Kevin D. Plancher, MD, MPH Attends 2022 AAHS Annual Meeting

New York and Greenwich, CT
January 12, 2022

Kevin D. Plancher, MD, MPH attended the 2022 American Association for Hand Surgery (AAHS) Annual Meeting in Carlsbad, California this week sitting as Chair on an instructional course. Instructed by Doctors Bohn, Kuzel, and Materi, attendees enjoyed Missed or “Mismanaged: How To Not Be Seen”. This course highlighted and discussed commonly missed conditions within the hand with the idea that trained professionals can always improve and learn from past mistakes. Following the session, participants are able to:

1. Identify potential conditions that can be missed or mismanaged within hand surgery.
2. Discuss how to better manage conditions that can easily be mismanaged.
3. Discuss how to better avoid easily mismanaged conditions.
4. Discuss how to better avoid easily missed conditions.
5. Develop a treatment algorithm for management of missed and mismanaged conditions.

Kevin D. Plancher, MD, MPH, is a board-certified orthopaedic surgeon and founder of Plancher Orthopaedics. Dr. Plancher is a Clinical Professor, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, at Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine and an Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, at the Weill Cornell Medical College, Cornell University in New York.

Plancher Orthopaedics is a comprehensive orthopaedics and sports medicine practice with offices in New York City and Greenwich, CT. Leaders in orthopaedics, sports medicine, and acute emergency treatment of sports injuries and rehabilitation utilizing the latest techniques in orthopaedic care. plancherortho.com.