz K, Taterra D)

- Lumbosacral transitional vertebrae as a risk factor for low back pain: a meta-analysis

9:14am  - 9:21am | Jacob Wong Woo (Wong Woo J, Ferguson J)

- 2 Year Clinical and Radiographic results of the Anterior Lumbar Fusion: A Single Surgeon Case Series

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 9:29am  - 9:37am | Claudia Bloy ( Bloy C, Purea T, Jadresic M, Baker J)

- Influence of Ethnicity and NZ Deprivation Index on Complications Following Spinal Surgery

9:37am - 9:44am | Wesley Tam ( Tam W, Baker J)

- Complications and Mortality After Surgery for Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy: Outcomes Analysis from a New Zealand Centre

 9:44am -9:51am | Rohil Chauhan (Chauhan R, Kheterpal A, Segar A)

- Feasibility and Outcomes of a Joint Physiotherapy-Orthopaedic Consultation Model: A Single-Centre Secondary Care Experience


10:00am -10:05am Stryker Gold Sponsor Update

10:05am - 10:30am Morning Tea


10:30am-12:30pm | Free Paper Session C

Knee | BREAKOUT ROOM ONE - Mr James Taylor, Mr Hamish Love: Moderators 

Format: 10 papers. 7 minute presentations per presenter, broken onto three groups. Each group will have three or four surgeons presenting sequentially and then nine or twelve minutes (~3min per presenter) questions from the floor at the end of each group.


10:30am - 10:37am | Duncan Reid  (Reid D, Collett J, Harvey D, Potts G)

- Patient Reported and Functional Outcomes following Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injuries: A retrospective review of Escalated Care Pathways.

10:37am - 10:44am | Mark Clatworthy  (Clatworthy M, Rahardja R, Young S)

 - Results of Isolated BPB, Quads and Hamstring ACLR vs Combined ACLR with a Lateral Extra-Articular Procedure from the NZ ACL Registry

10:44am - 10:51am | Richard Rahardja  (Rahardja R, Love H, Clatworthy. M, Young S)

 - Lower Revision Rate with Bone-Patellar Tendon-Bone Autograft Compared to Both Quadriceps and Hamstring Tendon Autografts:  Results from the New Zealand ACL Registry

                                                   ___________________________________________________

 

11:am -11:07am | Simon Young  (Young S, Tay ML, Kawaguchi K, van Rooyen R, Walker M, Farrington B, Bayan A)

- Outcomes of Functional versus Mechanical Alignment in Robotic-Arm Assisted Total Knee Arthroplasty: A Randomised Controlled Trial

 11:07am - 11:14am |  Mei Lin Tay (Tay ML, Rahardja R, Farrington B, Kawaguchi K, Young S)

 -Overall Pain is the Most Important Predictor of Patient Satisfaction Following Total and Unicompartmental Knee Arthroplasty

11:14am  -11:21am |  Morgan Lingard (Lingard M, Frampton C, Hooper G)

  -Predicting future outlier status for total knee arthroplasty surgeons

11:21am - 11:28am | Simon Young (Tay ML, Kawaguchi K, Bayan A, Elliott R, Farrington B, van Rooyen R, Sharp R, Walker M, Young S)

 -Equivalent Clinical Outcomes of Cemented and Cementless Total Knee Arthroplasty With Patella Resurfacing at Five Years: A Randomised Controlled Trial

                                               ________________________________________________

  11:40am - 11:47am | Aryan Katyal (Katyal A, Young S, Zhu M)

 -Periprosthetic Joint Infection, Patellofemoral Arthrosis and Aseptic Loosening Remain the Main Reasons for Total Knee Arthroplasty Failure: A Multi-Centre Twenty-Four-Year Study

 11:47am - 11:54am | Elizabeth Cullen (Cullen E, Frampton C, Sandiford A)

 -Fate of the Infected Unicompartmental Knee Arthroplasty: A New Zealand Joint Registry Study

11:54am - 12:07pm | Jason Ryu (Ryu J, Jain M, Lee K, Kim K, Zhu M, Tay M L, Young S)

 -Time Since Primary Arthroplasty Predicts Outcome After Debridement, Antibiotics and Implant Retention (DAIR) for Periprosthetic Joint Infection of the Knee: Utility of Current Classification Systems

                                                            ________________________________________________

10:30am-12:30pm | Free Paper Session D

General Orthopaedics, BREAKOUT ROOM TWO -  Ms Lizzie Bond, Mr Mark Cvitanich: Moderators

Format: 12 papers. 7 minute presentations per presenter, broken onto 4 groups. Each group will have three surgeons presenting sequentially and then nine minutes (~3min per presenter) questions from the floor at the end of each group of 3. 


 10:30am - 10:37am | Brian Tse (Tse CB, Sandiford A)

- The Effectiveness of the Functional Articulating Spacer for 2-Stage Revisions for Prosthetic Joint Infections – A Case Series Study from Southland Hospital 

 10:37am - 10:44am | Ruikang Guo (Guo R, You HS, Karssiens T, Zhu M, Tay ML, Young S)

- Microorganism Profiles and Empirical Antibiotic Recommendations for Periprosthetic Joint Infections of the Hip from a Large, Longitudinal Study.

10:44am  - 10:51am | Rocco Pitto (Abraham M, Spence C, Riordan P, Pitto R)

- HumiGard™ reduces particle counts within the wound: A cadaver model of total hip arthroplasty

                                                          ___________________________________________________

11:00am - 11:07am | Morgan Short (Short M, Tay ML, Lin S, Mr. Young S)

- The Role of Early Range of Motion in Predicting Long-Term Outcomes in Total Knee Arthroplasty

11:07am - 11:14am | Scott Bolam ( Bolam S, Frampton C, Pitto R)

- Do Cobalt-Chromium Femoral Heads Have Higher Revision Risk Compared to Stainless Steel  Metal Heads with a Single Cemented Femoral Design? A New Zealand Joint-Registry Study

11:14am - 11:21am | Tim Woodfield (Woodfield T, Longoni A, Gretel S. Major G, Arnold S, Tomkins S, Rnjak-Kovacina J Hooper G, Kieser D, Khoon S, Lim K)

- Pre-clinical Evaluation of Injectable Hydrogel with Controlled Growth-factor Delivery for Treatment of Avascular Necrosis of the Femoral Head

                                                                  __________________________________________________

11:30am - 11:37am | Benjamin Madsen (Madsen B, Mason B, Ingoe I, Tangrood Z)

- Immediate Versus Delayed Weight Bearing Following Ankle Open Reduction and Internal Fixation: A Pilot Randomised Controlled Trial

 11:37am - 11:44am |  Cameron Tuckey (Tuckey C, Jefferies J, Sharr J)

- Cracks in the System: The Rise of Periprosthetic Trauma

 11:44am - 11:51am | Maksymilian Osiowski (Osiowski M, Osiowski A, Preinl M, Taterra D)

- Prevalence, characteristics and clinical significance of Os Calcaneus Secundarius: A systematic review with meta-analysis

                                                 ___________________________________________________

12:00pm -12;07pm | Kristian Dalzell (Van Dijk L, Sage K, Amado P)

- Evaluation Of MagnetOs Putty As A Standalone Bone Graft For Hindfoot Fusion: A Retrospective Study                                

 12:07pm - 12:14pm | Niroshan Kumar (Kumar N)

- Investigating the utility of ChatGPT in the diagnosis and management of common hand referrals

12:14pm - 12:21pm | Stephen Child (Child S)

- Sustainability of New Zealand’s private healthcare sector

                                               ____________________________________________________

12:30pm - 1:20pm | Lunch

12:40pm - 1:10pm | Johnson & Johnson (New Zealand) Ltd Gold Sponsor Lunch


Revision Surgery. Master's Tales - Prof David Gwynne-Jones & Mr Rod Maxwell: Chairs

1:20pm - 1:40pm | Revision instability - Prof Pascal Boileau       

1:40pm - 2:00pm | Revision Elbow instability - Mr Jeff Hughes              

2:00pm - 2:20pm | Revision Hip Arthroplasty- Mr Amir Sandiford 

2:20pm - 2:40pm | Revision Knee Arthroplasty - Prof Gary Hooper 

2:40pm -  3:00pm | Revision Knee instability / soft tissue - Mr Hamish Love


3:00pm - 3:05pm  Johnson & Johnson (New Zealand) Ltd Gold Sponsor Update

3:05pm – 3:30pm    Afternoon Tea


3:30pm - 3:50pm | Revision Ankle instability - Mr Rupesh Puna

3:50pm -4:10pm | Future of Shoulder arthroplasty - Mr Sumit Raniga            

 

4:10pm -4:15pm | Closing remarks - Chris Hoffman

4:15pm | Conference Closes

 
6:30pm | President’s dinner at Botswana Butchery  (by invitation)