Agenda - ALPS

Join us Oct 22 for the Pre-con to DFCon

Wound Care for the Lower Extremity – What´s between the toe and the flow?

A full day workshop organized in Collaboration with AAWC & ACEWM with hands-on excercises to the newest updates in Wound Care & Physical Therapy!

More about our Pre-Con to DFCon

The program for DFCon 2025 is available NOW!

7:00 - 8:00	Registration Open
7:00 - 8:00	Sponsored Breakfast Symposium (non-CME)
7:00 - 8:00	Sponsored Breakfast Symposium (non-CME)
8:00 - 8:10	Welcome Address David G. Armstrong (DPM, MD, PhD), Joseph L. Mills Sr. (MD, FACS), Michael S. Conte (MD)

SESSION 1: Around the world again – 25 years of DFCon

8:10 - 8:25	An Overnight Success in 25 Years: A Quarter Century of DFCon Andrew J.M. Boulton (MD, FRCP) and George Andros (MD)
8:25 - 8:40	Toe and Flow: An Origin Story Joseph L. Mills Sr. (SVS) & David Alper (APMA)
8:40 - 8:55	No One is an Island: How Malta Went from Worst to First in Limb Preservation in a Generation by Teaming up to Hold off the Siege of Diabetes Kevin Cassar (MD)
8:55 - 9:00	What I did on my summer in the ALPS (and Oxford) Meghan Brennan (MD, MS)
09:10 - 9:15	Introduction of Traveling Fellow
9:15 - 9:30	A Specialty is Born: The Emergence of Limb Preservation Jose Luis Lazaro-Martinez (DPM)
9:30 - 9:45	Panel Discussion
9:45 - 10:05	25 Years of DFCon Celebration
10:05 - 10:50	AM Break: Exhibit
10:10 - 10:45	NonCME Spotlight Theater

SESSION 2: Flow Bless Oblige: Vascular Visonaries Pay it Forward

10:50 - 11:05	What's knew below the knee? Samantha Minc (MD, MPH)
11:05 - 11:20	Farber knows BEST: How one study is paying forward again and again Alik Farber (MD)
11:20 - 11:35	VA for Victory: Limb Preservation Leadership over a Generation at the Department of Veterans Affairs Neal Barshes (MD, MPH)
11:35 - 11:50	Pedal Circulatory Environmentalism: Woundosome Directed Revascularization Nobuyoshi Azuma (MD)
11:50 - 12:05	Panel Discussion
12:05 - 1:20	Lunch Break and Exhibit
12:15 - 1:15	Sponsor Lunch 1

SESSION 3: Podiatric Surgery: A Digital ManifesTOE for the Pedicurious

1:20 - 1:35	25 years of podiatric surgery Robert Frykberg (DPM, MPH)
1:35 - 1:50	Digital Remastery: The present and future look at reconstruction Jake Wynes (DPM)
1:50 - 2:05	Charcot: An Enigma Wrapped in Edema Wrapped in An ExFix Katherine Raspovic (DPM)
2:05 - 2:20	Super simple procedures that you can teach your flowmigos so they don't have FOMO Stephanie Wu (DPM, MSc)
2:25 - 2:35	Panel Discussion
2:35 - 3:05	PM Break: Exhibit & Posters
2:45 - 3:00	NonCME Spotlight Theater

SESSION 4: Infectious Grooves (and singing from the same songsheet)

3:00 – 3:15	Drugs for Bugs: What's New? Meghan Brennan (MD, MS)
3:15 – 3:30	Just say NO: Can Nitric Oxide be helpful in Managing Chronic Inhibitor Bacterial Load? Chris Manu (MD)
3:30 –3:45	Boning up on Osteomyelitis Jose Luis Lazaro-Martinez (DPM)
3:45 – 4:00	Speaking in Tongues: A generation of classificaton from Wagner to WIFI and beyond David G. Armstrong (DPM, MD, PhD)
4:00 – 4:15	Panel Discussion
4:15	Adjourn Day 1
6:30-8:30	DFCon 25th Anniversary Reception (all attendees and exhibitors invited)

7:00	Registration Open
7:00 - 8:00	Sponsored Breakfast Symposium (non-CME)
7:00 - 8:00	Sponsored Breakfast Symposium (non-CME)
8:00 - 8:10	Welcome Back JD Shih (DPM) & Stephanie Woelfel (DPT)

SESSION 5: Fighting Plantar Fascism with Digital Democracy: Wound Healing Regime Change Starts Now

8:10 – 8:25	Don't Be such a TEWL: Wait Maybe You Should - The role of Transepidermal Water Loss in Predicting Recurrence in DFU Remission Chandan Sen (MS, PhD)
8:25 – 8:40	Are We Really as Good as We Think We Are - The Role of Quality Measures and Registries to Transform Care Caroline Fife (MD)
8:40 – 8:55	Nurses: There is an APP for that! the role of advanced practitioners in limb preservation teams Kara Couch (MS, CRNP)
8:55 – 9:10	What Makes a Happy CAMPer? The History and Future of Cell And Matrix Products William Tettelbach (MD, FACP)
9:10 – 9:25	Panel Discussion
9:25 – 10.10	AM Break: Exhibit
9:30 – 10.05	NonCME Spotlight Theater

SESSION 6: The Best Surgery is the One We Never Did: Medical Therapy FTW

10:10 - 10:25	It's in the genes Richard Powell (MD)
10:25 - 10:40	Don't worry, be happy now: The vital role of Behavioral Health in healing Gary Rothenberg (DPM)
10:40 - 10:55	Taking it in STRIDE- GLP1RAs and PAD Tze Woei Tan (MD)
10.55 - 11:10	All Bleeding Stops Eventually: With a Little Help Jeffrey Ross (DPM, MD), Joseph L. Mills Sr. (MD, FACS)
11:10 - 11:25	Apheresis for the Foot? Reimagining Rescue Therapy in the Dyslipidemic Limb Kazu Suzuki (DPM)
11:25 - 11:40	Panel discussion
11:40 - 12:55	Lunch & Exhibit & Posters
11:45 - 12:55	Sponsor Lunch 1

SESSION 7: Tech, Tips, Toes: Technology+Tenacity is Terrific

12:55 - 1:10	The Diabetic Foot Grand Challenge: The history and future of the AI-based Foot Selfie Jonny Hancox (MD)
1:10 - 1:25	Future Flowcasting: What's next in vascular sensor and interventional technology? Miguel Montero-Baker (MD)
1:25 - 1:40	We can Call it Arch Support: How a Chatbot is Improving Patient Adherence in the NIH Smartboot Study (and Beyond) Jay Agarwal (MD)
1:40 - 1:55	Regifting the Gift of Pain: The role of sensory substution is here Greta Preatoni (PhD)
1:55 - 2:10	Panel Discussion
2:10 - 2:40	PM Break: Exhibit
2:15 - 2:35	NonCME Spotlight Theater

SESSION 8: Voice of the High Risk Patient…and Their High-Risk Caregivers

2:40 - 2:55	Caregiver engagement in DF care: DF Consortium Wagahta Semere (MD, MHS)
2:55 - 3:10	Toe+Flow Work+Life: work life balance for limb preservation surgeons Laura Shin (DPM, PhD)
3:10 - 3:40	Healthy Roundtable: Voice of the Patient Patients
3:40 - 3:55	Olmos Award Presentation
3:55	Adjourn Day 2
7:30 - 9:00	DFCon - Taste of Iceland Reception (faculty & registrants)

7:00	Registration Open
7:00 - 8:00	Sponsored Breakfast Symposium (non-CME)
7:00 - 8:00	Sponsored Breakfast Symposium (non-CME)
8:00 - 8:10	Welcome Back Katharine McGinigle MD, MPH & David G. Armstrong MD, PhD, DPM

SESSION 9: Expanding Options for No Option Patients

8:10 - 8:25	Wound hospice- sometimes the best thing is the thing we never did Katharine McGinigle (MD, MPH)
8:25 - 8:40	Is DVA AOK? Michael Siah (MD)
8:40 - 8:55	The Latest in next-gen prostheses Amanda Mayo (MD)
8:55 - 9:10	TTT, RIP, PAD... WTF? Lee C. Rogers (DPM)
9:10 - 9:25	Panel Discussion
9:25 - 10:10	AM Break: Exhibit
9:30 - 10:05	NonCME Spotlight Theater

SESSION 10: Your Homework Assignment: Expanding Care Beyond the Hospital

10:10 – 10:25	An Honorable Discharge: Caretransitions and Functional Recovery Janet Bettger (ScD, FAHA)
10:25 – 10:40	Taking It to the Street: How Can We Provide Home Care when there Is No Home to Return To? Camilo Zaks (MD)
10:40 – 10:55	The unstable patient (and their unstable doctor): Practical strategies to reduce falls Stephanie Woelfel (DPT)
10:55 – 11:10	Panel Discussion
11:25 – 12:40	Lunch
11:30 – 12:30	Sponsor Lunch 1

SESSION 11: Bringing it Home and Kicking You Out (until DFCon26)

12:40 - 12:55	In the Know With Toe and Flow (and good to go?): Message about the future of interdisciplinary surgical teams Matthew Menard (MD)
12:55 - 1:25	Poster talks: The Coolest Stuff to Take Home and Impress Your New BFFFs (best foot friends forever) Laura Shin (DPM, PhD)
1:25 - 1:40	You Go, Kings: The Next 40 Years of Limb Preservaton Programs (from the clinic that started it all @ Kings) Michael Edmonds, MD (Virtual)
1:40 - 2:00	The Big Raffle Prize (and closing remarks); Social Media Award David G. Armstrong (DPM, MD, PhD), Michael S. Conte (MD), George Andros (MD)
2:00	Adjourn