Nicolas Piuzzi, MD, discusses the upcoming 2025 Robotic Orthopedic Concepts and Knowledge Symposium (ROCKS) in an interview with SmartTRAK.
Dr. Nicolas Piuzzi, enterprise vice chair of research for the Department of Orthopedics at the Cleveland Clinic and co-chair of the Robotic Orthopedic Concepts and Knowledge Symposium (ROCKS) spoke with SmartTRAK about the second annual ROCKS meeting being held in Cleveland, OH on August 15-16, 2025. In the following video, Dr. Piuzzi discusses the purpose behind this cutting-edge event in the field of arthroplasty robotics and his vision for the symposium going forward (9:43 min). A link to download a full transcript of the interview is also provided below.
SmartTRAK: Hi, this is Elise Wolf, GM of Orthopedics and Enabling Technology at SmartTRAK. Today I'm speaking with Dr. Nicolas Piuzzi, who is the Enterprise Vice Chair of Research for the Department of Orthopedics at the Cleveland Clinic. He's an orthopedic surgeon and also co-chair of the Robotic Orthopedic Concepts and Knowledge Symposium, otherwise known as ROCKS. The second Annual ROCKS Symposium is coming up on August 15th and 16th at the Huntington Convention Center in Cleveland, Ohio. Dr. Piuzzi, thank you so much for taking the time to speak with me today.
Nicolas Piuzzi, MD: Thank you, Elise, for the opportunity and for your passion for the field, and happy to be here with you today.
As co-chair of the second annual ROCKS meeting, how do you see the meeting evolving from the inaugural meeting and what's your vision for this year, the second year of the meeting?
NP: Our vision for the second Annual ROCKS Symposium is to solidify on the success that we had on the first meeting and kind of setting the stage for the premier clinical robotic event in orthopedics. So we want this to be that event where innovation in the field of technology and robotics meets the real world application. So it's that environment where you can have both the engineers, the developers, be able to merge with the clinicians, and be able to see how to use this technology on clinical workflows with real data and in a true evidence-based adoption and pathway. And beyond just having a showcasing of technology, we want to ...
