2024 Annual Meeting - Schedule of Events*

Friday, May 3, 2024 8 a.m. - 2 p.m.

AquaTurf Club, Plantsville, CT

 *subject to change

Learning Objectives

I.                     Utilize Guidelines to Mitigate Post Op Inflammation and Swelling

II.                   Identify and Review Resources on Healthcare Disruptors

III.                 Updates on Anesthesia Care and Impact on Orthopaedic Surgeons

7:30 – 8:00 a.m.                 Registration/Breakfast/Visit Exhibitors

8:00 – 8:20 a.m.                 COS Business Meeting                                  

8:20 – 8:25 a.m.                 Welcome             Michael Kaplan, MD – COS Board Member & Program Director

8:25 – 8:55 a.m.                 Thank You for Your Service:  Who Responds When America Calls?   

David Chu, Ph.D. – Former President and CEO of the Institute for Defense Analyses and former United States Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness, Washington, DC

8:55 – 9:25 a.m.                 HAPPY Total Knees:  30+ Ways to Mitigate Post-op Inflammation and Swelling

Andrew Wickline, MD – New Harford, New York                                                          

9:25 – 9:55 a.m.                 Break and Exhibitor Visits

9:55 – 10:25 a.m.               TBA

10:25 – 10:55 a.m.             Comradery and the Modern Anesthesiologist   Sanjay Sinha, MD , Trinity Health, Hartford, CT

10:55 – 11:25 a.m.             Fragility Fractures

Laura Tosi, MD, Director of Bone Health Program, Children’s National Hospital, Washington, DC

11:25 – 11:55 a.m.             Break and Exhibitor Visits

11:55 a.m. – 12:25 p.m.    Cartilage Preservation

Arthritis Care

Kenneth Zaslav, MD, Director of Center for Regenerative Orthopedic Medicine Lenox Hill Hospital/ Northwell Health

Professor Orthopedic Surgery Zucker School of Medicine : Hofstra University and Co Chair: Biologics Association 

12:25 – 12:35 p.m.             Orthopaedic Resident Papers: Yale & Uconn

1:35 – 1:00 p.m.   COS Award Presentations            

Orthopaedist of the Year Award                                               Mariam Hakim Zargar, MD. MPH

Honorary Member Award                                                          Barry Cepelewicz, MD, Esq.                                   

Humanitarian Service Award                                                     Shirvinda Wijesekera, MD                                                 

1:00 – 2:00 p.m.                Luncheon