We hope you'll join us for a 1/2 day of lectures, discourse and networking.

4.5 CME credits are available to all attendees and registration is free!

 

Have a case to discuss? A question to poll or an approach to a situation that stands out? Email us at info@nessg to reserve a discussion slot.

 

7:30 - 8:00  Breakfast & Registration 

8:00 Samuel Adams, MD
Prevalence of Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy in Elderly Patients with Fragility Fractures

8:45 Case Presentations
Frank Rand, MD
Rx of Chronic PJK
 Christian DiPaola, MD/Peter J. Wagner, MD, MMS
Central Cord Syndrome-Timing of Surgical Intervention (why I don't believe the literature anymore)

10:00 - 10:45  Break

10:45 Yaneer Bar-Yam, PhD
The limitations of statistics and p-values. What can replace them for medicine?

11:45 Case Presentations
Kenneth Paonessa, MD
Deterioration of lumbar fusions ending at L5
Geoff McCullen, MD
Occipitocervical dislocation/Screw fixation bilateral lumbar spondylolysis
Charles Mick, MD

1:00 - 2:00  Lunch