Questions & Help

WCMISST Secretariat Office
Mail:
47-4 Chungdam-dong, Gangnam-gu
Seoul, 135-100, Rep. of Korea
E-mail: Registration@wcmisst.org
Tel: +82-2-513-8155
Fax: +82-2-513-8386


Wail & Association Inc.
Ms. Laurel Morolt
Account Manager
Weil & Associates, Inc.
Phone: +1. 808.983.1130 (Ext. 230)
Fax: +1.808.955.0505
E-mail: laurel@weildmc.com
Website: www.weildmc.com


Workshop Guideline Early Registration Deadline: May 25, 2008
Please note registration form is not valid after deadline,
and your registration is not valid until payment is received.
You may fill in the form electronically and forward it via e-mail or fax.
Pre-Congress Cadaver Workshops
(Minimally Invasive Spinal Surgery)
Place: University of Hawaii, School of Medicine
When: June 3-4, 2007, 09:00 - 17:00
Host organization : World Congress of Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery & Techniques

Course Director: Gun Choi, MD, PhD
This course will focus on minimally invasive procedure for cervical, thoracic and lumbar spine surgery with fresh cadaver. In the three sessions, techniques for decompression, fixation, fusion, discectomy, pain management will be discussed. A fresh cadavers were selected to perform each procedures, this will allow us more realistic performance. Completion of this pre-congress workshop, participants could be able to describe various minimally invasive techniques for cervical, thoracic and lumbar spine surgery.

Subjects and Procedures Include
Session-A (8 Cadavers, 40 attendees Max.)
  Percutaneous Endoscopic Lumbar Discectomy
  Percutaneous Endoscopic Cervical Discectomy
  Percutaneous Endoscopic Thoracic Discectomy
Session-B
(4 Cadavers, 20 attendees Max.)
  Interventional Pain Management Therapy
Session-C
(4 Cadavers, 20 attendees Max.)
  Posterior Dynamic Stabilization
  Minimally Invasive Fusion Surgery and MED

Faculty Members
Session A
  Gun Choi, MD, PhD,
  Yong Ahn, MD, PhD,
  Anthony T. Yeung, MD,
  Sebastian Ruetten, MD,
  Martin T. N. Knight, MD,
  Thomas Hoogland, MD,
  Pradyumna P. Pai Raiturker,
  Jorge Ramirez,
  Rudolf Morgenstern,
  Manuel Enes, MD,
  Ho Yeung Kang, MD,
  John C. Chiu, MD,
  Merrill W. Reuter, MD, PhD,
  Stefan Hellinger, MD,
  June Ho Lee, MD, PhD
Session B
  Salahadin Abdi, MD, PhD,
  Sang-Chul Lee, MD, PhD,
  Richard Derby, MD,
  Steven E. Levine, MD,
  Kyung-Hoon Kim, MD, PhD,
  Gabor Racz, MD,
  Craig Flinders, MD,
  Sang-Heun LEE, MD
Session C
  Kevin T. Foley, MD,
  Richard G. Fessler, MD, PhD,
  Neel Anand, MD,
  Larry T. Khoo, MD,
  Chan Shik Shim, MD, PhD,
  W. Lee Warren,
  Tony Tannoury ,
  Farbod Asgarzadie
Agenda
Tuesday 3 June 2008 (Session-A)
Percutaneous Endoscopic Thoracic Discectomy
Percutaneous Endoscopic Cervical Discectomy
Percutaneous Endoscopic Lumbar Discectomy
AM 07:00 ~ 08:00: Registration
  08:00 ~ 08:45: Introduction & Lecture
  09:00 ~ 11:40: Hands-on Cadaver sessions (PECD, PETD)
  11:40 ~ 12:00: Overall Review, Q & A
PM 12:00 ~ 01:00: Lunch Break
  01:00 ~ 01:45: Introduction & Lecture
  02:00 ~ 05:40: Hands-on Cadaver sessions (PELD)
  05:40 ~ 06:00: Overall Review, Q & A

Wednesday 4 June 2008 (Session-B)
Interventional Pain Management Therapy
AM 07:00 ~ 08:00: Registration
  08:00 ~ 08:45: Introduction & Lecture
  09:00 ~ 11:40: Hands-on Cadaver sessions
  11:40 ~ 12:00: Overall Review, Q & A
PM 12:00 ~ 01:00: Lunch Break

Wednesday 4 June 2008 (Session-C)
Posterior Dynamic Stabilization
Minimally Invasive Fusion Surgery and MED
PM 12:00 ~ 01:00: Lunch Break & Registration
  01:00 ~ 01:45: Introduction & Lecture
  02:00 ~ 04:40: Hands-on Cadaver Sessions
  04:40 ~ 05:00: Overall Review, Q & A
World Congress of Minimally Invasive Spine Surgery & Techniques (WCMISST)
Copyright © 2007. All Rights Reserved.