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IPOS® 2024 Meeting Recap

IPOS® 2024 Meeting Recap, Message from the Director, Award Winners, CME, and more

Dear POSNA Members:

For those fortunate to attend IPOS® 2024 in Orlando, we hope you enjoyed the time with colleagues, friends, and mentors. This IPOS® carried on the legacy that has grown over the past 20 years. The program was full of pediatric orthopaedic experts getting shoulder to shoulder with participants both young and more seasoned.

We covered traditional topics such as the essentials of pediatric orthopaedics, hip osteotomies, deformity correction, and our favorite session—Author's Preferred Techniques where we watched the experts demonstrate how they perform difficult and technical surgery through video. This content will be available on POSNAcademy in January. The subspecialty sections were developed by our Subject Matter Experts who helped select the faculty and drive the content. This led to fresh and innovative discussions in Hip, Spine, Sports, Upper & Lower Extremity, Cerebral Palsy, and Foot & Ankle. We had general sessions with a packed house for basic and difficult pediatric orthopaedic trauma, and a session devoted to complex conditions and situations emphasizing the need for comprehensive knowledge and a multidisciplinary approach. The Top Gun competition was once again a real treat.

We also continued with the gamification of our trauma session and increased our number of hands-on sessions to include clubfoot and CVT casting, Pavlik application, halo application, MPFL reconstruction, pelvic osteotomies, and supracondylar humerus fracture pinning. There was once again a tremendous effort to ensure that our advanced practice provider partners were involved in the planning and delivery of APP-specific content. And, this year we added CME for Athletic Trainers. Our advance practice provider attendance continues to grow year after year and is now the premiere educational opportunity for all members of that great community. The Mid-Career Program was rebranded as the Practice Pedipod Program and once again covered leadership, teaching, mentorship, performance, finance, and billing and coding with all new presentations.

Our industry partners also created educational content, allowing meeting participants to literally get “hands-on” experience with the instruments that can change the lives of the children we treat. This collaboration, unique to IPOS®, allows for a learning lab of training and early experience making it more meaningful than sitting in a chair and watching passively.

This brings us to the end: IPOS® is and always will be about active learning. We have continued our partnership with adult education consultants to provide the most interactive and engaging learning that is designed to be meaningful and durable, and lead to immediate and lasting change. We would be remiss not to thank the amazing POSNA staff who were instrumental in coordinating this extremely complex meeting. We hope you will mark your calendars for IPOS® 2025, December 2-6, in Orlando, FL. See you next year!

Sincerely,
 
Derek Kelly, MD
IPOS® Director

Award Winners
Arabella Leet Residents and Fellows Forum
Sponsored by Shriners Children's™
Stephanie Buchan, Alder Hey Hospital, Liverpool, UK, won the Arabella Leet Residents and Fellows Forum with the presentation titled, Apert Syndrome: Severe Right Proximal Humerus Deformity Reconstruction. Scholarship winners were asked to submit a case presentation, and the winner was chosen from the top ten.
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Top Gun Surgical Skills Competition 
Congratulations to the IPOS® 2024 Top Gun Surgical Skills Competition winners: Tyler Mange, MD, first place; Ndeye Guisse, MD, second place; and Emma Berube, MD, third place. The focus of this competition is to raise the profile of surgical simulation in our field and to promote the practice of orthopaedic skills by trainees. Thank you to IPOS® faculty members and industry sponsors Arthrex, Globus Medical, MD Orthopaedics, Medtronic, Orthofix, and OrthoPediatrics for supporting this event.

Author's Preferred Techniques
The Author's Preferred Techniques video-based session is a highlight of IPOS®. Each participating faculty member presents her or his preferred surgical technique for a particular procedure. The audience then votes for the best presentation. Congratulations to Anthony Riccio, MD, for receiving the most votes for his technique on Subtalar Coalition Excision.