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2007, September
Spine 2007- Annual conference of Neuro Spinal
Surgeons Foundation of India was held in Cochin from 28th till 30th
September. 18 delegates from 8 overseas countries along with 150 local delegates
attended the conference. Prof P S Ramani - the President of the organisation
along with Dr Kailai Rajan, the Secretary of the organization and Dr R Ravi, the
Organising President of the Conference supervised the proceedings.
| |  |  | | As is usual, a large contingent had come from Japan to highlight
us on the latest development in this science. Dr Rosa margarita Gomez Bello, a
scientist on Stem Cells from Bogota in South America delivered the Prof P S
Ramani Oration. |
The main theme of the conference was minimally
invasive Spinal surgery and several symposiums and lectures were dedicated to
this topic.
A symposium on behalf of WFNS Spine Committee was conducted
by Prof P S Ramani who is the Chairman of the Spine Committee. Speakers from
Japan, China, Korea, South America, Oman, Malaysia participated in the symposium
along with some Indian Speakers. The symposium was well attended and held lively
discussions with the speakers.
The highlight of the conference was the
CME programme which was organised as live operative demonstrations on first two
days with four surgical demonstrations o latest advances like functioning
cervical disc, Kyphoplasty and endoscopic discectomy.
Dr Destandou gave
live operative demonstration from Paris-France on endoscopic discectomy with
clear pictures and lively cross country discussion.
Later several hands
on workshops were organisd to give practice to the delegates.
The
conference concluded with resolve to have more contructive participation in
future meetings by overseas countries. | |
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