Diabetic Foot Global Conference

2012 Agenda

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Thursday 15 March

A Global EuTOEpia? Towards a More Perfect Union to Prevent Diabetes-Related Amputation
Moderators: George Andros, MD and David G. Armstrong, DPM, MD, PhD

8:00 – 8:20	The Diabetic Foot: A View from the StraTOEsphere Andrew J.M. Boulton, MD, DSc
8:20 – 8:40	Demography, Destiny, and Diabetes: The Future Is Now Richard H. Carmona, MD, MPH
8:40 – 9:00	SIGNs of the Times: How the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network Are Keeping Things on Kilt-er Graham Leese, MD
9:00 – 9:20	The Toes are Alive, with the Sound of Teamwork: The Diabetic Foot in Switzerland Dieter Mayer, MD
9:20 – 9:40	The Thames They Are a Changin': High Tea(m) at Kings College Michael Edmonds, MD
9:40 – 10:10	Break
10:10 – 10:30	Let's Gogh Dutch: Sharing Evidence, Policy and Enthusiasm at the International Working Group Karel Bakker, MD, PhD
10:30 – 10:50	The Japanese Interdisciplinary Clinic: An Iron Chef Knows What Roles Go in the Roll Shigeo Kono, MD PhD
10:50 – 11:10	The Man Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest: The Swedish Model for Prevention Behind the Bestseller Jan Apelqvist, MD, PhD
11:10 – 11:30	Vaya con Dedos: Do We Need a New Pan-American NAFTA? (North American Free Toes Alliance) Rocío Jiménez Godínez, MD
11:30 – 12:00	Panel Discussion: Boulton, Leese, Mayer, Edmonds, Bakker, Kono, Apelqvist, and Jiménez Godínez

12:15 – 1:15 Lunch Symposium
TBA

12:00 – 1:30 Lunch on your own

Secretaries of Stent: Fostering Interprofessional Diplomacy Amongst Interventionalists
Moderator: Joseph L. Mills Sr., MD

1:30 – 1:50	Machiavellian Hemodynamics: In-line Flow Justifies the Means Jim A. Reekers, MD, PhD
1:50 – 2:10	While Extremism in the Defense of Pulsatile Flow is No Vice, Moderation May Be More Virtuous Frank B. Pomposelli, MD
2:10 – 2:30	A Pax Flowmana: Creating an Interdisciplinary Interventional Empire without Acting Like a Barbarian Robert J. Hinchliffe, MD
2:30 – 2:50	Waxing Gibbons: The Rise and Fall of the Open Vascular Empire Gary W. Gibbons, MD
2:50 – 3:10	Panel Discussion: Reekers, Pomposelli, Hinchliffe, and Gibbons
3:10 – 3:40	Break

Wound Healing: Promise, Pragmatism and PODtification
Moderator: David G. Armstrong, DPM, MD, PhD

3:40 – 4:00	Wound Healing Advances: Super for Us or Superfluous? Robert S. Kirsner, MD, PhD
4:00 – 4:20	Should We Debride Wounds like We Debride Skin Cancer? (or Immaculate Reception: How Identifying Receptive Receptors Will Change the Way We Debride and Heal Wounds) Marjana Tomic-Canic, PhD
4:20 – 4:40	"Moh's Surgery" for Wounds: Data from One Tomic-Canic to Another Toe Mechanic Prof. Alberto Piaggesi
4:40 – 5:00	Hands On vs. Eyes On: Leveraging Expertise Via Camera Phone (or: FaceTime for Feet) Mark S. Granick, MD
5:00 – 5:20	RAGE Against the Dying of the Foot (How Receptors for Advanced Glycosylation End Products Will Enter our Diagnostic Vernacular) or: Do Not Toe Gently into that Good Night Michael Edmonds, MD
5:20 – 5:40	Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy: Pure Inspiration or High Pressure Sales Pitch? Jan Apelqvist, MD, PhD
5:40 – 6:00	Panel Discussion: Kirsner, Tomic-Canic, Piaggesi, Granick, Edmonds, and Apelqvist

6:00 – 7:30
Welcome to Hollywood Red Carpet Reception with Exhibitors
Wolfgang Puck Catered Food • Open Bar • Exhibits • Hollywood Entertainment

Friday 16 March

7:00 – 8:00 Breakfast Symposium
TBA

7:30 – 8:30 Breakfast

Common Complexifications and Caring Commentary: Keeping it Simple Even When it Isn't
Moderator: George Andros, MD

8:00 - 8:20	Last Charcot in Paris: Tango with the Task Force Lee C. Rogers, DPM
8:20 – 8:40	TOEmerular Filtration Rate and End Stage Heel Disease: Diabetes and Dialysis Wound All Heels Andrew J.M. Boulton, MD, DSc
8:40 – 9:00	We've Got You Covered: Flaps, Grafts, Biologics Mark S. Granick, MD
9:00 – 9:15	Panel Discussion: Rogers, Boulton, and Granick
9:15 – 10:00	Break/Exhibits

Diabetic Foot Infections: Special Toelivery from the US PUStal Service
Moderator: Lee C. Rogers, DPM

10:00 – 10:20	Osteomyelitis in Diabetes: A Marrowing Experience No Longer? (or: When Diabetes Gives You a Bone Infection, Make Osso Bucco) Javier Aragón Sánchez, MD, PhD
10:20 – 10:40	IDSA Guidelines for the Diabetic Foot: Dispelling Infectious Conspiracy Theories with the DFCon Warren Commission Warren S. Joseph, DPM
10:40 – 11:00	Understanding Bad Bacterial Neighborhoods: It's the Community, Not Just the Hoodlums Benjamin A. Lipsky, MD
11:00 – 11:20	Closing Arguments: Does the Presence of a Wound (in and of itself) Make the Case for Antibiotic Therapy? Wound Germ-Us-Prudence. Michael Edmonds, MD
11:20 – 11:45	Panel Discussion: Aragón Sánchez, Joseph, Lipsky, and Edmonds
11:45 – 12:15	The 9th Annual Edward James Olmos Award For Advocacy in Amputation Prevention Honoree: Jan Apelqvist, MD, PhD

12:30 – 1:30 Lunch Symposium
TBA

12:15 – 1:45 Puck Lunch/Exhibits

Replacement Parts: Can Cutting Our Losses Lead to An Improvement on the Original?
Moderator: David G. Armstrong, DPM, MD, PhD

1:45 – 2:05	Lend Us a Hand: What Diabetic Limb Salvage Can Learn from Hand Transplant Surgery Warren C. Breidenbach III, MD
2:05 – 2:25	When Should We Amputate? Measurement and Management to Mitigate Morbidity Nicolaas C. Schaper, MD
2:25 – 2:45	When is a BKA A-OK? Magdiel Trinidad-Hernandez, MD
2:45 – 3:05	Amputees Need More to Stand on Than a Prosthesis: Starting a Support Group in Your Community John S. Steinberg, DPM
3:05 – 3:30	Panel Discussion: Breidenbach, Schaper, Trinidad-Hernandez, and Steinberg
3:30 - 4:15	Break/Exhibits

Views of the Vascular Flowstra Knowstra: Recanalizing the Odds in Your Favor
Moderator: George Andros, MD

4:15 – 4:35	The Cutting Edge in Atherectomy Technology: Debulk or Debunk? Frank B. Pomposelli, MD
4:35 – 4:55	Interventional Accounting and Major Tissue Loss: Can Supply Meet Demand? Jim A. Reekers, MD, PhD
4:55 – 5:15	The Calculus of Revascularization: Should I Change My Numerator or Denominator? Joeseph L. Mills Sr., MD
5:15 – 5:45	Overcoming Performance Anxiety: A New Songbook for Old Standards Michael S. Conte, MD
5:45 - 6:15	Panel Discussion: Pomposelli, Reekers, Mills, Conte, Hinchliffe, and Gibbons

Saturday 17 March

6:30 - 7:00 Breakfast

Hands-On Workshops

7:00 – 10:00	Coordinators: Ronald J. Belczyk, DPM and Lee C. Rogers, DPM Concurrent workshops: Each one-hour workshop is presented three times. You can attend three different workshops. Workshops are non-CME activities
Workshop I	Bioengineered Tissues John S. Steinberg, DPM
Workshop II	Dressings Lee C. Rogers, DPM
Workshop III	Wound Healing Devices Ronald Belczyk, DPM
Workshop IV	Offloading Peter R. Cavanagh, PhD, DSc
Workshop V	Vascular Larisse K. Lee, MD
Workshop VI	VAC to Basics Prof. Alberto Piaggesi and Mark S. Granick, MD
10:00 – 11:00	Break/Exhibits

Who's Keeping Score? Measuring What We Manage and Counting What Counts
Moderator: Benjamin A. Lipsky, MD

11:00 – 11:20	Amputation Reductions in the Developing World: A Day at the Beach or Calm before the Next Big Wave? Peter R. Cavanagh, PhD, DSc
11:20 – 11:40	How Do ID Doctors ID Success? Benjamin A. Lipsky, MD
11:40 – 12:00	Pyrrhic Vascular Victories: How Do We Win a Race that Has No Finish Line? Robert J. Hinchliffe, MD
12:00 – 12:20	Prepare to be Stunned by our Phasers: New Technology for the Diabetic Foot Lee C. Rogers, DPM
12:20 – 12:40	Panel Discussion: Cavanagh, Hinchliffe, Rogers, and Bakker

12:40 – 1:40 Lunch/Exhibits

Do-It-Yourself Outpatient Improvement:
Getting the Lowes-down on Creating a Home Depot for Home Care
Moderator: Lee C. Rogers, DPM

1:40 – 2:00	Team and Technology to Reduce Length of Stay (a Small Step for Technology, a Giant Leap for Cost Savings) Lee C. Rogers, DPM
2:00 – 2:20	How to Set Up an Outpatient Clinic: The View from the PoTOEmac at Georgetown John S. Steinberg, DPM
2:20 – 2:40	Missing Links: Crossing the Great Rift with Next Generation Home Monitoring (Lessons from the Diabetes Technology Society) David C. Klonoff, MD
2:40 – 3:00	A Comprehensive Medical/Surgical Clinic: Easy Peasy in Pisa? Prof. Alberto Piaggesi
3:00 – 3:20	Panel Discussion: Steinberg, Klonoff, and Piaggesi
3:20 – 3:35	Break

In the End, It's Outcomes that Matter: The Optimist's ManifesTOE
Moderators: George Andros, MD and David G. Armstrong, DPM, MD, PhD

3:35 – 3:55	The Economic Case for Amputation Prevention: Messages for the Moneychangers in Your Temple Jan Apelqvist, MD, PhD
3:55 – 4:15	Charting a Course for Success: Seaworthy Screening Forms to Keep Your Clinic Afloat (and Not Adrift) Graham Leese, MD
4:15 – 4:35	¡Toe-readores, Toe-le'! Taking the Foot by the Horns in the Operating Room (While Avoiding Bull) Javier Aragón Sánchez, MD, PhD
4:35 – 5:05	The Long and Winding Road that Leads to Your Ward: Don't Just Let It Be, Here Are the Take Home Messages for Monday Andrew J.M. Boulton, MD, MSc
5:05 – 5:30	Panel Discussion: Apelqvist, Leese, Aragón Sánchez, and Boulton

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