Department of Orthopaedic Surgery

10th Annual Musculoskeletal Repair and Regeneration Symposium - Virtual Event

Date : October 20, 2021

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SYMPOSIUM MISSION

The Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center Musculoskeletal Repair and Regeneration Symposium continues to seek and expand the knowledge base within the field, and to foster creativity, collaboration and networking between researchers throughout the region. This year’s meeting will emphasize recent advances in translational research in four areas:

• Tendon Remodeling and Repair

• Musculoskeletal Regeneration and Repair

• Bone Adaptation: From Cells to Tissue

• Osteosarcoma and Degenerative Musculoskeletal diseases

GOALS AND FEATURES

This program attempts to address current issues in musculoskeletal repair and regeneration, and disease treatment. The presentations and discussions will focus on up-to-date scientific discoveries and the potential impact of these findings on patient treatment and management in the future. This meeting features:

• 8 outstanding speakers from the United States and Europe

• Lightening e-poster session and Young Investigator Award session

REGISTRATION

Deadline: October 17, 2021
Please register by using this registration form.
Registration is free. Early registration is highly recommended.
An email with the information to virtually join the meeting will be sent to the registrants’ email prior to meeting. Please note that only those who registered will be granted access.

AGENDA

8:00 – 8:10 am	Introduction and acknowledgements Mia M. Thi, PhD Opening remarks Neil J. Cobelli, MD
Session 1 – Tendon Remodeling and Repair Steering Chair: Dirk Hubmacher, PhD
8:10 – 8:15 am	Introduction Dirk Hubmacher, PhD Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
8:15 – 8:35 am	Tenomodulin signature in tendon repair process Denitsa Docheva, PhD University of Wuerzburg, Germany
8:35 – 8:55 am	Small molecules regulating interplay between tendon stem/progenitor cells and macrophages Chang Hun Lee, PhD Columbia University Irving Medical Center
8:55 - 9:05 am	Discussion / Conclusions
9:05 – 9:15 am BREAK
Session 2 – Musculoskeletal Regeneration and Repair Steering Chair: Nadeen Chahine, PhD
9:15 - 9:20 am	Introduction Nadeen Chahine, PhD Columbia University
9:20 - 9:40 am	Decoding synovial joint regeneration in zebrafish Joanna Smeeton, PhD Columbia University Irving Medical Center
9:40 - 10:00 am	Novel therapeutic strategies for degenerative disc disease and osteoarthritis Fackson Mwale, PhD McGill University
10:00 - 10:10 am	Discussion / Conclusions
10:10 – 10:20 am BREAK
Session 3 – Skeletal Adaptation: From Cells to Tissue Steering chair: Alessandra Carriero, PhD
10:20 - 10:25 am	Introduction Alessandra Carriero, PhD City College of New York
10:25 - 10:45 am	Effects of mechanics on bone growth Sandra Shefelbine, PhD Northeastern University
10:45 - 11:05 am	Osteocytes in Skeletal Aging and Joint Disease Tamara Alliston, PhD University of California San Francisco
11:05 - 11:15 am	Discussion / Conclusions
11:15 – 11:25 am BREAK
e-Poster Session
11:25 am : 12:45 pm	Concurrent Lightning e-Poster Sessions
12:45 – 12:55 pm BREAK
Session 4 – Osteosarcoma and Degenerative Musculoskeletal Diseases Steering chairs: Peter Torzilli, PhD and Martin Levy, MD
12:55 - 1:00 pm	Introduction Peter Torzilli, PhD The Hospital for Special Surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College Martin Levy, MD Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center
1:00 -1:20 pm	Modulating Wnt Signaling to Prevent Osteosarcoma Metastasis David M. Loeb, MD, PhD Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center
1:20 - 1:40 pm	Quantitative Imaging For Osteoarthritis Matthew Koff, PhD The Hospital for Special Surgery
1:40 - 1:50 pm	Discussion / Conclusions
1:50 – 2:00 pm BREAK
Young Investigator Awards Chair: Zeynep Seref-Ferlengez, PhD
2:00 – 2:10 pm	Young Investigator Awards Hosted by: Young Investigator Award Committee
Closing Remarks
2:10 pm	Closing remarks Neil J. Cobelli, MD

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS FOR POSTER SESSION AND YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AND CLINICAL YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARDS
We invite investigators to submit abstracts for the virtual lightening e-poster session, which is an important component of this conference.
Abstracts from graduate and medical students, residents and postdoctoral fellows will be considered for Young Investigator Awards and Clinical Young Investigator Award. Four winners,
three from Young Investigator category and one from Clinical Young Investigator category will be announced and each will be presented with a prize and a plaque. To qualify, you must register and
submit an abstract to Dr. Zeynep Seref-Ferlengez, the chair of the Poster Session and Young Investigator Award committee, by September 24, 2021 via email to: sereffer@montefiore.org.
The abstract is limited to 1 page. Include in your abstract the study's objective, a brief statement of methods, a summary of the results obtained, conclusions, and significance. Please follow the abstract template.. As the Symposium aims to promote communication within our region, we encourage you to submit your recent work (within 2021) to this Symposium, including work that may have been submitted to other meetings.
Please note: Two PowerPoint slides with 2 minutes audio must be submitted for all accepted posters by October 15, 2021.

Important Deadlines:

Abstract Submission : September 24, 2021

Poster Submission : October 15, 2021

PROGRAM DIRECTOR Mia M. Thi, PhD
STEERING COMMITTEE CHAIRS
• Alessandra Carriero, PhD • Nadeen Chahine, PhD • Dirk Hubmacher, PhD	• Martin Levy, MD • Peter Torzilli, PhD
PROGRAM OVERSEERS
• Michael Detamore, PhD • Susannah Fritton, PhD • Mary Goldring, PhD • Steven Goldring, MD • Ed Guo, PhD • John Hardin, MD • David Hirsh, MD • James Iatridis, PhD • Lionel Ivashkiv, MD • Thorsten Kirsch, PhD • Catherine Kuo, PhD	• Chuanju Liu, PhD • Helen Lu, PhD • Jeremy Mao, DDS, PhD • Steven Nicoll, PhD • Maurizio Pacifici, PhD • Nicola Patridge, PhD • Clinton Rubin, PhD • Yi-Xian Qin, PhD • Mitchell Schaffler, PhD • David Spray, PhD • Stavros Thomopoulos, PhD

e-POSTER SESSION AND YOUNG INVESTIGATOR AWARD COMMITTE Chair: Zeynep Seref-Ferlengez, PhD
Co-chairs : • Leila Alvandi, PhD • Ugur Ayturk, PhD • David Corr, PhD • X. Edward Guo, PhD	• David Hirsh, MD • Bang Hoang, PhD • Robert Majeska, PhD • Yi-Xian Qin, PhD • Sylvia Suadicani, PhD