Industry Symposia

These are non-accredited industry-sponsored symposia and are NOT part of the accredited program.

The 14th Biennial Canadian Orthopaedic Foot & Ankle Symposium has five industry symposia, click the title to learn more.

Friday, April 1, 2022: 1400-1530 & 1545-1700
Room: 701A&B
Cadence Total Ankle System: Designed for Predictable Procedures with Advanced Anatomic Design and Streamlined Instrumentation

Faculty

Timothy Daniels

Timothy Daniels MD, FRCSC
Professor, University of Toronto
Head, Division of Orthopaedic Surgery, St Michael’s Hospital
Past-President and Co-Founder of Biennial Canadian Orthopaedic
Foot and Ankle Society Symposium
Design Surgeon, Cadence Total Ankle System

Dr. Tim R. Daniels obtained is an alumnus of University of Saskatchewan who went on to complete a F&A fellowship with Drs. J. Smith and L. Fleming at Emory University and an additional 3 months at the Milwaukee County Medical Complex with Drs. J. Gould and G. Harris in their gait mechanics lab. In 1993 he began his F&A practice at Wellesley Hospital in Toronto and, in 1994, established a multi-disciplinary Foot Clinic.

Presently, he is Full Professor, Head of the U of T F&A Program, and Head of Orthopaedic Division at St. Michael’s Hospital. He serves as Associate Editor at Foot and Ankle International and Reviewer for JBJS (Am) and Journal of American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons.

As Canada’s top Orthopaedic F&A surgeon, other orthopaedists send their most complex and challenging foot and ankle cases to him and he trains students from all over the world. His surgical skills and research publications have placed him in the top 16 of World’s best F&A surgeons by Orthopaedics This Week.

Learning Objectives

  • Gain insight into Cadence design rationale, system modularity, simplified bone-preparation techniques, and streamlined instrumentation
  • Discuss significance and impact of offering neutral and biased-poly options to address patients who present with sagittal plane mal-alignment
  • Review short-term and mid-term patient outcomes and data
  • Present case examples including Primary TAR, Flat Cut Talus and converting fusion to TAR
  • Surgical Tips and Pearls including performing ancillary procedures and proper balancing techniques

Friday, April 1, 2022: 1400-1530 & 1545-1700
Room 703
An Afternoon with Paragon28® – Canada’s Exclusively Foot & Ankle Team

Featuring
Advancements in Total Ankle Arthroplasty – APEX 3D™

Learning Objectives:

Discover more about Paragon28®’s robust APEX 3D™ TAR system, including:

  • Design rationale and 3D printed bone interface technology
  • Multiple alignment options, including traditional, MAVEN™ PSI and FASTRAC™ lazer guide systems
  • Intra-operative flexibility with several bone preparation and implant combination options

PLUS, an opportunity for hands on experience with Paragon28®’s innovative:

  • PROMO™ – Triplanar Hallux Valgus Correction System
  • PHANTOM™ MIS Lapidus System

Come join us to Learn More about Paragon28®! FNA!

Friday, April 1, 2022: 1400-1530 & 1545-1700
Room 704
MIS Techniques – How and when to use them – A hands on experience

Faculty

  • Warren Latham MSc, MD, FRCSC
    Scarborough, ON
  • Joel Morash MD, FRCSC
    Halifax, NS
  • Alastair Younger MB, ChB, MSc, ChM, FRCSC
    Vancouver, BC

Learning objectives

Didactic session

  • Overview of the techniques:
    • Dorsal Cheilectomy
    • Calcaneal Osteotomy
    • MICA
    • Lesser Toe
  • Tips and tricks for successful outcomes
  • Case reviews
  • Suggested treatment algorithms – when and when not to use MIS techniques
  • Dressing techniques

Hands-on session

  • Sawbones procedural training
    • Dorsal Cheilectomy
    • Calcaneal Osteotomy
    • MICA
    • Lesser Toe
  • Sawbones based cutting with a burr station
  • Fancy Foot Dressing station

Friday, April 1, 2022: 1400-1530 & 1545-1700
Room 705
Sawbone Lab

  • FIBULINK™
  • CCHS – Cannulated Compression Headless Screws
  • MIS Burrs/Blades

Learning Objectives

  • Opportunity to try new products including FIBULINK™ syndesmosis repair device, CCHS for lower extremity fixation and Burrs/Blades supporting Minimally Invasive Foot Surgery

Friday, April 1, 2022: 1400-1530 & 1545-1700
Room 706
The Future is Here – Advances in Bone Graft Substitutes

Moderator

Mark Anthony Glazebrook

Dr Mark Glazebrook MSc, PhD, Dip Sports Med., MD, FRCSC,
Professor of Surgery, Dalhousie University & QEII HSC
Orthopaedic Surgery and Research

Mark Glazebrook is a full time Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at Dalhousie University with a cross appointment to the School of Biomedical Engineering. He completed his medical training in 1994 and completed specialty training in Orthopaedic Surgery in 1999 at Dalhousie. He then went on to complete a fellowship in Orthopedic Foot & Ankle and Sports Medicine at the University of Western Ontario.

This was followed with a PhD in Achilles Tendon Disease at Dalhousie University. Dr. Glazebrook devotes 80% of his working time to clinical practice focusing on Orthopedic Foot & Ankle Reconstruction and Sports Medicine. During research time focus is on outcome studies on Evidence Based Medicine, Ankle Arthritis, MTP Arthritis, Bone Graft Substitutes and Achilles tendon rupture care. He is currently President of the Canadian Orthopedic Association (COA)

Panelists

Dr. Johnny Lau MD, MSc, FRCSC
Orthopaedic Surgeon Foot and Ankle
Program Director University of Toronto Foot and Ankle Fellowship
Divisional Clinical Fellowship Director Orthopaedic Surgery
Assistant Professor, Division of Orthopaedic Surgery
Department of Surgery
Temerty Faculty of Medicine University of Toronto

Dr. Bradley Meulenkamp MD, MSc, FRCSC
Orthoapaedic Surgeon, The Ottawa Hospital
Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine
University of Ottawa

Nayla Gosselin-Papadopoulos, MD, FSCRC
Orthopaedic Surgeon, CISSS-Outaouais
Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine – Campus Outaouais
McGill University

Learning Objectives

  • Introduction to advances in Bone Graft Substitutes and new OSTEOMAMP formats that are now available
  • Discuss the importance factors involved in choosing bone graft for foot and ankle fusion
  • Present case examples