All conference presentations are made publicly available with permission of the speaker.

Celanese Stewardship of Medical Grade Materials and Technologies: Past, Present, and Future

Stephanie Barden, Rainer Walkenhorst
Celanese, Irving, TX
Stephanie.Barden@celanese.com

Polyethylene in Orthopaedics Today

Gwo-Chin Lee, MD
1University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
gwo-chin.lee@uphs.upenn.edu

UHMWPE in Orthopaedics in 2019: Advances in Polymer Chemistry

Pierangiola Bracco
University of Torino, Italy
pierangiola.bracco@unito.it

Highly Crosslinked UHMWPE, High Power, X-Ray Vs. Gamma

Mark Allen
Orthoplastics, Bacup, UK
mallen@orthoplastics.com

Wear Rates of XLPE are Nearly 50% Lower than First Thought Once the Initial Creep has been Eliminated: an RCT to Compare 4 Bearing Combinations

James Wu, Amir Khoshbin, Amit Atrey, James Waddell
St. Michael's Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
James.wu.tck@gmail.com

Studies in Irradiated UHMWPE Oxidation

Venkat Narayan 1, Michelle Ross 2, David Warner 2
1 Anthara Technologies Consulting, LLC
2 DePuy Synthes Joint Reconstruction
v.narayan@antharatech.com

Comparison of macro-, micro- and nanomechanical properties of clinically relevant UHMWPE formulations

Miroslav Slouf 1, Sofia Arevalo 2
1 Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry, Prague, Czech Republic
2 University of California, Berkeley, CA,
slouf@imc.cas.cz

Equivalent Mechanical Properties of X-Ray and E-Beam Crosslinked Vitamin E Blended Polyethylene

Marie Anne Mulliez
B Braun Aesculap, Germany
Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, Department of Orthopaedics Surgery, Germany
marie annemarie.wex@kumovis.com

Nano-indentation as a characterization technique for implant retrievals

Arevalo SE 1, Davis G 1, Van Citters D 2, Pruit L 1
1 University of California, Berkeley, CA
2 Dartmouth University, New Hampshire, NH
searevalo94@berkeley.edu