SmartTRAK sits down with Brian Cole, MD, MBA, to preview the upcoming International Cartilage Regeneration & Joint Preservation Society (ICRS) Focus Meeting. Scheduled for September 24th and 25th in Chicago, this highly anticipated event, co-hosted by Dr. Cole and Adam Yanke, MD, PhD, marks the return of specialized ICRS programming to the US and is designed for orthopedic surgeons, sports medicine physicians, physical therapists, researchers, and industry leaders alike.
To listen to the interview, click on the following video (18:57 min). A link to download a complete transcript of the interview is also provided below.
SmartTRAK: Dr. Cole, thank you very much for taking some time today to speak with me about the upcoming ICRS focus meeting in Chicago, patient-centered and evidence-based cartilage treatment of the knee, and a real-world approach to the pathology spectrum, scheduled for September 24th and 25th coming up this fall.
Dr. Brian Cole: As you mentioned, it's going to be held in Chicago, September 24th and 25th. It will start on a Thursday afternoon on the 24th and go into the early evening, and then all day Friday on the 25th. These courses are conducted periodically, and the timing of them is very important as we see emerging technology in the area of biologics from an instrumentation perspective and innovations that come from industry. So having this at a reasonable cadence is super important, and we haven't had an ICRS course such as this in the United States for a number of years. We've co-hosted these in the past. They've been uniformly successful, and we're optimistic that this will be the best one we've ever participated in. My co-host is Adam Yanke. Many people know Adam Yanke. He's also with me at Rush University Medical Center, and Adam is also a PhD. And he and I collaborate a lot on innovations and biologics and surgical techniques and so forth. And we work with a number of the faculty who are being invited, who are world-class, both domestic and international faculty. So, we'll say it's a day and a half course.
The target audience for this course is obviously going to be orthopedic surgeons, but I think it will also be appropriate for sports medicine physicians, certainly fellows in sports medicine, physical therapists, absolutely for researchers, and then, as importantly, our industry partners. So this is a non-CME meeting that'll be, again, hosted in Chicago. I'd say from a weather perspective, this is the best time of year to be in Chicago, having lived there for almost 30 years. And our goal is to make it fun, interactive, and not to inundate participants with didactics that lack immediate clinical relevance. The topics we're going to speak about will be contemporary and the most up-to-date evidence-based. But we're going to support virtually every topic with breakout sessions using case-based learning, cases that start with the initial decision-making, which is probably the hardest but most important aspect of managing patients with ...
What can attendees expect at the ICRS Chicago Focus Meeting? Find out in SmartTRAK GM/Sr Analyst David Shepherd's exclusive interview with Brian Cole, MD, MBA and co-host of the event. Click the button below to download the full transcript for insights into subchondral bone therapies, biologics, metal resurfacing, 3D-printed surgical planning and how AI is shaping the future of orthopedics.