Sunday, March 19, 2017
7:00 am – 11:30 am

Organized by the ORS Clinical Research Committee:

Chair: Kurt P. Spindler, MD; Roy K. Aaron, MD; Joel Gagnier, ND, MSc, PhD; Saam Morshed MD; George Muschler MD; Jennifer Racine; David Wasserstein, MD, MSc MPH(c) FRCSC; Michael Yaszemski, MD, PhD; Chunfeng Zhao, MD

7:00 am – 9:00 am

Session I: Biomedical Research

Moderator: Michael Yaszemski, MD, PhD, Mayo Medical Center

Barriers to Translation to Clinical Practice

Speaker To Be Determined

Commercialization Process

Speaker To Be Determined

Funding Sources

Speaker To Be Determined

Conflicts of Interest in Clinical Research

Speaker To Be Determined

Panel Discussion

9:30am – 11:30 am

Session II: Clinical Research Training in Orthopaedics

Moderator: David Wasserstein, MD, MSc FRCSC, University of Toronto

Key Principles in Orthopaedic Research

Kurt Spindler, MD, Cleveland Clinic

Measurements in Clinical Research

Speaker To Be Determined

Mitigation Bias in Clinical Studies

Speaker To Be Determined

Knowledge Translation

David Wasserstein, MD. MSc, MPH(c), FRCSC, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center

Panel Discussion