Summer Meeting • August 5, 2017 • Manchester, VT
Stephanie Jones, Coordinator
New England Spine Study Group
info@nessg.org
413-203-9712
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