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Scientific Session

Spine
Scientific Session

(SS#II) Scientific Session II: Spine

Saturday, April 22, 2023
1:30pm – 5:00pm PST
Location:Los Angeles Convention Center, 408A

Disclosure(s):
Scott Meyer, MD: No financial relationships to disclose
Charles Sansur, MD, MHSc, FAANS: Maryland Development Corp: Ownership or Partnership (Ongoing); NuVasive: Consultant (Ongoing), Royalty Recipient (Ongoing); Stryker: Royalty Recipient (Ongoing)
Luis M. Tumialan, MD, FAANS: Discgenics, DuraStat, RevBio, Tissue Differentiation Intelligence, Triad Life Sciences, True Digital Surgery: Ownership Interest (Ongoing); LessRay: Ownership Interest (Ongoing); TrackX: Ownership Interest (Ongoing)

Presentations:

  • 1:30pm – 1:33pm PST
    Welcome
  • 1:34pm – 1:49pm PST
    Sonntag Lecturer: Current Trends in Spinal Cord Injury, What We Need to Know

    Speaker: James Harrop, MD, MSQHS – Jefferson Health

  • 1:50pm – 2:20pm PST
    On-call Toolkit

    Speaker: John C. Liu, MD, FAANS (he/him/his) – Keck USC School of Medicine School of Medicine

    Speaker: Sanjay Dhall, MD, FAANS

    Speaker: Charles Sansur, MD, MHSc, FAANS – University of Maryland

  • 2:21pm – 2:31pm PST
    Ancillary Update: Critical Care Management: Standard of Care for the New Patient That Gets Admitted with SCI

    Speaker: Gary Schwartzbauer, MD, PhD – University of Maryland School of Medicine

  • 2:32pm – 2:42pm PST
    Asymptomatic Cord Signal Change

    Speaker: Praveen Mummaneni, MD, MBA – University of California, San Francisco

  • 2:43pm – 2:53pm PST
    Clinical Quandary: Patient with Mixed C1 and C2 Fractures, Neuro-intact. When Do You Operate?

    Speaker: Christopher I. Shaffrey, MD, FAANS – Duke University

  • 2:53pm – 2:58pm PST
    Sanford Larson Award for Best Research (2023 Award Winner): Investigation of 3D Printed Thoracic Pedicle Behavior During Instrumentation of Single vs. Combined Thermoplastic Polymers

    Presenting Author: William Clifton, MD – Cleveland Clinic Main Campus

  • 3:29pm – 3:34pm PST
    Veena Mummaneni Award Winner: Women Demonstrate Significantly Greater Improvement in Neck Disability Index After Surgery for Cervical Myelopathy: An Analysis from the Quality Outcomes Database

    Presenting Author: Arati Patel, MD – University of California, San Francisco

  • 3:35pm – 3:40pm PST
    Comparison of Disc Height Restoration and Subsidence Rates Between Static versus Expandable Titanium Cages for Lateral Lumbar Interbody Fusion

    Presenting Author: Kimberly Ashayeri, MD – NYU Langone Health

  • 3:41pm – 3:46pm PST
    The Predictive Potential of Nutritional and Metabolic Burden: Development of a Novel Validated Metric Predicting Increased Post-operative Complications in Adult Spinal Deformity Surgery

    Presenting Author: Jamshaid M. Mir, MD – NYU Langone Medical Center

  • 3:47pm – 3:52pm PST
    Spinetrak: The First Randomized Control Trial Using the Apple Watch to Objectively Track Spine Surgical Patients

    Speaker: Parastou Fatemi, MD – Stanford Healthcare

  • 3:53pm – 3:58pm PST
    Increasing Frailty Is Negatively Correlated with Long Term Functional Outcomes After Surgery for Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy; 757 Patients from the CSM-NA and CSM-I Observational Studies

    Presenting Author: Michael G. Fehlings, MD, PhD, FRCSC – University of Toronto

  • 3:59pm – 4:09pm PST
    Abstract Discussion Q&A

    Moderator: Luis M. Tumialan, MD, FAANS – Barrow Brain and Spine

    Moderator: Charles Sansur, MD, MHSc, FAANS – University of Maryland

    Moderator: Scott Meyer, MD (he/him/his) – Altair Health

  • 4:10pm – 4:14pm PST
    Impact of Educational Background on Preoperative Disease Severity and Postoperative Outcomes Among Patients with Lumbar Spondylolisthesis: A Quality Outcomes Database (QOD) Study

    Presenting Author: Nitin Agarwal, MD (he/him/his) – University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

  • 4:20pm – 4:30pm PST
    Technique Session 1: MIS Thoraco Lumbar Trauma Stabilzation: Technique and Pitfalls. Include Pearls and Thoughts on Potential Use of Navigation/robotics

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

  • 4:30pm – 4:40pm PST
    Technique Session 2: Treatment of Anklylosing Spondylitis Fracture Dislocations. Technique and Pitfalls. Include Thoughts on Potential Use of Navigation/robotics

    Speaker: David Okonkwo, MD, PhD – University of Pittsburgh Medical Center

  • 4:40pm – 4:50pm PST
    Published Essentials: Present 3 Papers Each from JNS Spine and Go over Clinical Take Aways That Attendees Can Apply to Practice

    Speaker: Mohamad Bydon, MD – Mayo Clinic Rochester

  • 4:50pm – 5:00pm PST
    Published Essentials: Present 3 Papers Each from JNS Spine and Go over Clinical Take Aways That Attendees Can Apply to Practice

    Speaker: Cheerag Upadhyaya, MD, MBA, MSc (he/him/his) – University of North Carolina