Total Knee Replacement: On Thursday, May 20, 2004 at 4:30 pm EDT, Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) will host a live Webcast in which participants can view an emerging procedure designed to help improve the quality of life of many who suffer from severe knee arthritis and other knee damage that impairs mobility. During this Webcast, BWH doctors will perform a minimally invasive rotating platform total knee replacement (TKR), a less invasive operative approach to traditional TKR surgery.

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The Rush Cartilage Restoration Center in Chicago presents a Web cast produced for physicians and other health care professionals to learn about cartilage restoration of the knee The program features three surgical procedures and interviews with patients of cartilage restoration, researchers in the field, and other nationally known cartilage surgeons.

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Orthopedics: The Chicago Cartilage Course, a comprehensive two-day course on cartilage repair, will be held starting Friday, May 7 at Rush University Medical Center, Chicago. The course will provide an update on the clinical management and surgical techniques for cartilage repair and is designed for orthopedic surgeons, sports medicine specialists, including fellows and residents, as well as physical therapists and athletic trainers. View live surgical webcast demonstrations beginning at 9:45 am CDT (14:45 UTC) featuring allograft meniscus transplantation, autologous chondrocyte implantation and osteochondral allograft, performed by Brian Cole, MD, director of the Rush Cartilage Restoration Center at Rush University Medical Center; Jack Farr, MD, director of the Cartilage Restoration Center of Indiana, Indiana University; Wayne Gersoff, MD, clinical assistant professor in the department of orthopedic surgery at the University of Colorado Health Sciences, Denver; and Riley Williams, MD, assistant professor in the department of orthopedic surgery at the Hospital for Special Surgery, New York.

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Orthopedics: See a "Minimally Invasive Primary Total Knee Arthroplasty" in a live webcast on March 23, 2003, at 7:00 p.m. EST from the Tift Regional Medical Center in Tifton, Georgia. The surgical presentation will demonstrate the latest evolution in TKR techniques using smaller instruments to allow smaller incisions. Jim Scott, MD, founder and president of the Georgia Sports Medicine and Orthopedic Clinic will perform the surgery and Keith Berends, MD, from the Joint Implant Surgeons in Columbus, Ohio will moderate the program. This activity is sponsored by the University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey (UMDNJ) and the Center for Continuing and Outreach Education (CCOE). UMDNJ-CCOE designates this activity for a maximum of 1.0 category 1 credit toward the AMA Physician's Recognition Award.

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