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Meet the Professor
Fracture healing
Thursday 11 May 2006
13.00-14.00
Topics to be covered
- Update on the current understanding of basic molecular mechanisms
of skeletal repair.
- The role of circulating osteoblast-like cells in
skeletal repair based on new evidence of their prevalence in peripheral
blood.
- Review of new and emerging technologies to enhance fracture
healing such as implantable and injectable substances which include
BMPs,
PTH, PDGF, thrombin peptides, prostaglandin E2 receptor agonists,
bone marrow
cells and others.
Educational goals
- To summarize current knowledge on the basic mechanisms of skeletal
repair.
- To provide a forum for vetting various types of evidence to
support the different materials currently used to enhance fracture
healing.
- To provide an update on emerging technologies for the enhancement
of fracture healing.
Teaching methods
- A brief didactic overview of the basic biology of fracture healing
and methods to enhance repair.
- resentation of case scenarios in
which the audience will be involved in identifying potential technologies
for treatment.
- Interactive discussion of the levels of evidence
for specific modalities used in the enhancement of fracture healing.
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