Managing Children with Lower Limb Differences: Local to Global
Friday, June 7, 2024 
7:00 AM to 2:30 PM Pacific Time
Virtual - Live Stream
Course# MOR23013

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Overview

This Virtual Live-Steam course is designed to Educate and empower health care providers regarding an interdisciplinary approach to children with lower limb differences, deformities and length discrepancies.

Target Audience

This conference is tailored towards Orthopaedic Surgeons, Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation Physicians, Pediatricians and Family Physicians, Orthotists & Prosthetists, Nurses, Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants, Physical Therapists.

Objectives

An attendee completing this course will be able to apply acquired skills and strategies to:

• Discuss the comprehensive management of a child with lower limb differences in diverse practice settings
• Learn how to build a multidisciplinary limb optimization program based on locally available resources
• Review the unique management of a child amputee
• Using case-based discussion, identify the treatment options and complications encountered during care of a child following musculoskeletal trauma or sepsis
• Explore opportunities for sharing knowledge and skills amongst health workers who take care of a patient with limb differences

Live Stream

This course will be offered as a virtual conference. Login instructions along with the digital syllabus will be shared with the attendees a week before the meeting. Included in your registration fee is access to the course recordings on demand (Available within a week after the conference) for any session that you miss, available for 30 days after the course.

Registration and course fees

Registration is open!  Please register online.

2024 Registration Fees are: 

$175 USD North American Physicians Nurses/Allied Health Professionals
$ 50 USD International Physicians/Nurses/ Allied Health Professionals
Free All trainees (North American and International)
 

Course Chairs

Sanjeev Sabharwal, MD, MPH
Professor of Clinical Orthopaedics
Director, Limb Lengthening & Reconstruction Center
Director, UCSF Pediatric Orthopaedic Fellowship
UCSF Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
 

Jaclyn Hill, MD
Associate Professor of Pediatric Orthopaedics
UCSF Department of Orthopaedic Surgery

Alexander Geraldi, PA-C, MPA
UCSF Physician Assistant
UCSF Department of Orthopaedic Surgery