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Thursday 13 March 2008
Session I • The Diabetic Foot – From
the Good Old Days to the Golden Age
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Does Treatment of Diabetes Really Help Vascular
Disease?
Mayer B. Davidson, MD |
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Lessons from the International Working Group
Taking It Apart, Putting It Back Together Again
Karel Bakker, MD, PhD |
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Preventing Diabetic Foot Wounds:
A Summary of What Works and What Doesn’t
Andrew J. M. Boulton, MD, FRCP |
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The Irreducible Team Minimum:
Vascular Surgery and Podiatry
Gary W. Gibbons, MD & Geoff M. Habershaw, DPM |
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Panel Discussion: Drs. Bakker, Boulton,
Davidson, Gibbons,
and Habershaw
Moderator: George Andros, MD |
Lunch
Symposium
New Concepts in Risk Assessment and
Treatment of the
Diabetic Foot
Moderator: David G. Armstrong, DPM, PhD
Lawrence A. Lavery, DPM, MPH; Lee C. Rogers, DPM
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This activity is supported by
an unrestricted educational grant
from VASYLI Medical.
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Session II
• Prevention of Amputation
Take Home Lessons from Around the Globe
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Amputation Prevention in the UK:
30 Years of Progress
Michael Edmonds, MD, FRCP |
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China: Can Care Keep up with Demography?
Zhangrong Xu,
MD |
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Saudi Success Story
Mohammad Al-Derwish, RN |
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Africa: Creating A Culture of Collaboration
Lynne Tudhope,
MD |
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India: Practical Solutions for Colossal Pathology
Kal
Suresh, MD |
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The Italian Job: Where the End Justifies the Means
Luca Dalla Paola,
MD |
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Panel Discussion: Drs. Dalla Paola,
Edmonds, Suresh,
Tudhope, Xu, and Al-Derwish, RN
Moderator: David G. Armstrong, DPM, PhD |
Session III • Prediction & Prevention
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Are We Finally Entering an Era of
Prevention?
Where Technology & Healthcare Payment are
Merging
Lawrence A. Lavery, DPM,
MPH |
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The Diabetic Foot in 2032: My Personal Predictions
Peter
R. Cavanagh, PhD, DSc |
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Using Multiple Modalities to Heal Complex Wounds:
Perspectives from North of the Border
Robert S. Kirsner, MD, PhD |
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Using Multiple Modalities to Heal Complex Wounds:
Perspectives from South of the Border
Fermín R. Martínez de Jesús, MD |
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Panel Discussion: Drs. Cavanagh, Lavery, and Martínez
de Jesús
Moderator: Robert S. Kirsner, MD, PhD |
Friday 14 March 2008
Breakfast Symposium
Diabetic Peripheral Neuropathy
Symptomatic Treatment and Beyond
Mackie J. Walker, Jr. DPM
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This activity is supported by an unrestricted educational grant from Pamlab.
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Breakfast
Symposium
Exploring the Value of Topical Antimicrobial
Therapy
in Diabetic Foot Infections
Moderator: David G. Armstrong, DPM, PhD
Adam Landsman, MD; Alberto Piaggesi, MD; Amar Pal Singh Suri, MD
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This activity is supported by an unrestricted educational
grant from
Oculus Innovative Sciences.
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Session I • Charcot
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How Do We Diagnose Charcot?
Michael Edmonds, MD, FRCP |
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The Surgical Treatment of Charcot Arthropathy
Dane K.
Wukich, MD |
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Medical Treatment of Charcot Arthropathy:
Where the Evidence Leads Us
Nicolaas Schaper, MD |
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Panel Discussion: Drs. Edmonds, Schaper, and Wukich
Moderator:
Robert G. Frykberg, DPM, MPH |
Session II • Diabetic Foot
Infections
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Osteomyelitis in the Diabetic Foot:
Diagnosis, Treatment,
Consensus
Benjamin A. Lipsky, MD |
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Guidelines for Diabetic Foot Infection:
Lingua Franca
or Academic Annoyance?
Eric Senneville, MD |
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Differentiating Infected From Uninfected Wounds:
How,
Why, and How to Classify?
Warren S. Joseph, DPM |
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Panel Discussion: Drs. Joseph, Lipsky,
and Senneville
Moderator: David G. Armstrong, DPM, PhD |
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The 5th Annual Edward James Olmos Award
For Advocacy in Amputation Prevention
Honoree: Benjamin A. Lipsky, MD |
Lunch
Symposium
When to Make the Move to
Advanced
Wound Care Modalities
Christopher E. Attinger, MD; John S. Steinberg, DPM
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This activity is supported by an unrestricted educational
grant
from Organogenesis.
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Session III • Vascular Intervention:
Rounding
Up the Usual (and Unusual) Suspects
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Vascular Assessment:
Is Vascular
Intervention Even Necessary, and if so, What Type?
Frank B. Pomposelli,
Jr., MD |
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Diabetic Foot Revascularization:
It’s More Than Pedal Bypass
Gary W. Gibbons, MD |
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Stem Cell Therapy:
Adjunct, Alternative, or Alchemy?
Kal Suresh, MD |
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Panel Discussion: Drs. Gibbons, Pomposelli,
and Suresh
Moderator: Peter F. Lawrence, MD |
Session IV • A String of Pearls
Master Tips from Master Clinicians
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Moderators: George Andros, MD & David
G. Armstrong, DPM, PhD
Plastic Surgeon: Christopher E. Attinger, MD
Diabetologist: Karel Bakker,
MD, PhD
Endocrinologist: Andrew J. M. Boulton, MD, FRCP
Nurse: Diane L. Krasner, PhD, RN
Infectious Disease: Benjamin A. Lipsky, MD
Vascular Surgeon: Joseph Mills, MD
Diabetologist: Nicolaas Schaper, MD
Infectious Disease: Eric Senneville, MD
Dermatologist: Gary Sibbald, MD
Podiatrist: John S. Steinberg, DPM
Orthopaedist: Dane K. Wukich, MD |
Saturday • 15 March 2008
Session II • Vascular:
When God Has Work to Do, She Calls Upon Circulation
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European Secrets of Limb Salvage
Mauri
Lepäntalo, MD, PhD |
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Open vs. Endo Revascularization
If the Only Tool You Have is a Hammer, Everything Looks Like a Nail
Richard F.
Neville, MD |
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Is Long-Term Endovascular Therapy
Inferior, Irrelevant, or Both?
Joseph Mills, MD |
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End-Stage Renal Disease and Diabetic
Foot Gangrene:
Managing the Double Whammy
Wilhelm Sandmann, MD |
Session III • Practical Procedures
and You
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Biofilms and You
Gary Sibbald, MD |
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Diagnostic Tests and You
James S. Wrobel, DPM, MS |
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Limb–Sparing Amputation
and You
Robert G. Frykberg,
DPM, MPH |
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Panel Discussion: Drs. Frykberg, Sibbald, and Wrobel
Moderator:
Lawrence B. Harkless, DPM |
Session IV • Wound Healing: Practical
Aspects of Care
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Offloading the Wound: What to do Monday Morning
Peter R. Cavanagh, PhD, DSc |
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Debridement: All the Arrows in My Quiver
Christopher
E. Attinger, MD |
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Wound Healing: The Next Ten Years
Robert S. Kirsner,
MD, PhD |
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Panel Discussion: Drs. Attinger, Cavanagh, and Kirsner
Moderator:
Gary Sibbald, MD |
Session V • Take Home Messages
for Today and Tomorrow
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Topical Antimicrobials in the Diabetic
Foot:
What Really Works
Benjamin A. Lipsky, MD |
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How the Wound Electronic
Medical Record (WEMR)
Contributes to a Decreased Amputation Rate
Harold Brem, MD |
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Nip Tuck for the Foot:
Can Tissue Fillers Prevent Wounds?
Stephanie C. S. Wu, DPM, MSc |
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Diabetic Neuropathy:
What We Really Need to Know
Andrew J. M. Boulton, MD, FRCP |
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Panel Discussion: Drs.
Boulton, Brem, Lipsky, and Wu
Moderator: David G. Armstrong, DPM, PhD |
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