The award host sites below are in geographical order, west to east according to the Mercator map projection.
Location:
10666 N Torrey Pines Rd
San Diego, California USA 92037
Email:
[email protected]
Phone:
8583534852
Site Description:
San Diego hosts a unique practice environment where the weekly schedule will include both adult and pediatric spine deformity surgery and outpatient clinics. This site has become recognized for its efforts in research, understanding minimally invasive applications to adult deformity including lateral based surgery, and MIS posterior correction. In addition we have a robust early onset scoliosis program that boasts excellent faculty and pioneers in MCGR technology. Furthermore the San Diego Spine Foundation has 2 decades of history of research in San Diego with involvement in major study groups with a world class infrastructure. From a clinical standpoint the spine fellowship trains 3 surgeons yearly, of which one is usually a neurosurgeon, along with hosting 4th year residents from the Naval hospital. Surgery occurs 2-3x per week and outpatient clinic and academics the other 2-3 days. In addition to a fantastic deformity program San Diego is a wonderful destination with many outdoor activities and sites to see.
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Location:
100 N Mario Capecchi Drive
Salt Lake City, Utah USA 84113
Email:
[email protected]
Phone:
8016625600
Site Description:
Academic Pediatric Spine Deformity practice. Full time research coordinator. Residents and fellows. Spine team in the OR. Two days clinic and two days OR per week. All cases are pediatric spine deformity including EOS, AIS, Neuromuscular and syndromic scoliosis. Visitors are only allowed to observe in surgery.
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Location:
San Antonio, Texas USA
Site Description:
Preferred Fellowship(s):
Location:
2222 Welborn Street
Dallas, Texas USA 75219
Email:
[email protected]
Phone:
2145598471
Fax:
2145597570
Site Description:
Texas Scottish Rite Hospital is a pediatric orthopaedic hospital that takes care of all types of orthopaedic problems in children and adolescents/young adults including a very busy practice in spinal deformity. We have a total of 7 surgeons performing spine deformity surgery and an additional physician who does nonoperative treatment of spinal deformity. In addition, there are 5 pediatric orthopaedic surgery fellows, 4 orthopaedic residents, and 9 advanced practice providers. We perform over nearly 400 pediatric spinal deformity surgeries each year including the treatment of early onset scoliosis, adolescent idiopathic scoliosis, neuromuscular scoliosis, congenital scoliosis/kyphosis. We also have a very busy nonoperative experience with bracing and casting with an in-house orthotics department which measures and fabricates the braces. The outpatient clinic areas are very busy and patients are seen with outstanding efficiency.
We have a very busy research program of both clinical and basic research including a very active molecular genetics lab. There are several data registries which enroll patients in idiopathic scoliosis, EOS, severe spine deformity and kyphosis. We have a seven clinical research coordinators who assist in performing the researchers/clinicians. We have a full-time statistician and a grant writer.
The educational curriculum is very robust with a 1 hour conference each day. In addition, we have our most important conference is the preoperative conference where we review all of the cases for that upcoming week. If the traveling fellows would attend all of the conferences and we would extend this to provide for more interesting case discussions.
Dallas is a very large metroplex with a lot of excellent sites to see including the sixth floor museum which overlooks Dealey Plaza where President Kennedy was shot, outstanding art galleries and museum and the Texas culture including rodeos and Stockyards. In addition, we have great professional sports teams including the Cowboys, Texas Rangers, and the Dallas Stars. The nightlife including restaurants are outstanding.
Preferred Fellowship(s):
Location:
660 S. Euclid CB 8233
St. Louis, Missouri USA 63110
Email:
[email protected]
Phone:
3143627140
Fax:
3147472600
Site Description:
The spine specialists with Washington University Orthopaedics are nationally and internationally renowned and cover all spinal diseases/conditions of the cervical (40% of cases), thoracic & lumbar spine (60%): degenerative (35%), deformity (50%), trauma/tumor (15%); pediatric (30%), adult (70%). Among the five attending physicians (Drs. Munish Gupta, Keith Bridwell, Jacob Buchowski, Michael Kelly and Lukas Zebala), approximately 1000 cases are performed annually.
Each spine attending has his own research coordinator to help with research projects. The five coordinators (and one research manager), three of whom have master’s degrees and one with a PhD, also assist our fellows, residents and visiting researchers with their projects. Statistical analysis is provided by Washington University’s biostatistics department, as well as by some of our research coordinators who use SPSS. The spine research group is housed together in a state-of-the-art facility at the medical center, with room for several visiting researchers as well.
The Spine Service is supported clinically by two residents (PGY-2 and -4 levels) and four spine fellows, as well as clinical staff comprised of six nurse practitioners, a physician assistant, a nurse manager, five registered nurses, and six medical assistants.
In general, activities in a typical week are spent approximately 60% in the operating room and 40% spent in clinic. Operations are performed at Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis Children’s Hospital, Barnes -Jewish West County Hospital and Shriners Hospital for Children, as well as the Orthopedic Center/Chesterfield (same-day cases). Clinics are at these locations as well. Each attending has a half-day to a whole day dedicated weekly to research and administration.
For more information about our spine specialists at Washington University Orthopedics, visit: https://www.ortho.wustl.edu/content/Patient-Care/2345/Services/Spine/Overview.aspx
Preferred Fellowship(s):
Location:
1400 S Germantown Rd
Germantown, Tennessee USA 38138
Email:
[email protected]
Phone:
9017593100
Site Description:
Preferred Fellowship(s):
Location:
1611 NW 12th Ave, Rehab Bldg Suite 303
Miami, Florida USA 33136
Site Description:
High volume primarily adult spinal deformity practice in a major metropolitan city, the largest number of adult deformity cases in South Florida, clinical and research staff including Orthopaedic and Neurosurgical fellows, residents and nurse specialists. Typical week includes two to three full surgical days, two clinic days and one research day.
Preferred Fellowship(s):
Location:
149 College Street
Toronto, Ontario Canada M5T 1P5
Email:
[email protected]
Phone:
4169788468
Site Description:
The University of Toronto Spine Program and the two affiliated deformity centres (Toronto Western Hospital; Hospital for Sick Children) The University of Toronto (UofT) Spine Program has a unique multidisciplinary faculty comprised of around 30 world renowned spine surgeons scientists and researchers (clinical, translational, and fundamental) drawn from across at the University and its affiliated adult and paediatric hospitals and research units: The Toronto Western Hospital (TWH); St. Michael's Hospital (SMH); Sunnybrook Health Science Centre (SHSC), and the Hospital for Sick Children (HSC) also known as SickKids.
The three named hosts/faculty are longstanding and active members of Scoliosis Research Society. They are world leading spine surgeons and scientists: Michael Fehlings MD PhD FRCSC FACS, Professor of Neurosurgery, Spine Surgeon and Senior Scientist at TWH and Co-Director of the UofT Spine Program; Stephen Lewis MD MSc FRCSC, Associate Professors of Orthopaedic Surgery, Spine Surgeon and researcher at TWH and SickKids; and Reinhard Zeller MD, MSc, FRCSC Associate Professors of Orthopaedic Surgery Spine Surgeon and researcher at SickKids.
In addition to its academic role dedicated for training local and international spine clinical and research fellows, the Program acts as a hub for one of the largest and leading spinal care and research communities in the world. We are pleased to have been selected several times in the past years to be hosting the Annual SRS Traveling Fellows at our affiliated hospitals TWH and HSC. In addition, a number of SRS Fellowship Awardees have selected Toronto as their host site during the current and past years, and upon their request, have spent their awarded fellowship with Dr Fehlings, Lewis and Zeller.
The selected SRS traveling fellows visiting Toronto will have the exposure to clinical and administrative experience with broad range of complex deformity procedures for children, adolescent, adult, and elderly spine at the two deformity centres:
In addition, the fellows will also be exposed to a varied and stimulating academic schedule at the other affiliated deformity centres (SMH and SHSC). They will be toured at the University complex, clinic and OR at the four affiliated leading academic health science centres and learn about state of the art scoliosis care at these centres, participate in CME accredited Citywide Spine Rounds and Citywide Spine Fellow Journal Club and discuss advances in scoliosis care. The visiting surgeon will also enjoy the opportunity to learn about techniques to minimize perioperative neurological risk in high risk spinal deformity. There are several pediatric and adult scoliosis clinical trials and research projects in progress. The SRS travelling fellow will learn and discuss the current advances in scoliosis surgery and will have the opportunity to meet and hear some of the current fellows' presentations on clinical and research projects at the University of Toronto Spine Program. The visiting fellows will also have the opportunity to develop and build on future collaborations for various research projects and participation in the trials.
Finally, The University of Toronto Spine Program is known for excellence in hosting traveling fellows and ranked the top host site in 2016 for hosting the Cervical Spine Research Society Traveling Fellows and providing an outstanding academic, clinical and fun program packed with opportunities of networking with esteemed scoliosis surgeon scientists and world-class spinal community.
Links:
Preferred Fellowship(s):
Location:
235 S 8th St
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA 19106
Email:
[email protected]
Phone:
2158293073
Site Description:
The Philadelphia Spine Deformity Group would like to host the SRS traveling fellows for 2018. The different sites ( two adult and three pediatric ) to be visited with live operative cases will be:
Each institute has a significant history of spine deformity surgery, former SRS TF, research coordinators, research lab, and residency/fellowship program.
A half day multidisciplinary Spine Symposium will be organized depending on the time schedule so the fellows' talks can be featured along with contributions from our regional SRS members. Numerous options are available for social activities and sightseeing.
This location will fit in nicely if the plan is to visit New York, Baltimore or Washington DC, since these locations are all within a 150 km radius.
Preferred Fellowship(s):
Location:
535 E 70th St
New York, New York USA 10021
Email:
[email protected]
Phone:
2126061000
Site Description:
As an Institution, at the Hospital for Special Surgery, We perform the most deformity operations in New York City - Over 400 Adult deformity cases a year and over 3500 total spine operations. Our Three Column Osteotomy Volume is around 100 Annually. In addition, there are ~100 Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis cases done annually and 20-30 early onset cases that are managed with a variety of treatment options from casting, growing rod constructs, VEPTRs, etc.
Our Research Volume is outstanding with 27 people in our clinical research Lab spearheaded by Dr. Virginie Lafage and we also have 2 full time statisticians and a Basic Science Lab with many active Molecular and Animal Studies. We also have a full metabolic bone service with active randomized controlled trials on bone anabolic agents such as Forteo, on the outcomes of spine surgery.
The traveling Fellows will be visiting Closely with Dr. Todd Albert, Dr. Frank Schwab, Dr. Virginie Lafage and Dr. Han Jo Kim in addition to the ability to visit the ORs of the 12 additional members on the spine surgery faculty during their visit.
Preferred Fellowship(s):
Location:
3175 Côte Ste-Catherine
Montréal, Québec Canada H3T 1C5
Email:
[email protected]
Phone:
5145156573
Fax:
5143454755
Site Description:
The CHU Ste-Justine is a University center in Montreal treating primarily Pediatric Spinal Deformities of all ages and aetiologies. We have a spinal deformity fellowship program were fellows are exposed to both adult and paediatric deformities in association with an adult hospital (Sacré-Coeur Hospital) We treat a wide variety of pathologies including trauma, tumours, infections and spinal deformities.
The research team comprises over 25 full-time researchers with different backgrounds ranging from molecular biology, genetics, mechano-biology, mechanical engineering, imaging and computer sciences. We have a Clinical Orthopaedic Research Unit with 3 full-time research-coordinators overseeing several research protocols including participation in several multi-centre studies.
Operating room and clinical duties take about 80% of the week and the remainder is dedicated to research. Our group is at the cutting edge of most developments regarding 3D imaging and no-fusion technologies aiming at growth modulation of the spine. We are also lead experts in the treatment of high-grade spondylolisthesis.
Preferred Fellowship(s):
Location:
300 Longwood Ave
Boston, MA USA 02467
Email:
[email protected]
Phone:
6173554847
Site Description:
The division of spinal surgery, Boston Children's Hospital has extensive experience in spine deformity including early onset, idiopathic, neuromuscular, and Congenital conditions. Non operative and operative management is performed with orthopedic and neurosurgical input. Liaison with adult spine divisions at Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Womens, or Beth Israel Deaconess is possible.
Preferred Fellowship(s):
Location:
Kammerbruchstr. 8
Simmerath, Germany
Site Description:
The "Eifelklinik Simmerath" is a 125 bed hospital that focuses on the treatment of musculoskelettal disorders.
The Spine Departement has three spine surgeons, 1 spine fellow, and 2 orthopaedic residents. The department is under the leadership of Dr. Per Trobisch - a spine fellowship trained orthopaedic surgeon who focuses on complex spinal deformity (SRS member).
There are approximately 500 spinal surgeries annually, including approximately 100 deformity cases (70% pediatric, 30% adult).
The departement is experienced with hosting national and international surgeons - most of them are visiting to observe non fusion scoliosis surgery (aka Vertebral Body Tethering). Dr. Trobisch is currently performing one to two non fusion scoliosis corrections weekly plus one or two other deformity cases. The waiting list for scoliosis surgery is currently at three months, which facilitates planning for visiting surgeons.
The hospital has three international airports within 90 minutes by car (Brussels 90 min, Dusseldorf 70 min, Cologne 60 min). The close by city Aachen (30 min) is a beautiful town for sightseeing and to relax and is only 2.5 h away by fast train from Paris and 90 minutes from Frankfurt.
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