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2025 Winter CORD Conference and PEAL Forum

Date(s):
February 13 — 14, 2025
Time Zone:
(GMT-06:00) Central Time (US & Canada)
Venue:
Sheraton Music City Nashville Airport
777 McGavock Pike
Nashville, TN 37214 
More event information:
https://www.aoassn.org/cord-conference/
Fee(s):
This event has a fee
Description:
2025 Winter CORD Conference and PEAL Forum

Program Education, Accreditation, and Leadership (PEAL) Forum Theme: Knowledge
The PEAL Forum is a 90-minute CME session designed specifically for new/aspiring residency and fellowship program directors, assistant program directors, residency and fellowship program coordinators, and anyone interested in orthopaedic surgery graduate medical education.

PEAL Forum Agenda
Thursday, February 13, 2025
1:00pm Opening Remarks/Welcome
1:05pm Residency Curriculum: Do You Teach for the Test or Clinical Practice?
1:20pm OITE Remediation: How To Do It and When To Do It
1:35pm ABOS Part 1: The How and the What
1:50pm Osteopathic Board Certification
2:30pm Adjourn/CORD Conference begins

CORD Conference Theme: Programmatic Assessment, Inside and Out
The CORD Conference is an 8-hour, comprehensive, CME activity which will explore all facets of programmatic assessment, including both didactic and interactive sessions.
Thursday, February 13, 2:30pm - 5:00pm CST
Friday, February 14, 8:00am - 2:00pm CST

CORD Conference Agenda
Thursday, February 13 - Day One
2:30pm Opening Remarks/Welcome
2:35pm Assessment of Competence in Orthopaedic Training Programs: How Many Pixels Are Enough to Get The Picture?
3:45pm Coordinator of the Year Award
4:00pm Relationship Between Program Directors and Program Coordinators
5:00pm Adjourn/Cocktail Reception

CORD Conference Agenda
Friday, February 14 - Day Two
 7:00am Coffee and Conversations
 8:00am Opening Remarks
 8:05am Updates from ABOS, ACGME, AOBOS, ARCOS
 9:00am Symposium 1: Understanding the Program Evaluation Committee in Orthopaedics
10:20am Symposium 2: Best Practices for Conducting Comprehensive Program Evaluations (Interactive Breakout Sessions)
12:45pm Symposium 3: Making Meaningful Change
 2:00pm Adjourn

Sessions information is not available at this time.

Dr. S. Trent Guthrie, MD, FAOA
Title: Residency Program Director
Organization: Henry Ford Hospital
Speaker Type:

CORD/Academics Committee Chair


S. Trent Guthrie, M.D. is an orthopaedic traumatologist and Residency Program Director at Henry Ford Health in Detroit, MI. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Biology and Chemistry from Williams College, Williamstown, MA. Following this, he received an M.D. degree from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas. Dr. Guthrie did his residency training at Wayne State University/Detroit Medical Center in Orthopaedic Surgery with fellowship training in Orthopaedic Trauma at the University of Minnesota / Twin Cities Combined Orthopaedic Trauma Fellowship.


Dr. Afshin E. Razi, MD, FAOA
Title: Department Vice Chair
Organization: Maimonides Medical Center
Speaker Type:

CORD Education Subcommittee Chair

Dr. Nicole Schroeder, MD, FAOA
Title: Associate Program Director
Organization: University of California (San Francisco)
Speaker Type: Co-Moderator

2025 CORD Conference Program Co-Chair


Dr. Schroeder is Professor of Ortho Surgery at the Univ of San Francisco California and Chief of the Hand & Upper Extremity Division. She treats all conditions and traumatic injuries in the upper extremity. Clinical interests are traumatic hand and forearm injuries, tendinoses of the upper extremity, Dupuytren's contracture, arthritis, blood vessel and nerve problems, bone deformities, dislocations and fractures, joint problems, ligament and tendon injuries, and tumors. Clinical practice at the Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital & Trauma Center and the UCSF Orthopaedic Institute.


Dr. Timothy S. Ackerman, DO, FAOA
Title: Program Director
Organization: UPMC Community Osteopathic (formerly UPMC Pinnacle Hospitals)
Speaker Type: Co-Moderator

2025 CORD Conference Program Co-Chair

Dr. Alexander W. Aleem, MD, FAOA
Title: Associate Professor & Vice Chair of Education
Organization: Washington University/B-JH/SLCH Consortium
Speaker Type: Moderator

2025 PEAL Forum Program Chair


Dr. Alexander Aleem, MD, MSc, is an Associate Professor, Vice Chair of Education, and Residency Program Director at Washington University in St. Louis. He specializes in shoulder and elbow surgery. Dr. Aleem graduated from Johns Hopkins University with a BS in biomedical engineering before matriculating at Washington University in St. Louis for medical school. He stayed at WashU for residency training. He then went to Thomas Jefferson University/The Rothman Institute for fellowship training focusing on shoulder and elbow surgery.


Dr. Byron F. Stephens, MD, FAOA
Title: Residency Program Director
Organization: Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Speaker Type: Speaker

PEAL Forum - Residency Curriculum: Do You Teach for the Test or Clinical Practice?

Dr. Amelia Sorensen, MD
Title: Residency Program Director
Organization: University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine
Speaker Type: Speaker

PEAL Forum - OITE Remediation: How to Do It and When to Do It.


Dr. Amelia Sorensen is chief of hand surgery at University Health in Kansas City, MO. She completed medical school and orthopedic residency at Washington University in St. Louis and a hand fellowship at University of California – San Diego. Dr. Sorensen is an Associate Professor at University of Missouri – Kansas City and the Orthopedic Surgery Residency Program Director. She recently completed a Masters in Health Professionals Education. She actively supports the academic advancement of her residents, colleagues and faculty.


Dr. Martin I. Boyer, MD, FAOA
Title: Assistant Program Director
Organization: Washington University School of Medicine
Speaker Type: Speaker

PEAL Forum - ABOS Part 1: The How and the What

Bryan Ashman, MBBS, MSurgEd, FRACS
Title: Dean of Education
Organization: Australian Orthopaedic Association
Speaker Type: Keynote Speaker

Assessment of Competence in Orthopaedic Training Programs: How Many Pixels Are Enough to Get The Picture?


Dr. Ashman is an orthopaedic surgeon at Canberra Hospital, Clinical Associate Professor at Australian National University, Canberra, and Dean of Education at the Australian Orthopaedic Association. His clinical interests are spine surgery and paediatric trauma. Educational interests include competence assessment in surgical training; curriculum design and evaluation; and selection strategies for surgical training.


Dr. Charles M. Jobin, MD, FAOA
Title: Program Director
Organization: New York Presbyterian Hospital (Columbia Campus)
Speaker Type: Speaker

2025 Winter CORD Conference - Symposium : Insights into the Program Evaluation Committee in Orthopaedics "Structuring an Effective PEC."

Dr. Raffi S. Avedian, MD, FAOA
Title: Program Director
Organization: Stanford Health Care-Sponsored Stanford University
Speaker Type: Speaker

2025 Winter CORD Conference - Symposium 1: Insights into the Program Evaluation Committee in Orthopaedics "Metrics that Matter: Developing Meaningful Criteria for Program Assessment."


Raffi Avedian, MD is a board certified orthopaedic surgeon specializing in musculoskeletal oncology. He completed his undergraduate studies with honors in Neuroscience at Pomona College and a medical degree at the University of Chicago, Pritzker School of Medicine. He completed his residency in orthopaedic surgery at the University of California, San Francisco and concluded his training with a fellowship in Orthopaedic Oncology and Limb Reconstruction at the University of Chicago. He is associate professor, residency program director, and Vice Chair of Education at Stanford University.


Alicia Harrison, MD, FAOA
Title: Program Director
Organization: University of Minnesota
Speaker Type: Speaker

2025 Winter CORD Conference - Symposium 2: Making Meaningful Change: Best Practices for Conducting Comprehensive Program Evaluations "So You Have the Data, Now What?"

Dr. Stephen Alan Kennedy, MD, FAOA, FRCSC
Title: Program Director
Organization: University of Washington
Speaker Type: Speaker

2025 Winter CORD Conference - Symposium 2: Making Meaningful Change: Best practices for Conducting Comprehensive Program Evaluations "The Residency Council and their input into PEC."


Dr. Stephen A. Kennedy, MD, is the Residency Program Director and Associate Professor in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Sports Medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine. He completed his Doctor of Medicine and Orthopaedic Surgery Residency at the University of British Columbia, followed by fellowships in Hand & Microvascular Surgery at the University of Washington and in Sports Medicine and Upper Extremity Surgery at the University of Manitoba.


Dr. Drew A. Lansdown, MD
Title: Assistant Professor
Organization: University of California (San Francisco)
Speaker Type: Speaker

2025 Winter CORD Conference - Symposium 2: Making Meaningful Change: Best Practices for Conducting Comprehensive Program Evaluations "How to Make the Data Available."


Dr. Drew Lansdown is an Associate Professor in Residence at UCSF and a surgeon who specializes in sports medicine and surgeries of the knee, shoulder and elbow. He treats a wide range of conditions, including knee ligament injuries, meniscus and other cartilage injuries, rotator cuff tears, shoulder instability, shoulder arthritis, and shoulder and elbow injuries related to throwing. He is an Associate Residency Program Director at UCSF, interested in innovations for improving surgical training, strategies to better evaluate trainee progress, and the effectiveness of programmatic efforts.


Dr. Kenneth Robert Gundle, MD, FAOA
Title: Program Director
Organization: Oregon Health and Science University
Speaker Type: Moderator

2025 Winter CORD Conference - Symposium 3: eRVUs and So Much More: How are Programs Addressing Education Remuneration?

Sponsor information is not available at this time.