Thursday 09/25/2025

7:30-8:00 Exhibits Open Registration and breakfast

8:00-8:30 Welcome

Teri Kuffel AOPA Updates

8:30-9:15 Alicia Laursen, CPO Neuro Trauma: Indications For Bracing From Experience At A Level-1 Trauma Center

9:15-10:00 Alicia Laursen, CPO Basilar Invagination: A case study

10:00-10:30 Exhibits Open Break in Garden Ballroom

10:30-12:00 Don Cummings, CP Case Presentation on Pterygium, Overview of PFFD, Classification, Surgical & Prosthetic Options, Equinus Extension Prostheses: Pros and Cons 

12:00-1:00 Exhibits Open Lunch in Garden Ballroom

1:00-2:00 Maria Lamers, PT, DPT Torticollis

2:00-3:00 Emily Zoltai, CPO The Comparative Effects of a Sub-Ischial vs. Ischial Containment Socket on Patient Satisfaction and Comfort from the Perspective of a Low-Mobility Veteran

3:00-3:15 Exhibits Open Break in Garden Ballroom

3:15-4:00 Todd DeWees, CPO  Rotation Plasty

4:00-5:00 Andrew Georgiadis, Orthopedic Surgeon, MD Observational Gait

5:00-7:00 Happy Hour with drinks and Hors d’oeuvres



Friday 09/26/2025

7:00-8:00 Registration Exhibits Open 

7:30-8:00 NPC Business meeting

8:00-8:30  AAOP update

Tara Wright, MSOP, CPO, LPO, FAAOP AAOP Updates
8:30-9:30 Matthew Major, PhD Gait and Mobility Assessment

9:30-10:00 Kierra J. Falbo, MPO, CPO Mapping the Invisible: Strategic Approaches to Phantom Limb Pain Measurement

10:00-10:30 Exhibits Open Break in Garden Ballroom

10:30-11:30  Todd DeWees second talk

11:30-12:00 Elissa Kovala MSOPP Updates

12:00-1:00 Exhibits Open Lunch in Garden Ballroom MSOPP Raffle
1:00-1:30 Jim Lawson ABC Updates and What is POP

1:30-2:30 Tara Wright, CPO and Emma Wagner The Influence of Lived Experience on O&P Care

2:30-3:30 Andy Sabean, CP Thermal injury Prosthetic Rehabilitation for Upper limb