Hand Therapy Essentials 2021
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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.
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Learning objectives
Upon completion of this course, 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 -
Who should attend
Community-based general, orthopedic, and plastic surgeons; hand therapists.
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Topics and times
Topic(s) Date Time Hand Therapy 101 4-29-2021 7:00-8:30 PM EST Flexor Tendon Injuries 5-6-2021 7:00-8:30 PM EST Extensor Tendon Injuries 5-13-2021 7:00-8:30 PM EST Nerve Compression and Nerve Injuries 5-20-2021 7:00-8:30 PM EST Wrist 5-27-2021 7:00-8:30 PM EST Elbow 6-3-2021 7:00-8:30 PM EST International Round Table 6-10-2021 7:00-8:30 PM EST
Course Chairs
Chaitanya Mudgal, MD, MS (Ortho), MCh
Harvard University
Rebecca Neiduski, PhD, OTR/L, CHT
Elon University
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