This will provide engagement to the audience. It will provide the audience with useful tips and recommendations so that they can apply them immediately when they return in practice.

This is an area that, as orthopaedic surgeons, we probably have not paid near as much attention to as we should. We tend to focus on the implants that we use and the other technical aspects of the procedure. However, the ability to improve outcomes by focusing on nutrition... is an often underemphasized and overlooked area.

This session is important because not only will we discuss challenges that we face with regards to gender diversity and orthopaedics, but we'll also focus on solutions and real tangible things that each of us can do day-to-day to improve diversity in our field.

The Annual Meeting has the ability to get people from all over the country to talk about different practices and also help integrate trauma with sports with foot and ankle. So you get a better understanding and a more cohesive approach to how we practice orthopaedics.

It'll be a group of both arthroplasty as well as trauma surgeons discussing cases that are most challenging that require a skill set from both of these specialties. A lot of these cases, there's not one right answer. There'll be great debate and a lot to learn.