Thank you for making the first Osteobiologics Meeting

an informative and exciting forum!


Save the Date: October 5-6th, 2012

for the 2nd Annual Osteobiologics Meeting


Recap of the Osteobiologics Meeting 2011:

Osteobiologics Use in Spine Surgery: Past, Present and Future

October 28th-29th, 2011

Shutters on the Beach, Santa Monica, CA

Meeting Objectives:

This program was designed for orthopedic surgeons, neurosurgeons, and other professionals involved in spine care.  

This event provided a unique opportunity for discussion surrounding the application of osteobiologics in spine surgery.  The objective of this meeting was to establish the current state of evidence for the various categories of osteobiologics and identify future research directions.  The meeting will served as discussion forum for the development of the Osteobiologics Registry.

Meeting Directors:

Howard S. An, MD

Wellington K. Hsu, MD (Meeting Chair)

Jay R. Lieberman, MD

Jeffrey C. Wang, MD (Meeting Chair)

S. Tim Yoon, MD

Meeting Faculty:

Howard S. An, MD

Hyun Bae, MD

Darrel Brodke, MD

Wellington K. Hsu, M

Yu-Po Lee, MD

Jay R. Lieberman, MD

Francis Shen, MD

Samuel Stupp, PhD

Jeffrey C. Wang, MD

S. Tim Yoon, MD

Jim A. Youssef, MD

 

Our Supporters:

We would like to thank OREF for generously supporting this meeting through its Scientific Forum/Spine Care Research Grants.

We would like to thank our industry sponsors for providing educational grants: 

Bacterin

Medtronic 

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Advanced Biologics

Integra Spine

MTF

NuVasive

Pioneer Surgical

Spine Smith

Stryker

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AlloSource

Orthofix

Zimmer Spine