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Saturday / SundayPreliminary Scientific Programme (per August 2008)
Saturday, May 23, 2009|
10.00 -18.00 |
Registration
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13.00 -14.30 |
Plenary Session Sports Injury: Articular Cartilage Mechanisms and Management Potentials Discuss new concepts, scientific approaches, mechanisms and management opportunities for athletes with and without injury and the consequence of Osteoarthritis • Cartilage Problems in the Athlete: Age and Level • Importance of Articular Focus from the FIFA Perspective • Basic Science Mechanisms and Models of Articular cartilage injury • Injury Repair Options in the Athlete Special Concerns • Consequences of Osteoarthitis in the athlete. What can we do? |
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14.30- 16.00 |
Special Session 1 Rehabilitation after Cartilage Repair Treatments • Rehabilitation: How important is it? • To brace or not to brace… • Return to Sports • Rehabilitation in a Regulatory Trial Special Session 2 • Classification & Mapping Methods • Application & Early Results • Future Directions Special Session 3 • Preclinical Requirements for Medical Devices • Clinical Trial Design & Requirements • Discussion: Where are the Success Stories? |
| 16.00 - 16.30 |
Exhibition / Intermission |
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16.30 - 17.30 |
Opening Ceremony & ICRS Awards Welcome Addresses, Surprise Guest, Abstract & Poster Awards, Genzyme Lifetime Award & Genzyme Award for Excellence in Cartilage Research |
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17.30 - 18.30 |
Plenary Session Honorary Lectures |
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18.30 - 20.00 |
Welcome Reception ICRS 2009 At the InterContinental poolside, overlooking Biscayne Bay. Congress Participants, Accompanying Persons and Industry Representatives are cordially invited to join this Welcome Reception, offered by ICRS. |
Sunday, May 24, 2009
08.00 - 09.30 Plenary Session • 1st Generation ACI 09.30 - 11.00 Special Session 1 Special Session 2 Special Session 3 11.00 - 11.30 Exhibition / Intermission 11.30- 13.00 Special Session 1 13.15- 14.15 Industry Satellite Symposia 14.30 - 16.00 Free Paper Sessions 16.00 - 16.30 Exhibition / Intermission 16.30 - 18.00 Poster Session 19.00-23.00 ICRS Cruise Party Night with the Biscayne Lady
Point of Origin: Where are we now?
Long-term Results
• 2nd Generation ACI
• Mosaicplasty
• Other Techniques
Back to the Future: Allogenic Therapies, past & present
• General Issues in Allografts
• Large Defects
• Xenografts
• Knee Transplantation
Clinical Outcome Measures
• Histology
• Visual & Mechanical
• Functional & Patient reported
• Metanalysis of Microfracture
Articular Cartilage & Subchondral Bone Pysiopathology
• Development
• Physiology – Cartilage, Bone & Synovial Tissue
• Animal Models of Joint Pathologies
• Tissue Engineering
Learning from other Paradigms – Biological Repair
• Cranofacial Cartilage
• Heart
• Bone
• Nerve
Special Session 2
Tissue Engineering – YSOS Session
• Enhancing Intrinsic Repair in Articular Cartilage
• Can cartilage regeneration or substitution prevent further degeneration
• Can meniscus regeneration or substitution prevent further degeneration?
• Young people – old knees: treatment options
Special Session 3
Travelling Fellowship
• Variability in cartilage biology within a joint and throughout the body
• Choosing the optimal biomechanical test for your study
• Why power calculations are so important
• Top 10 mistakes in manuscript authorship
• Biomaterials & Biomechanics
• Meniscus Repair
• Scaffolds
• Cell Therapies
Boarding at Bayside Market Place (10 minutes walking
distance from the Hotel Intercontinental)
Boarding time: 19.00 hs
Cruising time: 19.30 – 23.00 hs
Rates: (incl. Cruise, Dinner, Drinks, Entertainment):
70.00 Euros/person for individual congress participants.
(Rate partially sponsored by ICRS)