a. Degenerative, Deformity, Trauma, Oncological, Inflammatory/rheumatological, Spinal cord injury) (Dimar)
a. Bone metabolism: Assessing (DEXA, CT Scan) and medical management advances (Penny Andreopoulu)
b. Anticoagulation and spine disease in the elderly (Kojo Hamilton)
c. Managing multiple medical comorbidities – DM, Cardiopulmonary, Obesity/Fraility
d. Anesthetic Concerns and adaptions in the elderly (Pricilla Nelson)
e. PreHab/Rehab (Leroy Lindsey)
f. ERAS (Jennifer Sweet)
III. Cervical spine disease in the elderly
a. Surgical treatment of myelopathy (Zo)
b. Atlantoaxial fractures in the elderly (Harrop)
c. MIS Cervical Approaches in the elderly (Hartl)
d. Subaxial spine trauma (Azdrubal)
e. Anterior vs Posterior Approaches in the Elderly (Riew)
f. Management of Ankylosing Spondylitis, DISH, and OPLL (Jau-ching Wu)
g. Cervical spine deformity in the elderly (Dean Chou)
h. Spinal cord injury (Hussain, Virk)
i. Cervical oncology (Dan Sciubba)
IV. Thoracolumbar disease in the elderly
a. Spondylolisthesis treatment in the elderly (Bisson)
b. Lumbar stenosis (Bydon)
c. Sagittal plane deformity considerations in the elderly (Park)
d. Revision surgery in the elderly (Shaffrey, Than)
e. Thoracolumbar Trauma (Sansur)
f. Osteomyelitis (Anthony Digiorgio)
g. Thoracolumbar oncology (Bilsky, Laufer)
V. Surgical Technical Advances
a. Interbody arthrodesis advancements (Fu, Mummaneni, Chan)
b. Pedicle screw fixation advancements (Buckholz)
c. EOS and full body imaging (Eastlack)
d. Navigation & robotics (Uribe, Turner)
e. Awake spinal surgery (Wang)
f. Endoscopy (Hofstetter)
VI. Advances in pain management treatments for elderly patients
a. CT-Guided radiofrequency ablations (Chazen)
b. SCS (Piracha)
c. DRGS (Jatin Joshi)
d. Sacro-iliac interventions (Polly)
