ARI Orthopaedics 2024 Orthopaedic Infection
24th – 26th June 2024, Congress Center, Davos, Switzerland
Keynote program (subject to change)
Monday, June 24th
Welcome
08:30 – 08:45 Fintan Moriarty and Claudia Siverino (CH) AO Research Institute
Welcome to ARI Orthopaedics & Davos
Session 1 State of the art in clinical management of orthopaedic infection
08:45 – 09:15 Mario Morgenstern (CH)
Fracture-related infection: perspectives of an orthopaedic-trauma surgeon
09:15 – 10:45 Yvonne Achermann (CH)
Prevention and treatment of implant-associated infection: an ID physician perspective
Session 2 Bacterial perspectives
10:45 – 11:15 Dirk Bumann (CH)
Phenotyping bacteria in the in vivo environment
11:15 – 11:45 Noreen Hickok (US)
The changing joint environment: bacterial responses
Session 3 Bone & Infection
14:00 – 14:30 Jim Cassat (US)
Bone appétit: bacterial pathogenesis during Staphylococcus aureus osteomyelitis
14:30 – 15:00 Ute Neugebauer (DE)
Characterization of S. aureusS. aureus-induced bone deformation using fluorescence and Raman imaging
Session 4 Biofilm
16:00 – 16:30 Tom Coenye (BE)
Novel approaches to study biofilm biology in the context of prosthetic joint infections
16:30 – 17:00 Jan-Willem Veening (CH)
Uncovering mechanisms of host-pathogen interactions using CRISPR interference
Tuesday, June 25th
Session 5 Antibacterial biomaterials
08:30 – 09:00 Henny van der Mei (NL)
Bacterial outer membrane vesicles for targeted treatment of bacterial infections
09:00 – 09:30 Xing Wang (CN)
Antimicrobial chiral polymers and carrier free nanodrugs
Session 6 Non-union
10:20 – 10:50 Britt Wildemann (DE)
Bone fracture non-union
10:50 – 11:20 Hamish Simpson (UK)
How Infection changes non-union treatment
Session 7 Translation of infection-focused technologies to the clinic
11:50 – 12:20 Andrea Montali (CH)
Translation of infection-focused technologies to the clinic
12:20 – 12:40 Chris Arts (NL)
Material technology to tackle AMR; the NWA DARTBAC project
Group Photo
Free afternoon & ARI Orthopaedics walk
18:00 Dinner at Restaurant Höhenweg, Parsenn
Meeting point Main entrance cable car Parsenn at 17:50h
Wednesday, June 26th
Session 8 Spine & Infection
09:00 – 09:30 Sonja Häckel(CH)
Spondylodiscitis and Implant-related Spinal Infections: Current Challenges and Needs from a Surgeon's Perspective
09:30 – 10:00 Shanmughanathan Rajasekaran (IN)
Can sub-clinical infection be cause for disc degeneration and back pain? - Evidence from metagenomic, proteomic and metabolomic studies.
Session 9 New horizons
11:00 – 11:30 Li Zhang (HK)
Micro- and nanorobots for biofilm eradication
11:30 – 12:00 Sabrina Green (BE)
Making Antibiotics Great Again: Phage resistance correlation with resensitivity to antibiotics in pan-resistant P. Aeruginosa
Awards and conference closing
12:40 – 13:10 Edward Schwarz (US); Berton Rahn Award winner 2024
Elucidating the osteoimmunology of bone infection and development of a passive immunization for S. aureus osteomyelitis
13:10 – 13:30 Fintan Moriarty / Marco Chittò (CH)
Student Awards and conference closing