13th Annual UCSF Techniques in Complex Spine Surgery Program
Registration Information

13th Annual UCSF Techniques in Complex Spine Surgery Program
November 8 - 9, 2024
Friday - Saturday

Course# MOR25004
Vdara Hotel, Las Vegas, NV

Department: Medicine

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Overview

The 2024 UCSF Techniques in Complex Spine Surgery Course is a two-day course emphasizing pioneering trends in spinal surgery. This course is designed to be interactive with didactic lectures given by leaders in the spine community.  Participants will review surgical principles and techniques in the treatment of spinal deformities and tumors. As a result of the case conferences with national and international leaders in spine surgery, residents, fellows, and surgeons with less than an advanced level of experience will have improved skills in cases dealing with complex spinal deformities.

Target Audience
Orthopaedic and neurosurgeons as well as their clinical support team and surgeons in training in the specialty of spine surgery.

Objectives

An attendee completing this course will increase skills and strategies to:

  • Identify the indications, applications and surgical techniques for posterior column osteotomies, interbody fusion techniques, and transpedicular osteotomy and corpectomy techniques for spinal reconstruction;
  • Evaluate and treat pain related to spinal disorders in a cost-effective and reliable manner based on recently published guidelines;
  • Evaluate and treat lumbar degenerative disease and deformity in a cost-effective manner based on an evidence based approach, and avoid case-to-morbidity risk;
  • Identify risk factors that may predispose individuals to perioperative.

Accreditation

In support of improving patient care, the University of California, San Francisco is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.

UCSF designates this live activity for a maximum of 13.75 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

This CME activity meets the requirements under California Assembly Bill 1195, continuing education and cultural and linguistic competency.

Nurses
For the purpose of recertification, the American Nurses Credentialing Center accepts AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM issued by organizations accredited by the ACCME.

Physician Assistants
AAPA accepts category 1 credit from AOACCME, Prescribed credit from AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM from organizations accredited by the ACCME.

Pharmacy
The California Board of Pharmacy accepts as continuing professional education those courses that meet the standard of relevance to pharmacy practice and have been approved for AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM