Conferences, Conferences, and More Conferences
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These past few weeks and through October I will be lecturing at 7 medical conferences extolling the virtues and data behind interventional orthobiologics. What’s interesting is how COVID has morphed the playing field so you can literally be two places at once. Let’s dig in.
My Lectures
Through the years, as CMO of Regenexx, I have lectured all over the world. Some of the fancier places I have given an invited lecture have included twice at the Vatican in Rome, Stanford, and Hospital for Special Surgery in Manhattan. Some of the more interesting ones have included USUHS (the military’s medical school), Argentina, Norway, Berlin, Victoria BC, and China.
COVID and Medical Conferences
When COVID and the first lockdown hit, medical conferences were canceled. Then by the fall of 2020, a few popped up online but were really shadows of their former selves, primarily because everybody was still experimenting with an online format. By this spring, we began to see better online conferences and by this summer we saw the cautious return of some in-person conferences. Now we have a mix of some conferences in person (most in Florida) and some online. This has created the ability for a lecturer like me to be in two places at once.
A 7 Conference Marathon
This summer started off with an in-person lecture at the American Association of Orthopedic Medicine in Denver, then took me to Tampa for the Florida Society of Interventional Pain Physicians annual conference. Then back home for two Zoom conferences online. One in Brazil (OrthoRegen) this past Thursday and then one in Los Angles on Friday via Zoom at the University of Southern California (USC). This was a conference called “Moving Targets” put on by the AAPS (American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists). Those last two conferences are one of the advantages of COVID restrictions as there’s no way I could have lectured in person in Brazil and then LA on consecutive days.
This October I have TOBI (Orthobiologics conference) via Zoom, and then an in-person CBP chiropractic conference in Florida and while I’m there in Orlando, a Zoom conference in Wisconsin for the Hackett Hemwall Patterson Foundation. So again, two places at once! I may also lecture one more time via Zoom for another conference in Brazil before the end of the year!
What Do I Talk About?
This year I’ve lectured on many different topics including Innovation in medicine, the data behind PRP and Bone Marrow Concentrate use in orthopedics, our RCTs (Randomized Controled Trial) in knee OA, our RCTs on shoulder Rotator Cuff and ACL tears, our umbilical cord product testing, our recently published paper on knee OA and Intraosseous injections, and the PICL procedure I developed to treat CCI without the need for fusion. The good news is that each conference gets a customized slide deck for the audience. For example, in speaking to the pharmaceutical scientists at USC, my focus was on what stem cell drugs will have to accomplish to get covered by insurance plans.
The upshot? Now that conferences are back, both in-person and online, it creates a world where I can literally be in two places at once! I can travel across the country for one conference on the east coast while Zooming into another in the upper midwest!
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