Summer Meeting   

Saturday August 8, 2015    

The Lord Jeffery Inn  •  Amherst, MA   


 




 Allen L. Carl, MD  
Technology Development from Personal Experience and Observations

Eugene Carragee, MD
From MiG to BMP: Challenges and Risks of Integrity Loss     
 
Daniel Sciubba, MD   
Management of the Spine Tumor Patient   

 

Member Case Discussions  
 










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Winter 2015 Meeting
January 10th   •  Sturbridge, MA



Charles Mick, MD • Northampton, MA
  Barn Building- Lessons from a NASS President
 
John Burleson, MD • Worcester, MA
The Incidence of Instrumentation Failure and Reoperation After
Posterior Cervical Fusion that Terminates Cranial or Caudal to the Cervicothoracic Junction  


Peter J. Wagner, MD • Worcester, MA
Use of the Spine AdVerse Events Severity (SAVES) System to
Categorize and Report Adverse Events in Spine Surgery


John Kostuik, MD • Phoenix, AZ
Spinal Deformity: From Yesterday to Tomorrow, an Evolution

Member Case Discussions





Summer 2014 Meeting

August 2  •  New Castle, NH



Derek Moore, MD 

Center for Nerve and Spine • Dartmouth, MA

Moving to Data-Driven Physician Training


Michael Heggeness, MD, PhD 

University of Kansas • Wichita, KS

Vertebrogenic Back Pain; Can the bone itself be a source of pain?


Roger P. Jackson, MD 

Spine and Scoliosis Surgery, Inc. • N. Kansas City, MO

An Approach to Understanding Sagittal Spinopelvic Alignments and Balance - A 25 Year Quest!


Member Case Discussions

Joseph Aferzon, Frank Rand, Charles Mick  




Winter 2014 Meeting

January 11 • Sturbridge, MA
 
Bernard A. Pfeifer, MD
Lahey Clinic • Burlington, MA
ICD-10
 
Rowland G. Hazard, MD FACP
Dartmouth-Hitchcock/Geisel School of Medicine • Lebanon, NH
Goal Achievement Scores: A Measure of Outcomes in Chronic Spinal Disorders
 
David H. Strothman, MD
Institute for Low Back and Neck Care • Bloomington, MN
Spine Patient Outcomes Research Trial (SPORT)

 



Summer 2013 Meeting
July 27 • Westbrook, CT

Peter G. Whang, MD, FACS
Yale Medical Center • New Haven, CT
The Current State of rhBMP: The Results of the Yale Review

Glenn R. Rechtine, MD
University of Rochester • Rochester, NY 
 Radiation Safety and Patient Safety

Albert Telfeian, MD
Rhode Island Hospital • Providence, RI
Endoscopic Lumbar Discectomy

  Khaled Kebaish, MD, MSc, FRCS (C)
Johns Hopkins Medical • Baltimore, MD
Spinal Deformity Surgery in Older Adults; Is a Good Outcome Possible?


 


Winter 2013 Meeting 

January 12 • Sturbridge, MA

Allen Carl, MD
What To Do With Your Innovative Idea

Gregory Przybylski, MD
The Safety of Output Cervical Spine Surgery

Thomas Kleeman, MD
A new approach to L5, S1

K. Daniel Riew, MD

Catastrophic Complications of Cervical Spine Surgery 




Summer 2012 Meeting

July 21 • Plymouth, MA


Kevin McGuire, MD, MS

How Making Cars Can Help Us Take Care of Patients: Lean Management and Health Care


Zoher Ghogawala, MD

Lumbar Spinal Fusion plus Laminectomy is Superior to Laminectomy alone for Grade I Degenerative Spondylolisthesis: SLIP Study – RCT Results


Chris Bono, MD
Overview of Biologics for Spinal Surgery: What Are They and How Do They Work?


Tony Tannoury, MD

MIS: Deformity, Trauma & Concept


Anthony Lapinsky, MD

A Lateral Approach to Coccygectomy


Christian DiPaola, MD and Natalie Egge, MD

OR Quality Improvement: A Pilot Study




Winter 2012 Meeting
: The Many Facets of Spinal Deformity
January 28th • Sturbridge, MA


Dr. Edward Southern
The Classification and Modern Treatment of Early Onset Scoliosis 2012: an update from the Scoliosis Research Society Growing Spine Committee

Dr. John Street
Understanding Complications of Surgery for Adult Saggital Imbalance

Dr. Ken Paonessa
1.) Transpsoas approaches for scoliosis patients
2.) Research from a Global Outreach Scoliosis Site


Dr. Ronald Donelson
Radiculopathy cases (one lumbar and one cervical) with simultaneous and intentional improvement in their clinical AND imaging findings in less than an hour's time

Dr. Frank Rand
Adult spinal deformity and revision cases

Dr. Chrisitan DiPaola
Spinal deformity case