General Session: Value Economics/Innovative Technologies/Non-Operative

Co-Author(s)

• Waleed Ahmad, MS

  N/A
  NYU Langone Orthopedic Hospital

• Haddy Alas, BS

  Medical Student
  NYU Langone Orthopaedic Hospital

• Todd Albert, MD

  Surgeon in Chief Emeritus
  Hospital for Special Surgery

• Cole Bortz, BA

  Research Fellow
  NYU Langone Orthopedic Hospital

• Houssam Bouloussa, MD, MS

  Spine Surgery Fellow
  Kaiser Oakland Medical Center

• Avery Brown

  Medical Student
  NYU Langone Orthopedic Hospital

• Aaron Buckland, MD

  Associate Professor of Orthopedic Surgery, Director of Spine Research
  NYU Langone Health

• Irene Chern

  Research Assistant
  NYU Langone Orthopaedic Hospital

• Bryan Croft, MHA

  Senior VP
  Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

• Prisco DeMercurio

  Medical Student
  SUNY Upstate Medical University

• Ravi Dhawan

  Undergraduate Researcher
  SUNY Upstate Medical University

• Bassel Diebo, MD

  Orthopaedic Surgery Resident
  SUNY Downstate Department of Orthopaedic Surgery

• Asher Emanuel, MD, MPH

  Assistant Professor
  Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

• Rachel Fridman, MSc

  Associate Director
  Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

• Catherine Himo Gang, MPH

  Senior Research Coordinator
  Hospital for Special Surgery

• Michael Gerling, MD

  Spine Surgeon
  NYU Langone Orthopaedic Hospital

• Julian Gold, MD

  Physician
  Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

• Christopher Good, MD

  Spine Surgeon, President
  Virginia Spine Institute

• Christopher Gorini, PhD

  Research Director
  National Spine Health Foundation

• Richard Guyer, MD

  Co-Director Center for Disc Replacement, Fellowship Director
  Center for Disc Replacement at Texas Back Institute

• Colin Haines, MD

  Spine Surgeon, Director of Research
  Virginia Spine Institute

• Hamid Hassanzadeh, MD

  Associate Professor
  Dept Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Virginia

• Sravisht Iyer, MD

  Assistant Attending, Spine Surgery
  Hospital for Special Surgery

• Brendan Jackson-Fowl, ScM

  Intern
  NYU Langone Orthopedic Spine Surgery

• Ehsan Jazini, MD

  Spine Surgeon
  Virginia Spine Institute

• Larry Khoo, MD

  The Spine Clinic of Los Angeles

• Sang Kim, MD

  Physician
  Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

• Calvin Kuo, MD

  Attending Spine Surgeon
  Kaiser Oakland Medical Center

• Swamy Kurra, MBBS

  Research Fellow
  SUNY Upstate Medical University

• William Lavelle, MD

  Associate Professor
  SUNY-Upstate Medical University

• Ryan Lee, MBA

  Research Fellow
  Hospital for Special Surgery

• Xingzhi Liu

  The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University

• Jon Lurie, MD

  Professor of Medicine, Orthopaedics, and of The Dartmouth Institute
  Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine, Department of Orthopaedics

• Anthony Ma

  Clinical Research Coordinator
  RasouliSpine and Cedars-Sinai Spine Center

• Kamran Majid, MD, MBA

  Attending Spine Surgeon
  Kaiser Oakland Medical Center

• Steven McAnany, MD

  Assistant Professor
  Hospital for Special Surgery

• Michael Millgram, MD

  Attending surgeon
  Israel Spine Center, Assuta Medical Center

• Sawyer Mills

  Research Intern
  National Spine Health Foundation

• Bahar Mjos, MD

  Assistant professor
  Cedars Sinai Medical center

• Michael Moses, MD

  Resident
  NYU Langone Orthopaedic Hospital

• Sara Naessig, BS

  Researcher
  New York University Langone Medical Center

• Brian Neuman, MD

  Assistant Professor
  Johns Hopkins Medicine Department of Orthopaedic Surgery

• Thomas Nguyen, MD

  Interventional Pain Management Specialist
  Virginia Spine Institute

• Peter Passias, MD

  Associate Professor NYU School of Medicine
  NYU Langone Orthopedic Hospital

• John Peloza, MD

  Center for Spine Care

• Cedars Sinai Perry, MD

  Neurosurgeon
  Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

• Katherine Pierce, BS

  Research Fellow
  NYU Langone Orthopedic Hospital

• Themistocles Protopsaltis, MD

  Chief, Division of Spine Surgery, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery
  New York University Langone Orthopedic Hospital

• Sheeraz Qureshi, MD, MBA

  Associate Professor
  Hospital for Special Surgery

• Alexandre Rasouli, MD

  Spine Surgeon
  RasouliSpine

• Eric Robertsen, Jr., MBA

  Lead Analyst
  Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

• Andre Samuel, MD

  Resident
  Hospital for Special Surgery

• Thomas Schuler, MD

  Spine Surgeon, CEO, and Founder
  Virginia Spine Institute

• Qin Shi, MD，PhD

  Professor
  The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University

• Jeffrey Smith, MDJDMMM

  Executive VP
  Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

• Steve Sun, MD, JD, MBA, MSPH

  Physician
  Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

• Jun Tang, MD

  Physician
  Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

• Zhaoyi Tang, MD

  Physician
  Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

• Kristoffer Thordarson

  Clinical Research Coordinator
  RasouliSpine

• Avani Vaishnav, MBBS

  Research Fellow
  Hospital for Special Surgery

• Shaleen Vira, MD

  Assistant Professor, Orthopaedic Surgery & Neurosurgery
  UT Southwestern Medical Center

• Huilin Yang, MD, PhD

  Director of Orthopaedic Department
  The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University

• Stephen Yang, MD

  Physician
  Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

• Roya Yumul, MD PhD

  Physician
  Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

• Wenyan Zhao, PhD

  Statistical Analyst
  Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine, Department of Orthopaedics

• Xichao Zhou

  The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University

Presenting Author(s)

• Ely Ashkenazi, MD

  Attending neurosurgeon
  Israel Spine Center, Assuta Medical Center

• Ravi Bains, MD

  Chief of Spine Surgery
  Kaiser Oakland Medical Center

• Niteesh Bharara, MD

  Director of Regenerative Medicine
  Virginia Spine Institute

• Michael Gerling, MD

  Spine Surgeon
  NYU Langone Orthopaedic Hospital

• Zong-Ping Luo, PhD

  Professor
  Soochow University

• Mustfa Manzur, MPH, MS

  Medical Student
  Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University

• Dylan Morris, DO

  Spine Fellow
  Upstate Medical University Hospital

• Ehsan Saadat, MD

  Spine Surgeon
  RasouliSpine and Cedars-Sinai Spine Center

• Claire White-Dzuro, BA

  Clinical Researcher
  NYU Langone Health

• Jack Zhong, BA

Presentations:

• 1:30 PM – 1:35 PM

  The Economic Impact of Hospital Acquired Conditions in Open, Minimally Invasive, and Robot Assisted Lumbar Fusion Surgery
  Jack Zhong, BA; Peter G. Passias, MD – NYU Langone Orthopedic Hospital; Avery Brown – NYU Langone Orthopedic Hospital; Katherine E. Pierce, BS – NYU Langone Orthopedic Hospital; Cole Bortz, BA – NYU Langone Orthopedic Hospital; Haddy Alas, BS – NYU Langone Orthopaedic Hospital; Hamid Hassanzadeh, MD – Dept Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Virginia; Aaron J. Buckland, MD – NYU Langone Health; Michael Gerling, MD – NYU Langone Orthopaedic Hospital; Sara Naessig, BS – New York University Langone Medical Center; Brendan H. Jackson-Fowl, ScM – NYU Langone Orthopedic Spine Surgery; Waleed Ahmad, MS – NYU Langone Orthopedic Hospital; Irene Chern – NYU Langone Orthopaedic Hospital
• 1:35 PM – 1:40 PM

  Surgical Safety Checklists Fail to Prevent Surgeons' Technical Omissions: Why We All Need a Validated Spine Surgery Closure Checklist
  Ravi S. Bains, MD – Kaiser Oakland Medical Center; Houssam Bouloussa, MD, MS – Kaiser Oakland Medical Center; Kamran Majid, MD, MBA – Kaiser Oakland Medical Center; Calvin Kuo, MD – Kaiser Oakland Medical Center
• 1:40 PM – 1:45 PM

  Re-Defining "Never Events" in Elective Spine Surgery: Are Existing Hospital Acquired Conditions Really Reasonably Preventable
  Claire White-Dzuro, BA – NYU Langone Health; Peter G. Passias, MD – NYU Langone Orthopedic Hospital; Cole Bortz, BA – NYU Langone Orthopedic Hospital; Avery Brown – NYU Langone Orthopedic Hospital; Katherine E. Pierce, BS – NYU Langone Orthopedic Hospital; Haddy Alas, BS – NYU Langone Orthopaedic Hospital; Shaleen Vira, MD – UT Southwestern Medical Center; Bassel Diebo, MD – SUNY Downstate Department of Orthopaedic Surgery; Brian J. Neuman, MD – Johns Hopkins Medicine Department of Orthopaedic Surgery; Michael Gerling, MD – NYU Langone Orthopaedic Hospital; Irene Chern – NYU Langone Orthopaedic Hospital; Waleed Ahmad, MS – NYU Langone Orthopedic Hospital; Sara Naessig, BS – New York University Langone Medical Center; Brendan H. Jackson-Fowl, ScM – NYU Langone Orthopedic Spine Surgery
• 1:45 PM – 1:50 PM

  Cost Analysis of Early Onset Scoliosis Surgeries in the United States After the Introduction of Magnetic Controlled Growing Rods
  Dylan Morris, DO – Upstate Medical University Hospital; William F. Lavelle, MD – SUNY-Upstate Medical University; Swamy Kurra, MBBS – SUNY Upstate Medical University; Ravi Dhawan – SUNY Upstate Medical University; Prisco J. DeMercurio – SUNY Upstate Medical University
• 1:50 PM – 1:55 PM

  Reduction of Length-of-stay After Spinal Fusion: Effectiveness of the Perioperative Surgical Home with Progression of Care Model Compared to National Length-of-stay Index
  Ehsan Saadat, MD – RasouliSpine and Cedars-Sinai Spine Center; Alexandre Rasouli, MD – RasouliSpine; Anthony Ma – RasouliSpine and Cedars-Sinai Spine Center; Steve Sun, MD, JD, MBA, MSPH – Cedars-Sinai Medical Center; Zhaoyi Tang, MD – Cedars-Sinai Medical Center; Jun Tang, MD – Cedars-Sinai Medical Center; Cedars Sinai G. Perry, MD – Cedars-Sinai Medical Center; Sang Kim, MD – Cedars-Sinai Medical Center; Julian A. Gold, MD – Cedars-Sinai Medical Center; Stephen Yang, MD – Cedars-Sinai Medical Center; Roya Yumul, MD PhD – Cedars-Sinai Medical Center; Jeffrey A. Smith, MDJDMMM – Cedars-Sinai Medical Center; Bryan Croft, MHA – Cedars-Sinai Medical Center; Kristoffer Thordarson – RasouliSpine; Eric Robertsen, Jr., MBA – Cedars-Sinai Medical Center; Rachel Fridman, MSc – Cedars-Sinai Medical Center; Asher Emanuel, MD, MPH – Cedars-Sinai Medical Center; Bahar Mjos, MD – Cedars Sinai Medical center
• 1:55 PM – 2:00 PM

  5 Minute Discussion
• 2:00 PM – 2:05 PM

  Improved Bone-removal Using a New Device in Open and Minimal Invasive Approaches: Cadaver Study and a 2-center Experience with 143 Patients
  Ely Ashkenazi, MD – Israel Spine Center, Assuta Medical Center; John Peloza, MD – Center for Spine Care; Larry T. Khoo, MD – The Spine Clinic of Los Angeles; Michael A. Millgram, MD – Israel Spine Center, Assuta Medical Center; Richard D. Guyer, MD – Center for Disc Replacement at Texas Back Institute
• 2:05 PM – 2:10 PM

  Cervical Spine Steroid Injections for Delay of Surgery for Cervical Spondylotic Myelopathy
  Mustfa K. Manzur, MPH, MS – Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Thomas Jefferson University; Ryan Lee, MBA – Hospital for Special Surgery; Andre Samuel, MD – Hospital for Special Surgery; Steven McAnany, MD – Hospital for Special Surgery; Sravisht Iyer, MD – Hospital for Special Surgery; Todd Albert, MD – Hospital for Special Surgery; Avani S. Vaishnav, MBBS – Hospital for Special Surgery; Catherine Himo Gang, MPH – Hospital for Special Surgery; Sheeraz Qureshi, MD, MBA – Hospital for Special Surgery
• 2:10 PM – 2:15 PM

  Human Bone Marrow Concentrate-derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells for Treatment of Low Back Pain: Patient Reported Outcomes Through One Year
  Niteesh Bharara, MD – Virginia Spine Institute; Colin Haines, MD – Virginia Spine Institute; Sawyer P. Mills – National Spine Health Foundation; Christopher Good, MD – Virginia Spine Institute; Christopher J. Gorini, PhD – National Spine Health Foundation; Thomas C. Schuler, MD – Virginia Spine Institute; Ehsan J. Jazini, MD – Virginia Spine Institute; Thomas T. Nguyen, MD – Virginia Spine Institute
• 2:15 PM – 2:20 PM

  Epidural Steroid Injections Show Little Relationship with Improved Clinical Outcomes in Both Operative and Non-operative Management of Degenerative Spondylolisthesis
  Michael Gerling, MD – NYU Langone Orthopaedic Hospital; Peter G. Passias, MD – NYU Langone Orthopedic Hospital; Michael J. Moses, MD – NYU Langone Orthopaedic Hospital; Cole Bortz, BA – NYU Langone Orthopedic Hospital; Haddy Alas, BS – NYU Langone Orthopaedic Hospital; Avery Brown – NYU Langone Orthopedic Hospital; Katherine E. Pierce, BS – NYU Langone Orthopedic Hospital; Aaron J. Buckland, MD – NYU Langone Health; Themistocles S. Protopsaltis, MD – New York University Langone Orthopedic Hospital; Jon Lurie, MD – Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine, Department of Orthopaedics; Wenyan Zhao, PhD – Dartmouth Geisel School of Medicine, Department of Orthopaedics; Waleed Ahmad, MS – NYU Langone Orthopedic Hospital; Sara Naessig, BS – New York University Langone Medical Center
• 2:20 PM – 2:25 PM

  Polypeptide Co-photo-crosslinked Gelatin Hydrogel for Bone Regeneration
  Zong-Ping Luo, PhD – Soochow University; Qin Shi, MD，PhD – The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University; Xingzhi Liu – The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University; Xichao Zhou – The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University; Huilin Yang, MD, PhD – The First Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University
• 2:25 PM – 2:30 PM

  5 Minute Discussion