November 4-5, 2010
The Loews Miami Beach Hotel & MARC Lab
Miami, Florida
The 2010 SMISS Board of Directors would like to whole heartedly thank all the attendees for their time and contributions that made SMISS 2010 the success it was. We look forward to seeing you at SMISS 2011!
The SMISS 2010 Annual Meeting was held at The Loews Miami Beach Hotel & the Miami Anatomical Research Center (M.A.R.C.) in Miami, FL. This "can't miss" meeting featured a full-day hands-on cadaver lab showing the latest MIS procedures, two full days of CME-accredited didactic sessions, including lectures from MIS leaders, in-depth case discussions, oral abstracts and e-Posters on the newest research.
Index of 2010 Presentations
The 2010 annual meeting of the Society for Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery featured the following presentations:
Presenting Author:
Y. Raja Rampersaud MD, FRCS9(C)
Additional authors:
Rabin MD, FRCS(C) Soo Yong Chua MD, FRCS(C) Shawn Liu HBSc Oma Persaud MSC
Presenting Author:
Luiz Pimenta MD, PhD
Additional authors:
Luis Marchi MSc Etevaldo Coutinho MD
Presenting Author:
David M. Jackson MD
Additional authors:
Jacqueline Karp MD D. Greg Anderson MD Dan Gelb MD Steven Ludwig MD
Presenting Author:
Brian Kwon MD
Additional authors:
Nael Shanti MD Ling Li MSPH David H. Kim MD
Presenting Author:
Atiq Durrani MD
Additional authors:
Rachel Mistur MS
Presenting Author:
Frank M. Phillips MD
Additional authors:
Martin B. Konblum MD Michael A. Zatushevsky MD Alexander W. Turner MD G. Bryan Cornwall PhD
Presenting Author:
Guy R. Fogel MD
Additional authors:
Huy T. Duong MD Andrew Cappuccino MD Alexander W. Turner MD G. Bryan Cornwall PhD
Presenting Author:
Hyun W. Bae MD
Additional authors:
Ben B. Pradhan MD Michael A. Zatushevsky MD Alexander W. Turner MD G. Bryan Cornwall PhD
Presenting Author:
Jesse Butler
Additional authors:
Paul Adsourian MD Arnold Schwartz MD Jeffrey Felt MD
Presenting Author:
Wai Mun Yue MBBS, FRCSEd, FAMS (Ortho Surg)
Additional authors:
Kong Hwee Lee William Yeo Henry Soeharno Seang Beng Tan
Presenting Author:
William D. Smith MD
Additional authors:
Ginger Christian BS Sherrie Serrano BS
Presenting Author:
Raymond J. Gardocki MD
Additional authors:
Adam M. Kennedy MD
Presenting Author:
Mark Reiley MD
Presenting Author:
Daniel T. Laich
Additional authors:
Carol E. Talisse PA-C Fred H. Geisler MD, PhD Jerrel Boyer DO
Presenting Author:
Michael MacMillan MD
Additional authors:
D. McCormick MD
Presenting Author:
Jessica Shellock MD
Additional authors:
D. Guyer MD Michael S. Hisey MD W. Daniel Bradley MD Carlos Kugler MD Donna D. Ohnmeiss MD
Presenting Author:
Kevin T. Foley MD
Presenting Author:
Behrooz A. Akbarnia MD
Additional authors:
Gregory M. Mundis MD Pooria Salari MD Ramin Bagheri MD Nima Kabirian MD
Presenting Author:
K. Khurana MD
Additional authors:
Robert S. Bray MD Amir Vokshoor MD
Presenting Author:
Jin-Sung Kim MD
Additional authors:
Sang-Ho Lee MD, PhD Hyung-Lea Cho MD Sun Kwon MD
Presenting Author:
William Blake Rodgers MD, FACS
Additional authors:
J. Gerber PA-C Jody A. Rodgers MD, FACS
Presenting Author:
Atiq Durrani MD
Additional authors:
Rasesh Desai MD Vivek Sharma MD Alvin H. Crawford MD
Presenting Author:
Stefan Renaud DO
Additional authors:
Reginald Q. Knight MD Jeffrey S. Roh MD
Presenting Author:
Chad Prusmack MD
Additional authors:
David Whatmore PA Mike Richards Ryan Winters PhD
Presenting Author:
William Blake Rodgers MD, FACS
Additional authors:
Edward J. Gerber PA-C Jody A. Rodgers MD, FACS
Presenting Author:
Zachary Kelly MD
Additional authors:
Reginald Q. Knight MD Jeffrey S. Roh MD David Hanscom MD
Mis For Traumatic Spinal Pathologies: A Mini-open, Lateral Approach In The Thoracic And Lumbar Spine
Presenting Author:
William D. Smith MD
Additional authors:
Juan S. Uribe MD, FACS Elias Dakwar MD Tien V. Le MD Ginger Christian BS Sherrie Serrano BS
Presenting Author:
Jonathan N. Sembrano MD
Additional authors:
R. G. Santos MD David W. Polly, Jr. MD
Presenting Author:
Robert E. Isaacs MD
Additional authors:
Jonathan Hyde MD J. Allan Goodrich MD William Blake Rodgers MD, FACS Frank M. Phillips MD SOLAS Degenerative Study Group
Presenting Author:
Bruce M. Frankel MD
Presenting Author:
Jeffrey Felt MD
Additional authors:
Paul Asdourian MD Manuel Pinto MD Jonathon Kalla MD Britt Norton MD
Presenting Author:
John W. German MD
Additional authors:
Anthony G. Conte BA
Presenting Author:
Raymond J. Gardocki MD
Presenting Author:
David Hong MD
Additional authors:
Fadi Delly MD Neena I. Marupudi MS, MD Jay Jagannathan MD Hazem Eltahawy MD, PhD
Presenting Author:
Jonathan N. Sembrano MD
Additional authors:
Amit K. Sharma MD Ryan D. Horazdovsky MD Bieta Azmoudeh BS Edward G. Santos MD David W. Polly, Jr. MD
Presenting Author:
W. Kim MD
Additional authors:
Niraj Patel Gilad Regev Yu-Po Lee MD Steven R. Garfin MD
Presenting Author:
Elias Dakwar MD
Additional authors:
Ildemaro J. Volcan MD J. Allan Goodrich MD Juan S. Uribe MD, FACS
Presenting Author:
Neel Anand MD
Additional authors:
Eli M. Baron MD
Presenting Author:
Jeffrey A. Steinberg BS
Additional authors:
John W. German MD
Presenting Author:
Vamsi V. Nagineni MD
Additional authors:
Chrstoph Hofstetter MD, PhD Harry Gebhard MD Roger Hartl MD
Presenting Author:
Luiz Pimenta MD, PhD
Additional authors:
Leonardo Oliveira BSc Luis Marchi MSc Etevaldo Coutinho MD


