Dr. Dennis Dominguez (Orthopaedic surgery and Traumatology dpt, HUG) and Dr. Emmanuel Biver (Bone diseases dpt, HUG) welcome you to this multidisciplinary training day aimed at increasing synergies between medical and surgical teams.

The program emphasizes on collaborative work and exchanges between medical and surgical specialties, through:

• Clinical case presentations (in collaboration with the course sponsors)
• Practical vertebroplasty workshops (SpineJack, Stryker) on anatomical specimens.

This course will be given in English and French.

Course program

10:30 -11:00 - Welcome coffee
11:00 -11:20 - Osteoporosis fractures: epidemiology and diagnosis (E. Biver)
11:20 - 11:50 - Vertebral fractures, Multidisciplinary management and Algorithm (K. Al Taha)
11:50 - 12:20 - Medical treatment of osteoporosis fractures (E. Biver)
12:20 - 12:50 - Practical workshop: use of anti-osteoporosis treatments (E. Biver)
12:50 - 13:30 - Networking lunch
13:30 - 14:00 - Classification and Surgical management (N. Lauper)
14:00 - 14:30 - Case discussion (E. Tessitore and D. Dominguez)
14:30 - 16:00 - Practical workshop: SpineJack and vertebroplasty (Al Taha, Tsinas, Dominguez)

Accreditation

• Swiss Orthopaedics
• Swiss Society of Neurosurgery
  
• Internal medicine
• Swiss Society of Rhumatology
• Swiss geratrics society
• Swiss society of physical medicine and rehabilitation

Course flyer

Faculty

• Dennis Dominguez
• Emmanuel Biver