March 29, 2021
Carlin Senter, M.D., Program Chair for the 2021 Annual AMSSM Assembly
CJSM is the official journal of the American Medical Society for Sports activities Medication (AMSSM), and so we’re particularly looking forward to the upcoming AMSSM Annual Assembly to be happening just about (that means: you possibly can ‘contact bases’ wherever on the planet) 13 – 18 April, 2021.
Carlin Senter, M.D. is the Director of Main Care Sports activities Medication on the College of California, San Francisco, and the Program Chair for #AMSSM2021. We are able to solely think about how busy she is correct now, with just a few weeks left earlier than the large occasion.
One way or the other, she discovered the time to allow us to interview her. Thanks, Dr. Senter, and ‘see’ you in a number of weeks on the assembly.
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1. CJSM: Dr. Senter, you’re the Program Chair for the upcoming AMSSM 2021 assembly, to be held just about, and we all know you’ve been very, very busy with the preparations. What have been a few of your important challenges getting this system up and working in the midst of a pandemic? Have there been any unexpected alternatives {that a} digital assembly has provided you and the society?
Carlin Senter, M.D. (CS): Really chairing the Program Planning Committee was an important venture for me to dig into throughout all the uncertainty and challenges of 2020. I actually take pleasure in planning CME conferences and have expertise doing so, so this was a enjoyable venture for me. I really like the creativity concerned in planning these conferences and the best way you get to form a gathering round necessary themes and sizzling matters. Planning a gathering additionally forces me to maintain up on all the newest literature. The AMSSM employees is extremely expert and skilled planning the assembly, so their steering has been invaluable. I even have an superior Program Planning Committee and nice mentors from AMSSM who’ve helped me all through the planning course of, so actually it’s been an honor and really fulfilling to work on this all through 2020-2021.
Once we determined to go digital with the assembly, we had been after all dissatisfied to not get to be in particular person to see one another, and to satisfy and honor our nationwide and worldwide visitor audio system in particular person. Nevertheless the digital format does have advantages. From an academic standpoint, attendees can have an opportunity to view 100% of the assembly within the consolation of their houses. If you wish to attend 100% of the morning ICLs you are able to do so! If you wish to watch each the session on Knees and Operating in addition to the session on Hips and Backbone you are able to do so! If you wish to attend in your PJs or in your spin bike you are able to do so! These watching reside can have an opportunity to ask questions of our audio system utilizing the assembly app, simply as if we had been in particular person. For our society, I believe a digital assembly permits extra folks from across the nation and world wide to attend at decrease value, saving on resort and journey. I’m actually hoping that we’ve an important turnout!
2. CJSM: Because the official journal of AMSSM, CJSM has already revealed (in our March 2021 concern) the analysis abstracts and case podium abstracts for the assembly. We’re trying ahead to seeing these podium shows, and we’re trying ahead to lots of the audio system you’ve invited. What are a number of the huge highlights you’ve in retailer for attendees?
CS: So many highlights, the place to begin? We constructed the assembly across the themes of train drugs and well being fairness in sports activities drugs. We have now an amazing line up of audio system, from consultants inside our group to invited friends from across the nation and world wide. We’ll hear from worldwide consultants in train drugs, bodily exercise promotion, behavioral change, well being fairness, prevention of sexual violence in sport and Title IX.
I’m actually excited to listen to talks about damage prevention in throwing athletes, shared determination making and orthobiologics, train vs modalities as remedy for tendinosis, the very newest on rehab for femoroacetabular impingement and all the newest on sports activities diet.
There can be superior talks about damage prevention in runners, train to deal with concussion, administration of difficult stress fractures and figuring out osteoarthritis mimickers. For the group docs on the market, we’ll study the keys about COVID and cardiology, learn how to counsel our sufferers about e-Cigarette use, care of the transgender athlete, managing type-1 diabetes in athletes and the way the menstrual cycle impacts athletic efficiency. We’ll hear from AMSSM members which have been leaders within the creation and execution of sport coverage throughout COVID-19 and we’ll take into consideration how advocacy can promote entry to sports activities drugs care.
There can be time for reflection on the shut of the assembly on Sunday as we take heed to AMSSM members’ take-homes from their very own areas of experience by COVID-19. There are over 20 morning tutorial course lectures that supply attendees an opportunity to satisfy with audio system in a small group setting to dive deeper into a selected matter. These classes supply a extremely superb alternative for members to satisfy one another and to ask questions of, in lots of instances, an internationally recognized skilled within the subject.
Lastly, if I’m completely sincere, one in every of my favourite occasions on the AMSSM conferences are the morning train classes, and this 12 months we’re lucky to have 3 morning classes in addition to exercise breaks between talks to maintain us transferring and energized. I’ll see you there!
3. CJSM: You’re on Twitter – would you compose a tweet for #AMSSM2021 that we are able to share?
CS: Sports activities drugs followers! Digital #AMSSM2021 is April 13-28, 2021. Be part of us for the newest and most important sports activities drugs data, head to toe, from nationwide and worldwide consultants. That is your one-stop sports activities drugs replace! (@carlin_senter)
4. CJSM: We don’t need to lose sight that you’ve got a day job (although presumably most of your work hours now are consumed with this assembly!!!). Are you able to inform the readers a little bit bit about your follow at UCSF and your explicit analysis pursuits?
CS: I’m the Director of Main Care Sports activities Medication right here at UCSF, the place I follow major care inner drugs and sports activities drugs. My objective in each practices is to assist each affected person be an athlete. I’m a group doctor for San Francisco Unified College District’s Washington Highschool and College of San Francisco. I’m co-founder and co-director of the UCSF Sports activities Concussion Program.
As a clinician-educator, my analysis objective is to determine the most effective methods to show musculoskeletal drugs to medical college students, residents and training clinicians. I run the UCSF Resident Injection Clinic (RIC), a clinic embedded in our major care drugs clinic the place residents consider sufferers with knee and shoulder ache and carry out steroid injections when indicated. We’re finding out the outcomes of the RIC to attempt to determine what number of injections a learner wants with a purpose to competently carry out a knee or shoulder injection. I co-chair two annual UCSF CME programs and communicate in quite a lot of further programs every year totally on matters the place drugs meets sports activities drugs.
I really feel actually lucky to have the job I’ve – I discover the interaction between the work I do in major care and sports activities drugs actually fascinating and I really like that educating permits me to be artistic and prompts me to maintain up on the newest literature.
5. CJSM: Lastly — you’re a program chair and never a prognosticator, however we’ve to ask: what are the chances that AMSSM 2022 will happen in particular person in Austin TX subsequent April? Can we ‘maintain Austin bizarre’ in 2022?
CS: I believe odds are nice that we’ll be assembly collectively in particular person in Austin in April 2022. Kyle Goerl, M.D. is the 2022 Program Planning Chair and has chosen a implausible committee that’s already at work on placing collectively a tremendous assembly! I’ll see you there.
