It was great to see everyone at the 24th Annual Scientific Conference of the Canadian Spine Society last week.Thank you to our presenters, organizers, delegates and exhibitors for joining us in Whistler.We hope you had a great time & learned something new! Photos:Tara Whittaker

Live at the show home this AM! Foothills Hospital Home lottery supports a diverse range of initiatives including innovation in surgery. The Calgary Endoscopic Spine Surgery program will ensure patients have quicker recovery times allowing them to get back to their lives sooner!

An example of Gill laminectomy for a grade 2 isthmic spondylolisthesis in a morbidly obese patient. Bilateral L5-S1 TLIF leading to restoration of lordosis (5 degrees improvement) and reduction of spondylolisthesis. POD1 discharge. #ERAS principles applied.

Congratulations Michael Yang, MD MSc FRCSC Rena Far on their newest publication in The Spine Journal! Canadian Spine Society TheSpineJEditor

New publication!! 🙌 Congratulations Dr. David Cadotte on his recent publication titled “Advanced MRI metrics improve the prediction of baseline disease severity for individuals with degenerative cervical myelopathy” in The Spine Journal TheSpineJEditor. thespinejournalonline.com/article/S1529-…

Congratulations Dr. David Cadotte, Abdul Al-Shawwa, Dr. Michael Craig, and team on their recent publication! “Focal compression of the cervical spinal cord alone does not indicate high risk of neurological deterioration in patients with degen mild DCM” jns-journal.com/article/S0022-…

New paper alert! We developed the Pediatric Scoliosis Infection Risk (PSIR) score that can help risk stratify patients at risk for developing a SSI after pediatric scoliosis surgery Congrats to Dr. Vivien Chan on seeing this project to the end! doi.org/10.1007/s00586…

It was a pleasure hosting Dr. Nicholas Dea from UBC Medicine’s Division of Spine Surgery as our 2024 Calgary Spine Program Visiting Professor. He gave grand rounds talk on Surgery for Primary Bone Tumors and How to avoid failure as an academic spine surgeon.

Contemplating on making the leap to adopt endoscopic spine surgery in your practice? We at SMISS Society for Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery are hosting a webinar just for you on July 9th at 8:30 EST with myself, Jang Won Yoon MD MS FAANS and Dr. Greg Basil. Please RSVP using the link below. qkpc59bbb.cc.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001_r…

An honor to be invited by Khoi Than and Virtual Global Spine Conference to give a talk on #ERAS for Lumbar Fusion Surgery, and our experience at Calgary Spine Program. Hope to see you there!

We are hiring again! We are looking for an enthusiastic and hard working research coordinator to join the Calgary Spine Program. Deadline: Sept 1st, 2024 Link to job description: calgaryspine.ca/about/careers UCalgaryMedicine O'Brien Institute for Public Health