2025 LESS CHAOS: PHL

The LESS (Lower Extremity Surgical Symposium) CHAOS: PHL is scheduled for Wednesday, April 23 - Saturday, April 26, 2025, at the Wyndham Philadelphia Historical District. Up to 37.0 CECH are planned for this meeting with full participation.

LESS CHAOS: PHL Education Chairman Guido LaPorta, DPM invites you to the symposium featuring didactic lecture workshops and a cadaveric dissection course.

HELPFUL LINKS

Lecture Schedule
Event Registration
Registration Brochure
Didactic Lectures
Sawbones Workshops
Flaps/Graphs Cadaver Workshop
Hotel Reservations
CECH Attendance Verification Times

Symposium Description

“WE LIVE IN A DATA-DRIVEN WORLD”

Frequently, a review of the literature for evidence-based information reveals the available evidence to be incomplete. We may therefore be forced to make decisions based on limited experience, comfort zone practices, or industry recommendations.

The LESS CHAOS Clinical Meeting is designed to present the registrant with the latest information on contemporary topics and controversies in Reconstructive, Revisional and Deformity Correction Surgery. Our experienced Instructors have the ability to blend their experience with evidence-based knowledge and present their topics in an efficient, thorough, and collegial fashion.

This information should encourage the acquisition of data integration skills and precision questioning, allowing us to make smarter decisions in our clinical and surgical practice.

who should attend this course?

This symposium is intended for:

Attending Surgeons
Fellows
Residents

who perform Reconstructive and Revisional Surgery for complex foot, ankle and leg deformities.

No pre-requisite skills or knowledge are required to participate in the symposium.

DIDACTIC LECTURES

DPM Meeting Attendees

Registered meeting attendees will receive four days of didactic lectures from experts in their area of medicine and podiatric surgery. Up to 37 CECH are anticipated for this event as the lecture schedule develops. A sampling of lecture topics includes Revision and Reconstructive Foot and Ankle Surgery, and Comprehensive Management of Cavus Foot Deformity.

Sawbones workshops

Sawbones workshops are included with your registration fee and scheduled for Thursday, Friday, and Saturday afternoons. Some workshop topics include Constrained Ankle Distraction Frame, Transverse Bone Traction, Ankle Varus-Procurvatum with Hexapod, Midfoot Charcot with Hexapod (Butt Frame), and Hinged Equinus Frame.

cadaver workshop

Up to 30 registered meeting attendees have the opportunity to attend a Flaps and Grafts/Peripheral Nerve Surgery hands-on cadaver workshop at the nearby Temple University School of Podiatric Medicine on Saturday, April 26 from 8:30 am - 4:30 pm. Registration is limited to 30 slots at a cost of $250 each, with a 2:1 attendee to cadaver ratio.

exhibitors

Trillant

Commercial interests providing an unrestriced educational grant to support LESS CHAOS: PHL receive a complimentary exhibit table in the Wyndham pre-function area. Company reps may network with meeting attendees during the scheduled breaks, lunches, and reception. Contact Lara Beer-Caulfield for more information about providing a grant to support this event, or to secure your table as a confirmed grant provider.

HOTEL RESERVATIONS

Valley Forge Raddison

Discounted guest room accommodations are available at the Wyndham Philadelphia Historic District. Located right in the heart of where history was made in downtown Philly, discounted room rates are $189/night, plus taxes and fees. Meeting participants can make reservations online through March 24, 2025, or until the room block commitment has been met, whichever comes first.