The Scottish Spine Surgeons seek to promote safe and best practice spinal surgery across Scotland. Our annual meeting is a friendly forum for learning, discussion and promotion of this aim.
Continuing Professional Development (CPD): Awarded 8 hours of continuing professional develop by the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh – Recognition number – RCSEd 03330 on 08/10/2024 (5 hours Day 1, 3 hours Day 2).
Day 1 | Thursday - 7 November | |
0930 | Tea and Coffee and Sonsor Stands | Sponsor Stands |
1000 | Welcome | Gerry Cousins |
1015 | "Military and Humanitarian Surgery in Conflict Settings" | Andy Kent |
1115 | "Gagged by guidance" | Vinay Jasani |
and "Adult deformity case series" | ||
1215 | Lunch and Sponsor Stands | |
1345 | Scottish regions - current state of play | All |
West of Scotland | Niall Craig | |
Grampian / Norht of Scotland | Pete Bodkin | |
Highland | Jo Surtees | |
Tayside | Heinke Pulhorn | |
Lothian and South East | Karen Outram | |
1500 | Patient Safety - engaging with the Scottish Parliament health committee | Chris Adams |
1600 | Quiz | |
1700 | Platinum sponsor - 10 minute presentation | DePuy Synthes |
1710 | End of day 1 | |
1900 | Annual Dinner at Glen Mhor Hotel |
Day 2 | Friday - 8 November | |
0900 | Tea and Coffee and Sonsor Stands | |
0930 | Free papers | |
Paper 1 | Patient Prioritisation for Lumbar Decompression: Linear Analysis of Pre-Operative vs 1yr Post-Operatively Patient Reported Outcome Measures | Mostafa Beshr |
Paper 2 | Is MRI Reporting on Spinal Stability after Thoracolumbar Spinal Trauma Adequately Informative? | Himanshu Shekhar |
Paper 3 | Radiological and Functional Outcomes of Surgically Managed Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy(DCM) in Northern Ireland between 2019 to 2021 period: A Retrospective Regional Study with 1 year follow-up period. | Hushil Singh Sandhu |
1030 | Training to be a Spinal Consultant: The pathways, scope of practice and what the future holds. | Girish Swamy |
1115 | Cauda Equina Pathway - GIRFT - questionnaire and discussion | Gerry Cousins |
1200 | Close, next meeting and Lunch |