Annual International San Francisco Orthopaedic Trauma Conference
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Thursday-Saturday, April 16-18, 2026
Annual Orthopaedic Trauma Conference
InterContinental San Francisco
888 Howard Street
San Francisco, CA
Celebrating 20 years!
COURSE CHAIRS
Theodore Miclau, MD
Professor and Vice Chairman
Orthopaedic Trauma Institute International Chair
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
University of California, San Francisco
Chief, Orthopaedic Surgery
Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital
Director, Orthopaedic Trauma Institute
Amir Matityahu, MD
Professor of Orthopaedics
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
University of California, San Francisco
Zuckerberg San Francisco General
DISTINGUISHED GUEST FACULTY
Joseph Borrelli, Jr., MD, MBA
Professor
Department of Orthopaedic
Surgery and Sports Medicine
Morsani College of Medicine
University of South Florida
Tampa, FL
West Coast Musculoskeletal Institute
Brooksville, FL
Timothy Bray, MD
Associate
Reno Orthopaedic Clinic
Clinical Professor
University of California, Davis
Reno, NV
Niloofar Dehghan, MD
Associate Professor
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
University of Arizona
College of Medicine
Phoenix, AZ
Kyle F. Dickson, MD, MBA
Professor
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
Baylor University
Houston, TX
James R. Ficke, MD
Professor and Chair
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
Johns Hopkins University
School of Medicine
Baltimore, MD
Shepard R. Hurwitz, MD
Professor
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
University of North Carolina,
School of Medicine
Chapel Hill, NC
Michael D. McKee, MD
Professor and Chairman
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
University of Arizona
College of Medicine
Phoenix, AZ
Steven A. Olson, MD
Professor
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
Chief, Orthopaedic Trauma Service
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, NC
Andrew H. Schmidt, MD
Professor
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
University of Minnesota
Chief, Orthopaedic Surgery
Hennepin County Medical Center
Minneapolis, MN
DISTINGUISHED INTERNATIONAL GUEST FACULTY
Fernando de la Huerta, MD
Past Chairman
Orthopaedic Division
Hospital de Especialidades,
Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social
Guadalajara, Mexico
Edward J. Harvey, MD, MSc, FRCSC
Professor
Department of Surgery
Division of Adult Orthopaedics
McGill University
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Ross K. Leighton, MD
Professor
Department of Surgery
Dalhousie University
Halifax NS, Canada
Christian Krettek, MD
Professor Emeritus
Trauma Department
Hannover Medical School
Hannover, Germany
Emil Schemitsch, MD
Professor and Chairman
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
University of Western Ontario
London, Ontario, Canada
Prism Schneider, MD, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
COURSE OVERVIEW
Learn new and evolving concepts in trauma and fracture management through didactic lectures, case presentations, and hands-on practice with the latest implants from international leaders in the field of orthopaedic traumatology.
This course is of substantial value in the preparation for board and recertification examinations.
EDUCATIONAL OBJECTIVES
At the conclusion of this educational activity participants should be able to:
• Review orthopaedic trauma principles.
• Improve skills and assess advancements in surgical techniques through hands-on plating, external fixation, and intramedullary nailing methodology.
• Apply technological advancements that can be brought readily to the clinical setting of orthopaedic trauma care, including osteobiologics and instrumentation.
TARGET AUDIENCE
Given the content of the course, and that it provides essential information for the experienced and inexperienced surgeon, it has been highly interesting to the general orthopaedic surgeon population as well as trainees. This course addresses the most important issues in orthopaedic trauma, and enables attendees to gain the most relevant and essential knowledge as they return to their practices. In particular, surgeons who need to take call or treat traumatic musculoskeletal injuries are able to better understand the issues that they will most frequently face. Physician Assistant's and Orthopaedic nurses who deal with orthopaedic surgical treatment of the trauma patient will be addressed in this course as well.
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REGISTRATION
Thursday-Saturday, April 16-18, 2026
Physicians $745
Industry Professionals $745
AHP and PA’s $645
Nurse's $645
Residents/Fellows/Military $325
OTA Member $645
Inman-Abbott Society course attendees $245
ASSH Members $445
***+ $100 registration fee after 4/2!***
Registration fee includes daily continental breakfast, lunch, afternoon break,
reception, syllabus and workshops.
Optional, afternoon, hands-on specimen-based workshop, limited to first 100 registrants:
Thursday, 4/16/2026
Two sessions of hands-on cadaver sessions
$150 pp
Friday, 4/17/2026
Two sessions of hands-on cadaver sessions
$150 pp
Thursday-Friday, 4/16-17/2026
Four sessions of hands-on cadaver sessions
$250 pp
BEAUTIFUL SAN FRANCISCO!
- Location
- Travel and Dining
- Course Program
- Speakers
- Exhibitors
- Syllabus and Evaluation-Thursday, April 24th
- SPINE / PELVIS / ACETABULUM Moderator: Joseph Borrelli, MD
- Neck Injuries: Clearing the Cervical Spine/David Gendelberg, MD
- The Unstable Pelvis: Evaluation and Management/Paul Toogood, MD
- Sacral Fractures: Which Ones Need Surgery and What Kind?/Ashraf El Naga, MD
- Acetabular Fractures: Operative Indications/Kyle Dickson,MD
- Posterior Wall Fractures: Evaluation, Approach, and Treatment/Steven Olson, MD
- HIP / FEMUR Moderator: Kyle Dickson, MD
- Femoral Neck Fractures: When is Open Reduction Necessary?/Kudret Usmani, MD
- When and How to Open Reduce/ Joseph Borrelli, MD
- The Problematic Subtrochanteric Fracture: Avoiding Malalignment and Loss of Fixation /Amir Matityahu, MD
- The Segmental Femoral Shaft Fracture: Assesment of Length, Alignment, Rotation/Christian Krettek, MD
- Lunch Symposium
- CONTROVERSIES IN UPPER EXTREMITY FRACTURES: CASE DISCUSSION CLAVICLE / SHOULDER / HUMERUS Moderator: Utku Kandemir, MD
- ELBOW / FOREARM / WRIST / HAND Moderator: Nicolas Lee, MD
- Syllabus and Evaluation-Friday, April 25th
- KNEE AND TIBIA Moderator: James Ficke, MD
- Distal Femur Fractures: A Stepwise Approach to Fixation/Christian Krettek, MD
- Bicondylar Tibia Plateau Fractures: When Is More than One Approach Needed?/David Shearer, MD
- Proximal 1/3 Tibia Fractures: Nail vs. Plate Fixation/Christian Krettek, MD
- How to Obtain and Maintain Reduction in Segmental Tibia Fractures/Utku Kandemir, MD
- FOOT AND ANKLE Moderator: Steven Olson, MD
- GENERAL TRAUMA TOPICS Moderator: Niloofar Dehghan, MD
- Lunch Symposium
- CONTROVERSIES IN LOWER EXTREMITY INJURIES Moderator: /Joseph Borrelli, MD
- KNEE / TIBIA / ANKLE / FOOT Moderator: Timothy Bray, MD
- Syllabus-Saturday, April 26th
- THORAX / SHOULDER / HUMERUS Moderator: Prism Schneider, MD
- Sternoclavicular Joint Injuries: Management of the Acute Dislocations/Mark Xu, MD
- Acromioclavicular Joint Injuries: When and How to Stabilize/Niloofar Dehghan, MD
- Glenoid Fractures: Surgical Indications and Management/Utku Kandemir, MD
- Proximal Humerus Fractures: Selecting the Right Approach/Michael McKee, MD
- ELBOW / FOREARM Moderator: Michael McKee, MD
- Humerus Fractures: Which Ones to Fix and Selecting the Right Approach/Prism Schneider, MD
- Intraarticular Distal Humerus Fractures: Assesment, Approach, Reduction, and Fixation/Edward Harvey, MD
- Elbow Fracture Dislocations: Understanding Injury Patterns and Their Relevance/Anthony Ding, MD
- Proximal 1/4 Forearm Fractures: Avoiding Pitfalls/Utku Kandemir, MD
- WRIST / HAND Moderator: Edward Harvey, MD
- Distal Radius Fractures: Treatment Strategies for Simple and Complex Injuries/Nicole Schroeder, MD
- DRUJ Instability: When to Open and How to Stabilize/Nicolas Lee, MD
- Transscaphoid Perilunate Injuries: Assessment, Approach, and Fixation/Scott Hansen, MD
- Metacarpal Base Fractures and Dislocations/Michael Terry, MD
- Lunch Symposium
- GERIATRICS: MANAGING THE COMPLEX CASES
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