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Pre Congress.

Navigated Spinal Fusion workshop (Live surgery and lectures)

Date – Saturday 5th November

Venue – Lanka Hospital 8am onward

Registration link –  https://forms.gle/WgKacYtoBDTMa3C3A

Foot and Ankle workshop (Live surgery and lectures)

Date – Wednesday 9th November

Venue – OTO NHSL 8am onward

Registration link – https://forms.gle/b9JoGCZKZ5eH4rcr7

10th November 2022

Inauguration.

  • 5.45pm – Guest take their seats
  • 6.00pm – Arrival of the Chief Guest and Guest of Honour
  • 6.15pm – National Anthem and lighting of the oil lamp
  • 6.30pm – Presidential Address (Dr Dilshan Munidasa)
  • 6.45pm – Address By the Chief Guest (Prof Saroj Jayasinghe. MBBS, MD(Col), MD(Bristol), MRCP(UK), FRCP(Lond), PhD(Colombo), FCCP, FNASSL
  • 7.15pm – Felicitation of the Past President
  • 7.20pm – Award of Medals and Prizes
  • 7.30pm – SLOA Oration (Dr Gurpal Singh FRCSEd(Orth) – Evolution of musculoskeletal oncology
  • 8.15pm – Vote of Thanks (Dr Shivantha Fernandopulle)
  • 8.30pm – Reception
Friday 11th November

Day 01.

Time Sessions
7.30 - 8.30
Free papers
SLOA/SLSSH
8.30 - 9.30
Paediatric symposium
Elastic Stable Intramedullary Nailing : When? Which? Why?
Challenges in Paediatric Physeal injuries - when and what to do ?
"Innovative technologies in paediatric Orthopaedics"
Symposium 1
Dimuthu Tennakoon
Akalanka Jayasinghe
Anuradha Rajapaksha
9.30 - 10.00
Management of pathological fractures
Plenary 1
Gurpal Singh
10.00 - 10.30
Rapid recovery and pain management in TKR
Plenary 2
Sam Rajaratnam
10.30 - 11.00
Tea
11.00 - 11.30
Cavo Varus foot
Plenary 3
Metta Pallipane
11.30 - 12.00
Bone Defect management in TKR
Plenary 4
Sunanda Udagedara
12.00 - 12.30
Shouldering the burden of "Frozen shoulder "- an update
Plenary 5
Suneth Chandrarathne
12.30 - 1.00
Achilles tendon tears- surgical v conservative treatment
Plenary 6
Anthony Perera
1.00 - 2.00
Lunch
2.00 - 3.15
Adult Trauma Symposium
Distal radius fractures - handling difficulties
Soft tissue cover in lower limb - Experience in the periphery
Tibial plateau fracture
Neck of femur fracture
K Kandeepan
Ranga Kodithuwakku
R Vimalarajan
S Sutharsan
3.15 - 3.45
Scoliosis Surgery - What could go wrong
Plenary 7
Nirmal Marasinghe
3.45 - 4.15
The polytrauma patient: Current concepts and evolving care
Plenary 8
T Gobyshanger
4.15 - 4.45
ROSA robotics in knee replacement surgery
Plenary 9
Sam Rajaratnam
Saturday 12th November

SLSSH Sessions.

Time Sessions
8.00 - 8.30
Ligament injuries and distal radius fractures
Plenary 10
Melanie Amarasooriya
8.30 - 9.00
Paediatric Thumb
Plenary 11
Pragaash Shanmuganathan
9.00 - 9.30
Ulnar claw hand
Plenary 12
Dammika Dissanayake
9.30 - 10.00
Late reconstruction of flexor tendon injuries
Plenary 13
Thushan Beneragama
10.00 - 10.30
Tea
10.30 - 11.00
The Wrist-What to do when things go wrong? Salvage options
Plenary 14
Melanie Amarasooriya
11.00 - 12.30
Hand trauma Symposium
A case based discussion
Symposium 3
Pravin Wijesinghe
Kolitha Karunadasa
Saman Renuka
Melanie Amarasooriya
Gayan Ekanayake
12.30 - 1.30
Sports Injury Symposium
Why I stopped doing Blankart
Stress fractures in foot and ankle; management and prevention.
Chondral defects in Athletes' knee
Symposium 4
Jean Kany
Pradeep Amarasinghe
Indika Weerasinghe
1.30 - 2.00
Lunch
2.00
SLOA AGM