MUSCULOSKELETAL EDUCATION & RESEARCH CENTER
Emerging Techniques in Complex Spine
Friday May 18 – Saturday May 19, 2012
Chairmen:
Faculty:
Sigurd Berven, MD
Mr. David Harrison
Benny Dahl, MD
Bart Conix, MD
Professor Ciaran Bolger, PhD, FRCS
Dan Cohen, MD
Mr. Sashin Ahuja
K. Kafchitsas, MD
M. Arand, MD
Friday, May 18
7:30 am – 8:00 am
Breakfast
Chiltern Suite
8:00 am – 11:45 am
Lumbar Degenerative Session Moderator: C. Bolger
Versailles Suite
8:00 am – 8:20 am
Anterior vs. Posterior Approaches (evidence for circumferential
vs. posterior only surgery)
S. Berven
8:20 am – 8:40 am
Role of MIS for Decompression
C. Bolger
8:40 am – 9:00 am
MIS TLIF
D. Cohen
9:00 am – 9:20 am
MIS LLIF
D. Cohen
9:20 am – 9:40 am
MIS LLIF: 3 Year Clinical Data
B. Conix
9:40 am – 10:00 am
Role of Lumbar Arthroplasty
B. Conix
10:00 am – 10:15 am
BREAK
10:15 am – 11:00 am
Workshop – MIS Products, Transition
Henley Suite
11:00 am – 11:45 am
Case Presentations – Lumbar Degenerative Moderator: C. Bolger
Versailles Suite
11:45 am – 12:30 pm
Lunch
Chiltern Suite
12:30 pm – 5:00 pm
Adult Deformity Session Moderator: S. Berven
Versailles Suite
12:30 pm – 12:50 pm
What is spinal deformity
B. Dahl
12:50 pm – 1:10 pm
Sagittal Balance/pelvic tilt
D. Harrison
1:10 pm – 1:30 pm
Complex revisions
S. Berven
1:30 pm – 1:50 pm
How long/how short
D. Harrison
1:50 pm – 2:10 pm
Role of Osteotomies
B. Dahl
2:10 pm – 2:30 pm
BREAK
Emerging Techniques in Complex Spine
MERC is a Spine Education Initiative of
MUSCULOSKELETAL EDUCATION & RESEARCH CENTER
Friday May 18 – Saturday May 19, 2012
Chairmen:
Faculty:
Sigurd Berven, MD
Mr. David Harrison
Benny Dahl, MD
Bart Conix, MD
Professor Ciaran Bolger, PhD, FRCS
Dan Cohen, MD
Mr. Sashin Ahuja
K. Kafchitsas, MD
M. Arand, MD
2:30 pm – 2:50 pm
Junctional complications
S. Berven
2:50 pm – 3:10 pm
Fixation Strategies: Poor bone/ sacral-iliac fixation
K. Kafchitsas
3:10 pm – 4:15 pm
Workshop – Revere, Addition, Sacral Fixation
Henley Suite
4:15 pm –5:00 pm
Case Presentations: Adult Deformity Moderator: S. Berven
Versailles Suite
7:30 am – 8:00 am
Breakfast
Chiltern Suite
8:00 am – 9:00 am
Tumor / Trauma Session Moderator: M. Arand
Danesfield Suite
8:00 am – 8:20 am
Anterior Approaches: Corpectomy
M. Arand
8:20 am – 8:40 am
Posterior Based Reconstruction
S. Ahuja
8:40 am – 9:00 am
MIS Approaches
M. Arand
Saturday, May 19
9:00 am – 10:00 am
Cervical Session Moderator: S. Ahuja
Danesfield Suite
9:00 am – 9:20 am
Anterior vs. posterior approaches to myelopathy
C. Bolger
9:20 am – 9:40 am
Role of arthroplasty
S. Ahuja
9:40 am – 10:00 am
Cervical Deformity
K. Kafchitsas
10:00 am – 10:15 am
BREAK
10:15 am – 11:00 am
Case Presentations: Tumor/Trauma/Cervical
Moderators:
M.Arand/S.Ahuja
11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Workshop – Cervical Portfolio
Henley Suite
12:00 PM
ADJOURN
MERC is a Spine Education Initiative of