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| Categories | Till 15th May 2026 | Till 15th July 2026 | Till 31st Aug 2026 | Spot |
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| Non-Members | 6500 + 18 % GST = ₹7670 | 8000 + 18 % GST = ₹9440 | 10500 + 18 %GST = ₹12390 | 14000 + 18 % GST = ₹16520 |
| Residents | 2500 + 18 % GST = ₹2950 | 4000 + 18 % GST = ₹4720 | 5000 + 18 % GST = ₹5900 | 6000 + 18 % GST = ₹7080 |
| Date | Cancellation charges |
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| Before 15th July 2026 | 40% of registration fees |
| Before 15th August 2026 | 80% of registration fees |
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Additional workshop package (11th Sep.2026) |
₹5000 (including GST) | Disclosed soon |
Taj Hari Mahal, Jodhpur | 12 Sept 2026
| 09:00 - 09:50 | Session 1: The Technologies of Cartilage Repair | Chairs: Drs. Rajat Jangir, Sarthak Patnaik |
| 09:00 - 09:10 | Marrow Stimulation Techniques: The End Game? (Indications in Current Era) | Dr. Rahul Shivadey |
| 09:10 - 09:20 | The Sources of Cells in Cartilage Repair - Autogenous to Heterogenous | Dr. Ashim Gupta |
| 09:20 - 09:30 | Types of Biomaterials Useful for Engineered Scaffolds | Dr. Muhammad Sakti |
| 09:30 - 09:40 | Augmentation of Cartilage Repair with Biomaterials- Membranes or BMAC | Dr. Stefan Nehrer |
| 09:40 - 09:50 | From Cartilage Biopsy to Implantation of ACI- Step by Step | Dr. Deepak Goyal |
| 09:50 - 10:40 | Session 2: The Significance of Bone Underneath | Chairs: Drs. Rajesh Rajnish, Karnav Panchal |
| 09:50 - 10:00 | The Role SC Bone Plays in Cartilage Health | Dr. Manish Singh |
| 10:00 - 10:10 | Bone Marrow Edema: What does it Tell Us? | Dr. S Saseendar |
| 10:10 - 10:20 | Osteochondral Unit: The Crosstalk | Dr. Murat Bozkurt |
| 10:20 - 10:30 | Osteonecrosis: Types and Diagnoses | Dr. Deepak Goyal |
| 10:30 - 10:40 | Managing Osteonecrosis of Knee | Dr. Mukesh Laddha |
| 10:40 - 11:00 | Tea Break | |
| 11:00 - 11:15 | Panel discussion 1: Disease of Subchondral Bone and Cartilage Health Panelists: Drs. Manish Singh, Rahul Shivadey, Samundeeswari Sassender, Saumya Agarwal |
Speaker: Dr. Rajat Jangir Chairs: Drs. Arun Vaishy, Dhrumil Patel |
| 11:15 - 11:30 | Relive/Live Surgery 1: Scaffold Implantation/BMAC for Chondral Defect | Dr. Ankit Varshney |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Session 3: Preferences in Knee Cartilage Repair: Let's Debate - Part A | Jury: Drs. Daivesh Shah, Rahul Shivadey |
| 11:30 - 11:45 | Debate 1: BMAC vs Autologous Chondrocytes | |
| 11:30 - 11:35 | BMAC is a Versatile Option | Dr. Navaladi Shankar |
| 11:35 - 11:40 | Live Autologous Chondrocytes are Here to Stay | Dr. Mukesh Laddha |
| 11:40 - 11:45 | Rebuttal | |
| 11:45 - 12:00 | Debate 2: OCD Femur | |
| 11:45 - 11:50 | I Prefer to do an OCT technique in OCD | Dr. Sumit Banerjee |
| 11:50 - 11:55 | I Rather Prefer to Fix OCD | Dr. Santosh Sahanand |
| 11:55 - 12:00 | Rebuttal | |
| 12:00 - 12:45 | Session 4: Patellar Cartilage: A 'Mrigtrishna' | Chairs: Drs. Mahesh Bhati, Ankit Varshney, Ashok Bishnoi |
| 12:00 - 12:10 | Conservative Management of CMP | Dr. Daivesh Shah |
| 12:10 - 12:30 | It is Time to Start Measuring TTTG in 15° of Flexion | Dr. Deepak Goyal |
| 12:30 - 12:45 | Panel discussion 2: Case-Based Management of Patellar Lesions Panelists: Drs. Navaladi Shankar, Deepak Goyal, Murat Bozkurt, Stephen Nehrer |
Speaker: Dr. Dhrumil |
| 12:45 - 13:00 | Relive/Live Surgery 2: OCD fixation | Dr. Santosh Sahanand |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch | |
| 14:00 - 15:40 | Session 5: The Standards of Cartilage Care and Current Evidence | Chairs: Drs. PS Jayaprasad, Laxman Choudhary, Kishore Raichandani |
| 14:00 - 14:15 | Relive/Live Surgery 3: Mosaicplasty/OATS | Dr. S Saseendar |
| 14:15 - 14:25 | Osteochondral Cylinder Autografts: Still Holding the Turf | Dr. Rajat Jangir |
| 14:25 - 14:35 | ACI is a Gold Standard: The Evidence in 2026 | Dr. Navaladi Shankar |
| 14:35 - 14:45 | Cartilage repair with BMAC: Current indications and evidence | Dr. Santosh Sahanand |
| 14:45 - 15:00 | Panel discussion 3: The Experts Decide: Case-Based Management of Chondral Defects Panelists: Drs. Sumit Banerjee, Vikram Mhaskar, Santosh Sahanand, Hemant Jain |
Dr. Mukesh Laddha |
| 15:00 - 15:10 | Subchondral Remodelling: A Friend or a Foe after Microfracture | Dr. Deepak Goyal |
| 15:10 - 15:20 | Minced Cartilage: Background Research and Evidence | Dr. Stefan Nehrer |
| 15:20 - 15:30 | Nothing Can Beat the Source Code - The MSCs | Dr. Vivek Mahajan |
| 15:30 - 15:40 | Augmenting Marrow Stimulation: Current Evidence and Its Future | Dr. Murat Bozkurt |
| 15:40 - 16:10 | Session 6: The Disease Modifying Injectable Therapies for OA Knee | Chairs: Drs. Ashim Gupta, Vishwesh Chudasma, Miten Sheth |
| 15:40 - 15:50 | Current Concepts for Use of BMAC as DMOAD | Dr. P S Jayaprasada |
| 15:50 - 16:00 | Micronized Fat in Osteoarthritis: The Emerging Role of an Injectable Orthobiologic | Dr. Sharmila Tulpule |
| 16:00 - 16:10 | Role of Secretome vs. Hyaluronic Acid; Clinical Outcome in OA Knee Patients | Dr. Aryana Wien |
| 16:10 - 16:30 | Tea Break | |
| 16:30 - 17:15 | Session 7: Preferences in Knee Cartilage Repair: Let's Debate - Part B | Jury: Drs. Abhay Elhence, Stephen Nehrer |
| 16:30 - 16:45 | Debate 3: Disease Modifying Injectables in KL Grade II OA | Judge: Dr. Sharmila Tulpule |
| 16:30 - 16:35 | PRP + HA: The Best of Both Worlds | Dr. Manoj Mehta |
| 16:35 - 16:40 | Why Complicate - PRP is Good Enough | Dr. K Subramaniyam |
| 16:40 - 16:45 | Rebuttal | |
| 16:45 - 17:00 | Debate 4: Large Chondral Defect with Big Bone Loss | Judge: Dr. Deepak Goyal |
| 16:45 - 16:50 | I Prefer to do the Overlay ACI Technique - an Autogenous Solution | Dr. Sheetal Gupta |
| 16:50 - 16:55 | I Rather to do an Allograft Transfer | Dr. Vikram Mhasakar |
| 16:55 - 17:00 | Rebuttal | |
| 17:00 - 17:15 | Debate 5: Osteochondral Chip Fracture of Patella | Judge: Dr. Murat Bozkurt |
| 17:00 - 17:05 | I Prefer to Fix OC Fracture with Screws | Dr. Rajiv Gupta |
| 17:05 - 17:10 | I Rather do a Trans-osseous Suture Fixation | Dr. Karnav Panchal |
| 17:10 - 17:15 | Rebuttal | |
| 17:15 - 17:30 | Relive/Live surgery 4: Patellar Osteochondral Chip Fracture Fixation using Trans-Osseous Sutures | Dr. Miten Sheth |
| 17:30 - 18:30 | Session 8: Inaugural Session | |
| Keynote Talk 1: TBD | ||
| Welcome Address | Dr. Sumit Banerjee | |
| President's Address | Dr. Rajat Jangir | |
| Founder's Speech | Drs. DG/NS | |
| Past President’s Oration | Dr. Rahul Shivadey | |
| Twenty Years of ICS: Looking Back and Ahead | Dr. Navaladi Shankar | |
| Fellowship Reports | TBD | |
| Felicitation | Dr. Navaladi Shankar | |
| Vote of Thanks | Dr. Navaladi Shankar | |
| 18:30 - 19:30 | General Body Meeting | |
| 19:30 - onwards | Banquet and Welcome Dinner |
Taj Hari Mahal, Jodhpur | 13 Sept 2026
| 08:00 - 09:00 | Fellowship Paper Session | Chairs: Drs. M Singh, N Shankar, M Bozkurt |
| 09:00 - 10:20 | Session 9: Alignment: The Cornerstone of Joint Preservation | Chairs: Drs. H Jain, N Gahlot, N Tripathi |
| 09:00 - 09:15 | Relive/Live surgery 5: Root repair with ACL | Dr. Sheetal Gupta |
| 09:15 - 09:25 | Effect of Slopes in Natural History of OA Knee Evolution | Dr. Murat Bozkurt |
| 09:25 - 09:35 | Natural History of Cartilage in a Varus Knee | Dr. Sarthak Patnaik |
| 09:35 - 09:45 | Osteotomy Planning in Varus Knee | Dr. Roshan Wade |
| 09:45 - 09:55 | Double level osteotomy: when and how | Dr. Deepak Goyal |
| 09:55 - 10:05 | Management of Chondral Injuries Concomitant with ACL tear | Dr. Gandhi Solayar |
| 10:05 - 10:20 | Relive/Live surgery 6: HTO | Dr. Vikram Mhaskar |
| 10:20 - 11:00 | Session 10: Orthobiologics in Cartilage Regeneration | Chairs: Drs. R Amaravati, S Purohit, S Yadav |
| 10:20 - 10:30 | Clinical Evidence and Significance of Orthobiologics in Conservative Management of Early OA | Dr. Ashim Gupta |
| 10:30 - 10:40 | Pros and Cons of Using Orthobiologics in Intra/ Immediate Post-operative Cases | Dr. Nitesh Gahlot |
| 10:40 - 10:50 | Blood Derived Products/Cell-based Therapies and Extracellular Vesicles: Role in OA Knee | Dr. Stefan Nehrer |
| 10:50 - 11:00 | The Potential Application of Stem Cell Conditioned Medium Secretome in Knee Cartilage Regeneration: A Systematic Review | Dr. Aryana Wien |
| 11:00 - 11:15 | Tea Break | |
| 11:15 - 11:30 | Panel Discussion 4: The Early Degenerative Knee - Case-Based Treatment Options Panelists: Drs. Suryakant Purohit, Roshan Wade, Mithin Achi, Terrence D Souza |
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| 11:30 - 13:00 | Session 11: Regional Challenges in Cartilage Lesions | Chairs: Drs. S Agarwal, H Magar, P Kantiwal |
| 11:30 - 11:45 | Relive/Live surgery 7: Cartilage Repair of a Focal Defect in Humeral Head | Dr. Ayyappan Nair |
| 11:45 - 11:55 | Talus: Managing OCD | Dr. Terrence D'Souza |
| 11:55 - 12:05 | Does Graft Choice Influence Cartilage Degeneration After ACL Reconstruction? | Dr. Muhammad Sakti |
| 12:05 - 12:15 | Management of Osteochondral Fractures of Femoral Condyles: My Preference | Dr. Kunal Aneja |
| 12:15 - 12:25 | AVN of shoulder: incidence and management options | Dr. Rajiv Gupta |
| 12:25 - 12:35 | Osteonecrosis in small joints: management strategies. | Dr. S Samundeeswari |
| 12:35 - 12:45 | Hip: Osteonecrosis | Dr. Sumit Banerjee |
| 12:45 - 13:00 | Relive/Live Surgery 8: Minced Cartilage in Chondral Defect | Dr. KN Subramanian |
| 13:00 - 13:55 | Session 12: The Ligaments and the Meniscus in Cartilage Health | Chairs: Drs. Saurabh Gupta, Mithin Achi, Terrence D'souza |
| 13:00 - 13:15 | Panel discussion 5: Management of Concomitant Meniscal/Ligament Injuries along with Chondral Lesions Panelists: Drs. Rajesh Kumar Rajnish, Rajiv Gupta, Saseendar S, Hemant Jain |
Dr. Rajesh Kumar Rajnish |
| 13:15 - 13:25 | Natural History of Joint Health after Meniscectomy | Dr. Navin Tripathi |
| 13:25 - 13:35 | Natural Progression of Chondral Injuries in Delayed ACL tears | Dr. Vishvesh Chudasma |
| 13:35 - 13:45 | MTP plateau fractures along with ACL Avulsions, Natural History and Management | Dr. Daivesh Shah |
| 13:55 - 14:00 | Valedictory | |
| 14:00 - onwards | Lunch and Departure |
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