Schedule at a Glance

Thursday, April 18, 2024

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Amplifying the Patient's Voice: How We Can Make Research More Impactful - Organized by the Early Career Investigators*
*Pre-Congress Workshop registration is required
Cartilage Repair: Lesson from Regenerative Species*
*Pre-Congress Workshop registration is required
Delivering Best Evidenced Osteoarthritis Care Workshop for Clinicians*
*Pre-Congress Workshop registration is required

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Break

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OAC & OACO Journal Session
Organized by the OAC & OACO Journal

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Lunch on Own

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Plenary Session 1: When OA Meets Digital Health & Nutrition
-The Present and Future of DiGAs in Healthcare and Arthritis
-Innovative Drugs for Obesity Treatment: A Game Changer?

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Break

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Plenary Session 2: Highest Rated Abstracts by Early Career Investigators

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Break

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Opening Ceremony & Award Recognition

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Plenary Session 3: Keynote Address - From Technology to Psychology
-iPSC-Derived Injectable Spheroids and Cartilage Regeneration
-(Bio) Psychological Network Models of Chronic Joint Pain

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Opening Reception with Exhibitors
Friday, April 19, 2024

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Breakfast Workshop A: Managing Bone and Joint Diseases in Older Aged: Epidemiology and Lessons for the Clinic (OARSI-ESCEO Joint Symposium)*
*Additional ticketed fee required.
Breakfast Workshop B: Computer Vision for Motion Tracking in Osteoarthritis*
*Additional ticketed fee required.
Poster Tour 1: Latest Insights from Clinic and Imaging*
Guided by Margreet Kloppenburg

*Additional ticketed fee required.
Poster Tour 2: New Developments in OA Basic Science*
Guided by Tom Appleton

*Additional ticketed fee required.
Poster Tour 3: Novel Tools for Advancing Innovation in OA*
Guided by Barbara Chan

*Additional ticketed fee required.
Poster Tour 4: Advances in OA Therapy: Pharmacological and Non-Pharmacological*
Guided by Francis Berenbaum

*Additional ticketed fee required.

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Concurrent Session 1: Risk Factors, Prevention, and Early Disease
Defining Early-Stage Symptomatic Knee Osteoarthritis – an OARSI Initiative (EsSKOA ECIs)
Concurrent Session 2: Imaging
Interventional Radiology and Treatment of Osteoarthritis

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Break

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Theater Session: iPPS: Shifting the OA Treatment Paradigm
10:20 AM - 10:35 AM

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Plenary Session 4: Innovation in OA Research
Update on Joint-on-a-chip in OA

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Satellite Lunch Symposium - Osteoarthritis Therapies: Learning From Failures and Successes
Sponsored by Novartis

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Concurrent Session 3: Rehabilitation Medicine and Biomechanics
Healing ACL Ruptures without Surgery and Implications for Osteoarthritis
Clinical Trials Symposium
Concurrent Session 4: Joint Related Tissue
Joint Cartilage in Long-Duration Spaceflight

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Poster Session 1
3:30 PM – 4:15 PM Odd Numbers
4:15 PM – 5:00 PM Even Numbers

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Theater Session
Aptissen Academy: Navigating Parameters for Orthobiologics Treatment Efficacy

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Theater Session: Image Cytometry on Bone Sections and Osteoclast Cultures
Sponsored by TissueGnostics
4:10 PM - 4:25 PM

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Concurrent Session 5: Molecular Circuits Regulating Joint Destruction
Key Signaling Circuits Driving OA Progression
Concurrent Session 6: Pain: From Basic to Clinic
Nerve and OA Pain

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China Germany Night
Early Career Investigator Meet the Mentor Session
*Registration is required.

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Early Career Investigator Meet the Mentor Afterparty
Saturday, April 20, 2024

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Breakfast Workshop C: Practical Aspects of Imaging in Clinical Trials: From Radiography to MRI*
*Additional ticketed fee required.
Breakfast Workshop D: What Is the Relationship Between Pain and Emotions?
*Additional ticketed fee required.
Breakfast Workshop G: OARSI/ASBMR Joint Workshop*
*Additional ticketed fee required.

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Concurrent Session 7: Clinical Aspects and Outcomes in OA
Sarcopenic Obesity: Why Is It Important in OA?
Concurrent Session 8: Beyond Hip and Knee OA
Molecular Pathways in Intervertebral Disc Degeneration and Facet Joint OA

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Break

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Theater Session: New Insights in Viscosupplementation Effects on Cartilage Properties Improvement
Sponsored by TRB
10:20 AM - 10:35 AM

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Plenary Session 5: Bioengineering and Advanced Materials in OA
Strategies in Cell-Matrix Regeneration

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Early Career Investigator Luncheon Workshop
Perfecting Your Elevator Pitch

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Concurrent Session 09: News in Therapies
Rediscovering Botulinum Toxin in OA
Concurrent Session 10: Molecular Drivers of OA
Phagocyte-Induced Fibroblast Gene Activation: Novel Insights in Regenerative Medicine

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Poster Session 2
3:30 PM – 4:15 PM Odd Numbers
4:15 PM – 5:00 PM Even Numbers

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Plenary Session 6: Debate
Pro vs. Con: Intra-Articular Steroid Joint Injection in OA

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Late Breaking Oral Abstract Podium Session

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Offsite Dinner Event
Location: Luftburg Kolarik

*Additional registration fee and ticket are required to attend.
Sunday, April 21, 2024

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Breakfast Workshop E: Preventing Osteoarthritis After an Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury: An Osteoarthritis Action Alliance Consensus Statement*
*Additional ticketed fee required
Breakfast Workshop F: Exploring OA Biology Through the Synovial Fluid*
*Additional ticketed fee required

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Concurrent Session 11: Advanced Bioinformatic and Multiomic in OA Research
ApprOAching Endotypes in OA
Concurrent Session 12: Beyond the Joint: Systemic Context, Co-Morbidities and Other Organs
Going into the Brain to Decipher Joint Pain

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Break

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Plenary Session 7: Year in Review
-Biomarkers
-Genetics, Genomics, and Epigenetics
-Imaging
-Mechanics in OA
-OA Biology
-OA Clinical: Epidemiology and Therapy
-Rehabilitation & Outcomes