The Leir Retreat Center, 220 Branchville Road, is sponsoring an orthopedic interventions conference on lower extremities in older patients on Thursday, May 23rd, starting at 12:30 PM to 5:30 PM. This is the second such clinical conference geared towards medical and health care professionals with presenters from both Danbury Hospital and Laurel Ridge Health Care Center. The objective is to provide the most up-to-date information on orthopedics as it relates to joint injuries, surgery, pain management and rehabilitation. The speakers will educate on strategies to treat orthopedic challenges and best practices to achieve optimum outcomes for patients. Presenters include orthopedic surgeons Drs. Robert Deveney, John Dunleavy and F. Scott Gray, with Rose Haklits, MSN/APRN-BC, and Elizabeth Hicks, RN, all representing Western CT Health Network (Danbury Hospital). Robert Messina, RPT, and Laura French, DPT, will speak on behalf of Laurel Ridge Health Care Center on rehabilitation in the sub-acute setting and will present a interactive case study. Topics for the conference include hip arthroplasty, differential diagnosis, ankle trauma, peri-operative experience, and rehabilitation.