Biennial Meeting Faculty Details

Darren Lucien de SA, MD, MBA, FRCSC

McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario CANADA

Dr. Darren de SA is an Orthopaedic Surgeon and Assistant Professor at McMaster University, whose clinical scope includes sports medicine, arthroscopic surgery, and musculoskeletal trauma. Darren has a special interest in complex knee reconstruction, functioning as the Principal Investigator of the first, global randomized controlled surgical trial in pediatric ACL reconstruction. A surgeon leader within his community, institution, and greater orthopaedic community, Darren empowers exemplary patient care through elevated clinical expertise, research, and scholarship, meriting the Dr. Forough Farrokhyar Early Career Research Award from McMaster’s Department of Surgery (2024). Darren has been intimately involved in all facets of medical education, previously serving within UGME as an Interviewer, Clinical Skills Preceptor, and tutor across all the Medical Foundations both in Hamilton and the Niagara Regional campuses. He currently serves as the Surgical Foundations Program Director, managing the curriculum of first- and second-year post-graduate surgical trainees across all disciplines and merited McMaster’s Department of Surgery Award for Excellence in Education (2024) and McMaster Orthopedic Surgery’s “Young Attending” award (2022). He recently completed his Master of Business Administration (MBA) studies from the Goodman School of Business (Brock University), whereby he was inducted into the prestigious Beta Sigma Gamma society – the highest academic recognition available to business students worldwide and selected to the Business Elite Awards “40 under 40” Canada cohort (2024). He concurrently serves as an Associate Editor for KSSTA - the official Journal of the European Society of Sports Traumatology, Knee Surgery and Arthroscopy. In addition, Darren leads a productive research program focused on outcomes research in the athletic population and those suffering traumatic, non-arthritic knee conditions. He has published over 180 peer-reviewed manuscripts (H-index 34), numerous book chapters, and has delivered several podium and poster presentations and invited guest lectures on the national and international stage. With additional roles as Associate Head Orthopaedic Surgeon for the Hamilton Tiger-Cats (CFL) and Hamilton Forge FC (CPL), Dr. de SA is continuing toward developing an integrated sports medicine community. To this end, he was selected as the first Canadian representative for the Global Travelling Fellowship of the International Society of Arthroscopy, Knee Surgery, and Orthopaedic Medicine.
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10/22/2024
11:00 - 11:07 		General Session Session VII: Knee Issues and Meniscus
Case Presentations
Treatment of Large Trochlear Osteochondritis Dissecans in a Competitive Adolescent Soccer Player
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10/23/2024
11:30 - 11:37 		General Session Session XI: Mixture of Topics
Lecture
"Quad Speed": Examining the Evolution of the Quadriceps Autograft in the Skeletally-Immature ACL-injured Athlete (SQuASH Trial)
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