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Full Schedule

  • Friday, February 23, 2024
  • 6:45 AM – 7:30 AM PST
    Industry Breakfast Bites: Disruptive Innovations in Lumbar Interbody Fusion Sponsored by Spineology

    Sponsored Session

  • 7:00 AM – 8:00 AM PST
    Continental Breakfast
  • 7:00 AM – 6:00 PM PST
    Registration
  • 7:30 AM – 9:00 AM PST
    Award Winning Abstract Presentations: Session 1

    Moderator: Marcus D. Mazur, MD – University of Utah Health

    Moderator: Alexander E. Ropper, MD – Baylor College of Medicine Neurosurgery

  • 7:30 AM – 9:00 AM PST
    Award Winning Abstract Presentations: Session 2

    Moderator: Yakov Gologorsky, MD, FAANS – Metropolitan Neurosurgery Associates

    Moderator: Michael S. Virk, MD, PhD – Weill Cornell Medical Center

  • 7:30 AM – 9:00 AM PST
    Award Winning Abstract Presentations: Session 3

    Moderator: Stuart Hershman, MD – Massachusetts General Hospital

    Moderator: Robert Whitmore, MD – Tufts University School of Medicine

  • 7:30 AM – 9:00 AM PST
    Specialty Breakout 1: Minimally Invasive/Motion Preservation/General Spine Abstracts

    Moderator: Victor Chang, MD (he/him/his) – Henry Ford Hospital

    Moderator: Jakub Godzik, MD, MS (he/him/his) – University of Alabama at Birmingham

  • 9:00 AM – 9:45 AM PST
    Beverage Break in the Exhibit Hall
  • 9:00 AM – 1:45 PM PST
    Exhibit Hall
  • 9:18 AM – 9:28 AM PST
    What's New Presentation: What’s new @ SI-BONE? Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis on SI Joint Fusion & iFuse TORQ® for Lateral Transiliac Procedures Sponsored by Si-Bone

    Industry Speaker: David W. Polly, Jr., MD – University of Minnesota

  • 9:45 AM – 11:00 AM PST
    Scientific Session 5: Registries and AI - How They are Intertwined

    Moderator: Mohamad Bydon, MD – Department of Neurologic Surgery, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN 55902, USA

    Moderator: John Chi, MD, MPH – Brigham and Women's Hospital

    Moderator: Andrew Pugely, MD – University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics

    Spine

  • 11:15 AM – 12:30 PM PST
    Scientific Session 6: Minimally Invasive - Is it One Size Fits All?

    Moderator: Khoi D. Than, MD (he/him/his) – Department of Neurosurgery, Duke University Hospital

    Moderator: Laura Snyder, MD – Barrow Neurological Institute

    Spine

  • 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM PST
    Lunch in the Exhibit Hall
  • 12:40 PM – 12:50 PM PST
    What's New Presentation: Ventana: Novel Concepts in 3D Printed Interbody Architecture Sponsored by Spinal Elements

    Industry Speaker: Neel Anand, MD (he/him/his) – Cedars Sinai Medical Center

  • 12:45 PM – 1:30 PM PST
    Industry Lunch-n-Learn: Excelsius XLIF®: How Robotics & Advanced Neuromonitoring are Changing the Game Sponsored by Globus Medical

    Industry Speaker: J. Alex Thomas, MD (he/him/his) – Atlantic Brain and Spine

    Sponsored Session

  • 12:45 PM – 1:30 PM PST
    Industry Lunch-n-Learn: Adopting Navigation in Cervicothoracic Fusions: A Case Discussion Sponsored by Stryker

    Industry Speaker: Griffin Baum

    Sponsored Session

  • 12:45 PM – 1:30 PM PST
    Industry Lunch-n-Learn: The Future VUE of MIS Surgery Sponsored by Depuy

    Industry Speaker: Michael Y. Wang, MD – University of Miami

    Industry Speaker: Wissam Asfahani

    Sponsored Session

  • 12:45 PM – 1:30 PM PST
    Industry Lunch-n-Learn: Transformative Technologies: Carbon/PEEK Implants in Spine Oncology Sponsored by icoTec

    Industry Speaker: John H. Shin, MD – Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School

    Industry Speaker: Shannon McDonald

    Sponsored Session

  • 1:05 PM – 1:15 PM PST
    What's New Presentation: Emerging P-15 Peptide Mode of Action: Modulating the Cellular Response Sponsored by Cerapedics

    Industry Speaker: Jerome Connor, PhD

  • 1:45 PM – 2:45 PM PST
    Cahill Debates

    Moderator: Erica F. Bisson, MD, MPH – University of Utah

    Moderator: Daniel Hoh, MD – University of Florida

    Moderator: Jay D. Turner, MD, PhD – Barrow Neurological Institute

    Spine

  • 3:00 PM – 5:30 PM PST
    Special Course 6: Regenerative Therapies and Motion Preservation

    Course Director: Srinivas Prasad, MD – Thomas Jefferson University

    Course Director: Elizabeth Yu, MD – The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center

    Ticketed Session

  • 3:00 PM – 5:30 PM PST
    Special Course 7: WFNS Session - Global Spine Surgery

    Moderator: Corinna Zygourakis, MD – Stanford Health Care

    Moderator: Zeeshan M. Sardar, MD – Columbia University

    Ticketed Session

  • 3:00 PM – 5:30 PM PST
    Special Course 8: New Concepts in Adult Spinal Deformity: Update from the SRS/IMAST

    Course Director: Eric Klineberg, MD – University of Texas Houston

    Course Director: Kristen E. Jones, MD, FAANS – University of Minnesota

    Course Director: Juan S. Uribe, MD – Barrow Neurological Insitute

    Ticketed Session

  • 3:00 PM – 5:30 PM PST
    Special Course 9: Endoscopic and Minimally Invasive Cadaver Lab

    Course Director: Christoph P. Hofstetter, MD, PhD – University of Washington

    Course Director: John Ogunlade, DO – Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine

    Course Director: Chris Yeung, MD – Desert Institute for Spine Care

    Skills Lab Table Trainer: Patrick Kim, MD – Department of Neurological Surgery, University of South Florida

    Skills Lab Table Trainer: Won Hyung Andrew Ryu, MD – Oregon Health & Science University

    Ticketed Session

  • 3:00 PM – 5:30 PM PST
    Special Course 10: Starting a Practice

    Course Director: Owoicho Adogwa, MD, MPH – Department of Neurosurgery, University of Cincinnati School of Medicine

    Course Director: Suzanne Tharin, MD, PhD, FAANS (she/her/hers) – Stanford University School of Medicine

    Ticketed Session

  • 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM PST
    WINS Reception
  • 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM PST
    Young Spine Surgeon Reception (By Invitation Only)