Spine Across the Sea 2009
July 26-30, 2009
The Ritz-Carlton Kapalua
Maui, Hawaii
Reserve hotel accommodations by July 5, 2009 to guarantee room rates.
Aloha! On behalf of the North American Spine Society (NASS) and the Japanese Society for Spine Surgery and Related Research (JSSR), we invite you to attend Spine Across the Sea to be held July 26-30, 2009 on the beautiful island of Maui, Hawaii. This meeting will provide physicians an opportunity to share current information and concepts relating to spinal problems.
Exciting and diverse symposia are being planned by the NASS and JSSR Program Committees. Complications in Cervical Spine Surgery discusses inadequate decompression, vertebral artery injuries, dysphagia and dysphonia and characteristic problems in posterior surgery. The Aging Spine gives an update on and surgical treatment options for patients with osteoporosis, vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty and spinal stenosis surgery in septuagenarian and octogenarians. Genetics and Spine Care: What we Know Now, Where we are Headed explores a general review of principles of genetics research, genetics of OPLL, degenerative disc disease and idiopathic scoliosis and kyphosis. Spine Trauma in the Transition Zones discusses trauma in the occipital cervical zone, cervical thoracic zone, thoraco-lumbar zone and the lumbo-sacral zone. Faculty from NASS and JSSR will moderate these sessions.
Spine Across the Sea will be held at the AAA Five-Diamond Ritz-Carlton, Kapalua that has completed a $180 million transformation, offering 463 fully-renovated guestrooms, including 107 Residential Suites, featuring dark wood floors, new travertine marble bathrooms, flat-screen LCD televisions and Hawaiian inspired artwork. The new Ritz-Carlton Spa, Kapalua features treatment rooms with private garden showers, volcanic stone grottos, steam rooms, saunas and whirlpools, outdoor couple's hale (cabanas) and a fitness center and movement studio with spectacular ocean views. The new Jean-Michel Cousteau Ambassadors of the Environment program offers a variety of outdoor activities with trained naturalists. The resort also features six restaurants, renovated meeting space, a new children's pool and luxury cabanas. The Ritz-Carlton, Kapalua is located on 54 acres in the midst of the 23,000 acre Kapalua Resort, featuring two championship courses, award-winning restaurants and a historic pineapple plantation.
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the Essential Areas and Standards of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint sponsorship of the North American Spine Society (NASS) and The Japanese Society for Spine Surgery and Related Research. NASS is accredited with commendation by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians and takes responsibility for the content, quality and scientific integrity of this CME activity.
NASS designates this educational activity for a maximum of 20.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Participants should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
The American Medical Association has determined that physicians not licensed in the US to participate in this CME activity are eligible for AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.
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