The focus of these meetings are to demonstrate a non-biased educational program; inviting surgeon opinion leaders as well as industry updates.

The most recent ASCEND Meeting was the Controversies in Contemporary Spine Surgery in Washington, DC Saturday, May 17, 2008.

Below are full video excepts from the conference:

An Update on Translation Research in Spinal Cord Injury: Are We Any Closer to the Cure?, Michael Fehling, MD, PhD

Deformity Reduction Maneuvers in Adult Deformity Surgery, Kirkham B. Wood, MD

How Have the Approved Lumbar Arthroplasty Devices Performed Clinically Since FDA Approval: Outcomes and Complications, J. Kenneth Burkus, MD

Is Disk Regeneration Possible? An Update on Translational Research, Irving M. Shapiro, PhD

When and What Nucleaus Pulposus Device Will Dominate the US Market?, Scott H. Kitchel, MD

Can Image Guided Surgery be Wed to Intraoperative Advanced Imaging (CT/O arm) to Make Minimally Invasive Surgery a Reality for the Average Surgeon, Rick C. Sasso, MD

Why Posterior Motion-Sparing Technologies for Symptomatic Degenerative Disease Will Fail, Christopher M. Bono, MD

The Role in Polymer Rods in Lumbar Spine Surgery, Ravi K. Ponnappan, MD

Complications and Controversies Introduction, Alexander Vaccaro, MD and John Kostuik

For more information, please contact us at: ASCEND@ASCENDspine.org