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07:00 - 08:00	Breakfast & Industry Symposia (non-CME)
	Non-CME Breakfast Symposium: Closing the Toughest Gaps: TheraGenesis Over Tendon and Bone for Limb Salvage - LifeNet Health Brian Lepow, DPM Non-CME Breakfast Symposium: The Evolution and Future of Wound Care - CarePICS / Tissue Health Plus Chris Bromley, DPM, FACFAS & Julie Rhodovi, MBA, CWCA, LBBH
08:00 - 08:10	Welcome Address David G. Armstrong, DPM, MD, PhD; Joseph L. Mills Sr., MD, FACS; Michael S. Conte, MD

SESSION 1: On the Road Again: DFCon2024 Style

08:10 - 08:25	Pontifications of a Peripatetic Professor Andrew J.M. Boulton, MD, FRCP
08:25 - 08:35	What I did on my summer in the ALPS: The 2024 ALPS Limb Preservation Visiting Fellow Michael Siah, MD
08:35 - 08:40	ALPS Fellowship 2024 David G. Armstrong, PhD, DPM, MD
08:40 - 08:55	Leaning on an Ivory Tower and Making it Bend Your Way: Lessons from an academic limb preservation program in Pisa Alberto Piaggesi, MD
08:55 - 09:10	V is for Victory (over amputation): How Vijay Viswanathan's Diabetes Hospital has Transformed Care in Chennai Vijay Viswanathan, MD
09:10 - 09:25	Aussie Ambition: Can Success in the Sunshine Coast Be a Model, Worldwide? Viviane Moult, MD
09:25 - 09:40	Sing a Song of Singapore: Working Toward Multidsciplinary Harmony Across a Health System Joseph Lo, MD & Chelsea Law, DPM
09:40 - 09:55	O Sole Mio: Limb Preservation A La Romana Marco Meloni, MD, PhD
09:55 - 10:10	What about Bob? Robert Frykberg bares his sole on the history and future of team care in limb preservation Robert Frykberg, DPM, MPH
10:10 - 10:25	Panel Discussion
10:25 - 11:15	Exhibit Break
10:35 - 10:50 10:55 - 11:10	Non-CME Spotlight Theater: Remote Temperature Monitoring - Podimetrics Jon Bloom, MD Non-CME Spotlight Theater: Real World Utilization and Efficacy of InnovaMatrix (R) AC - Convatec Cristin Taylor

SESSION 2: Top Down: from CEOs to HMOs to Politicos to Saving Toes

11:15 - 11:30	The Big Picture: A Goal to Cut Impact of DFUs, Worldwide Pete Lazzarini One Foot or 2%? Pete Lazzarini, DPM, PhD
11:30 - 11:45	The Amputation Prevention Alliance and the NIDDK Diabetic Foot Consortium: A Key to Succes for Limb Preservation in People with Diabetes Rodica Pop-Busui, MD, PhD
11:45 - 12:00	Missionary to Mercenary: Marrying Mision Driven Care with Industry Fertram Sigurjonsson
12:00 - 12:15	Dr. Fakorede goes to Washington Foluso Fakorede, MD
12:15 - 12:30	Panel Discussion
12:30 - 13:30	Exhibit Break: Lunch & Industry Symposia (non-CME) & Posters
	Non-CME Lunch Symposium: Revolutionizing Limb Care: The Impact of LimFlow TADV - LimFlow Shon Chakrabarti, MD, MPH; Miguel Montero-Baker, MD; David G. Armstrong, DPM, MD, PhD; Brian Lepow, DPM; Michael Siah, MD

SESSION 3: Bottom Up: Implementing things hyperlocally toe + flowcally

13:30 - 13:45	Funding Footwork From the Front Office: Pitching Limb Preservation to the Powers That Be Caitlyn Hicks, MD, MS
13:45 - 14:00	Oh What a beautiful program! Making limb preservation OK for Indigenous Nations in Oklahoma's IHS. Kelly Kempe, MD
14:00 - 14:25	My Limb Preservation Playbook: Lessons from a Kansas City Chief Matthew Bunte, MD
14:15 - 14:30	Feet on the Street: Implementing Foot Care without a Clinic to people without a house Tammy Nguyen, MD
14:30 - 14:45	SAVE the day: How to build a free-standing interdisciplinary model in the heart of the redlined neighborhoods Lyssa Ochoa, MD
14:45 - 15:00	Panel Discussion
15:00 - 15:50	Exhibit Break & Posters

SESSION 4: Flow, Flow, Flow Again

15:50 – 16:05	Can you have a limb preservation program without a vascular surgeon? Matthew Bunte, MD, MS, FSVM FSCAI FACC & Michael S. Conte, MD
16:05 – 16:20	Pedal Paradox, chapter 1: Overuse of vascular intervention in the USA Caitlyn Hicks, MD, MS
16:20 – 16:35	Pedal Paradox: chapter 2: Too Many Interventions and Too Little Care Joseph L. Mills Sr., MD, FACS
16:35 – 16:55	What's cooking now with BEST and BASIL Andrew Bradbury, MD & Matt Menard, MD
16:55 – 17:10	The soft sell on peripheral mononuclear cell therapy Marco Meloni, MD, PhD
17:10 – 17:25	The current state of play of DVA-- tomorrow's procedure today? Steven Kum, MD
17:25 – 17:40	Singing a different tune? Differences in revascularization patterns between the USA and Singapore Chong Tze Tec, MD
17:40 – 18:00	Panel Discussion

07:00 - 08:00	Breakfast & Industry Symposia (non-CME)
	Non-CME Breakfast Symposium: Nanotechnology in Diabetic Ulcer Cure: Tiny Tech, Big Heal - Encoll Corp David G. Armstrong, DPM, PhD, MD & Subramanian Gunasekaran, PhD Non-CME Breakfast Symposium: The Latest Development in reducing Diabetes Related Amputations and Hospitalizations for patients with nonhealing DFUs - AOTI Michael S. Griffiths, DProf., DMS, CRT & Matthew G. Garoufalis, DPM, FASPS, DABPM
08:00 - 08:10	Welcome Back TBD

SESSION 5: Toepocalypse Now! Award-winning video vittles

08:10 – 08:25	VIDEO - The 4 Minute TMA Lee Rogers, DPM
08:25 – 08:40	VIDEO - CLTI Foot Management Miguel Montero-Baker, MD & Brian D. Lepow, DPM
08:40 – 08:55	VIDEO - MusculoTendon Balancing in the Diabetic Foot Laura Shin, DPM
08:55 – 09:10	VIDEO - How I reconstruct a Charcot Foot Stephanie Wu, DPM, PhD
09:10 – 09:25	VIDEO - How I debride a Wound Alberto Piaggesi, MD
09:25 – 09:40	Panel Discussion
09:40 – 10:25	Exhibit Break
09:45 - 10:00 10:05 - 10:20	Non-CME Spotlight Theater: Autologous Platelet-Rich Plasma Gel: New Biologic Solutions for Wound Care - RegenLab USA, LLC Michael R. Tucker, MD Non-CME Spotlight Theater: Withings

SESSION 6: Making Guidelines work for you (or: From Research to Reality)

10:25 - 10:40	Guidelines implementation and implementing results and ramifications of latest RCTs (eg. BEST CLI and BASIL) from preaching to practice Joseph L. Mills, MD, FACS
10:40 - 10:55	ERAS Guidelines in Limb Preservation / CLTI Katharine McGinigle, MD, MPH
10:55 - 11:10	What can implementation science do for me? Samantha Minc, MD, MPH
11:10 - 11:25	Neuropathy Guidelines: What you can feel and what you can't feel can hurt you Lee C. Rogers, DPM
11:25 - 11:40	Offloading guidelines: Let's try to do what we say we're already doing Pete Lazzarini, DPM
11:40 - 11:55	WTF with the WHS (wound healing society guidelines for the uninitiated) Lawrence Lavery, DPM
11:55 - 12:10	Panel discussion
12:10 - 13:10	Exhibit Break: Lunch & Industry Symposia (non-CME) & Posters
	Non-CME Lunch Symposium: Insights from the largest RCT on DFUs with exposed deep structures and its impact on limb salvage - Kerecis John Lantis, MD; Lee C. Rogers, DPM; Alberto Piaggesi, MD

SESSION 7: In the Know with Toe and Flow

13:10 - 13:25	Institutional Toe & Flow Programs / How/Why the Teams Work Alexander Reyzelman, DPM & Michael S. Conte, MD
13:25 - 13:40	On the go with Toe & Flow: Private Clinic Design and Flow from two Toe and Flowmigos Brian D. Lepow, DPM & Miguel Montero-Baker, MD
13:40 - 13:55	The Atomic Minimum: Components Necessary for a Toe & Flow Unit Joseph L. Mills, MD, FACS & David G. Armstrong, DPM, MD, PhD
13:55 - 14:10	Panel Discussion

SESSION 8: Digital Discovery: Next-Gen Technology, Today

14:10 - 14:25	Emerging Frontiers in Health Tech: Prof. Gerard Cote's Insights on Transformative Point-of-Care Innovations for Underserved Areas Gerard Cote, PhD, MS
14:25 - 14:40	Thermal Innovations in Healing: Philipp Gutruf's Deep Dive into Next-Generation Thermography and Thermal Conductivity for Wound Care Philipp Gutruf, PhD
14:40 - 14:55	Navigating the Digital Health Landscape: Kouhyar Tavakolian's Guide to FDA Regulatory Pathways for Medical Innovations Kouhyar Tavakolian, PhD
14:55 - 15:10	What I did on my Fulbright in India (or Retracing the steps of Paul Brand) Kayla Huemer, MS
15:10 - 15:25	Bijan Najafi's Vision: Integrating Remote Patient Monitoring and Interoperability for Advanced Wound Care Options Bijan Najafi, PhD
15:25 - 15:40	Panel Discussion
15:40 - 16:25	Exhibit Break & Posters

SESSION 9: Voice of the Patient

16:25 - 16:55	Health Equity Roundtable: Voice of the Patient Frank Navarrette & Robert Issai
16:55 - 17:20	Olmos Award Presentation Edward James Olmos & David G. Armstrong, DPM, MD, PhD

07:00 - 08:00	Breakfast & Industry Symposia (non-CME)
	Non-CME Breakfast Symposium: Advancing Wound Care: Innovations in Clinical Practice and Service Delivery - Tides Medical Grishma Patel, M.S., MBA & Adam L. Isaac, DPM, FACFAS Non-CME Breakfast Symposium: The Amputation Alternative. Footwear As A Service (FAAS). A Remote Patient Monitoring Artificial Intelligence Platform - Anderson, Sensoria Health, AlexiGen David G. Armstrong, DPM, MD, PhD; Davide Vigano, MBA; Steve Zar, ME
08:00 - 08:10	Welcome Back TBD

SESSION 10: All the stuff that we think doesn’t matter (…but kinda sorta does)

08:10 – 08:25	Psyching out the Sole: Should we include Depression in WIFI Scores? Brandon Brooks, PhD
08:25 – 08:40	Food for the Sole Laura Swoboda, DNP
08:40 – 08:55	Flow when there is no toe Tay Hsien Ts'ung, MBBS, MSc, MRCS, FRCS
08:55 – 09:10	Toe, Flow...and GO! The role of Physical Therapy (is good for the sole) Stephanie Woelfel, DPT
09:10 – 09:25	O Sole Mio! My secrets to maximizing hospital-free and ulcer-free days Marco Meloni, MD, PhD
09:25 – 09:40	Pragmatic steps to painful wounds (and sole salvation) Lee Rogers, DPM
09:40 – 09:55	Panel Discussion
09:55 - 10:40	Exhibit Break
10:00 - 10:15 10:20 - 10:35	Non-CME Spotlight Theater: Kerecis Non-CME Spotlight Theater: Causes of Diabetic Ulcer: Biology Behind the Battle - Encoll Corp Subramanian Gunasekaran, PhD

SESSION 11: The Bleeding Edge in Medicine and Surgery

10:40 - 10:55	The Ecstasy of Defeet: Will Next-Generation Diabetes Drugs Defeat the Diabetic Foot Epidemic? Rodica Pop-Busui, MD, PhD
10:55 - 11:10	Diabetic Foot Consortium: Update 2024 Brian Schmidt, DPM
11:10 - 11:25	Spinal Cord Stimulation and Bioelectrics for Neuropathy: Evidence Update 2024 Erika A. Peterson, MD
11:25 - 11:40	A Bone to PICC?- Osteomyelitis Management Lawrence Lavery, DPM
11:40 - 11:55	Panel Discussion
11:55 - 12:55	Lunch & Industry Symposia (non-CME) & Posters
	Non-CME Lunch Symposium: Evolving Solutions: Transformative Trends in Negative Pressure Wound Therapy - Solventum Ralph J. Napolitano, Jr., DPM, CWSP, FACFAS

SESSION 12: Get out and stay out (until DFCon2025)

12:55 - 13:10	Defining Centers of Excellence Ahmend Kayssi, MD, MSc, MPH
13:10 - 13:25	Poster Awards Bijan Najafi, PhD
13:25 - 13:40	Summary Judgement Andrew Boulton, MD, FRCP
13:40 - 13:45	The Big Raffle Prize (before we kick you to the curb) David G. Armstrong, DPM, MD, PhD & Joseph L. Mills Sr., MD, FACS