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) Catherine.K.Kuo@rochester.edu
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) rodeos@hss.edu
- 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
