During his address Thursday, NASS President F. Todd Wetzel, MD, told attendees that spine care providers must get back to using effective critical thinking skills if they are to offer the best care to their patients. Dr. Wetzel, who is Vice Chair of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Sports Medicine at the Lewis Katz […] Read more
Thursday’s Best Paper presentations included the results of studies exploring the benefits of patient reported outcomes (PROs) in determining value of care and the impact of opioid use on postoperative outcomes in adult spinal deformity (ASD) patients. Richard L. Skolasky, ScD, of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD, presented the results of a prospective cohort […] Read more
Physicians today face an ever-growing problem — overwhelming data. Thursday’s Presidential Guest Speaker Rebecca Costa said 2.5 quintillion bytes of new data are generated every day. By 2020, that will grow exponentially to 40 zettabytes of data a day — that’s equivalent to 400 billion gigabytes. Costa, a sociobiologist and host of the syndicated radio […] Read more
Among the awards presented at NASS 2017 were The Spine Journal Outstanding Paper Awards, which were presented on Thursday, October 26. The Spine Journal and NASS created the Outstanding Paper Awards to recognize excellence in unpublished research in spine care. Read more
The Scientific Program Committee received more than 1,000 abstract and session proposal submissions for this year’s Annual Meeting in Orlando. From those accepted, the 21 highest rated abstracts are being presented during three separate Best Paper sessions this week. Following are the Best Papers that will be presented today from 9–10 am in Room WF2. […] Read more
I think one of the most interesting things I went to was a symposium on biologics and cellular allografts — I thought that was really great. There were a number of great talks, but one of the coolest things was learning three questions to ask in order to evaluate cellular allografts critically. For me, that was one of the most important things and something I can take back and use in my practice. Read more
The NASS Annual Meeting Program Committee is accepting abstract submissions and session proposals for next year’s meeting, which will be held September 26-29 in Los Angeles, CA. Submission deadline: Friday, February 2, 2018 (11:59 pm CDT) Acceptance notifications sent on or before: May 2, 2018 Instructions for submission Visit the Submission Management System at http://sms.spine.org. […] Read more
