Get Thee to Duck Key

Are there too many spine surgeon meetings?  Or, are there too few good spine surgeon meetings?  One that consistently rises to the top is the 2010 Preservation of Motion in the Spine meeting at Duck Key which starts in about three weeks (April 7 – 10).

What makes this meeting stand apart? Three reasons:

1. Intimacy and a rich schedule of hands-on work shops

Snowbirds take note. It is so great to attend these courses with the sounds of the ocean and dolphins wafting through the open windows.

The course director is the perennial podium speaker at NASS, SAS and other major conferences Dr. Antonio Castellvi. This is Tony’s conference. It reflects his style which is open, comprehensive, sophisticated and a little fearless—particularly when it comes to posting up tough, challenging cases.

If you attend, and we hope you will (no, we don’t have a financial stake—we pay our own way to the meeting) you will come away with an improved ability to:

• Assess and critique emerging surgical techniques and be able to compare them with current treatment options. This is an increasingly important skill.
• Assess and critique the latest implant, biologic and motion preserving technologies.
• Review clinical and biomechanical outcomes from motion sparing devices
• Assess, discuss and critique the biomechanics in both cervical and lumbar spine and how fusion and motion sparing devices affect motion
• Summarize evidence-based information and discuss current controversies in spine

Bring Your Whole Team

Calling all orthopedic surgeons, neurosurgeons, orthopedic surgical and neurosurgical assistants including physician assistants, nurse practitioners, orthopedic nurses and neurosurgical nurses. That’s right. The whole team. Dr. Castellvi has designed this course to elevate the surgeon and the team. Since the morning is set aside for lectures and hands-on clinical sessions, the afternoon is a great time for your team to relax and perhaps do some planning away from the day-to-day demands back home.

The Faculty

Many of these names will be familiar—they’re often authors of the peer reviewed papers you see in your journals.

Orthopedic Surgeon

California Spine Group

San Diego, CA

Neel Anand, MD

Cedar Sinai Med Center

Los Angeles, CA

James Billys, MD

Orthopaedic Surgeon

Florida Orthopaedic Institute

Brandon, FL

Christopher Bono, MD

Chief of Orthopaedic Spine Service

Harvard Medical School

Co-Director Harvard MGH-BWH Orthopaedic Spine Fellowship

Antonio Castellvi, MD

Director of Spine Fellowship

Florida Orthopaedic Institute

Tampa, FL

Boyle Cheng, PhD

Asst Professor of Neurological Surgery

Dir Welch Neurosurgical Research Lab Univ of Pittsburg

Mars, PA

Anders Cohen, DO

Chief of Neurosurgery & Spine Surgery

The Brooklyn Hospital Center

Brooklyn, NY

Domagoj Coric, MD

Neurosurgeon Carolina Neurosurgery & Spine Associates Chief, Neurosurgery

Carolinas Medical Center Charlotte, NC

Reginald Davis, MD

Chief of Neurosurgery

Greater Baltimore Neurosurgical Association

Baltimore, MD

Ira Fedder, MD

Towson Orthopaedics Associates

Towson, MD

Lisa Ferrara, PhD

Biomedical Engineer

Orthokinetic Technologies LLC

Southport, NC

Rolando Garcia, MD, MPH Orthopaedic Care Center Aventura, FL

Charley Gordon, MD

Neurological Spine Surgeon Gordon Spine Associates

Tyler, TX

Stephen Hochschuler, MD Orthopaedic Surgeon Texas Back Institute Chairman of the Board. Texas Back Institute

Plano, TX

Manoj Krishna, FRCS, MCh  University Hospital of North Tees

Stockton-on-Tees, UK

Carl Lauryssen, MD

Co-director of Spine R&D Olympia Medical Center Olympia Medical Center

Beverly Hills, CA

Aniruddh Nayak,

Supervisor, Biomechanics

Foundation for Orthopaedic Research and Education

Tampa, FL

Kenneth Pettine, MD

Rocky Mountain Associates

Loveland, CO

Luiz Pimenta, MD, PhD

Associate Professor UC-San Diego Hospital S. Rita- Sao Paulo

Sao Paulo, BR

Dilip Sengupta, MD, PhD
Orthopaedic Surgeon
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
Lebanon, NH

Jessica Shellock, MD

Orthopaedic Surgeon

Texas Back Institute

Plano, TX

Frank Vrionis, MD, MPH, PhD Director, Complex Spine Surgery and Skull Base Surgery

Professor, University of South Florida

Tampa, FL

Scott A. Webb, DO

Florida Spine Institute

Clearwater, FL

Anthony Yeung, MD

Orthopedic and Minimally Invasive Endoscopic Spine Surgeon. Desert Institute for Spine Care.

UCSD School of Medicine

Phoenix, AZ

Hansen Yuan, MD

Professor of Orthopaedic and Neurological Surgery

State University of New York Upstate Medical University

Syracuse, NY

And here are some of the lecture topics:

• Quality of Spine Motion
• Interpedicular Facet Travel and Center of Rotation
• Biomechanical Analysis of Motion With Stabilimax
• Bone Biomechanics
• Wear of Artificial Motion Preservation Implants and Wear Prediction Models
• Lumbar Total Disc Replacement Panel Discussion
• Biomechanics of Lumbar Total Disc Replacement
• State of the Art Lumbar Total Disc Replacement
• Reoperations in the 1st 1, 000 patients at Texas Back Institute
• Experience With ActivL
• Total Disc Replacement From Charité to Freedom
• Total Disc Replacement With Flexicor
• Lateral Total Disc Replacement
• Prospective Evaluation of the Charité Lumbar Artificial Disc Replacement With Minimum 3-Year Follow Up
• Complications of Total Disc Replacement: Work-Up Strategies
• Dynamic Spinal Stabilization
• Do Posterior Dynamic Systems Actually Move?
• Experience With Dynesis
• Posterior Dynamic Stabilization
• Experience With the Transition System
• Biomechanics of the Total FSU Replacement – Design Criteria
• Experience With FlexuSpine Stabilization System
• Stem Cells in Spine Care

This will be my fifth year attending and frankly Tony’s course improves each year. I hope to see many of our readers in Duck Key. Don’t delay with your registration since openings are limited. To learn more and to register, go the this link:  http://www.foreonline.org/CME/conferences/2010-Preservation-of-Motion-in-the-Spine.