SAVE THE DATE: WIRM WORLD CONGRESS, April 23–25, 2026, San Francisco, CA

Program Agenda

Thursday, April 23, 2026

7:50-8:00 AM

Opening Remarks

Annu Navani, MD (USA), Sudhir Diwan, MD (USA), Douglas Beall, MD (USA)

Session 1 (8:00 - 10 AM)

Current state of Regenerative Medicine and Future Direction

Moderator: Douglas Beall, MD (USA)

8:00-8:30 AM

Opening Keynote Lecture

Mesenchymal Stem Cells or Medicinal Signaling Cells (MSCs): Origin, Mechanism of Action (s) & Clinical Application of MSCs

Johnny Huard, PhD (USA)

8:30-8:45 AM

Global State of Healthcare Technology

Achintya Moulick, MD (USA)

8:45-9:00 AM

Orthobiologics as Our Common Language: Uniting Specialties through Regenerative Precision

Ariana DeMers, DO (USA)

9:00-9:15 AM

Medical Tourism and Orthobiologics

Didier Demesmin, MD (USA)

9:15-9:30 AM

The Future of Cellular Augmentation of Discs

Douglas Beall, MD (USA)

9:30-10:00 AM

Panel Discussion
Global State of Regenerative Medicine and Future Direction

Moderator: Douglas Beall, MD (USA)
Panelists: Johnny Huard, PhD (USA), Ariana DeMers, DO (USA), Achintya Moulick, MD (USA), Didier Demesmin, MD (USA)

10:00-10:30 AM

Coffee Break

Session 2 (10:30 AM - 12:30 PM)

Emerging Technology

Moderator: Annu Navani, MD (USA)

10:30-10:45 AM

Convergence of AI with Regenerative Medicine

Alan Young, MD (USA)

10:45-11:00 AM

VR/AR/Robotics/AI Science and Clinical Application

Uli Chettipally, MD (USA)

11:00-11:15 AM

Emerging Worldwide Cellular and Acellular Technologies

Douglas Beall, MD (USA)

11:15-11:30 AM

Light as a Biologic: Mitochondrial Photobiomodulation (mPBM) as the Next Frontier in Regenerative Medicine

Rahul Desai, MD (USA)

11:30-11:45 AM

NanoSurface Guided Cell Identity – Prescriptive Etching

Timothy Ganey, PhD (USA)

11:45-12:00 PM

Oral Communication Abstract:
NanoCement™ (NC™) and One-Step Delivery System: A Convergent Innovation for Precision Bone Repair and Enhanced Patient Care

Sumrita Bhat, PhD (USA)

12:00-12:30 PM

Keynote Lecture
Agentic and Generative AI

Robin Farmanfarmaian (USA)

12:30-1:30 PM

Lunch Symposium (The Crown Room)
Safeguarding Wealth: Lawsuit Prevention and Tax Strategies
Michael P. Webb

Sponsored by Gold Sponsor Legally Mine

Session 3 (1:30 - 3:30 PM)

Precision Medicine

Moderator: Sudhir Diwan, MD (USA)

1:30-1:50 PM

Host Preconditioning Prior to Orthobiological Injections

Gabriel Azzini, MD (Brazil)

1:50-2:10 PM

Why Some PRP Work and Some Don’t: Patient Selection, Imaging, and Biology

Giuliano Lo Bianco, MD (Italy)

2:10-2:30 PM

AI and the Future of Regenerative Medicine

Harvey Castro, MD (USA)

2:30-2:45 PM

Novel Orthobiologic Applications: From AVN to Structural Preservation

Manish Khanna, MD (India)

2:45-3:00 PM

Molecular Imaging

Douglas Beall, MD (USA)

3:00-3:30 PM

Panel Discussion
Regenerative Medicine in the USA

Moderator: Sudhir Diwan, MD (USA)
Panelists: Ripu Arora, MD (USA), Sheri Albers, DO (USA), Ryan Budwany, MD (USA)

3:30-4:00 PM

Coffee Break

Session 4 (4:00 - 6:10 PM)

Longevity

Moderator: Trusha Shah, MD (USA)

4:00-4:20 PM

Plasmapheresis and Therapeutic Plasma Exchange

Dobri Kiprov, MD (USA)

4:20-4:40 PM

Mitochondria and its delivery using PRP for Longevity

Sina Farzaneh, PhD (USA)

4:40-5:00 PM

Peptides for Regeneration and Longevity

Trusha Shah, MD (USA)

5:00-5:30 PM

Panel Discussion
The New Science of Longevity

Moderator: Reena Jadhav, MBA (USA)
Panelists: Annu Navani, MD (USA), Kat Toups, MD (USA), Brad Jacobs, MD (USA), Jennie Hsu, MD (USA)

5:30-6:10 PM

End-of-the-Day Roundtable
Regenerative Medicine Around the World

Moderator: Annu Navani, MD (USA)
Roundtable Participants: Leonardo Henrique Cunha Ferraro, MD (Brazil), Zaid Matti, MD (New Zealand), Philippe Mavrocordatos, MD (Switzerland), Giuliano Lo Bianco, MD (Italy), Neeraj Jain, MD (India)

7:00-9:00 PM

Faculty Dinner @Fairmont PH Main Building Floor 8 (by invitation only)

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