Program

7:30 AM

BREAKFAST

TIME

SPEAKER

PRESENTATION TITLE

AFFILIATION

8:00 AM

Jeff Nyman, PhD

Welcome Remarks

Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, VUMC

Session I – Clinical Science (Chair: Kristin Archer, PhD)

8:20 AM

Stephen Bruehl, PhD

Mechanisms and Predictors of Pain Outcomes Following Total Knee Arthroplasty

Professor of Anesthesiology, VUMC

9:00 AM

Daniel Larach, MD

Providing Surgeons with Feedback on their Patients’ Postoperative Home Opioid Consumption to Limit Postsurgical Opioid Prescribing and Reduce Unused Pills

Associate Professor of Anesthesiology, VUMC

9:20 AM

Lori Schirle, PhD

Nociplastic Pain in Musculoskeletal Populations

Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, VUMC

9:40 AM

BREAK

Session II – Basic Science (Chair: Julie Rhoades, PhD)

10:00 AM

Jonathan Brunger, PhD

Engineered cellular therapeutics for musculoskeletal regenerative medicine

Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering, VU

10:20 AM

Sun Peck, PhD

Insights into skin-bone crosstalk in the KC-Tie2 mouse model of psoriasis

Assistant Professor of Medicine – Division of Clinical Pharmacology, VUMC

10:40 AM

Deanna Edwards, PhD

Targeting glutamine metabolism in bone metastatic breast cancer

Research Assistant Professor of Medicine - Division of Rheumatology and Immunology, VUMC

11:00 AM

Beth Rendina-Ruedy, PhD

Developing a Novel Mouse Model to Target the Periosteum

Assistant Professor of Medicine – Division of Clinical Pharmacology, VUMC

11:20 AM

LUNCH

Poster Session 1 (Odd numbers*)

Session III – Trainee Talks (Chair: Rachelle Johnson, PhD)

12:45 PM

Kate Hajdu

Sex Differences in Estrogen Signaling and Skeletal Development: Implications for Pathologic Joint Development in Women

1:00 PM

Patricia Poley

Sustained Release of siRNA from Antioxidant Polymer Microparticles for the Treatment of Osteoarthritis

1:15 PM

Déja Grant

Osteostatin (PTHrP 107-111) Increases ER+ Breast Cancer in Bone

1:30 PM

Duby Okonkwo

Hustled by Osteoblasts: Unveiling Key Contributors in Iliac Crest Grafts

1:45 PM

Jeremy Kane

Abaloparatide Maintains Bone Anabolic effect without Affecting Breast cancer bone metastases in vivo

2:00 PM

Vijaya Bharti Lnu, PhD

B Cell in Psoriatic Arthritis: an Emerging Pathogenic Player

2:15 PM

BREAK

Session IV – Translational Science (Chair: Jon Schoenecker, MD, PhD)

2:30 PM

Katherine D. Van Schaik, MD PhD,

Unveiling the Past to Inform the Future: Aging, Osteoporosis, and Skeletal Epigenetics in Femoral Samples from Historical and Modern Postmortem Cohorts

Assistant Professor of Musculoskeletal Radiology, VUMC

Assistant Professor of Classical and Mediterranean Studies, VU

2:50 PM

Stephanie Moore-Lotridge, PhD

 Medical Students as Valuable Contributors to Your Translational Research Lab

Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, VUMC

Integrated Science Courses Faculty Lead, VU School of Medicine

3:10 PM

Ryan Martin, MD

 Aseptic Tibial Loosening: Diagnosis and Prevention

Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, VUMC

3:30 PM

Robert Mauck, PhD

Putting Mechanics and Mechanobiology to Work for Musculoskeletal Regeneration

Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Pennsylvania

4:30 PM

Jeff Nyman, PhD

Closing Remarks

Department of Orthopaedic Surgery

5:00 PM

RECEPTION

Poster Session 2 (Even numbers*)

6:15 PM

Announce Award Winners

Most Popular Oral Presentation, Best Oral Presentation, and Top 2 Poster Presentations