ISSue 1 /// Wednesday, October 19, 2011 /// eurospine2011.com
150 years of national unity
Eurospine
Welcome Address by the President of EuroSpine
Welcome to our first issue of Spine Times!
its historical sites, centres of art and culture, not to mention shopping; the social aspect of the meeting is an assured success and keenly anticipated.
good work of the local hosts or the attractivity of the site? A participant’s plus of 59% in EuroSpine, the meeting is un- 2003 Prague and one of 23% der constant development with in Vienna was realised. This the aim to meet all the expec- development also reflects in tions you may have. With our abstract submissions, where we new daily meeting newspaper can announce this year’s peak we would like to inform on of 886 submissions, the next new features and special points best submission year with 824 of interest within our daily abstracts was 2006 Istanbul. program. This is also to help you to get the most out of your EuroSpine clearly is the most Milan visit besides the scienti- important meeting for spine fic aspect, we know that most specialits in Europe, if not worldwide. of you are short in time. Our society, EuroSpine, is a union of two former societies, the European Spine Society (ESS) founded 1989 and the European Spinal Defomities Society (ESDS) founded 1982. They fused 1998 in Innsbruck, but already 1996 we started to have combined meetings called EuroSpine. The meeting grew constantly in every aspect, except of it’s length, there was always a three days program. Lately we added a preceding course day, which seems to be liked and is planned to be maintained. Attendance rose from a beginning of 150 to today of more than 2200 participants. During the years we had two significant jumps – due to the BRIEF HISTORY OF SPINAL SURGERY IN ITALY by Pietro Bartolozzi
Milan, October 19-21, 2011
From this year on EuroSpine will have a special linked meeting website: eurospinemeeting.org, where all activities like program, e-posters, webcasts, but also industry participation and contribution of all meetings shall be archived and accessible. Announcements of future EuroSpine meetings are of course also to be found there. In the name of the EuroSpine Executive Board, the local Hosts and the organising team we wish you a wonderful meeting! Judith Reichert Schild
Rizzoli Orthopaedic Institute with an accurate and scientific classification of spinal fractures and a proposal of surgical The beginning of „Italian“ treatment for fractures with history of spine surgery is re- neurological involvement, lapresented by the publication minectomy (well reproduced of Putti, Scaglietti and Paltri- by Scoto), the only solution at nieri on vertebral fractures in that time. 1942, publicised one year after Read more on page 2 >> Putti’s departure. In that publication is summarised the great experience of
Ciaran Bolger - President of EuroSpine, the Spine Society of Europe
Dear Colleagues and Friends, Let me introduce you to our Society’s next annual scientific meeting and the Society’s acitvities and strenghts. EuroSpine 2011, October 1921 in Milan, Italy, promises, as with our previous meetings, to become a great scientific and social success. Over the years the annual EuroSpine meeting has developed into the premier gathering for spine specialists in Europe. It is regularly attended by over 2,000 delegates as well as representatives from the Industry. It receives the largest number of abstract submissions for any meeting held on the continent, as well as submissions and attendees from all over the world. As with previ-
ous meetings, the 2011 conference will maintain the highest academic standards with 85 of the best submissions accepted for oral presentation, and a further 175 accepted for short and poster presentation. This offering will be complimented by industry and society hosted workshops, pre-meeting gatherings on specific topics and expert lectures. All accepted abstracts will be published in the European Spine Journal, ‘our’ journal, which continues to go from strength to strength.
The meeting is being held against the backdrop of increasingly exacting, challenging if not exciting times for those involved in the provision of spinal services throughout Europe. The economic downturn with the inevitable pressure on health care budgets necessitates a strong and active society, dealing with the academic, economic and regulatory pressures on behalf of its members. To that end the EuroSpine Foundation, created by the society to advance its policies, promises to be an effective and professional tool. The successful creation of the European Education Courses, with courses both run by the society and courses hosted in co-operation with the national societies, has been an immediate success. That success points the way forward to the development of programmes of activity on various fronts (audit, research, economics and political) achieved through the co-operation of the Society, the Foundation and the various National Societies. The Society invites specialists in the field of spine to become a member of EuroSpine and participate in the tremendous development of our speciality in Europe.
The 2011 EuroSpine meeting Ciaran Bolger is being hosted by our colle- President of EuroSpine, the Spine agues, Marco Brayda-Bruno Society of Europe and Claudio Lamartina in their beautiful home of Milan. With