SPINAL DEFORMITY COURSE
24th January 2025
Liaquat National Hospital, Karachi
08:00 AM – 17:00 PM
Directors: Corinna Zygourakis (USA) / Francesco Costa (Italy)
Coordinators: Aman Ullah / Uzair Ahmed Siddiqui / Daniyal Siddiqui
Faculty:
Amjad Shad (UK)
Benedikt Burkhardt (Switzerland)
Mehmet Zileli (Turkey)
Nikolay Peev (UK)
Serdar Kahraman (Turkey)
Salman Sharif (Pakistan)
M Abd El Barr (USA)
M Zohair Shaker (Iraq)
Mohsin Qadeer (Pakistan)
Onur Yaman (Turkey)
Shahzad Shamim (Pakistan)
Yahya Guvenc (Turkey)
| Time | Topic | Speaker |
| 08:00 - 08:05 | Welcome | |
| 08:05 – 09:35 | Session I (Basic Principles) | |
| 08:05 - 08:20 | Radiological imaging of spinal deformities | Corinna Zygourakis |
| 08:20 - 08:35 | Evaluation of spinal balance and deformity | Serdar Kahraman |
| 08:35 - 08:50 | Basic principles of deformity surgery | Mehmet Zileli |
| 08:50 - 09:05 | Coronal plane deformity principles | Salman Sharif |
| 09:05 - 09:20 | Adult Degenerative Scoliosis | Yahya Guvenc |
| 09:20 - 09:35 | Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis | Corinna Zygourakis |
| 09:35 - 09:50 | Correction maneuvers for scoliosis surgery | Onur Yaman |
| 09:50 - 10:00 | Complication avoidance in scoliosis surgery | Mehmet Zileli |
| 10:00 - 10:15 | Discussion | Shahzad Shamim/ Amjad Shad |
| 10:15 - 10:30 | Coffee Break | |
| 10:30 - 12:00 | Cadaver Lab 1: Posterior screw placement and correction maneuvers | |
| 12:00 - 13:00 | Lunch | |
| 13:00 - 13:15 | Sagittal balance measurement and evaluation | Muhammad Zohair Shaker |
| 13:15 - 13:30 | Value of interbody fusion in deformity correction | Nikolay Peev |
| 13:30 - 13:45 | Classification and indications of osteotomies | Onur Yaman |
| 13:45 - 14:00 | Prevention of proximal junctional kyphosis | M Abd El Barr |
| 14:00 - 14:15 | Complication avoidance in adult deformity surgery | Benedikt Burkhardt |
| 14:15 - 14:30 | Coffee break | |
| 14:30–16:00 | Cadaver Lab 2: Spinal osteotomies | |
| 16:00 - 17:00 | Case discussion | Francesco Costa/ Mohsin Qadeer |
Note:
- Pickup from the PC Hotel at 7:45 AM Sharp.
- Return to Hotel at 04:30 PM.