AO Trauma Hand NA Hand Therapy Essentials
Examine the relationship between hand surgeons and hand therapists during online case-based discussions with experts from both fields.
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Description
Have you, a surgeon, ever wondered how to articulate and deliver key messages regarding your patient and their post-operative care? Or have you, a hand therapist, wondered how surgeons evaluate patients and decide on the surgical approach to fix the fracture?
Hand Therapy Essentials is a 7-week series of case-based discussions that will highlight the importance of the relationship between surgeons and hand therapists in delivering quality patient care.
Hear perspectives and approaches to treatment and post-operative care from a team of surgeons and hand therapists. Join discussions that showcase how an inter-professional partnership and two-way effective communication can help achieve desired patient and clinical outcomes.
Directly provided by AO North America.
| Upon completion of this event, participants will be able to |
| Highlight the relationship between hand surgeon and hand therapist |
| Analyze coordination, communication, and handovers in patient care as it relates to the hand surgeon working in collaboration with hand therapists |
| Explain the importance of post-operative care and the need for collaboration between the surgeon and therapists |
| Exchange surgeon's and therapist's perspectives on patient centered care using case examples |
| Recognize the role of the inter-professional healthcare team in achieving quality patient outcomes |
Orthopedic, plastic, and general surgeons; hand therapists (OT and PT), NPs, PAs, medical and surgical trainees.
Course chairs
Chaitanya Mudgal, MD, MS (Ortho), MCh
Rebecca Neiduski, PhD, OTR/L, CHT
Faculty
- Kiran Agarwal-Harding, MD, MPH
- Gretchen Bachman, OTD, OTR/L, MBA, CHT
- Kyle Bickel, MD
- Paul Binhammer, MSc, MD, FRCSC
- Philip Blazar, MD
- Jay Bridgeman, MD, DDS
- John Capo, MD
- Charles Cassidy, MD
- David Dennison, MD
- John Elfar, MD
- Gilberto Gonzalez Trevizo, MD
- Jeffrey Greenberg, MD, MS
- Lauren Grossman, MD
- Amit Gupta, MD, FRCS
- Sonu Jain, MD
- Paige Kurtz, MS, OTR/L, CHT
- Jeffrey Lawton, MD
- Kevin Malone, MD
- Nicholas Pulos, MD
- Peter Rhee, DO, MS (Ortho)
- Marco Rizzo, MD
- Gary Solomon, OTR/L, MBA
- Alexandra St. Clair, OTR/L
- Chia Wu, MD, MBA