Well, welcome. My name is John Dickens. I'm the chief of orthopedic surgery and sports medicine at Walter Reed, and I'm really excited to be able to co-chair this course with Pat Denard. I think we've put together a fantastic course, and we'll provide a little bit of an overview in this portion of the program. But first, I think it'd be worthwhile to really thank Anna and the OLC for the opportunity here. This is a tremendous program that's being provided to us, and really a first of its kind in terms of the way it's been formatted. And what you'll see here is that all of our courses are available online, and that's really done with an effort to make a conscientious effort to provide a high-level, in-person catabaric opportunity and arthroscopic training opportunity. So we're going to maximize that opportunity on Saturday and Sunday, and this will be provided to you, these lectures, which are really a comprehensive lectures of all topics surrounding arthroscopic management and open management of the shoulder. So these will be available to you. They'll be available not only leading up to this course, but in three years after this course. So please take advantage to see these courses, and hopefully you'll be able to take advantage of all the opportunities here. On Saturday, we'll start off with a session that's going to be focused on shoulder instability. Dr. Denard is going to do a catabaric demo on instability procedures, the Bankart procedure, and RIMPLSAGE, and really kind of the pearls and pitfalls and high-level tips to maximize outcomes here. Dr. Grant-Gerges is going to review the lower trap transfer, and this is a tremendous, again, kind of opportunity to engage with high-level techniques, and this is being brought to us by Debut MyTech. And then we'll also see the bioinductive implant, the Regenitin implant from Smith and Nephew. Again, another opportunity to really accelerate your practice management and surgical techniques. And we'll finish that day off with a procedure and then discussion by Dr. Albert Lin on total shoulder arthroplasty. And these are just the focuses of the first day, so much more to come. And I wanted to turn it over now to our co-chair, Dr. Pat Denard. Yeah, Patrick Denard, Oregon Shoulder Institute, Medford, Oregon. Really excited to be a part of this course. Just like John said, thanks to all the sponsors. Thanks to Anna. I think it's going to be an opportunity to be really hands-on in the lab. We're really going to get our hands dirty on Saturday. And then in addition, on Sunday, we're going to have some fun add-ons with ultrasound, really how we can utilize ultrasound in our practices, both for patients and from a practice management standpoint. We're going to talk about practice management in particular, care management, coding, et cetera. So I think those will be some great add-ons for you in addition to the hands-on experience in the lab. So I can't wait to see you all in Chicago.

orthopedic surgery

sports medicine

shoulder instability

arthroscopic management

ultrasound utilization