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 (CH) AO Research Institute

08:45 – 09:00    Claudia Siverino (CH) Welcome to Davos

Session 1          State of the art in clinical management of orthopaedic infection

09:00 – 09:30    Mario Morgenstern (CH)
Fracture-related infection: perspectives of an orthopaedic-trauma surgeon

09:30 – 10:00    Yvonne Achermann (CH)
Prevention and treatment of implant-associated infection: an ID physician perspective

Session 2          Bone remodelling in infection

11:00 – 11:30    Jim Cassat (US)
Bone appétit: bacterial pathogenesis during staphylococcus aureus osteomyelitis

11:30 – 12:00    Gerald Atkins (AU)
The osteocyte: victim, villain, or hero in deep bone infections?

Session 3         Imaging of bone infection

14:00 – 14:30    Ute Neugebauer (DE)
Characterization of S. aureus-Induced bone deformation using fluorescence and raman imaging

14:30 – 15:00    Dirk Bumann (CH)
Phenotyping bacteria in the in-vivo environment

Session 4          Biofilm

15:30 – 16:00   Tom Coenye (BE)
Novel approaches to study biofilm biology in the context of prosthetic joint infections

16:00 – 16:30   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    Noreen Hickok (US)
The changing joint environment: bacterial responses

Session 6          Non-union

10:30 – 11:00   Britt Wildemann (DE)
Bone fracture non-union

11:00 – 11:30    Hamish Simpson (UK)
How Infection changes non-union treatment

Group Photo

Session 7          Translation of infection-focused technologies to the clinic

12:20 – 12:40    Andrea Montali (CH)
Translational aspects of product development in medical device industry

12:40 – 13:00    Chris Arts (NL)
Material technology to tackle AMR; the NWA DARTBAC project

Free afternoon & eCM walk
18:00 Dinner at Walserhuus Sertig

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 in treatment

10:30 – 11:00     Li Zhang (HK)
Micro- and nanorobots for biofilm eradication

11:00 – 11:30    Sabrina Green (BE)
Making Antibiotics Great Again: Phage resistance correlation with resensitivity to antibiotics in pan-resistant P. Aeruginosa

         Awards and conference closing      

12:00 – 12:30    Edward Schwarz (US); Berton Rahn Award winner 2024
Elucidating the osteoimmunology of bone infection and development of a passive immunization for S. aureus osteomyelitis

12:30 – 13:00    Fintan Moriarty / Marco Chittò (CH)
Student Awards and conference closing

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All invited talks are 20 minutes (20-30 slides) to allow 10 minutes discussion per talk.
All submitted talks are 10 minutes (10-15 slides) to allow 5 minutes discussion per talk.
Chairpersons will cut people off who try to use this time for their talks!
Please bring a copy of your talk on CD or USB stick to give to Presentation Support, Sunday morning at Registration.

Paper Submission
We invite all participants to submit a paper (either original research report or original review) to the European Cells & Materials (eCM) online 'Open & Free Access' journal..