Agenda
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!
The program for DFCon 2025 is available NOW!
| 7:00 - 8:00 | Registration Open |
| 7:00 - 8:00 | Sponsored Breakfast Symposium (non-CME) Organogenesis | Driving Limb Preservation Forward: Combining Real-World Strategies with Clinical and Economic Evidence-Based Use of Cellular and Tissue-Based Products John Torregrosa (DPM, FACFAS, FACFAOM) and Shawn Frederick (MS, BCMAS) |
| 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 |
| 10:30 - 10:45 | NonCME Spotlight Theater Kerecis | Navigating Patient Access: Spotlight on Fish Skin Grafts Ryan Mathis (MD) |
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 againAlik 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 RevascularizationNobuyoshi Azuma (MD) |
| 11:50 - 12:05 | Panel Discussion |
| 12:05 - 1:20 | Lunch Break and Exhibit |
| 12:15 - 1:15 | Sponsor Lunch EnColl | Redefining Evidence: Why Helicoll Outperforms Amniotic MembranesMurugan Gunasekaran (PhD) and Subramanian Gunasekaran (PhD) |
SESSION 3: Podiatric Surgery: A Digital ManifesTOE for the Pedicurious
| 1:20 - 1:35 | 25 years of podiatric surgeryRobert Frykberg (DPM, MPH) |
| 1:35 - 1:50 | Digital Remastery: The present and future look at reconstructionJake 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 FOMOStephanie Wu (DPM, MSc) |
| 2:25 - 2:35 | Panel Discussion |
| 2:35 - 3:05 | PM Break: Exhibit & Posters |
| 2:45 - 3:00 | NonCME Spotlight Theater Solventum | VAC Peel and Place: An Overview Deepak Kilpadi (PhD, MBA) |
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 OsteomyelitisJose Luis Lazaro-Martinez (DPM) |
| 3:45 – 4:00 | Speaking in Tongues: A generation of classificaton from Wagner to WIFI and beyondDavid 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) Inari Medical | Redefining Possibilities in Limb Salvage Adam Gwozdz (MD, PhD), Brian Lepow (DPM), Laura Shin (DPM, PhD), Miguel Manzur (MD), Miguel Montero-Baker (MD) |
| 7:00 - 8:00 | Sponsored Breakfast Symposium (non-CME) Compedica | DFU Healing without Compromise: Continuous Protection & Perfusion Adam L. Isaac (DPM) and Daniel Blackman (MRCpod) |
| 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 RemissionChandan 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 CareCaroline 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 |
| 9:50 – 10.05 | NonCME Spotlight Theater EnColl | Addressing Misconceptions in Wound Care SOC Murugan Gunasekaran (PhD) and Subramanian Gunasekaran (PhD) |
SESSION 6: The Best Surgery is the One We Never Did: Medical Therapy FTW
| 10:10 - 10:25 | It's in the genesRichard Powell (MD) |
| 10:25 - 10:40 | Don't worry, be happy now: The vital role of Behavioral Health in healingGary 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 HelpJeffrey 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 - 12:45 | Sponsor Lunch Kerecis | The Role of Fish Skin Grafts in Limb Preservation: From Operating Room to Outpatient Brian D. Lepow (DPM, DABPM) and Richard Bruno (DPM, FACFAS) |
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 - 2:30 | NonCME Spotlight Theater Sanuwave | Managing Challenging Lower Extremity Wounds with UltraMist Shishir Shah (DO) |
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) Cellution Biologics | A Randomized Prospective Multicenter Study: Sterile Human Amnion Graft Kurt A. Massey (DPM), Thomas Rambacher (DPM, FACFAS, FAPWCA), Walter D’Costa (DPM, FAPWCA) |
| 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 |
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 |
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) |
| 2:00 | Adjourn |