Saturday, March 27, 2021
8:00 am - 12:30 pm
Welcome to the 1st of 5 virtual sessions for our 2021 Hand Conference
- This session cost $55 for members and $85 for non-members
- This session awards 4 CEU credits
- Presenters are live including a panel discussion
- Session begins at 8:00 AM Pacific Time on March 27, 2021
Presenters
- Dr. Joy MacDermid: Opening Keynote: The importance of Evidence Based Practice in Hand Therapy
- Dr. Keith Denkler: Dupuytren’s Disease: Incise, Excise, Dissolve
- Dr. Andrew Gutow: Open Release for Dupuytren’s Disease: The Gold Standard?
- Saba Kamal: Efficacy of Splinting for Dupuytren’s Disease
- Live Panel Discussion, Questions Moderated from Chat
Registration for this webinar is now closed
Dr. Joy MacDermid is a professor at McMaster University’s School of Rehabilitation Science. Dr. MacDermid is a physical therapist, hand therapist, and clinical epidemiologist. She is also Co-director of the Hand and Upper Limb Centre (HULC) Clinical Research Lab. She is cross appointed into Health Research Methodology at McMaster University. Her teaching and research emphasize evidence-based practice, clinical measurement, and knowledge translation. She has many recent publications in textbooks as well as journal publications.
Dr. Keith Denkler is an accomplished, board certified plastic surgeon, serving the San Francisco Bay Area since 1989. His private practice in Marin County offers both aesthetic, reconstructive and hand surgery.
Dr. Denkler is a clinical professor of plastic surgery at UCSF, teaching plastic surgery residents. In addition to his work in cosmetic surgery, Dr. Denkler is internationally renowned for his use of multiple approaches in treating the debilitating effects of Dupuytren’s contracture. His pioneer investigational work documenting the safety of epinephrine with local anesthesia contributed to the origination of “wide-awake hand surgery.” He was also one of the first doctors to publish a study showing that Dupuytren’s contractures can be surgically released in an in-office procedure under local anesthesia with epinephrine. He also specializes in treating this diagnosis with Needle Aponeurotomy and Xiaflex.
Dr. Denkler attended medical school at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, and moved to San Francisco to complete his hand fellowship training. Dr. Denkler continues to generously give his time through volunteer work at UCSF and the Marin Community Clinic.
Dr. Andrew Gutow is actively involved in the field of orthopedic medicine at the national level, teaching other surgeons best practices in caring for their patients’ hand problems through his scholarly writings and lectures. He is the co-editor of an issue of Hand Clinics dedicated to the treatment of distal radius (wrist) fractures, one of the most common hand injuries. Dr. Gutow enjoys regularly speaking at national meetings, including the Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons.
He treats patients at Palo Alto Medical Foundation in Palo Alto, CA and works as an adjunct Clinical Professor at Stanford University. Dr. Gutow attended the University of Michigan and is Board Certified in Hand Surgery. He did his residency at the department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Yale New Haven Hospital, CT, and a Hand Fellowship in Hand and Microsurgery at Joseph Boyes, University Southern California Medical Center/Los Angeles County Medical Center.
Saba Kamal – Director of Hands-On Care – Saba is a Certified Hand Therapist and was the American Society of Hand Therapists – California Chapter President for 2010, 2011 and 2018 and recipient of 2010 and 2011 National Chapter awards. She is a member of American Society of Shoulder and Elbow Therapists. ASSET is a group of multidisciplinary professionals in the area of shoulder and elbow rehabilitation.
She is also a member of American Association of Hand Surgery (AAHS) She was invited to a round table discussion of Emerging practices in Dupuytren’s Disease and has written an article for them on this topic and on Management of Dystonia via Taping. She was invited to speak at the 2018 AAHS conference in Arizona on Neuropathic Pain, and hosted a panel in 2019 on a discussion at the International Federation of Societies of Hand Therapists in Berlin, Germany. She also presented at the American Society of Peripheral Nerves (ASPN) meeting on the “Latest in Modalities in the Treament of Nerve Injuries” in Palm Desert 2019. She has written a chapter on Reasoning and Critical thinking in Hand and Upper extremity Rehab for a textbook “Fundamentals of Hand Therapy”.