6th Annual Pittsburgh Hand Conference
This year’s conference will focus on hand injuries/complications and how they can be avoided or overcome.
Target Audience
Conference will bring together surgeons, occupational therapists, physical therapists, physician assistants and students to share experiences and evidence for handling the complications and techniques used once complications have arisen.
Learning Objectives
Participants will:
• Learn treatment techniques and rationale to most effectively treat patients with upper extremity dysfunction that may have not responded well to traditional treatment methods.
• Develop an interdisciplinary understanding of upper extremity injuries by utilizing a team approach.
• Summarize potential complications of hand injuries and identify principles to avoid complications as well as best management of complications when they arise.
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7:00 – 7:30 Breakfast and Registration
7:30- 7:50 Complications of Distal Radius Fractures - Dr. Andrea Lese
7:50- 8:10 Failed Flexor Tendon Surgery with imaging - Dr. John Fowler
8:10 – 8:30 Complications for Carpal Tunnel Surgery - Dr. Robert Goitz
8:30 – 8:50 When Elbow fractures don’t cooperate - Dr. Thomas Hughes
8:50 – 9:10 Ulnar Nerve Complications - Dr. Robert Kaufmann
9:10- 9:30 Complications for Amputations: What’s left? - Angelique Gallion/Brian Waryck
9:30 – 10:00 Case Presentations/Panel Discussion - Dr. Mark Baratz
10:00 – 10:15 BREAK
10:15 – 10:35 Trigger Finger Conundrums -Terry Taylor
10:35 – 11:30 Challenging Case Presentations - Fellows
Moderator Dr. Mark Baratz
11:30 – 12:00 Panel Discussions - Fogg, Holsen, Martin Dr. Mark Baratz
12:00 – 1:00 LUNCH
1:00 – 1:15 Failed Nerve Repairs - Dr. John Taras
1:15 – 1:30 Failed Soft Tissue Coverage - Dr. Alexander Spiess
1:30 – 3:00 Hands on Stations
1. Kinesio taping for Edema: Cook, Strahler, Wholey
2. Kinesio taping for the Upper Extremity: Loeffler, Spaid, Voegler
3. Functional Training for Prosthetics: Driscoll, Phillips, Shoemaker
4. Dupuytrens Management: Kish, Murray
Prostectic Options Gallion, Kamelin, Oschwald, Waryck
5. Orthoses Fabrication - Jacobs, Taylor, Van Hulton
3:00 – 3:30 Fingerbowl Q&A Session - Dr. Mark Baratz
3:30 Adjournment
Program Faculty
Physician Faculty:
Mark Baratz, MD - Chair
Clinical Professor and Vice Chairman
Director Hand and Upper Extremity Surgery Orthopedic Specialists - UPMC
John Fowler, MD
Assistant Professor of Orthopaedics
Hand and Upper Extremity University of Pittsburgh Physicians
Robert Goitz, MD
Professor of Orthopaedics, Plastic Surgery, and Bioengineering
Chief, Hand, Upper Extremity, and Microsurgery University of Pittsburgh Physicians
Thomas Hughes, MD
Clinical Assistant Professor
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Andrea Lese, MD
Assistant Professor,
J.W. Ruby Memorial Hospital
Robert Kaufmann, MD
Associate Professor Department of Orthopedics, University of Pittsburgh Physicians
Alexander Spiess, MD
Assistant Professor of Plastic Surgery
Department of Plastic Surgery University of Pittsburgh Physicians
John Taras, MD
Professor of Orthopedic Surgery, Division of Hand Surgery, West Virginia University
UPMC Fellows:
Emily Abbott, DO
Travis Boyd, MD
Dann Laudermilch, MD
Hannah Lee, MD
Timothy Luchetti, MD
Dimitrios Papadopoulos, MD
Maharsh Patel, MD
Leigh Anne Tu, MD
Matthew Welsh, MD
Therapist Faculty:
Edward Cook, MOT, OTR/L
Megan Driscoll, MOT, OTR/L
Georgette Fogg, OTR/L, CHT
Suzanne Holsen, OTR/L, CHT
Bruce Jacobs, OTR/L
Anna Kamelin, OTR/L
Sara Kish, OTR/L
Jackie Loeffler, OTR/L, CHT
Alyssa Ligato, MOTR/L
Dennis A. Martin, OTR/L, CHT
Megan Murray, OTR/L, CHT
Lauren Oschwald, MOTR/L
Alyssa Phillips, MOT, OTR/L
P. Gregory Savolskis, MOTR/L, CHT--Co Chair
Jodi Seftchick, MOT, OTR/L, CHT – Chair
Maria Shoemaker, OTR/L
Cindy Spaid, OTR/L
Ralph Strahler, MS, OTR/L, CHT, CLT-LANA
Terry Taylor, OTR/L, CHT
Randy Van Hulten, OTR/L
Jacqueline Voegler, OTR/L, CHT
Patrick Wholey, OTR/L, CHT
Additional Faculty:
Angelique Gallion
Brian Waryck, CP, LP
All individuals in a position to control the content of this education activity are required to discuss all relevant financial relationships with any proprietary entity producing, marketing, reselling, or distributing health care goods or services, used on, or consumed by, patients.
The following relevant financial relationships were disclosed:
Mark Baratz, MD
Grant/Research Support: Elsevier
Consultant: Elizur, Integra
CE Speakers Bureau: Integra
Alex Spiess, MD
Consultant: Axogen, Renerva
John Taras, MD
Other: Owner/President Union Surgical
No other planners, members of the planning committee, speakers, presenters, authors, content reviewers and/or anyone else in a position to control the content of this education activity have relevant financial relationships to disclose.
In support of improving patient care, the University of Pittsburgh is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) and the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
Physicians
The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 6.75 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Other health care professionals
Other health care professionals will receive a certificate of attendance confirming the number of contact hours commensurate with the extent of participation in this activity.
Available Credit
- 6.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™The University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
- 6.75 Attendance