2008 Comparative Orthopaedics Day
Agenda
| 8:30 am | Welcome and Introductions | Dr. Jimi Cook |
| 8:45 | Keynote Address: The Big Picture: Translating Ideas into Treatment |
Mr. Dick Tarr |
| 10:10 | COL Biomechanics and BioEngineering | Dr. Bill Carson |
| 10:45 | BREAK | |
| 11:10 | Evaluation of a novel bone-tendon allograft for rotator cuff repair using a canine model | Dr. Prakash Jayabalan |
| 11:30 | Mechanotransduction approach by exercise and myostatin inhibition to improve bone quality in Osteogenesis Imperfecta | Dr. Charlotte Phillips |
| LUNCH (on your own) |
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| 2:10 | Equine laminitis: Current thoughts on pathogenesis and research directions | Dr. Phil Johnson |
| 2:30 | Effect of RGD-modification of synthetic scaffolds on synoviocyte seeding and matrix production for meniscal tissue engineering | Mark Tait |
| 2:50 | Meniscal release in ACL intact knees causes lameness and mdial compartment cartilage pathology | Dr. Jill Luther |
| 3:10 | BREAK |
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| 3:30 | Examination of synovial fluid hyaluronan as a potential biomarker for osteoarthritis | Rachel Venable |
| 3:50 | Response of cartilage and synovium in co-culture to various cytokine insults | Dr. Aaron Stoker |
| 4:10 | Biologic joint resurfacing | Dr. Jimi Cook |
| 4:30 | Closing comments | Dr. Jimi Cook |