OREF MID-ATLANTIC REGION RESIDENT RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM
From Post-Traumatic Osteoarthritis to Inflammation Resolution: A Translational Science Journey
Guest Judge: Christian Lattermann, MD
Associate Professor, Harvard University
Brigham & Women’s Endowed Chair for Sports Medicine
Director of Research, Mass General Brigham (MGG) Sports Director, Cartilage Repair Center Brigham & Women’s Hospital / Harvard Medical School
Dr. Lattermann began his training at Hannover Medical School in Germany. In 1997 he did a 2-year research and clinical fellowship in Sports Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh, USA, before he continued his career as resident in Orthopaedic Surgery from 1999-2004. He continued on to perform a specialty year as junior attending with a focus on trauma (Superchief) at the University of Pittsburgh before he completed a fellowship in Sports Medicine and Cartilage Repair at Rush University in 2006. Dr Lattermann started his independent career in 2006 at the University of Kentucky where he built a strong clinical research program. He is an expert in cartilage repair, and posttraumatic osteoarthritis as well as more generally in outcomes research and clinical trials.
Dr. Lattermann was appointed as Chief of Sports Medicine and Director of the Cartilage Repair Center at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital at Harvard Medical School in 2018. He is an Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School and holds the Brigham and Women’s Endowed Chair for Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine. Dr. Lattermann serves as Co-Chair of the Leadership Committee for (MGB) Sports Medicine and is the Director of Research for Mass General Brigham, overseeing the research program in Sports Medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital as well as Massachusetts General Sports Medicine. He serves as scientific advisor for the CSPAR.
He is the current President elect of the International Cartilage Repair and Joint Regeneration Society (ICRS) and held multiple positions in national and international societies over the last two decades. He is a Founding Board Member of the Biologics Association; a Multispecialty Society Association aimed at directing Orthopaedic Surgeons in the field of Orthobiologics. He is a world renown speaker on the topic of cartilage repair and early osteoarthritis and sought after as teacher and instructor for Orthopaedic Sports Medicine procedures around the knee.
Awards presentation and lunch reception will be held following the program
Location and Address
Scaife Hall
3550 Terrace St, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Room 3795 (3rd floor)