2008 Morning Lecture Series

One-hour talks starting at 7 a.m. held at:

Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
Educational Conference Center
North Tower, Plaza Level

Wednesday, January 9
Ankylosing Spondylitis
Michael Weisman, MD

Wednesday, January 30
Spinal Angiography and Embolization for Tumors
Michael Alexander, MD

Spinal Radiosurgery
Behrooz Hakimian, MD

Wednesday, February 13
Diagnostic Distinction - Lumbo-sacral Radiculopathy versus Sciatica of Non-Disc Origin: When to Consider Piriformis Syndrome
Aaron Filler, MD

Wednesday, March 12
Pre-Clinical Studies with Human Stem Cells in Spinal Cord Injury
Michel Levesque, MD

Wednesday, March 26
Bone Health Assessment and the Spine
Stuart Silverman, MD

Wednesday, April 9
Modern Techniques for Cervical Myelopathy
Srinath Samudrala, MD

Correction of Cervical Kyphosis
Brian Perri, DO

Wednesday, April 16
Evidence Based Medicine and Spine Surgery
 Visiting Professor: Charles G. Fisher, MD

Wednesday, May 7
Controversies in the Treatment of Metastatic Spinal Cord
Compression
Visiting Professor: Roy A. Patchell, MD

Wednesday, May 14
XLIF and Degenerative Scoliosis
Leonel A. Hunt, MD

Wednesday, June 4
Spinal Motion Preservation
Neel Anand, MD


Wednesday, July 9
Adult Idiopatic Scoliosis
Robert S. Pashman, MD

Wednesday, July 30
The Role of Discography
Avrom Gart, MD

Diagnostic Procedures in Pain Management
Jason Berkley, DO

Wednesday, August 13
Diagnostic Imaging and the Spine Surgeon
Marcel Maya, MD

Nerve Block Techniques in the head and Neck
Christopher Zarembinski, MD

Wednesday, September 10
Sports Related Injury in the Cervical Spine
Eli Baron, MD

Wednesday, October 8
New Concepts in the Management of Vertebral Compression Fractures
J. Patrick Johnson, MD


Wednesday, October 22
Vascular Malformations of the Spine
Visiting Professor:
Robert F. Spetzler, MD

Wednesday, November 5
Sagittal Plane Deformities
Visiting Professor: David W. Polly, Jr., MD

Wednesday, November 12
Resorbable Anterior Cervical Containment Devices
Burak M. Ozgur MD


Microsurgery for Spinal Tumors
Khawar Siddique, MD

Wednesday, December 3
AxiaLIF in the Outpatient Setting
Visiting Professor: William Tobler, MD