Program of activities for the Latin American Virtual Meeting of Experts in Management and Prevention of Fractures for Fragility specialists from Latin America
9h30 – 9h45
Opening Remarks: FFN global / FFN Brasil
David Marsh
Orthopaedic surgeon, FFN
Adriana Machado
Geriatrician, Brazil
9h45 – 10h
Magnitude of the challenge of fragility fractures in Latin America
(Spoken in Spanish / English in slides)
Patricia Clark
Rheumatologist, Mexico
Plenary 1
PILLAR I – Multidisciplinary management of the acute fracture episode
Chair – William Belangero Orthopaedic surgeon
Co-Chair – Maximiliano Smietniansky, Geriatrician, Argentina
(Spoken in English/ English in slides)
10h – 10h15
Principles of surgery in osteoporotic bone
Claudia Medina
Orthopaedic surgeon, Colombia
10h15 – 10h30
The components of the orthogeriatric approach
José Luis Dinamarca
Geriatrician, Chile
10h30 – 10h45
Perioperative Care of the Geriatric Hip Fracture Patient (Anaesthetist Perspective)
Stuart White
Anaesthetist, FFN Perioperative Special Interest Group
10h45 – 11h
Q and A
11h15 – 12h15
Breakout Sessions
Breakout 1
Perioperative Issues
Chair: José Luís Dinamarca, Chile
Co-Chair: Santiago Giralt, Paraguay
(Spoken in Spanish / Portuguese in slides)
Breakout 2
Fragility fracture surgery
Chair: Fernando Baldy, Brazil
Co-Chair: Daniel Navarro, México
(Spoken in Portuguese/ Spanish in slides)
Breakout 3
From hospital to community
Chair: Marianela Flores Hekman, Brazil
Co-Chair: José Picado, Costa Rica
(Spoken in Portuguese/ Spanish in slides)
20-minute overview
Diego Chavarro
Geriatrician, Colombia
20-minute overview
Christiano Saliba
Orthopaedic surgeon, Brazil
20-minute overview
Eduarda Batista de Lima
Nurse, Italy
Panel discussion:
Daniel Schweitzer
Orthopaedic surgeon, Chile
Geraldine Altamar
Geriatrician, Colombia
Fernando Aranda
Anaesthetist, Chile
Rafael Jimenez
Orthopaedic surgeon, México
Germán Salazar
Orthopaedic surgeon, Ecuador
Panel discussion:
Luís Fernando Cocco
Orthopaedic surgeon, Brazil
Roberto Lopez
Orthopaedic surgeon, México
Claudia Medina
Orthopaedic, Colombia
Emilio Fantin
Orthopaedic, Argentina
Alejandro Carrasco
Orthopaedic surgeon, Chile
Panel discussion:
Paulina Alvarez
Social Worker, Chile
Juliana Berretta
Geriatrician, Brazil
Patrocinio Ariza Vega
Physiotherapist, Spain
Tania Tello
Geriatrician, Perú
Tiare Quiroz
Geriatrician, Chile
12h30 – 13h30
Lunchtime Symposium
Plenary 2
Pillar II – Rehabilitation following fragility fracture
Chair – Fernando Gomez Geriatrician, Colombia
Co-chair – Fabricio Zambom, Physiotherapist, Brazil
(Spoken in Spanish / English in slides)
15h – 15h15
Functional Recovery After Hip Fracture: Implications for Rehabilitation
Jay Magaziner
President, Global FFN, USA
15h15 – 15h30
Malnutrition in the elderly with hip fracture
Samuel Durán Agüero
Nutritionist, Chile
15h30 – 15h45
Extended in-hospital rehabilitation – evidence in older patients after hip fracture
Gerardo Amilivia
Physiatrist, Uruguay
15h45 – 16h
Q and A
16h15 – 17h15
Breakout Sessions
Breakout 4
Principles of Rehabilitation in Older People
Chair: Monica Perracini, Brazil
Co-Chair: Andrea Olascoaga Gomez de Leon, Mexico
(Spoken in Spanish / English in slides)
Breakout 5
Developing Hip Fracture Audit in Latin America
Chair: Clemente Zuñiga, México
Co-Chair: Alejandro Carrasco, Chile
(Spoken in Spanish / English in slides)
Breakout 6
Ongoing Rehabilitation in the Community
Chair: Walter Frontera, Puerto Rico
Co-Chair: Alejandra Gonzalez Pichardo, México
(Spoken in Spanish / Portuguese in slides)
20-minute overview
Leiner Morales
Geriatrician, Perú
20-minute overview
Bruno Boietti
Geriatrician, Argentina
20-minute overview
Sara Aguilar
Geriatrician, México
Panel discussion:
Morten Tange Kristensen
Physiotherapist, Denmark
Physio SIG, FFN
Alia Kosakova
Geriatrician, Costa Rica
César Villacrés
Geriatrician, Perú
Patricio Buendía
Geriatrician, Ecuador
Panel discussion:
Juan Carlos Viveros
Geriatrician, México
David Marsh
Orthopaedic surgeon, FFN
Santiago Giralt
Geriatrician, Paraguay
Alfonso Lazo Davila
Orthopaedic surgeon, Perú
Panel discussion:
Marcela Mar
Geriatrician, Perú
Xinia Ramírez
Geriatrician, Costa Rica
Luz Helena Lugo
Geriatrician, Colombia
Plenary 3
Pillar III – Secondary Prevention following Fragility Fracture
Chair – Gustavo Pineda, Orthopaedic Surgeon, Colombia
Co-Chair – Geraldine Altamar, Geriatric, Colombia
(Spoken in Portuguese & English/ English in slides)
10h – 10h15
Why set up a FLS?
Adriana Machado
Geriatrician, Brazil
10h15 – 10h30
How to start a FLS
Andrea Marquez
Nurse, Portugal
10h30 – 10h45
Key Performance indicators for effective secondary fracture prevention
Kassim Javaid
Rheumatologist, UK
IOF Capture the Fracture
10h45 – 11h
Q and A
11h15 – 12h15
Breakout Sessions
Breakout 7
Secondary Falls prevention
Chair: Fernando Gomez, Colombia
Co-Chair: Francisco Tapia Jiménez, México
(Spoken in Portuguese/ Spanish in slides)
Breakout 8
Treatment of Osteoporosis
Chair: Diego Chavarro, Colombia
Co-Chair: Jose Luis Dinamarca, Chile
(Spoken in Spanish / Portuguese in slides)
Breakout 9
Education for Prevention
Chair: Andrea Marques, Portugal
Co-Chair: Marta Valdivia,México
(Spoken in Portuguese/ Spanish in slides)
20-minute overview
Monica Perracini
Physiotherapist, Brazil
Physio SIG FFN
20-minute overview
Miguel Ángel Gonzalez
Orthopaedic Surgeon, Colombia
President, ACOMM
20-minute overview
Fabricio Zambom
Physiotherapist, Brazil
Panel discussion:
Thiago Barbosa
Scientist, Brazil
Felipe Salech
Geriatrician, Chile
Doris Sequeira
Nurse, Chile
María Fernanda Rodríguez
Nurse, Chile
Panel discussion:
José Luis Dinamarca
Geriatrician, Chile
Leonor Zapata
Geriatrician, México
Óscar Monge
Geriatrician, Costa Rica
Aldo Sgaravatti
Geriatrician, Uruguay
Francisco Torres
Gynaecologist, México
Panel discussion:
Aline Domingos
Nurse, Brazil
Eduarda Batista de Lima
Nurse, Italy
Niele Silva de Moraes
Geriatrician, Brazil
Miguel Cadena
Geriatrician, Colombia
Neva Kirk-Sanchez
Physiotherapist, USA
12h30 – 13h30
Lunchtime Symposium
Plenary 4
Pillar IV- National Alliances and Policy Change
Chair – Carlos Cano – President, ALMA
15h – 15h20
How to persuade policymakers to support fragility fracture co-management
Luis Miguel Gutierrez
(Spoken in Spanish / English in slides)
General Director of the National Institute of Geriatrics, México
15h20 – 16h10
Panel Discussion: Driving policy change on a national level
Monique Chalem (Colombia)
Maximo Gomez (México)
José Luis Dinamarca (Chile)
Ricardo Jauregi (Argentina) (tbc)
Carlos André Uehara (Brazil)
Juana Silva Opazo (Chile)
Edgar Aguilera (Paraguay)
Monica Tapia (México)
16h10 – 16h30
Guides to action from the global FFN
Closing Remarks
David Marsh
(Spoken in English/ Spanish in slides)
Founding President and Regionalisation Chair, FFN