We wanted to go ahead and get started and welcome everyone for attending here our Youth to Football Sports Medicine course here in New Orleans. So we thank all of you for joining us. We have a great group of panelists and experts to speak with us here through these next three days. And this is a collaborative course which has really generated a great group of speakers here as well as support for the course through the AOSSM, the NFL, the NFL Physician Society, and the Professional Football Athletic Trainer Society. So it's great contributions from all four organizations, again, which allows us to put together a great course. So we thank you all for coming. We know that there is a lot of demands on your time for courses as well as sports coverage through the year. So we really do appreciate you joining us here. I wanted to introduce our group of course co-directors. If there are any questions throughout the course, if there's things we can do to improve the course or any logistical side of things, please don't hesitate to reach out to any of us. And our course directors are Jim Kindernick, Hospital for Special Surgery, Gautam Yagnik at Miami, Craig Morrow from University of Pittsburgh, and I'm James Voos from Cleveland, Ohio. We had a couple housekeeping items here for you before we get started. This is the Wi-Fi code here throughout the meeting if we need Wi-Fi access of the Hilton meetings and NFL 2023. Lunch, there are several Lunch and Learns that are sponsored here today with two really great topics, both Thursday and Friday in the St. James room, which is right next door for those lunch topics. And then we really wanted to thank all of our exhibitors who are here to support us. They really help make these meetings possible, so I wanted to encourage you on breaks and before and after the meeting to take time to talk with each of those exhibitors, and we really appreciate their support in making this happen. I think we have a nice diverse group of exhibitors who have something for all of us. So again, we're very appreciative of all of their support. And CME credit is available, so Monday, April 3rd, the CME side will be available. If you have any more information on this, don't hesitate to ask any of us or Julie Ducey who's here from AOSSM to make sure you get your appropriate CME credit. And then throughout the course, you'll see the QR codes. This is for the course evaluations. There'll also be a QR code out in the entryway here as the course proceeds. Your feedback is what's very important to help us to make this course better every year, so we'll put this QR code up here multiple times for you to provide any of the feedback. So with that, we welcome you to the course. We have a jam-packed here three days, so we'll really work on keeping everything on time. It's a very interactive course. You'll see there's a lot of time built in for panel discussions and discussions from all of us here in the group. We want to make sure that we all leave here feeling as though we're up-to-date and have had all of our questions answered and have had great discussions. So welcome, and thank you again for attending.

Youth to Football Sports Medicine course

New Orleans

AOSSM

NFL

education