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Keeping the community connected through news, research, and education.
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Newsletter
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November 2020 — Issue 19
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New date for the Latin America Regional Courses 2021
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The AO Spine Regional Courses are a unique opportunity for participants to expand their knowledge on the latest advances in spine surgery in a comprehensive, innovative, and interactive way. After close consultation with our boards, we have decided to reschedule the fifth edition of the AO Spine Latin America Regional Courses in Bogota, Colombia, to November 4–6, 2021.
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AO Davos Courses 2020 Spine webinars
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This year at the AO Davos Courses, we will offer various networking opportunities and four additional Spine webinars that are open to all. Each morning or around lunch time CET a different topic will be presented, with world class moderators and speakers. Rebroadcasts are planned on AO TV and recordings will be available afterwards in the AO Video hub for those who cannot attend the live events on December 3–6, 2020.
Read more ›
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AO Spine Center Club Webinar
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At the beginning of November 2020, we launched a new online event format: the AO Spine Centers Club. The idea was creating an opportunity for our spine centers to share their experience and their outstanding cases with our community. They also present their hospital center and their spine service as well as their current and former fellows. It is a very interactive webinar that has the scientific program created by the spine centers.
The first edition was on thoracolumbar trauma and had about 160 participants. It was in charge of three spine centers: the Instituto Nacional de Rehabilitación from Mexico City, Mexico, whose spine center director is Barón Zárate and fellows are Alvaro Fierro and Carlos Aguillar; the Hospital Militar Central from Bogota, Colombia, whose spine center director is Javier Matta and the fellows are Daniel Ojeda and David Florez; the Hospital del Trabajador from Santiago, Chile, whose spine center director is Vicente Ballesteros and the fellows are Gabriel Hernandez and Ignacio Farias. They brought great cases for discussion which allowed a highly interactive event.
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Do not miss the second edition!
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The event will take place on December 9 at 20h (GMT-3, check your time zone). The Hospital Universitário Cajuru prepared the scientific and program and will run the discussion about benign spine tumors. Emiliano Vialle is the spine center director who will moderate the discussion, Luis Ortiz and Wanderson da Silva are fellows, and Matheus Ribeiro is a former fellow, who will present the cases. |
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Register now ›
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Digital Education Training
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From October 12 to November 8 took place our pilot project "Digital Education Training — DET". The program had 23 invited participants from 8 countries, all participants were AO Spine and AO Trauma members. The faculty group included Juan Emmerich (AR), as chairperson, Asdrubal Falavigna (BR), and Rodrigo Pesantez (CO).
According to Juan Emmerich, AO Spine Latin America chairperson, we developed an innovative and pioneering training to attend the educational needs of our teachers in this time of restriction for face-to-face events. "The training was highly interactive, with activities based on the needs of the participants, asynchronous and synchronous encounters, discussion in small groups and individual lectures".
The program had seven modules, including themes as adult education, flipped classroom, tools for online teaching, tips and tricks for online learning, how to prepare effective teams for webinars, key success factors to have an effective presentation, among others.
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Latin America Study Groups recent publications
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At the end of 2019, the AO Spine Latin America Study Groups were relaunched. These groups were created to promote innovation through scientific investigation. Their objective is to stimulate discussions and brainstorming activities on specific topics, to develop guidelines and research projects, as well as to create a network and a platform to connect spine surgeons in the region. In addition, they are a potential way to involve more young surgeons in research.
The recent publications are:
Neurosurgery versus orthopedic surgery: Who has better access to minimally invasive spinal technology?
Surgical Neurology International
Alfredo Guiroy (AR), Matias Pereira (AR), Juan Pablo Cabrera (CL),
Nicolás Coombes (AR), Martin Gagliardi (AR), Alberto Gotfryd (BR),
Charles Carazzo (BR), Nestor Taboada (CO), Asdrubal Falavigna (BR)
Management of unilateral cervical facet joint dislocation in neurologically-intact patients: results of an AO Spine Latin American survey
World Neurosurgery
Andrei Fernandes Joaquim (BR), Ratko Yurac (CL), Marcelo Valacco (AR),
Orlando Righesso Neto (BR), Charles André Carazzo (BR), Juan Pablo Cabrera (CL),
Alisson R. Teles (BR), Ericson Sfreddo (BR), Asdrubal Falavigna (BR)
Impacto psicosocial de la pandemia por COVID-19 en cirujanos de columna argentinos
Revista Argentina de Neurocirugía
Alfredo Guiroy (AR), Martín Gagliardi (AR), Nicolas Coombes (AR),
Federico Landriel (AR), Carlos Zanardi (AR), Gastón Camino (AR),
Juan Pablo Guyot (AR), Marcelo Valacco (AR)
Teaching Training and Surgical Education in Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS) of the Spine: What Are the Best Teaching and Learning Strategies for MIS? Do We Have Any Experience and Data?
Global Spine Journal
Asdrubal Falavigna (BR), Alfredo Guiroy (AR), Néstor Taboada (CO)
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| Event Calendar |
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| December 1 2020 — February 15, 2021
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November 28, 2020
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Guadalajara |
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December 1, 2020
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Online |
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December 9, 2020
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Online |
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December 11, 2020
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Santiago |
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January 23, 2021
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Quito |
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© 2020 AO Spine Latin America. All rights reserved. E&OE.
AO Spine Latin America, Av. Silva Jardim 2042 Cj 1505, 80250-200 Curitiba, Brasil
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