Scientific Session #2
Moderator: Phillip Antippa, MBBS, MPH, FRACS
Coordinator: Scott Gardner, PA-C

Surgical Reconstruction of Traumatic Sternal Body Nonunions
Presenter: Michael LaRoque
Discussant: Mauricio Velasquez, MD, FACS

Increasing Rates of Adult Rib Fracture Injuries and Changing Hospitalization Practice Patterns
Presenter: Rafat Solaiman, BA
Discussant: Bradley W. Thomas, MD, FACS

Hardware Performance for Anterior Chest Wall and Costal Cartilage Injuries: A Single Center Experience
Presenter: William DeVoe, MD FACS
Discussant: Alicia R. Privette, MD

Chest Wall Stabilisation and Rib Fixation Using a Nitinol Screwless System in Selected Patients After Blunt Trauma: Long-term results in a single-centre experience
Presenter: Didier Lardinois, MD, PhD
Discussant: Andrew R. Doben, MD, FACS

Better Late Than Never- A Single Center Review of Delayed Surgical Stabilization of Rib Fractures
Presenter: Hason Khan, MS
Discussant: Adam J. Kaye, MD, MHA, FACS

Scientific Session #3
Moderator: Kaushik Mukherjee, MD, MSCI, FACS
Coordinator: Natalie Mukherjee, DNP, AGACNP-BC

Costal Margin Reconstruction for Complex Slipping Rib Syndrome
Presenter: Adam Hansen, MD
Discussant: Babak Sarani, MD, FACS, FCCM

Novel Application of Pectoralis Muscle Index as Predictor of Outcomes in Patients with Blunt Chest Wall Injury
Presenter: Connor Wakefield, MD
Discussant: Timothy H. Pohlman MD, FACS

The True-Blue Technique: Enhanced Chondral Assessment of the Chest Wall
Presenter: Indraneel Brahme, MD
Discussant: Ledford L. Powell, MD, FACS, FCCP, MBA

Peripheral Nerve Blocks and Catheters Decrease Early Opioid Requirements in Non-Operative Rib Fracture Patients
Presenter: Stephanie Gray, MD
Discussant: Daniel Ricaurte, MD

Surgical Stabilization of Rib Fractures in Anticoagulated Patients: Proceed with caution?
Presenter: Fredric M. Pieracci, MD, MPH, FACS
Discussant: Richard Lesperance, MD, FACS

Scientific Session #4
Moderator: Stefan Schulz-Drost, MD, PhD, FEBS
Coordinator: Samantha  Shugar, MS

Motor Vehicle Protective Device Usage Associated with Decreased Rate of Flail Chest: A retrospective database analysis
Presenter: Aria Bassiri, MD
Discussant: Ronald I. Gross, MD, FACS

Thal Tubes are Noninferior to Standard Chest Tubes for Traumatic Hemothorax: Single Center randomized clinical trial of 14Fr Thal Tube versus 28Fr Tube Thoracostomy
Presenter: Jason McCartt, MD
Discussant: Emily Cantrell, MD, FACS

Early vs. Late Surgical Stabilization of Multiple Rib Fractures in Patients with Traumatic Brain Injury: A nationwide analysis
Presenter: Emanuele Lagazzi, MD
Discussant: Sebastian D. Schubl, MD, FACS

Healthcare Utilisation and Outcomes in Patients with Blunt Chest Wall Trauma Following Discharge Home from the Emergency Department: A retrospective, population-based, observational data-linkage study
Presenter: Ceri Battle, PhD
Discussant: Christopher J. Wolff, MD, FACS

Sternoclavicular Joint Pathology: Examination of a 17-year Case Series and Recommendation of a Surgical Algorithm
Presenter: Lindsay Maier, MD
Discussant: Jonathan H. Nguyen, DO, FACS, FACOS

Scientific Session #5
Moderator: Eva-Corina Caragounis, MD, PhD
Coordinator: T. Russell Hill, PA-C

Hierarchal Clustering for the Identification of Distinct Rib Fracture Patterns: A Novel Big Data Utility for Clinical Studies
Presenter: Kiersten C. Woodyard, MPH
Discussant: Jamie Tung, MD

Surgical Stabilization of Rib Fractures in the Geriatric Trauma Population Is Associated with Similar Mortality As Younger Patients
Presenter: Stephanie Jensen, MD MPH
Discussant: Christopher Towe, MD

Costal Margin Injuries: Presentation, Management and Outcomes According To The Sheffield Classification
Presenter: Jonathan Byers, MBCHb
Discussant: Gerard A. Baltazar, DO, FACOS, FACS

Chest Wall Injury Fracture Patterns and Mechanism
Presenter: Jennifer Brewer, MD
Discussant: Dan Bonville, DO, FACS

SSRF’ing the literature: Trends in Publications Since Tanaka’s Landmark Results over 20 years ago
Presenter: Christopher Thomas, MD, MS
Discussant: Brian D. Kim, MD, FACS

Scientific Session #6
Moderator: Pieter Jean van Huijstee, MD, PhD
Coordinator: TBA

External Validation of Novel Revised Intensity Battle (RIB) Score and Comparison of Static Rib Fracture Scoring Systems
Presenter: Carl Buchholz, MD
Discussant: Mustafa Al-Jubouri, MD, FACS, MRCSI

Surgical Stabilization of Rib Fractures is Associated with Better Return on Investment for a Healthcare Institution than Non-Operative Management
Presenter: Zachary Bauman, DO, MHA, FACOS, FACS
Discussant: Forest R. Sheppard, MD, FACS

Return to Activity Recommendations and Standard Care Following Surgical Stabilisation of Rib Fractures: A survey of surgeons’ practice patterns and perspectives
Presenter: Phillip Antippa, MBBS, MPH, FRACS
Discussant: Michel Wagner, MD, FACS

Neutrophil-lymphocyte Ratio is Associated with Mortality in Rib Fracture Patients
Presenter: Avanti Badrinathan, MD
Discussant: Jacques Townsend, DO

Anatomy of the Anterior Ribs and the Composition of the Costal Margin: A Pilot Study
Presenter: Arjun Patel, MD
Discussant: Mario G. Gasparri, MD, FACS