| 08:00-09:00 |
Registration |
| 09:00-09:40 |
Welcome Address
Panayiotis J. Papagelopoulos (Greece) - Peter Rose (USA) - Pietro Ruggieri (Italy) |
| 09:40-09:50 |
Salutations
Minister of Education
Konstantinos Vlasis (Greece)
Minister of Health
Adonis Georgiadis (Greece)
Deputy Minister of Health
Marios Themistocleous (Greece)
Chief Executive, 2nd Regional Health Authority of Piraeus and Aegean Islands
Christos Roilos (Greece) |
| 09:50-10:20 |
Presentation of Spetses
Mayor of Spetses |
| 10:20-11:00 |
History of Sacropelvic Tumors at Mayo Clinic
Franklin H. Sim (USA) |
| 11:00-11:30 |
Coffee Break |
| 11:30-13:00 |
Soft Tissue Tumors
Moderators: TBA - Evanthia Galanis (USA) - Vassilios Kontogeorgakos (Greece)
| 11:30-11:45 |
Classification & Diagnosis of Soft Tissue Tumors
Dionysios Papachristou (Greece) | | 11:45-12:00 |
Imaging Soft Tissue Tumors
Olympia Papakonstantinou(Greece) | | 12:00-12:15 |
Work-Up, Biopsy, and Staging of Soft Tissue Tumors
Christos Vottis (Greece) |
| 12:15-12:30 |
Neodjuvant Chemotherapy for Soft Tissue Sarcomas
Gina D’Amato (USA) |
| 12:30-12:45 |
Adjuvant Radiation Therapy for Soft Tissue Sarcomas
Dimitra
Michaletou (Greece) |
| 12:45-13:00 |
Discussion |
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| 13:00-14:00 |
Lunch Break |
| 14:00-15:15 |
Limb Salvage for Soft Tissue Sarcomas
Moderators: Dionysios Papachristou (Greece) - Peter Rose (USA) - Doris Wenger (USA)
| 14:00-14:15 |
Soft Tissue Sarcomas of the Upper Extremity
TBA |
| 14:15-14:30 |
Soft Tissue Sarcomas of the Lower Extremity
Ahmad Shehadeh (Jordan) |
| 14:30-14:45 |
Unplanned Excision of Soft Tissue Sarcomas
Vassilios Kontogeorgakos (Greece) |
| 14:45-15:00 |
Soft Tissue Reconstruction after resection of upper
extremity and hand tumors
Parthena Deskoulidi (Greece) |
| 15:00- 15:15 |
Discussion |
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| 15:15-16:45 |
Challenging Cases
Moderators: TBA - Ahmad Shehadeh (Jordan) - Olympia Papakonstantinou (Greece)
| 15:15-15:30 |
What’s new in WHO 2026 classification of soft tissue and bone tumors
Penelope Korkolopoulou (Greece) |
| 15:30-15:45 |
Metastatic Ewing Sarcoma
Bonilla Huertas Patricia (Panama) |
| 15:45-16:00 |
Sacrectomy
for Sacral Tumors with or Without Lumbopelvic Fixation: Impact of Resection
Level on Functional Outcomes
Mirkazemi Masoud (Iran) |
| 16:00-16:15 |
Infected Distal Femoral Megaprosthesis: Remove, Revise, or Salvage?
Simona Karapandzevska (North Macedonia) |
| 16:15-16:30 |
Unplanned Fixation of a Pathologic Distal Femur Fracture: Oncologic Reconstruction and Subsequent Failure
Rezeart Dalipi (North Macedonia) |
| 16:30-16:45 |
Plastic Reconstruction for lower extremity and sacrum tumors
TBA |
| 16:45-17:00 |
Discussion |
|
| 20:00 |
Welcome Reception at Poseidonion Grand Hotel |
| 09:00-10:15 |
Bone Tumors
Moderators: Penelope Korkolopoulou (Greece) - Gina D’ Amato (USA) - Andreas Mavrogenis (Greece)
| 09:00-09:15 |
Classification & Pathologic Diagnosis of Bone Tumors
George Agrogiannis(Greece) |
| 09:15-09:30 |
Work-Up, Biopsy, and Staging of Bone Tumors
Nikolaos Stavropoulos(Greece) |
| 09:30-09:45 |
Imaging Bone Tumors
Doris Wenger (USA) | | 09:45-10:00 |
Chemotherapy for Bone Sarcomas (Osteosarcoma- Ewing Sarcoma)
Anastasios Kyriazoglou(USA) |
| 10:00-10:15 |
Radiation therapy for bone tumors
Safia Ahmed (USA) |
| 10:15-10:30 |
Discussion |
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| 10:30-10:45 |
Coffee Break |
| 10:45-12:15 |
Limb Salvage Surgery for Bone Tumors
Moderators: Valerae Lewis (USA) - TBA - Peter Rose (USA)
| 10:45-11:00 |
Innovations in Musculoskeletal Oncology
Pietro Ruggieri (Italy) |
| 11:00-11:15 |
Shoulder Girdle - Proximal Humerus Resection & Reconstruction
Ioannis Trikoupis (Greece) |
| 11:15-11:30 |
Elbow - Distal Humerus – Proximal Ulna Resection & Reconstruction
Vasileios Kontogeorgakos (Greece) |
| 11:30-11:45 |
Pelvic Reconstruction using 3D-printed implants
Joseph Benevenia (USA) |
| 11:45- 12:00 |
Oncologic Precision Through 3D Planning: Integrating LAB3D into “Complex" Resections
Eduardo Ortiz Cruz (Spain) |
| 12:00-12:15 |
Discussion |
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| 12:15-13:30 |
Limb Salvage Surgery for Bone Tumors
Moderators: Dundar Sabah (Turkey) - Joseph Benevenia (USA) - TBA
| 12:15-12:30 |
Proximal Femur - Total Femur
Andreas Mavrogenis (Greece) | | 12:30-12:45 |
Distal Femur
Kyriakos Papavasileiou (Greece) |
| 12:45-13:00 |
Proximal Tibia – Ankle
Andrea Angelini (Italy) |
| 13:00-13:15 |
Pediatric Sarcoma Reconstructions. Do You Know the Name of Your Pediatrics Orthopedic Surgeon and Your Plastic Surgeon?
Eduardo Jose Ortiz Cruz (Spain) | | 13:15-13:30 |
Discussion |
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| 13:30-14:30 |
Lunch Break |
| 14:30-15:45 |
Pelvic and Spine Tumors
Moderators: Pietro Ruggieri (Italy) - Vasilios Kontogeorgakos (Greece) - Konstantinos Soultanis (Greece)
| 14:30-14:45 |
Surgical Management of Pelvic Sarcomas in Children and Adolescents with and without Reconstruction
Valerae Lewis (USA) |
| 14:45-15:00 |
Reconstruction of the Pelvis Following Sarcoma Resection in Adults
Francis Hornicek (USA) |
| 15:00-15:15 |
Primary Tumors of the Spine and Sacrum
Peter Rose (USA) |
| 15:15-15:30 |
Spine and Sacrum tumors, resection considerations and reconstruction options
Ahmed Aoude (Canada) |
| 15:30-15:45 |
Discussion |
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| 15:45-16:30 |
Metastatic Bone Disease
Moderator: Michael O
Reilly (USA) - George Sapkas (Greece) - Anastasios Kyriazoglou (USA)
| 15:45-16:00 |
Metastatic Tumors of the spine
Karim Mohammed (USA) |
| 16:00-16:15 |
Immunotherapy in Bone Metastases
Gina D’Amato (USA) |
| 16:15-16:30 |
Osteoplasty for Metastatic Disease of the Spine
Dimitris Filippiadis (Greece)
| | 16:30-16:45 |
Discussion |
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| 16:45-17:15 |
Megaprosthetic Infections
Moderator: Pietro Ruggieri (Greece)
| 16:45-17:00 |
Megaprosthetic Infections
Panayiotis Papagelopoulos (Greece) |
| 17:00-17:15 |
Periprosthetic Infections. Mayo Clinic Experience
Virk Abinash (USA) |
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| 17:15-19:30 |
My Challenging Tumor Cases: Faculty Presentations
Discussion Panel: Francis Hornicek (USA) - TBA - Pietro Ruggieri (Italy) - George Agrogiannis (Greece) - Joseph Benevenia(USA)
| 17:15-17:30 |
Investigating
the rate of infection in tumoral distal femur and proximal tibia
prostheses with and without local antibiotic prophylaxis therapy
(2018-2024)
Masoud Mirkazemi (Iran) |
| 17:30-17:45 |
Minimally Invasive Ablation Techniques for Benign Bone & Soft Tissue Tumors
Dimitris Filippiadis (Greece) |
| 17:45-18:00 |
Is
Shoulder Arthrodesis with a Vascularized Fibular Graft Functionally
Worthwhile After Tumor Resection of the Proximal Humerus?
Adyb Khal (Romania) |
| 18:00-18:15 |
Biologic reconstruction with Extracorporeal Radiation and Reimplantation for Diaphyseal Osteosarcoma
Anthony Bozzo (Canada) |
| 18:15-18:30 |
Long-term Follow-up of Vascularized Fibular Epiphyseal Transfers in Children Following Oncological Resections
Adyb Khal (Romania) |
| 18:30-18:45 |
Metastatic AdenoCA - Elbow Path Fx
Joseph Benevenia (USA) |
| 18:45-19:00 |
Chondrosarcoma of Sacroiliac Joint R1 + 5 resection
Joseph Benevenia (USA) |
| 19:00-19:15 |
Talus PECOMA - CAS-Guided Limb Preservation
Montreuil Julie (Canada) |
| 19:15-19:30 |
Florid Reactive Periostitis of the Middle Phalanx
of the Ring Finger
Eleni Ntouvali (Greece) |
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Saturday, July 11th, 2026
| 09:00-11:00 |
Megaprosthetic Reconstruction for Non-neoplastic Conditions
Moderators: Joseph Benevenia (USA) - Christos Vottis (Greece) -
| 09:00-09:15 |
Preoperative Workup for Revision Joint Replacement
Thomas Kostakos (Greece) | | :15-09:30 |
Limb Salvage After Failed Shoulder and Elbow Reconstruction
TBA |
| 09:30-09:45 |
Limb Salvage After Failed Hip (Acetabulum) Reconstruction
Panayiotis Megaloikonomos (Greece) |
| 09:45-10:00 |
Limb Salvage after failed Hip (Femur) reconstruction
Dundar Sabah (Turkey) |
| 10:00-10:15 |
Limb Salvage After Failed Knee Reconstruction
Nikolaos Stavropoulos (Greece) | | 10:15-10:30 |
Economic BURDN in musculoskeletal tumor patient
Eirini Vasiliki Kormentza (Greece) |
| 10:30-11:00 |
Discussion |
|
| 11:00-11:30 |
Coffee Break |
| 11:30-13:00 |
My Challenging Tumor Cases: Faculty Presentations
Moderators: Levent Eralp (Turkey) - Theodoros Kormas (Greece) - Doris Wenger (USA)
| 11:30-11:45 |
Recurrent GCT bone prox Humerus Subchondral bone grafting
Joseph Benevenia (USA) |
| 11:45-12:00 |
Management of previously treated Hip arthritis and incidental chondrosarcoma
Valerae Lewis (USA) |
| 12:00-12:15 |
Chondrosarcoma of Sacroiliac Joint R1 + 5 resection
Joseph Benevenia (USA) |
| 12:15-12:30 |
Oligometastatic Melanoma - Distal Humerus & Elbow
Joseph Benevenia (USA) |
| 12:30-12:45 |
Microsurgical Reconstruction with Free Osseous and Osseo-Cutaneous Flaps using VSP and 3d Printing Technology for Pre-Op Modeling and Patient Specific Instrumentation - Cutting Guides
Konstantinos Benetatos (Greece) |
| 12:45-13:00 |
Limb sparing surgery. A journey from machines to molecules
Peter Choong (Australia) |
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| 13:00-13:40 |
Lunch Break |
| 13:40-14:40 |
My Challenging Tumor Cases: Faculty Presentations
Moderators: Harzem Ozger (Turkey) - Joseph Benevenia (USA) - Panagiotis Megaloikonomos (Greece)
| 13:40-13:55 |
Complications of total femur replacement
Vasileios Apostolopoulos (Czech Republic) |
| 13:55-14:10 |
Complications In Limb Salvage Surgery in Children and Management Strategies
Harzem Ozger (Turkey) |
| 14:10-14:25 |
A nightmare scenario: Previous sacropelvic resection with positive margins, infected bone and soft tissue defect
Levent Eralp (Turkey) |
| 14:25-14:40 |
Pelvic Ewings - Managing arthritis
Peter Choong (Australia) |
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| 16:00 |
Closing Remarks |