Local organiser – Chris Adams, Consultant Orthopaedic Spine Surgeon on Friday 13 and Saturday 14 November at the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.

Well done to all for an educational and friendly Scottish Spine Surgeons meeting 2015 at the new Prince Philip events space.  We felt the benefit of allied health care practitioners attending.  We worked hard for the 9 CPD points for attendance at the whole meeting.

The meeting provided a full practice focussed and educational package in spine for both consultants and specialist trainees in neurosurgery and orthopaedic surgery.  A particular thanks to Dr Alex Stirling and Ross at Information Service Division for their presentation and demonstration on the new Discovery system for patient treatment information.

Congratulations to all the paper presenters who represented their teams with distinction.  The judges were Jothy (Mr Kandasamy), Pete (Mr Bodkin) and Tony (Mr Reece) who scored on a combination of academic merit and message communication.  Well done to Nick Clement achieving the first prize award for paper 4, “Decompression with or without fusion for lumbar foraminal stenosis and single level disc disease: a randomised controlled trial with  12 to 18 years follow up”.  A special congratulations to the only medical student presenting Greg McKean for the second prize award for paper 3. “Quality of life assessment using the Scoliosis Research Society (SRS)-22 questionnaire in children and adolescents undergoing surgical treatment for spinal deformity”.  Thanks to our sponsors for the first prize of an AO / J&J course and the second prize of an AO book.

Both accommodation and registration fees were kindly supported by our sponsors.  We thank them on behalf of our patients.  More details on the accounts and sponsors page.

Until next year, Best wishes, Chris.