CSES 2025 Preliminary Agenda

CSES Meeting Agenda

August 22-23, 2025

Asheville, NC

Rotator Cuff Session

Friday, Aug. 22, 1:00 - 6:00pm

1:00pm - Welcome/Introductions/ Announcements: Jones

1:05 - 2:00pm: Rotator Cuff Session 1: Moderator (Eichinger)

  • Non Operative Treatment of Rotator Cuff Tears 2025: When and How (Boykin)

  • Biologics in Rotator Cuff Repair, Where are we in 2025 (Jones)

  • Partial Thickness Rotator Cuff Tears: PASTA, Complete and Repair, Patch (Spencer)

  • Is the Subacromial Decompression Becoming Obsolete? (Hamid)

  • Panel Discussion

2:00pm - 3:00pm: Rotator Cuff Session 2: Full Thickness Rotator Cuff Tears: How and Why I Do It: (Repair Techniques, Tips and Pearls): Moderator (Pill)

  • Case 1 : Small Tears: My Technique, How to Optimize Healing (Eichinger)

  • Case 2 : Medium/Large Tears (No Tissue Loss): My Technique. (Pat Connor)

  • Case 3: Medium/ Large Tears/ Revision Repair (Tissue Loss/ Immobile to Entire Footprint): My Technique, Mobilization Techniques, Graft?, Rip Stops. (Jones)

  • Maximizing the Biceps. (Biceps Centralization, Anterior Cable Reconstruction, Biceps SCR, or just Tenodesis in the Massive Cuff Tear) (Brad Bushnell)

  • Panel Discussion

3:05pm- Exhibitor Break

3:30 - 4:30pm - Rotator Cuff Session 3: Irreparable Tears: (How and Why I Do It: Techniques, Tips and Pearls): Moderator: Hamid

  • Case 1: Lower Trapezius Tendon Transfer. (Bryan Loeffler)

  • Case 2: Superior Capsular Reconstruction (Allograft/Biceps). (Klifto)

  • Case 3: Latissimus Tendon Transfer (Subscapularis Insufficiency). (Pill)

  • Case 4: Bursal Acromial Reconstruction (BAR). (Parada)

  • Panel Discussion

4:30pm - 6:00pm: Rotator Cuff Session 4: Difficult Case Panel/ How Would You Treat This One?!Faculty and Audience Cases: Moderator: Anakwenze

Panel: Bauer, Pill, Schiffern, Wham

6:00pm - Adjourn for Drinks (Rooftop Bar Reception) and Dinner!

Honored Guest Speaker: Dr. Bill Mallon : The History of Shoulder Surgery in North and South Carolina

Arthroplasty Session

Saturday, Aug. 23, 7:30-12:30

7:00am - Breakfast

7:30am - Welcome/Announcements

7:35- 8:35am: Arthroplasty Session 1: Arthroplasty in the Young Patient: Moderator: Anakwenze

  • Humeral Implant Options: Stemless, Resurfacing, Short Stem Implants, Pyrocarbon. (Brandon Rogalski)

  • Glenoid Options: Ream and Run, Hybrid Metal/Poly, All Poly, Cement?, Vit E. (Boykin)

  • Debate: Hemiarthroplasty vs Total Shoulder Arthroplasty in the Young Patient

  • Hemiarthroplasty (Pill)

  • Total Shoulder Arthroplasty (Hamid)

  • Panel Discussion

8:35 - 9:35am: Arthroplasty Session 2: Technology in Shoulder Arthroplasty, Where are we in 2025? Moderator: Jones

  • Preoperative planning. Anatomic Glenoid Position: Where Should We Put It? (Version/Inclination/Depth/Backside Coverage). (Spencer)

  • Preoperative planning. Reverse Baseplate Position: Where Should We Put It? (Version/Inclination/Inferior Overhang/Depth/Backside coverage). (Bauer)

  • Case Presentations

    • Intraoperative Navigation. (Schiffern)

    • PSI. (Kersten)

    • Robotic. (Pill)

    • Panel Discussion

9:35 -10:00am - Arthroplasty Session 3: Technique, Pearls Session (5 min each)

  • Exposure tips, Favorite retractors. (Jones)

  • Removing a Well Fixed Humeral Stem. (Klifto)

  • Discussion 10min

10:00am - Exhibitor Break (25 min)

10:25 - 11:25am: Arthroplasty Session 4: Complications. Moderator: Boykin

  • Infected Arthroplasty: How I handle It. (Eichinger)

  • The Unstable Arthroplasty: How I Handle It (Constrained Liners, Suture Cerclage, Assessing Tension, etc). (Schiffern).

  • Acromial/Scapular Fractures in RTSA (Anakwenze)

  • Panel Discussion

11:25 - 12:25pm: Arthroplasty Session 5: Revision Arthroplasty: Moderator: Bushnell

  • Dealing with Humeral Bone Loss ( Long Stems, APC, HRP, HAT). (Klifto)

  • Dealing with Glenoid Bone Loss ( Augmented Implants, Bone grafting, Custom Implants). (Pat Connor)

11:04am - Discussion (10 min)

  • Disasterplasty Case Panel. (Panel: Anakwenze, Boykin, Eichinger, Hamid, Pill)

  • Panel Discussion

12:25 Closing Remarks: Jones

12:30 Adjourn

1:00pm: Social Event/Lunch: Greenman Brewing, Asheville!