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2025 Spring Surgical Skills Master Course: The Growing Athlete's Knee - Recording with no CME
COURSE INFORMATION
The Growing Athlete's Knee  (NO CME)
Event Recording

Cutting Edge Strategies to Keep Your Patients Active and In the Game

The complex nature of a growing athlete’s knee can be mind-bending! Recorded during the highly regarded live surgical skills course held in April 2025, this program brings expert instruction and cutting-edge content directly to you. 

Learners will begin with foundational principles of the pediatric knee and progress into advanced surgical strategies. Engaging didactic lectures cover essential pediatric considerations, surgical pearls, and the latest clinical insights, including updates from the BEAR Trial, ROCK, FACTS, JUPITER, and others. Expert faculty lead dynamic discussions on ACL, LET, Guided Growth, and Patella Instability with Trochlear Dysplasia. 

Whether you are sharpening your core knowledge or integrating the newest techniques into your practice, this course offers an essential resource for orthopaedic professionals working with young athletes. 

This course does not provide CME Credit. If you are interested in purchasing the recordings with CME credit, click here

AGENDA

Course 1 

Welcome and Introduction 

Case Presentation + Small Group Discussion

Moderator: Mininder Kocher, MD

 

Assessment of Pediatric Patient, and Alignment Principles

Speaker: Molly Meadows, MD

 

The Physis and Why is it Important: including assessment of Growth Remaining  

Speaker: Marc Tompkins, MD

 

Principles in Guided Growth            

Speaker: Javi Masquijo, MD

 

Q&A with Case Conclusion               

Moderator: Mininder Kocher, MD


Case Discussion and Introduction to Tibial Spine + Small Group Discussion

Moderator: Theodore J. Ganley, MD

 

Just Try a Close Reduction First    

Speaker: Philip L. Wilson, MD

 

Closed Reduction is a Waste of Time       

Speaker: Maria Tuca, MD,

 

Q&A with Case Conclusion               

Moderator: Theodore J. Ganley, MD


Course 2

Case Presentation and Pediatric ACL Introduction        

Moderator: Nicole A. Friel, MD

 

Is non-surgical treatment still an option?             

Speaker: Gilbert Moatshe, MD

 

ACL Repair – Indications and Early Bear Results             

Speaker: Yi-Meng Yen, MD

 

All Epiphyseal ACL Reconstruction            

Speaker: Theodore J. Ganley, MD

 

Lateral Extra-articular Augmentations: Should all kids get an LET?  

Speaker: Maria Tuca, MD

 

Transphyseal ACL Reconstruction              

Speaker: Jennah Mann, MD

 

Physeal Sparing ACL Reconstruction: Combined Intra- and Extra-articular with ITB Speaker: Crystal A. Perkins, MD

 

Q&A with Case Conclusion               

Moderator: Nicole A. Friel, MD


Course 3

Case Presentation and Introduction with Pediatric Meniscus Repair & Discussion

Moderator: Yi-Meng Yen, MD

 

What do I Need to Know to Address a Discoid Meniscus           

Speaker: Mininder Kocher, MD

 

Meniscus Tears in the Growing Patient – What do I do differently?    

Speaker: Molly Meadows, MD

 

Video Technique: Tibial Spine Fracture ORIF                    

Speakers: Kevin G. Shea, MD ; Theodore J. Ganley, MD


Course 4 

Case Presentation and Introduction of Physeal Fractures Around the Knee & Discussion

Moderator: Philip L. Wilson, MD

 

Physeal Injury to the Proximal Tibial in the Skeletally Immature Athlete      

Speaker:  Jennah Mann, MD

 

Physeal Injury to the Distal Femur in the Skeletally Immature Athlete          

Speaker: Yi-Meng Yen, MD

 

 

Q&A with Case Conclusion               

Moderator:  Philip L. Wilson, MD

 

LIVE SURGERY DEMO #1

Micheli-Kocher/Modified McIntosh, Extra-articular/Extra-Physeal ACL Reconstruction

Moderator: Theodore J. Ganley, MD

Surgeon: Mininder Kocher, MD


Course 5 

Case Discussion and Introduction to Pediatric PFI       

Moderator:  Henry B. Ellis, MD

 

The Basics of Physeal Sparing Medial Patellofemoral Complex Reconstruction    

Speaker: Nicole A. Friel, MD

 

Distal Realignment in Pediatric Patient:  Keys to a Successful Patella Tendon/Tubercle Transfer               

Speaker: Kevin G. Shea, MD

 

Quadplasty:  When Do I Need To Consider It and How Do You Do It 

Speaker: Shital Parikh, MD

 

Trochleoplasty:  How I Do It and Considerations in Kids            

Speaker: Sasha Carsen, MD, MBA

 

Q&A with Case Conclusion               

Moderator:  Henry B. Ellis, MD


Course 6 

Case Discussion and OCD Introduction 

Moderator:  Kevin G. Shea, MD

 

All It Needs is Blood: Drilling Technique 

Speaker: Javier Masquijo, MD

 

Biologic Enhancing is the key: Grafting Technique

Speaker: Jeff Nepple, MD

 

Fixation Options        

Speaker: Crystal A. Perkins, MD

 

When to Replace      

Speaker: Henry B. Ellis, MD

 

Q&A with Case Conclusion               

Moderator: Kevin G. Shea, MD

 

LIVE SURGERY DEMO #2

Arthroscopic OCD Grafting and Fixation

Moderator: Mininder Kocher, MD

Surgeon: Theodore J. Ganley, MD


Course 7

Update from Representatives of Multi-Center Collaborations in Pediatric Sports Medicine including JUPITER, SCORE, PLUTO, BEAR, ROCK

JUPITER Update         

Speaker: Shital Parikh, MD

PLUTO Update            

Speaker: Mininder Kocher, MD

BEAR Update

Speaker: Yi-meng Yen, MD

SCORE Update           

Speaker: Henry Ellis, MD

ROCK Update

Speaker: Kevin Shea, MD   


Course 8 

Complex Case Discussion & Closing

Moderator: Henry Ellis, MD

Summary
Availability: On-Demand
Cost: Member: $139.00
Resident/Fellow Member: $139.00
Affiliate Member: $139.00
Non-Member: $199.00
Credit Offered:
No Credit Offered
Contains: 8 Courses
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