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Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Conference 2025

UPMC is excited to announce that it will be hosting an Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Conference on Saturday, September 27th, in The Convention Centre, Dublin.

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This event will consist of presentations from UPMC Clinicians across the UPMC Orthopaedic Network and is tailored for GPs, Physiotherapists, Strength and Conditioning Coaches, Athletic Therapists, and other medical professionals. There will be no live streaming.

If you do not have an IMC number, please use 0000 when registering.

To celebrate our longstanding partnership with the Pittsburgh Steelers, who will be in Dublin on this weekend, presentations will be made by the following UPMC and Pittsburgh Steelers Medical Teams: 

  • Dr. MaCalus Hogan, MD, MBA, David Silver Professor and Chair of UPMC Orthopaedic Care, USA
    • ‘Delivering Life-Changing Sports Medicine at UPMC’
  • Dr. James Bradley, Head Team Physician, Pittsburgh Steelers.
  • Dr. Aaron Mares, Primary Care Sports, Pittsburgh Steelers.
  • Mr. Ray Moran, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon & Medical Director UPMC Sports Surgery Clinic.
  • Prof. Paul McKenna, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon.
    • ‘From Referral to Recovery: What Health Care Professionals Need to Know About Direct Anterior Hip Replacement’
  • Mr. Mihai Vioreanu, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon.
    • ‘Lateral Extra-Articular Tenodesis Enhances Anterior Cruciate Ligament Hamstring Graft Survivability in Young Athletes (U20)’
  • Mr. Fiachra Rowan, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon.
    • ‘What is all this talk about Robotic Joint Replacement?’
  • Dr. Alan Getgood, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon.
    • ‘A randomised control trial comparing patellar tendon versus quadriceps tendon anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction with and without lateral extra-articulat tenodesis’
  • Dr. Sam Baida,  Head of Rehabilitation at UPMC Sports Medicine.
    • ‘Chronic groin pain –  movement versus pathology’
  • Mr. Michael Kelleher, Consultant Neurosurgeon.
    • ‘Cervical Spine Surgical Options’
  • Mr. Sam Lynch, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon.
    • ‘Playing sport with back pain’
  • Dr. David Okonkwo, Neurosurgeon, Pittsburgh Steelers.
    • ‘Spinal Disorders in Elite Athletes’
  • Claire Whelan, Lead Spinal Team Physiotherapist, UPMC Sports Medicine.
    • ‘Management of Low Back Pain’
  • Ms. Ann Maria Byrne, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon.
    • ‘Upper Limb Injuries: Injection vs. Operation – What Works and When?’
  • Dr. Mickey Collins, Director, UPMC Concussion Program.
    • ‘Concussion in 2025: What Every GP and Physio Should Know’
  • Dr. Anthony Kontos, Director of Research for the UPMC Sports Medicine Concussion Program.
    • ‘Women’s Health and Concussion: What the research tells us’
  • John Courrell, Concussion Clinical Specialist, UPMC.
    • ‘Role of the Physiotherapist in UPMC Concussion Network Pathway’

 

For further information on this event, please contact [email protected]
UPMC is excited to announce that it will be hosting an Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Conference in The Convention Centre, Dublin on Saturday, September 27th . This event will consist of presentations from UPMC Clinicians across the UPMC Orthopaedic Network.
Date: 27th September 2025
Time: 8am - 3.30pm
Location: The Convention Centre, North Wall Quay, Dublin 1
This event is free of charge