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ForwardUChicago Orthopaedic Trauma Limb Salvage Symposium
Chicago, IL US
October 29, 2026
From acute injury to long-term recovery, complex extremity trauma demands a truly multidisciplinary approach.
Join experts from across the continuum of care for this multidisciplinary program focused on the complex clinical and surgical decisions involved in caring for patients with severe lower extremity injuries. Through expert presentations, case-based discussion, and multidisciplinary perspectives, participants will explore acute trauma and vascular management, skeletal stabilization and bone defects, soft tissue reconstruction, rehabilitation, prosthetic considerations, nerve injuries, and amputation.
The symposium will also examine one of the most challenging decisions in extremity trauma: when to pursue limb salvage and when amputation may offer the best path forward. Sessions addressing functional outcomes, ethics, behavioral decision-making, quality of life, and patient values will provide practical perspectives for navigating these decisions collaboratively with patients and the multidisciplinary care team.
Register today to connect with colleagues across specialties and gain evidence-based, patient-centered strategies for managing complex lower extremity trauma from initial injury through reconstruction and recovery!
Target Audience
This activity is designed for physicians, trainees, advanced practice providers, and rehabilitation professionals involved in orthopaedic trauma, complex reconstruction, limb salvage, and rehabilitation, including specialists in orthopaedic, plastic and reconstructive, vascular, and general surgery; infectious disease; physical medicine and rehabilitation; and emergency medicine.
Learning Objectives
After this activity, participants will be able to:
- Describe key considerations in the acute assessment of severe lower extremity trauma, including vascular and neurologic injury.
- Apply rehabilitation principles to functional recovery following limb salvage or amputation.
- Differentiate limb salvage from amputation based on injury characteristics, anticipated function, rehabilitation burden, quality of life, and patient values.
- Integrate multidisciplinary strategies for acute care, reconstruction, and rehabilitation in complex lower extremity trauma.
- Evaluate contemporary approaches to skeletal stabilization, bone defect management, and soft tissue reconstruction in complex lower extremity injuries.
- Formulate patient-centered decisions regarding limb salvage or amputation based on evidence, ethical principles, and shared decision-making.
| Time | Session | Faculty |
|---|---|---|
| 8:00 – 8:30 AM | Coffee, Breakfast, Meet and Greet | |
| 8:30 – 8:40 AM | Introduction | Maureen Beederman, MD, FACS |
| Session 1: Acute Care of Mangled Lower Extremities | Moderator: Jennifer Cone, MD, MHS | |
| 8:45 – 9:00 AM | At the Scene | Candice Schaper, RN |
| 9:00 – 9:15 AM | Initial Trauma Management | Jennifer Cone, MD, MHS |
| 9:15 – 9:30 AM | Vascular Injuries | Ashley Williamson, MD |
| 9:30 – 9:40 AM | Q&A | |
| Session 2: Reconstruction | Moderator: Maureen Beederman, MD, FACS | |
| 9:40 – 9:55 AM | An Evidence-Based Review of the Timing of Soft Tissue Coverage | Jennifer Eurich, MD |
| 9:55 – 10:10 AM | Principles of Debridement, Initial Stabilization, and Bone Defect Management Options | Gregory Schimizzi, MD, PhD |
| 10:10 – 10:25 AM | The Reconstructive Ladder in 2026 | |
| 10:25 – 10:35 AM | Q&A | |
| 10:35 – 10:50 AM | Break | |
| Session 3: Rehab and Amputation | Moderator: Cheryl Benjamin, DO | |
| 10:50 – 11:05 AM | Inpatient Physical Therapy Considerations | Megan Teele, PT |
| 11:05 – 11:20 AM | Outpatient Physical Therapy Considerations | Cheryl Benjamin, DO |
| 11:20 – 11:35 AM | Common Issues with Prosthesis Fitting | Tom O’Doherty, L/CP |
| 11:35 – 11:50 AM | Amputations: Indications and Outcomes | Lisa Taitsman, MD, MPH |
| 11:50 AM – 12:05 PM | Nerve Injuries and Neuromas | Jeffrey Stepan, MD, MSc |
| 12:05 – 12:20 PM | Q&A | |
| 12:20 – 1:00 PM | Lunch | |
| Session 4: Shared Decision Making | Moderator: Mary Kate Erdman, MD, FAAOS, FACS | |
| 1:00 – 1:20 PM | Ethical Principles in Lower Extremity Trauma | Emily Landon, MD |
| 1:20 – 1:40 PM | Behavioral Economics in Medical Decision Making | Josh Dean, PhD |
| 1:40 – 2:25 PM | Keynote Speech: Life or Limb | Lawrence Gottlieb, MD |
| 2:25 – 2:40 PM | Break | |
| 2:40 – 3:15 PM | Panel Discussion | Emily Landon, MD; Josh Dean, PhD; Lawrence Gottlieb, MD; Lisa Taitsman, MD, MPH |
| 3:15 – 3:30 PM | Wrap-Up | Maureen Beederman, MD, FACS; Mary Kate Erdman, MD, FAAOS, FACS |
The agenda is subject to change.
David Rubenstein Forum at the University of Chicago
1201 E 60th St
Chicago, IL
60637
United States
WANT TO KNOW MORE?
For questions about attending the program, contact Hawa Diabor via email.
The David Rubenstein Forum combines a variety of spaces, both formal and informal, large and small, calm and animated, focused and diffuse, scheduled and spontaneous. The ten-story tower features vibrant and distinct “neighborhoods.” For example, the third and fourth floors are home to Friedman Hall, a 285-seat auditorium optimized for spoken word, including keynote speeches, invited-speaker addresses, and select performances; these floors and other neighborhoods are connected by a two-story lounge. Meeting rooms on the eighth and ninth floors feature premium furnishings, finishes, and equipment, such as the Peter May Boardroom, a tiered meeting space that seats over 70.
The Rubenstein Forum’s unique position on the Midway offers expansive views of the campus and surrounding communities, as well as downtown Chicago and Lake Michigan. The City View Room on the 10th floor offers a strong visual connection between the university and the city, and it is an exquisite setting for hosting spectacular special events.
Visiting Chicago
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The David Rubenstein Forum combines a variety of spaces, both formal and informal, large and small, calm and animated, focused and diffuse, scheduled and spontaneous. The ten-story tower features vibrant and distinct “neighborhoods.” For example, the third and fourth floors are home to Friedman Hall, a 285-seat auditorium optimized for spoken word, including keynote speeches, invited-speaker addresses, and select performances; these floors and other neighborhoods are connected by a two-story lounge. Meeting rooms on the eighth and ninth floors feature premium furnishings, finishes, and equipment, such as the Peter May Boardroom, a tiered meeting space that seats over 70.
The Rubenstein Forum’s unique position on the Midway offers expansive views of the campus and surrounding communities, as well as downtown Chicago and Lake Michigan. The City View Room on the 10th floor offers a strong visual connection between the university and the city, and it is an exquisite setting for hosting spectacular special events.
Visiting Chicago
Discover why Condé Nast Traveler readers voted Chicago the Best Big City in the U.S. for a historic ninth year in a row. To help plan your stay in Chicago, visit Choose Chicago.
ACCESSIBILITY The University of Chicago is committed to providing equal access appropriate to need and circumstances and complies fully with legal requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act. If you are in need of special accommodation, please contact our office at 773-795-3585 or via email.
The University of Chicago reserves the right to cancel or postpone this activity due to unforeseen circumstances. In the unlikely event this activity must be cancelled or postponed, the registration fee will be refunded; however, the University of Chicago is not responsible for any related costs, charges, or expenses to participants, including fees assessed by airline/travel/lodging agencies.
UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO COURSE DIRECTORS
Maureen R. Beederman, MD
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Assistant Professor of Surgery
Mary Kate Erdman, MD
Assistant Professor of Orthopedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine
Assistant Professor of Orthopedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine
Disclosure Declarations
As a provider accredited by the ACCME, the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine asks everyone in a position to control the content of an educational activity to disclose all financial relationships with any ineligible companies. This includes any entity whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. Financial relationships are relevant if a financial relationship, in any amount, exists between the person in control of content and an ineligible company during the past 24 months, and the content of the education is related to the products of an ineligible company with whom the person has a financial relationship. Mechanisms are in place to identify and mitigate any relevant financial relationships before the start of the activity.
Additionally, the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine requires Authors to identify investigational products or off-label uses of products regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration at first mention and where appropriate in the content.
As a provider accredited by the ACCME, the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine asks everyone in a position to control the content of an educational activity to disclose all financial relationships with any ineligible companies. This includes any entity whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. Financial relationships are relevant if a financial relationship, in any amount, exists between the person in control of content and an ineligible company during the past 24 months, and the content of the education is related to the products of an ineligible company with whom the person has a financial relationship. Mechanisms are in place to identify and mitigate any relevant financial relationships before the start of the activity.
Additionally, the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine requires Authors to identify investigational products or off-label uses of products regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration at first mention and where appropriate in the content.
Physician Credit
The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 5.75 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Nursing Credit
University of Chicago Medicine is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center's Commission on Accreditation.
Participants who successfully complete the entire activity and complete an evaluation form will earn 5.75 contact hours.
Physical Therapist and Occupational Therapist Credit
The University of Chicago Medical Center is a licensed continuing education provider with the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation for Physical Therapy, license # 216-000030. All participants will be provided with a certificate of attendance. This course is approved for 5.75 continuing education hours for licensed therapists (PT, PTA, OT, or COTA) in Illinois. The University of Chicago Medical Center has not applied to any other state for therapist CE credit. Participants will need to do this individually through their jurisdiction outside of Illinois.
The University of Chicago Medical Center is a licensed continuing education provider with the Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation for Physical Therapy, license # 216-000030. All participants will be provided with a certificate of attendance. This course is approved for 5.75 continuing education hours for licensed therapists (PT, PTA, OT, or COTA) in Illinois. The University of Chicago Medical Center has not applied to any other state for therapist CE credit. Participants will need to do this individually through their jurisdiction outside of Illinois.
Other Participant Credit
Other participants will receive a Certificate of Participation. For information on the applicability and acceptance of Certificates of Participation for educational activities certified for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ from organizations accredited by the ACCME, please consult your professional licensing board.
Please note: The credit-claiming process closes 1 month after the activity ends. Requests submitted more than 1 month after the event date may incur additional fees.
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