President's Update - Frank A. Cordasco, MD
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The 2018 Annual Meeting concluded the term of President Anthony A. Romeo, MD. To say that his year of service to the American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons was a productive and successful one is certainly an understatement. Tony’s accomplishments are too numerous to list in their entirety but include these highlights; the launching of a Technology Taskforce, a Political Advocacy Taskforce and a Taskforce to secure the bid for the 2025 ICSES meeting in North America, the enhancement of the relationship between the ASES and the AAOS, the introduction of Orthobullets into the education platform of ASES, the development of a Membership Subcommittee to design a Mentorship Program, the development and establishment of relationships with SOS and OBERD to facilitate individual member as well as multi-center research efforts, the commitment to become the first Subspecialty Society to be a member of the AAOS PAC Advisor’s Circle and the participation in the International Consensus Meeting on Periprosthetic Joint Infection. We all look forward to Tony’s continued leadership of our great society as Immediate Past President in 2019-2020.
An Open Symposium on Shoulder Arthroplasty Past, Present and Future chaired by Greg Nicholson, MD and Michael Pearl, MD preceded the 2018 Annual Meeting on October 11, 2018 in Chicago. This was a phenomenally successful meeting with 322 attendees and was an outstanding and stimulating program for ASES Members including Faculty (228) and ASES Non-members (94) alike.
The Annual Meeting set a record for attendance and was chaired by Gus Mazzocca, MD and Mark Cohen, MD. The meeting included ICLs for the first time, Industry Lunch Workshops and an exceptional program with Symposia and Case Based approaches as well as scientific papers. The Neer Lecture entitled “Building an Academic Shoulder Practice in Private Practice: Why Would You Do This?” was delivered by Past President of SECEC Peter Habermeyer, MD who along with his Guest Nation Corresponding Members from Germany provided a stimulating international flavor for the entire group of participants. SECEC President Mehmet S. Demirhan, MD presented his impressive career long experience in a lecture entitled “Wings That Are Not Meant to Fly: The Management of Fascioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy”. Past President Rick Matsen, MD presented the Codman Lecture and conveyed his thoughts on “A View of Shoulder Surgery 2018: Technique and Technology” stimulating us to consider less invasive alternatives such as the “Smooth and Move” and “Ream and Run” procedures respectively for irreparable rotator cuff tears and for active patients requiring arthroplasty, among several others. Additional highlights included an address to the membership by Wyoming Senator John Barrasso, III, MD (who is the only orthopaedic surgeon in Congress today) with a compelling talk entitled “Value of Political Advocacy for YOU the Orthopaedic Surgeon ”. This could not have happened without the help and support of the Political Advocacy Task Force and Chair Ted Schlegel, MD along with the AAOS PAC Liaison, Stacie Monroe. An excellent symposium and special session moderated by Past President Frances Cuomo, MD and President Tony Romeo, MD entitled Diversity in Leadership included perspectives from Kristy L. Weber, MD President-Elect AAOS, April D. Armstrong, MD, Rachel M. Frank, MD and Ronald A. Navarro, MD and was overwhelmingly enjoyed by everyone in attendance. Finally, Tony’s Presidential Address was a captivating speech, delivered without slides, touching on the many components of leadership, shoulder and elbow surgery and our subspecialty society.
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The ASES staff, including Anna Quintanilla, Stella Gauthier, Christa Hagelberger and Steve Mlodoch, deserves special thanks for their tireless efforts which facilitated great success for both meetings.
Our organization has undergone tremendous growth over the last several years, which is critical for us to achieve the mission and vision of the ASES. This includes providing quality shoulder and elbow care to our patients through leadership, education, research and political advocacy as well as to serve as global thought leaders in delivering evidence-based and cost-effective care. We now have 856 members of whom 47% represent Candidate and Associate members. The challenges associated with rapid growth include engaging and retaining our candidate and younger associate members within ASES as well as engaging our mid-career and established older associate and active members in a way that fosters the mission and vision of global thought leadership.
As the Chairman of the Committee on Committees along with members Greg Nicholson, MD and Brad Parsons, MD we reviewed and assessed the current committee structure during the summer of 2018. We received 80 applications for 29 committee openings. In the spirit of providing more service and volunteer opportunities for a growing organization, the Committee on Committees made changes to facilitate this goal. We added Co-Chairs to the Education and Membership committees to allow for staggered leadership given the growth of our organization and the additional committee tasks. We also discontinued the tradition of automatically re-appointing members who expressed an interest in serving a 2
nd
term. The Chairs of the respective committees were involved in the process as well. Of the 23 members who expressed an interest in serving a 2
nd
term, 8 were re-appointed while 15 additional committee positions became available.
I will mention just a few committee activities, which are currently underway.
The Education Committee members under the leadership of Chair Gus Mazzocca, MD and Co-Chair Ranjan Gupta, MD will continue to develop and implement ASES generated educational shoulder and elbow content in the form of meetings, webinars and publications for our members and non-members and will initiate new programs under the direction of the ASES Board. One project the committee is considering is to develop an International Shoulder and Elbow Meeting comprised of International Shoulder and Elbow Faculty. The committee will also update the ASES policy regarding the sponsorship of educational content for Non-ASES Meetings.
The Membership Committee members under the leadership of Chair Joe Abboud, MD and Co-Chair Ron Navarro, MD will further develop the concept of a Shoulder and Elbow Fellow Membership Category. This category will simply permit shoulder and elbow fellows to participate in ASES activities one year sooner than they would under the current membership structure. In addition, ASES will be able to engage with these young, committed and enthusiastic shoulder and elbow surgeons at an earlier stage of their career. You will hear more about this endeavor in the coming weeks as we plan to establish the Fellow Membership Category before the end of 2018 with a membership vote.
The Industry Committee has been very successful over the last few years, which has been in large part a collective effort provided by our outstanding ASES Staff (including Anna Quintanilla and Stella Gauthier), the Committee Co-Chairs (Past Presidents Jeff Abrams, MD and Richard Hawkins, MD), the Presidential Line (Buddy Savoie, MD and Tony Romeo, MD), the ASESF Chair Jon Ticker, MD and the committee members. Special thanks to “Hawk” for providing more than a dozen years of service towards this endeavor – above and beyond the call of duty! Brad Parsons, MD will be taking on the Co-Chair position of the Industry Committee joining Jeff Abrams, MD.
We have also made some changes to the Annual and Specialty Day Program Committee structure, largely due to the feedback from the program co-chairs and presidential line during the past 2 years. Traditionally, two separate committees developed the programs for the Annual and Specialty Day Meetings. As the Specialty Day Meeting has changed with only 10-12 scientific papers and more case-based presentations and symposia, it was not worthwhile for a large committee to review 500-600 abstracts to select a dozen papers. As a result we have combined the Annual and Specialty Day Program Committee into a group of 11 members including the 4 Co-Chairs for the 2019 Annual and 2020 Specialty Day Meetings. Additionally we have appointed a group of 42 volunteers to serve on an Abstract Review Panel who will be tasked with reviewing all abstracts submitted to both meetings, scoring them and then submitting them to the Combined Program Committee members who will develop the programs for the two meetings. We believe this will streamline the process, enhance the programs and improve the volunteer experience.
The planning is well underway for the combined AANA/ASES 2019 Spanish Course under the leadership of Co-Chairs Xavier Duralde, MD, Joaquin Sanchez-Sotelo, MD, PhD, Emilio Calvo, MD, PhD and Mauricio Largacha, MD with the support of AANA First Vice-President Larry Field, MD and the AANA and ASES staff. Twenty-five Spanish-speaking international thought leaders have committed to serving as faculty and lab instructors. This meeting will take place at the AAOS OLC in Chicago June 10-11, 2019.
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The Board of Specialty Societies (BOS) announced the new Chair-Elect of their Executive Committee, Dr. Craig Satterlee. He will assume the position at their Business Meeting on March 15, 2019, when current Chair-Elect, Dr. Dirk Alander, transitions to Chair of the BOS. As Chair-Elect, he will become a member of the AAOS Council on Advocacy and the Political Action Committee of the AAOS. Congratulations to Dr. Satterlee!
I am honored, privileged and humbled to serve all members of the American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons as President throughout the next year. I thank all of you for providing me with this exceptional opportunity and responsibility to serve ASES. I would like to thank our Past Presidents Buddy Savoie, MD and Tony Romeo, MD and the Executive Board for positioning our fantastic organization on the current trajectory. Without their collective leadership the American Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons would not be where it is now. I am also proud to serve with our future leaders, President-Elect Bill Levine, MD and Vice President Mark Frankle, MD over the course of the next three years.
Please email me anytime with your thoughts, suggestions, questions and/or comments: cordascof@gmail.com
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2018 ASES Annual Meeting Highlights
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Thank you to all that were able to attend the Annual Meeting! From the feedback we have received it was a great success and we look forward to continuing to provide quality educational content to our members.
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The meeting was well attended and included a variety of sessions covering a wide range of topics.
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The Exhibit Hall featured all the posters that were selected for the meeting.
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Dr. Romeo receiving his President's Award and Dr. Cordasco receiving the gavel during the Presidential Address on Saturday, October 13th.
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SOS and OBERD Systems
Now Available to ASES Members
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In Spring 2018 the ASES leadership has carefully evaluated several data management web-based systems that would allow ASES members to collect and analyze patient reported outcome data as well as promote the use and improvement of PRO’s in clinical care. After a thorough evaluation, the ASES leadership chose 2 systems:
Surgical Outcomes System™ and OBERD
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Each data management system brings a set of valuable benefits – members are invited to select the system that best addresses their practice needs. SOS if available free of charge while OBERD is being offered at a deeply discounted price. This is an excellent opportunity for our members and we hope that you will take full advantage of this benefit. To learn more about each system review the details below.
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SOS is an orthopedic and sports medicine global registry which allows surgeons to collect and analyze patient outcomes and procedures. ASES members can incorporate SOS into their practice at no additional charge. The Surgical Outcomes System collaborates with societies and associations to unify their members’ patient outcomes collection for healthcare operations, research and publication, and validation of outcome measures. For more information follow the link below.
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OBERD is a software system for physicians and hospitals to effortlessly collect the data they need to make better decisions about the care of their patients, and ultimately deliver better
health outcomes. The company powers some of the nation’s most prestigious hospital systems, including many high-ranked hospitals for orthopedics. OBERD’s goal is to pioneer a future of smart data collection to transform patient care and improve health outcomes. This data collection system is available to all members of the ASES at a discounted price. The ASES Multicenter Taskforce Study Groups will be using it for the multicenter studies. To learn more about OBERD and to sign up, visit the vendor’s website or call 573.442.7101.
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Young Investigator Initiative Grant Mentoring and Career Development Program
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The United States Bone and Joint Initiative (USBJI) and Bone and Joint Canada are dedicated to increasing research of musculoskeletal diseases. To keep pace with the high and increasing burden of these diseases, a higher level of research performed by young investigators in the musculoskeletal diseases is required, and future levels of research assured. This is particularly important given the current environment for research funding, and academic careers. In response, the Young Investigator Initiative is a grant mentoring program providing early-career investigators an opportunity to work with experienced researchers in our field to assist them in securing funding and other survival skills required for pursuing an academic career.
To date 245 participants (60%) have successfully obtained $421 million in grants for 1,492 new musculoskeletal research studies. Participants consider this program instrumental to their success. They rate highly the one-on-one mentoring with experienced researchers, the opportunity for inter-disciplinary and peer-to-peer exchange, and collaborations established during workshops.
This grant mentoring program and career development program is open to promising junior faculty, senior fellows or post-doctoral researchers nominated by their department or division chairs seeking to pursue a career in clinical or basic research. It is also open to senior fellows or residents that are doing research and have a faculty appointment in place or confirmed. Basic and clinical investigators, without or with training awards, are invited to apply. Investigators selected to take part in the program attend two workshops, 12-18 months apart, and work with faculty between workshops to develop their grant applications. The unique aspect of this program is the opportunity for attendees to maintain a relationship with a mentor until their application is funded.
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DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION SUBMISSIONS: January 15, 2019
Spring Workshop – April 26-28, 2019 Rosemont, IL
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Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Shoulder & Elbow Course: Current Concepts and Controversies
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- January 19-20, 2019 at Westin Kierland in Scottsdale, AZ
- Course Directors: Diane L. Dahm, MD, John W. Sperling, MD, and Scott P. Steinmann, MD
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Membership Dues Increase for 2019
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Over the past 5 years, the ASES has expanded its operations and is now offering several new member benefits that bring value to individual members and their patients, and advance the mission and vision of the society. Just last year the society has formed several new partnerships, established and strengthen its mentorship, fellowship, research and education programs, and initiated advocacy efforts aimed at making the lasting impact on the sub-specialty of shoulder and elbow surgery.
In order to continue the society’s successful expansion and support its strategic goals, a nominal increase in membership dues will take effect on January 1, 2019. Membership dues for Active, Associate, Candidate and Affiliate members will be increased by $50 and Corresponding members will see an increase of $25.
If you have any questions regarding this increase please feel free to contact us at
ases@aaos.org.
Thank you for being a part of the ASES!
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