Location: Winterthur Cantonal Hospital, KSW Auditorium
Date: Tuesday, September 15, 2026
Time: 8:00 a.m. – 5:15 p.m.
Conference languages: German, English
Presentation text: English (no translation)
Conference organizers: Prof. Johannes D. Bastian, M.D., Fintan Aregger, M.D., and Dimitrios Iliakis, M.D.
Tuesday, September 15, 2026, 8:00 a.m. – 5:15 p.m.
Door Opening and Registration
8:00 – 8:45 a.m.
Welcome and Official Opening
8:45 – 9:00 a.m.
15'
Johannes Bastian, Emanuel Benninger, Dimitrios Iliakis
Welcome and Introduction
General Session I
9:00 – 10:30 a.m., KSW Auditorium
Session I: Elective Arthroplasty in Older Adults
9:00 – 9:45 a.m. | Moderation: Johannes Bastian, Dimitrios Iliakis
15'
Cornel Sieber
Patient Selection and Frailty: Which Older Adults Benefit from Elective Arthroplasty?
15'
Martin Beck
SIRIS: What Does the Swiss Implant Registry Tell Us About Outcomes and Implant Selection?
15'
Mario Morgenstern
Revision Surgery: How to Get It Right, with a Focus on Periprosthetic Joint Infection (PJI)
Key Note Lecture I
9:45 – 10:30 a.m. | Moderation: Fintan Aregger
45'
Tanja Krones
Arthroplasty in the Oldest Old: Can We Afford It?
Speed Coffee
10:30 – 10:45 a.m.
Workshop Session I & II
11:00 – 11:45 a.m. | 1st round (45 minutes each)
12:00 – 12:45 p.m. | 2nd round (45 minutes each)
1
45'
Complex Case Discussion (Lecture hall)
Johannes Bastian, Björn Christian Link
2
45'
Gamma4 - Stryker (Room 1)
Silviya Ivanova
3
45'
Retrograde Nailing for Periprosthetic Fractures Around the Knee - Depuy/Synthes (Room 2)
Daniel Wagner
4
45'
Geriatric Topic: Osteoporosis – When and How to Initiate Treatment (Room 3)
Lukas Wildi
5
45'
Nursing Makes a Difference: Serial Trial Intervention in Everyday Orthogeriatric Practice (Room 4)
Raffaela Inauen, Sarah Hans, Silvia Brunner
6
45'
Eat to walk - Evidence-Based Interventions (Room 5)
Karin Blum
7
45'
Physiotherapy: Virtual Reality – Experience with Age-Related Changes in Movement and Perception (Room 6)
Peter Brehm, Julia Brechbühl
Lunch break and visit to the industrial exhibition
12:45 – 1:45 p.m.
General Session II: Periprosthetic Fractures
2:00 – 2:45 p.m. | Auditorium KSW | Moderation: Johannes Bastian, Dimitrios Iliakis
15'
Hannes Kuttner
Periprosthetic Fractures Around the Hip - How Should They Be Managed?
15'
Fintan Aregger
Periprosthetic Fractures Around the Knee - How Should They Be Managed?
15'
Christian Spross
Periprosthetic Fractures Around the Shoulder - How Should They Be Managed?
Key Note Lecture II
2:45 – 3:30 p.m. | Moderation: Anke Scheel-Sailer
45'
Tobias Kappenschneider
Risk Stratification in Geriatric Orthopaedics: Arthroplasty
Coffee break and poster session, networking
3:30 – 4:15 p.m. | Moderation: Franz Haller, Fintan Aregger
General Session III: Interdisciplinary Preparation, Perioperative Support and Follow-up After Arthroplasty
4:15 – 5:00 p.m. | Moderation: Franz Haller, Fintan Aregger
15'
Patrick Wüthrich
Preoperative Prehabilitation - “Better In, Better Out” Also in Older Adults?
15'
Franz Haller
Concurrent Acute Geriatric Co-Management Models in Elective Orthopaedics
15'
Anke Scheel-Sailer
Postoperative Care After Elective Arthroplasty in Advanced Age: Inpatient Rehabilitation or Direct Discharge Home?
Closing
5:00 – 5:15 p.m.
15'
Johannes Bastian, Fintan Aregger, Dimitrios Iliakis
Summary of the Day, Closing Remarks and Outlook
