UC Irvine Orthopaedic Surgery Annual Symposium- A Review for Surgeons and Non-Surgeons

1. Recognize musculoskeletal injuries that would benefit from surgical intervention
2. Evaluate patients with musculoskeletal injuries appropriately
3. Identify patients that would be from early subspecialist referral

Fee: $25 All Participants

Registration is required to attend.

University of California, Irvine School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

ADA Statement: In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, we will make every reasonable effort to accommodate your request.  For any special requests, please contact the activity administrator before the meeting date.

Event Contact: Amy Sanchez at [email protected]

The University of California, Irvine School of Medicine adheres to ACCME Standards for Integrity and Independance in Accredited Continuing Education regarding industry support of continuing medical education activities. Disclosure of faculty and their commercial relationships will be made prior to the activity.

Mitigation of Relevant Financial Relationships

University of California, Irvine School of Medicine Continuing Medical Education adheres to the ACCME’s Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education. Any individuals in a position to control the content of a CE activity, including faculty, planners, reviewers or others are required to disclose all relevant financial relationships with ineligible entities (commercial interests). All relevant conflicts of interest have been mitigated prior to the commencement of the activity.

Member Information

Role in activity

Nature of Relationship(s) / Name of Ineligible Company(s)

John A Scolaro, MD, FAAOS, FAOA
Associate Professor
UCI, School of Medicine

Co-Director, Faculty

Paid consultant-NuVasive, Inc. (Relationship has ended)|Paid consultant-Smith & Nephew (Any division) (Relationship has ended)|Paid consultant-Zimmer (Any division) (Relationship has ended)|Stocks or stock options, excluding diversified mutual funds-Restor3d|Paid consultant-Stryker (Any division)|Paid consultant-Illuminoss|Paid consultant-Orthofix

Nitin Bhatia, MD
Professor & Chair
UC, Irvine School of Medicine

Course Director, Faculty

Royalties or Patent Beneficiary-Seaspine|Royalties or Patent Beneficiary-Spineart|Royalties or Patent Beneficiary-Aurora Spine|Consulting Fee-Lifespine|Paid consultant-difusion

Melissa Albersheim, MD
UCI Orthopedics

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Mohit Bhandari, MD

Faculty

Jonah Davies, MD
Associate Professor
UCI Health

Faculty

Consulting Fee-Arthrex|Consulting Fee-DePuy (Any division)

Ryan DiGiovanni, MD
HS Assistant Clinical Professor
UCI School of Medicine

Faculty

Paid consultant-DJO Incorporated

Justin Haghverdian, MD
University of California, Irvine

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Sohaib Hashmi, MD
HS Assistant Clinical Professor
UCI School of Medicine

Faculty

Paid consultant-Atec|Paid consultant-SI Bone |Paid consultant-LifeSpine|Paid consultant-SeaSpine

Peter P Hsiue, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor
University of California, Irvine

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Andrew Hsu, MD
HS Associate Clinical Professor
UC, Irvine School of Medicine

Faculty

Consulting Fee-Arthrex

Tyler Johnston, MD
HS Assistant Clinical Professor
UCI, School of Medicine

Faculty

Paid consultant-Stryker (Any division)|Paid consultant-DJO Incorporated

Jesse Kaplan, MD, MBA
HS Assistant Clinical Professor
UCI School of Medicine

Faculty

Honoraria-Skeletal Dynamics (Relationship has ended)|Honoraria-IBRA (Relationship has ended)|Honoraria-Sonex (Relationship has ended)

Philip Lim, MD
UC Irvine

Faculty

Consulting Fee-Globus Medical, Inc.|Honoraria-Arthrex

Geoffrey Marecek, MD
Cedars - Sinai Medical Center

Faculty

Stocks or stock options, excluding diversified mutual funds-restor3d|Consulting Fee-DePuy (Any division)|Consulting Fee-Globus Medical, Inc.|Royalties or Patent Beneficiary-Globus Medical, Inc.|Consulting Fee-Zimmer (Any division)|Consulting Fee-Siemens|Consulting Fee-Bonesupport AB|Consulting Fee-Orthofix

Emily Mills, MD
University of California, Irvine

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Naudereh Noori, MD
HS Assistant Clinical Professor
UC,Irvine School of Medicine

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Gregory H Rafijah, MD
HS Clinical Professor
UC, Irvine School of Medicine

Faculty

Consulting Fee-Medartis

Myron Gerard Slobogean, MD
University of California Irvine

Faculty

Consulting Fee-Smith & Nephew (Any division)|Consulting Fee-Zimmer (Any division)

Brian Sullivan, MD
UCI Health

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Dean Wang, MD
Associate Professor of Clinical Orthopaedic Surgery
UCI, School of Medicine

Faculty

Grant or research support-Immunis|Paid consultant-Newclip|Paid consultant-Stryker (Any division)|Paid consultant-Cervos|Stocks or stock options, excluding diversified mutual funds-Overture Orthopaedics|Speakers Bureau-Arthrex|Membership on Advisory Committees or Review Panels, Board Membership, etc.-AOSSM|Membership on Advisory Committees or Review Panels, Board Membership, etc.-AAOS|Membership on Advisory Committees or Review Panels, Board Membership, etc.-ICRS|Membership on Advisory Committees or Review Panels, Board Membership, etc.-WOA|Grant or research support-Joint Restoration Foundation|Paid consultant-Moximed|Speakers Bureau-Vericel

Eric D Wang, MD
HS Clinical Assistant Professor
UC Irvine

Faculty

Nothing to disclose

Hao-Hua Wu, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Orthopaedic Surgery
UCI, School of Medicine

Faculty

Consulting Fee-BD|Consulting Fee-Globus Medical, Inc.|Membership on Advisory Committees or Review Panels, Board Membership, etc.-Maia|Consulting Fee-Orthofix|Consulting Fee-NeuralTrak

Steven Yang, MD, MBA
HS Assistant Clinical Professor
UCI, School of Medicine

Faculty

Paid consultant-DePuy (Any division)

Russell Stitzlein, MD
HS Assistant Clinical Professor
UC Irvine School of Medicine

Faculty, Other Planning Committee Member

Consulting Fee-DePuy (Any division) (Relationship has ended)

Friday, June 5, 2026