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2020 Annual Meeting Information and Prerecorded Sessions

This document includes all abstracts presented for the entirety of the Annual Meeting. See your email for daily abstract documents.

This document includes COI disclosures for any party involved in implementation and/or presentation during the entirety of the Annual Meeting. Please review and provide feedback to ensure that, as a society we remain free from bias.

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View the Rapid Fire Presentations:

Highlights:

SYMPOSIUM #1       Advances in Image Guided Instrumentation Placement

Computer Navigated Instrumentation Placement - David Polly, MD (University of Minnesota)

Robotic Navigated Instrumentation Placement - Nicholas Theodore, MD (Johns Hopkins University)

Augmented Reality Guided Spinal Instrumentation Placement - Timothy Witham, MD (Johns Hopkins University)

SYMPOSIUM #2      Latest Advances in Interbody Technology

Expandable Cage Technology - Ankit Mehta, MD (University of Illinois)

Does the Material Matter? PEEK vs. Titanium Vs. 3D Printing/Titanium Sprays vs. Bone - Wellington Hsu, MD (Northwestern University)

Biology of Interbody Fusion - Zorica Buser, PhD (University of Southern California)

SYMPOSIUM #3       Intradural Lumbar Tumors - An Overview

Intradural Intramedullary Tumor - Jean-Paul Wolinsky, MD (Northwestern University)

Intradural Extramedullary Tumor - Sheng-Fu Larry Lo, MD (Johns Hopkins University)

SYMPOSIUM #4         Business Trends in Spinal Surgery

Bundled Payments in Spine Surgery: Not as simple as joint replacement - Leo Spector, MD (OrthoCarolina)

Ambulatory Surgery Center versus Hospital for Outpatient Spinal Procedures - Theodore Choma, MD (University of Missouri)

How does implant cost affect the hospital margin and what does this mean for the spine surgeon? - Thomas A. Zdeblick, MD (University of Wisconsin)

SYMPOSIUM #5          Lumbo-Sacral Trauma

Lumbo-sacral junctional trauma with and without pelvic ring injury - Melvin Helgeson, MD (Walter Reed National Military Medical Center)

Keys to the management of Lumbopelvic Dissociation - Carlo Bellabarba, MD (University of Washington)

Advanced Techniques in treating isolated sacral fractures - David Polly, MD (University of Minnesota)

CME Credit Information

This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons and the Lumbar Spine Research Society. The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons designates thisvirtual, live activity for a maximum of 10.25  AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

For an additional 3  AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Attendees are invited to attend our instructional course webinar in January 2020. For more information please visit our ICL page: LSRS Instructional Course January 2021 >>

Thank you to JNS for once again publishing the Annual Meeting Abstracts in their Online Journals!

VISIT: Journal of Neurosurgery Online Publications of LSRS 2020 Meeting Abstracts live now, in the Nov JNS: Spine issue (last on TOC)

Archived Publications of LSRS Abstracts in JNS Neurosurgical Focus:

• 2015

• 2016

• 2017

• 2018

• 2019