Time

09:00-17:00

Description

The AO Program for Education and Excellence in Research (AOPEER) is a research education program to support surgeons in their research activities. AOPEER was designed for surgeons and other health care professionals who want to learn or improve the skills they need to conduct clinical research. Conducting clinical studies is a challenging and multifaceted task. This course will provide practical guides and tips to successfully complete a clinical study. The goal of this 1-day course is to introduce the principles of clinical research, including skills and knowledge on why and how to do research, and where to find additional resources, tools, and reference packages to support a research project.
Module 1: Importance of research
Module 2: Basics of Good Clinical Practice
Module 3: Study question
Module 4: Literature review
Module 5: Basics of statistical thinking
Module 6: Make your research project a success

Preliminary speakers

Asdrubal Falavigna
Lorin M. Benneker
Mohammad El-Sharkawi
Marcelo Valacco
Vincenzo Giordano
Fernando Briceño
Daniel Sciubba
Nelson Astur
William Teixeira
Shanmuganathan Rajasekaran
Luiz Roberto Vialle
Jeffrey C. Wang
Kenneth Cheung

Learning objectives

After attending this course, participants should be able to:

• •  Explain the importance of doing research and the link to evidence based medicine
• •  Apply the basic principles of literature search and critical appraisal
• •  Follow GCP guidelines and adhere to ethical requirements, eg, informed consent
• •  Identify a clinical problem, formulate a clinical research question, and select the study design
• •  Collaborate with a statistician to perform sample size calculation and basic statistical analyses
• •  Utilize available research environment, resources, and tools (AOPEER platform: www.aopeer.org)

Target Audience

This course is targeted at individuals who want to learn or improve the skills for conducting clinical research and publishing results and also at those with a general interest in research and documentation of clinical cases.

Time

09:00-17:00

Description

This one-day intensive workshop is intended to advance the existing skills of spine practitioners from a multi-specialty perspective. Distinguished faculty combines didactic instruction and state-of-the art virtual reality and simulation training with topics related to the clinical evaluation of complex pain and functional impairment. Advanced management options including the role of epidural injections, disc acess, radiofrequency rhizotomy, and neuromodulation including spinal cord stimulation are presented. Spinal anatomy, patient selection, and high yield clinical pearls (with radiographic correlations and quantitative functional assessment) are covered in depth. Time will be provided for open discussions with attendees and faculty on important topics such as indications, risks, literature controversies in peer-review process, and pitfalls. Additionally, faculty will discuss outcome monitoring as part of the skill-set in treating complex pain disorders and their associated functional impairments and disability.

Preliminary speakers

Sanjog Pangarkar
Karsten Wiechert
David Fish
Sunil Panchal
Jeffrey C. Wang  

Learning objectives

Upon completion of the course, participants will gain strategies to:

• •  Explain the role of advanced pain procedures in the evaluation and treatment of spine pain
• •  Comprehend the potential risks and complications of advanced spinal interventions to patients
• •  Understand the role of neuromodulation in treating spine pain
• •  Understand the role of radiofrequency denervation in treating facet and SIJ mediated pain

Time

13:00-17:00

Description

This one-day intensive program is organized for spine surgeons who want to learn the recent evolution of endoscopic spinal surgery (ESS) as well as its current advanced techniques for various lumbar spine pathologies. Reflecting the higher demands from the patients for a smaller incision, minimized manipulation to normal structures, as well as consequent faster recovery, these endoscopic procedures have been well acclaimed from various minimally invasive spinal surgery (MISS) related societies around the globe recently. Even though cutting edges in the field of endoscopic spine surgery have drawn the many interests and be popularized by some experts, there are still lots of unmet needs from general spine surgeons. This pre-course offered in GSC 2020 will enable spine surgeons to start integrating endoscopic spine surgeries into their practice.

Preliminary speakers

Jin-Sung Luke Kim
Christoph Hofstetter
Marlon Sudario Silva
Nathaniel Brooks
Javier Quillo-Olvera
David Del Curto
Marco Moscatelli
Chien-Min Chen
Nicolas Prada Ramirez
Christoph Siepe
Alfonso Garcia
Fuji Ito
Néstor Taboada
Cheul Woong Park
Michael Wang
Ralf Wagner  

Learning objectives

• •  Understand basic anatomy and knowledge for endoscopic surgery
• •  Handle an endoscope and necessary armamentaria
• •  Describe how to start the endoscopic surgery and basic steps
• •  Do practical exercise on cadaver and perform basic endoscopic procedures
• •  Identify the indications and contraindications for beginners
• •  Discuss safety issues and understand the strategy for avoiding complications

Target Audience

This course is targeted at spine surgeons with less than 3-years of experience in endoscopic spine surgery

Time

13:30-17:00

Preliminary speakers

Carlos Tucci
Jens R. Chapman
Michael Kanas
Wellington Hsu
C. Pierre
M. Hutton
A. Clarke
Karsten Wiechert
Asdrubal Favaligna
R. Oskouian
Marcelo Gruenberg

Time

13:30 - 17:00

Description

Our proposal is aimed at the development and dissemination of mini access techniques, trying to nurture an outstanding team of professionals in the region, as shown in the proposed speakers.

Preliminary speakers

Luiz Pimenta
Néstor Taboada
Claudio Lamartina
Enrique Augusto Gobbi
Cristiano Menezes
Rodrigo Amaral
Felipe Jose Lanari Zubiaur
Thiago Coutinho
Luis Eduardo Carelli
Gabriel Rositto

Learning objectives

It is aimed at the auditorium collecting quality elements and details that can help the safe and reproducible application of side access / mini invasion techniques. All this supported by the great levels of the invited professionals, with great experience in the field.

Target Audience

All talks are directed at the medium / high level of spine surgeons (professionals who begin in the techniques and look for details that make them safer and reproducible in their practices, as for experienced surgeons who seek to improve their standards of quality and safety in the execution of them) We say this since the program was developed progressively, starting with technical details (tips and tricks), and continuing with application and utility of these techniques in more challenging pathologies, as well as developing the described complications and how to avoid and / or solve them.