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Funding for
Streaming Video graciously provided
by an educational
grant from Merck.
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Funding for Streaming Video graciously provided
by an educational grant from Merck.
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Thursday 19 March 2009
The Toe and the Flow: A Novel Collaboration
Between APMA and SVS
Moderators: George Andros,
MD; David G. Armstrong, DPM, PhD
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How I Learned to Love the Foot (and the Foot
Surgeon)
Joseph L. Mills, MD
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My Intimal Relationship with Vascular Surgery
Lawrence B. Harkless, DPM |
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Panel Discussion
Andrew J.M. Boulton, MD, FRCP; Joe Caporusso, Lawrence B.
Harkless, DPM; Joseph L. Mills, MD; Richard F. Neville, MD |
Global Climate Change
in Diabetic Amputation Prevention
Promising Policy or Hot Air?
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Cutting to the Chase
It’s About Preventing Amputation, (Stupid!)
George Andros, MD |
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Keeping Up With the Jan’s
Can the Rest of the World Match the Swedish Success?
Jan Apelqvist, MD |
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Flipping the Ipswich
Implementing a Prevention Program and Proving It
Gerry Rayman, MD |
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Singing the Praises of Singapore
Plastic Surgery as a Principal Player
Colin Song, MBBCh |
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World Class Care for the Most Neglected?
The Chennai Experience
Vijay Viswanathan, MD, PhD |
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Tight Glucose Control vs Controlling Hypertension
Can We ADVANCE to an ACCORD?
Anne Peters, MD |
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Ischemia and Infection
A Sinister Synergy
Benjamin A. Lipsky, MD |
Lunch
Symposium
The Multidisciplinary Art of Limb
Preservation and Its Economic Benefits for the Complicated
Diabetic Foot
Moderators: George Andros, MD; David G. Armstrong, DPM, PhD
Panel: Christopher E. Attinger, MD; Vickie R. Driver,
DPM;
Todd E. Rasmussen, MD
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This activity is supported by KCI.
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Back to Basics: Aiming for Diagnostic Bull’s Eye
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Keeping an Eye on the Goal
The ADA Comprehensive Diabetic Foot Exam (CDFE):
Putting Pragmatic Principles to Practice
Andrew J.M. Boulton, MD, FRCP |
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Assessing Perfusion Endpoints
Can We Predict Outcomes?
Gary W. Gibbons, MD |
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Antibiotics for DFI:
What Do the ID Doc, the Non-ID Clinician
and
the Pharmaceutical Companies Each Want?
Warren S. Joseph, DPM |
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Ulcers: Is It Enough to Classify?
John S. Steinberg, DPM |
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Panel Discussion: Drs. Boulton, Gibbons, Joseph, & Steinberg |
Infection and Drainage Debridement
From Nidus to Nexus
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When Should I Call the Infectious Disease Doctor?
Christopher E. Attinger, MD |
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When Should I Call the Plastic Surgeon?
John S. Steinberg, DPM |
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When Should I Call the Vascular Surgeon?
Lawrence B. Harkless, DPM |
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Who needs Podiatry?
Joseph L. Mills, MD |
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What to Do When a Diabetic Foot Ulcer Becomes a Plain Old Ulcer
Negative Pressure Wound Therapy
Vickie R. Driver, DPM |
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Panel Discussion: Drs. Attinger,
Steinberg, Harkless, Mills, & Driver |
Friday 20 March 2009
Symposium
The Pharmacological Management of
Positive and
Negative Symptoms of Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy
Allen M. Jacobs, DPM
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This activity is supported by Pamlab.
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Symposium
Evidence-Based Medicine in Wound Care
William W. Li, MD
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This activity is supported by an educational grant
provided
by Systagenix Wound Management.
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Harmony in Extremities
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Minor Amputation in a Major Key
Jeff van Baal, MD, PhD |
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Major Amputation in a Minor Key
Dane K. Wukich, MD |
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Staying on Key with Offloading: Notes for the Ulcerated Foot
Everything You Need to Know Except Catalog Numbers
Peter R. Cavanagh, PhD, DSc |
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Panel Discussion: Drs. van Baal, Wukich, & Cavanagh |
Wound Healing Practical Pointers
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What to Put on the Wound
From the Bench to the Bedside
Robert S. Kirsner, MD, PhD |
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Alternative Means of Debridement
Sizzle or Steak?
Jeffrey A. Niezgoda, MD |
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How Do I Make Sense of All of These Wound Products?
Stella Vig, MD |
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Panel Discussion: Drs. Kirsner, Niezgoda, & Vig |
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The 6th Annual Edward James Olmos Award
For Advocacy in Amputation Prevention
Honoree: Peter R. Cavanagh, PhD, DSc |
Symposium
Avoiding Frustrations in Wound Care
Desmond P. Bell, Jr., DPM
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This activity is supported by an
unrestricted educational grant from Organogenesis.
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Making the Punishment Fit the Crime: How to Choose the Right Revascularization
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40 Years in Her Majesty’s Service Treating Ischemic Limbs
Shaken But Not Stirred
Sir Peter Bell |
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A Debate: Open Surgery vs Endovascular Surgery
Open: Spence M. Taylor, MD
Endovascular: Daniel G. Clair, MD |
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Revascularizing Neuroischemic Diabetes in India
An Emerging Problem in an Emerging Country
Rajiv Parakh, MBBS, MS |
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If the Only Tool You Have is a Hammer, Everything Looks Like a Diabetic Ulcer
The Albany Experience
R. Clement Darling, III, MD |
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POP (Plain Old Pedal Bypass)
A Safe Haven in the Diabetic Ischemia Storm
Joseph Mills, MD |
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It’s More Than Choosing the Appropriate Intervention
How Do You Teach Judgment
Peter F. Lawrence, MD |
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Panel Discussion: Drs. Bell, Taylor, Clair, Parakh, Darling, Mills, & Lawrence |
Saturday 21 March 2009
Face to Face with Osteomyelitis
Ulcers That Have Gone Too Far
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All Osteomyelitis Should be Excised
Fact or Fiction?
Christopher E. Attinger, MD |
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Use of Maggots in Osteomyelitis?
It’s Happening in Amsterdam
Gerrolt N. Jukema, MD, PhD |
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Biofilms and Wound Healing
A Bonafide Bane or Banal Buzzword?
E. Peter Greenberg, PhD |
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Antibiotics for Osteomyelitis
Boneheaded or Brilliant?
Warren S. Joseph, DPM |
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Panel Discussion: Drs. Attinger, Jukema, Greenberg, & Joseph |
What’s Really on Your Patient’s Mind?
How to Get Them to Tell You
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The 10-Minute Psychological Assessment
Mark F. Peyrot, PhD |
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Stress and Wound Healing
Does ‘High Strung’ Imply ‘High-Risk’?
Loretta Vileikyte, MD, PhD |
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Panel Discussion: Drs. Peyrot & Vileikyte |
The Charcot Report (Silent T)
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Charcot 101
Pathophysiology and Natural History
Lee J. Sanders, DPM |
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Diagnosis of Charcot
Why Do One Test When You Can Do Many?
Lee C. Rogers, DPM |
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Treatment of Charcot
Is the Best Surgery the One We Never Do?
Dane K. Wukich, MD |
Prognostications and Pearls
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Comprehensive Infection Evaluation:
From Bacterial Soup to Antimicrobial
Nuts
Benjamin A. Lipsky, MD |
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Making the Case for a Unique Diabetic Angiopathy
George Andros, MD |
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Panel Discussion: Drs. Andros, Rogers, Sanders, Wukich, & Joseph |
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