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President's Message
Wow, what a phenomenal 50th anniversary meeting in Minneapolis. Kudos to John Dormans, MD, the 50th Anniversary Task Force led by Behrooz Akbarnia, MD, the Education Committee led by Sigurd Berven, MD, the Program Committee led by Ronald Lehman, Jr., MD, the local hosts Joseph and Sherry Perra, Tressa and the SRS staff and all who participated.
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Pat on the Back
Virginie Lafage, PhD
Virginie Lafage, PhD recently joined Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) as Director of Spine Research under Dr. Frank Schwab, has been appointed Spine Service Chief.
Dr. Lafage received her PhD in biomechanics from ENSAM in Paris, France. Before her appointment at HSS, she was Director of Spine Research at NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases.
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In Memoriam
O. Ross Nicholson, MD
John H. Hurley, MD
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Historians Corner
Behrooz A. Akbarnia, MD
Past SRS Historian
George H. Thompson, MD
SRS Historian
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Finance Council Update
J. Abbott Byrd, III, MD
Finance Council Chair
The Finance Council is composed of four committees:
The Corporate Relations Committee is chaired by John Dormans, MD. The committee remains quite active communicating and meeting regularly with our corporate sponsors. The goal is to expand the list of SRS corporate sponsors and to maintain and increase their level of support. Dr. Dormans' team has been quite successful with this effort and the 2014 aggregate of SRS corporate sponsorship was $1,847,250 or 42 percent of our annual income.
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Research Council Update
Frank Schwab, MD
Research Council Chair
The Research Council comprises the following committees: Adult Deformity, Growing Spine, Morbidity & Mortality (M&M), Non-Operative Management and Research Grant. Additionally, the following task forces are included: Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) and 3D Scoliosis Task Force. Key highlights to note are:
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Governance Council Update
Mark Weidenbaum, MD
Governance Council Chair
The Governance Council brings together eight committees, which share common aspects of SRS structural organization. As SRS Secretary, I am the Governance Committee Council Chair. As with the other Councils, the main function of the Council Chair is to assist the committee chairs and to facilitate communication between the eight committees, the Presidential Line and the Board of Directors.
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Education Council Update
John R. Dimar, MD
Education Council Chair
The Scoliosis Research Society Board of Directors and committee chairs recently met in Chicago on November 6, 2015. As the incoming Education Council Chair, I had the great privilege of meeting with the current committee chairs who will be leading their committees in planning the various educational activities for the upcoming year.
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Fellowship Committee Update
Munish Gupta, MD
Fellowship Committee Chair
Membership Selection update:
The SRS Fellowship Committee had a busy and successful year so far. We have recommended 24 new Candidate Fellows to the Board of Directors; 14 of them outside of the United States (OUS). Six of the 15 candidate members who were approved as Active Fellows of SRS are from OUS.
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Worldwide Courses Call for 2017 Events Deadline: February 1, 2016
Marinus de Kleuver, MD, PhD
Worldwide Course Committee Chair
2016:
The Worldwide Course Committee (WWC) is proud to co-organize six conferences in 2016, each time in conjunction with a national or regional spine society. These conferences, from an integral part of the SRS educational efforts across the globe, are a sign of our commitment to foster optimal care for spinal deformity patients globally.
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Education Committee Update
Theodore Choma, MD
Education Committee Chair
The Education Committee is responsible for the educational programs (Pre-Meeting Course, Half-Day Courses, and Lunchtime Symposia) at the Annual Meeting. Their efforts at the recent 50th Annual Meeting in Minneapolis are worthy of our thanks and congratulations. Under the direction of the previous Education Committee Chair, Sigurd Berven, MD, we were treated to an array of rich educational programs infused with a strong historical prospective over the arc of our Society’s first 50 years.
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Awards & Scholarships Committee Update
Ian J. Harding, BA, FRCS (Orth)
Awards and Scholarships Committee Chair
The Awards and Scholarships Committee is pleased to announce the winners of the 2016 Traveling Fellows. This year the committee received 18 applicants from 13 countries wishing to join Professor Keith K.D. Luk, MD, the Senior Traveling Fellow, on a tour across North America visiting active SRS member institutions.
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Ethics Corner
Kamal Ibrahim, MD, FRCS(C), MA
Ethics and Professionalism
Committee Chair
James W. Roach, MD
Ethics and Professionalism
Committee Past Chair
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Non-Operative Management Committee Update
Matthew Halsey, MD
Non-Operative Management Committee Chair
Over the past year, the Non-Operative Management Committee in coordination with the Presidential Line, the SRS Health Policy Committee, AAOS, POSNA and the AAP, developed and delivered a consensus statement to the United States Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) urging them to reconsider the current “D” recommendation for school screening for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis.
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Save the Dates for 2016 SRS Meetings!
Mark your calendars for the following future meetings...
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