The ORS Program Committee seeks abstracts on all basic, clinical, and translational research of the musculoskeletal system.

The themes and sessions in the Annual Meeting program are not prescribed by the ORS Program Committee but directly represent the abstract submissions.  If you would like to see more of a certain topic, please encourage your colleagues in that area to submit to the ORS.

Chair:   Daniel Kelly, PhD 

  • Controlled Release
  • Repair / Replacement of Hard Tissues
  • Repair / Replacement of Soft Tissues
  • Scaffolds
  • Technologies
  • 3D Printing / Additive Manufacturing

Co-Chairs:  Alison Gartland, PhD, Amarjit Virdi, PhD 

  • Cells
  • Genetics, Transcriptomics and Proteomics
  • Matrix Degradation and Synthesis
  • Mechanics and Computational Modeling
  • Musculoskeletal Development and Aging
  • Osteocytes and Mechanobiology
  • Osteoporosis, Metabolic Bone Disease, Biomarkers
  • Progenitors and Stem Cells
  • Therapeutics

Co-Chairs: Karen Lyons, PhD, Henning Madry, MD

  • Articular Cartilage and Joint Structures
  • Chondrocytes, Gene Regulation and Biology
  • Development and Aging
  • Growth Plate
  • Matrix Degradation and Synthesis
  • Mechanics and Mechanobiology
  • Osteochondral Unit
  • Progenitors and Stem Cells
  • Synovium, Gene Regulation and Biology
  • Therapeutics

Chair:  Yang Xia, PhD

  • Cell and Molecular Imaging
  • Tissue and Organ Imaging

 

 

Chair: Bingyun Li, PhD 

  • Biofilm, Bone Disease and Inflammation
  • Biomaterial and Device Associated Infection
  • Orthopaedic Infection

Chair:  Amy McNulty, PhD 

  • Biology
  • Clinical
  • Mechanics

Chair:  Christopher Mendias, PhD, ATC 

  • Biology
  • Clinical
  • Mechanics
  • Tissue Engineering

Co-Chair:  Magali Cucchiarini, PhD, Karen King, PhD 

  • Cytokines, Inflammation
  • Gene Therapy
  • Genetics, Transcriptomics and Proteomics
  • Pathophysiology
  • Post-Traumatic Osteoarthritis
  • Therapeutics

 

Co-Chair: Catherine Kuo, PhD (2017-2020) [email protected]

Co-Chair: Jeremy J. Mao, DDS, PhD

  • Cell-Based Therapies
  • Drug Therapies
  • Endogenous Cell-based Therapies
  • Gene Therapies
  • Protein and RNA Therapies
  • Tissue-Based Therapies

Co-Chairs: Hani Awad, PhD, Scott Rodeo, MD (2017-2019) [email protected]

  • Cell and Developmental Biology
  • Enthesis
  • Mechanics and Mechanobiology
  • Progenitors and Stem Cells
  • Therapeutics
  • Tissue Engineering

Co-Chairs:  Michael Gardner, MD, Matthew Silva, PhD

  • Biology of Fracture Healing
  • Biomechanics / Clinical
  • Clinical Outcome / Methodologies
  • Mechanics and Computational Modeling
  • Pathophysiology of Skeletal Fracture
  • Therapeutics and Enhancement of Fracture Healing

Chair:  Michelle Ghert, MD 

  • Metastatic Tumors
  • Primary Tumors

 

Chair:  Jarrett Cain, DPM, MSc, FACFAS 

  • Adult
  • Ankle Arthroplasty
  • Biomechanics
  • Infection and Trauma

Chair: Roger Cornwall, MD

Co-Chairs:  Mario Lamontagne, PhD, Moussa Hamadouche, MD, PhD 

  • Clinical Outcomes Research
  • Computational Modeling and Finite Element Analysis
  • Implant Fixation
  • Implant Materials
  • Implant Wear
  • Kinematics and Gait
  • Osteolysis and Adverse Soft Tissue Reaction
  • Surgical Navigation Outcomes and Robotics

Chair:  Lisa Larkin, PhD 

  • Computational Modeling
  • Kinematics and Gait
  • Knee Ligament
  • Mechanics
  • Surgical Repair and Rehabilitation

Chair: Andrew Anderson, PhD

  • Computational Modeling
  • Joint Morphology
  • Kinematics and Gait
  • Mechanics
  • Surgical Repair and Rehabilitation

 

Chair:  Brian Feeley, MD

  • Computational Modeling
  • Mechanics and Kinematics
  • Surgical Repair and Rehabilitation
  • Tendinopathies
  • Tendon to Bone Healing

Chairs: Edward Vresilovic, MD, PhD, Stephen Ferguson, PhD, Rita Kandel, MD

  • Biology
  • Bioinformatics
  • Computational Modeling
  • Disc Biology
  • Disc Mechanics
  • Disc Tissue Engineering and Biologic Repair
  • Genetic (Genomics)
  • Mechanics and Mechanobiology
  • Osteoporosis and Fracture
  • Pain Control in Orthopaedic Diseases
  • Progenitors and Stem Cells
  • Scoliosis
  • Spinal Cord & Nerve Root Injury
  • Therapeutics