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Watch Video → SAS Tenth Annual Global Symposium on Motion Preservation Technology April 27-30, 2010 New Orleans, LA Thank you and good morning. It’s a great honor for me to serve SAS as the incoming President. I’d like to thank everyone for being here at the 10th annual SAS Global Symposium, right here in New Orleans – the Crescent City. This is one of America’s great cultural cities – the birthplace of Jazz music and Cajun cuisine. If you haven’t done so already, I encourage you all to get out there, enjoy New Orleans, and bring back gifts and stories to your families and co-workers back home. The 10th annual SAS Global Symposium is our jazziest yet. We are honored […]

Dear Members of SAS, Dear Colleagues and Friends, My year as President of the SAS has been a very full year. The SAS9 in London was a great success attracting our larg est audience of all European-hosted SAS conferences. The APSAS conference in China continued what we started in Korea a few years ago. We have upgraded our website offering our members and potential spine patients insights and reference sources. We have added 2 more committees, Research and Fellowship, so that more members are able to participate and we offer our members more. We have taken a stronger role in the public policy area making state ments and inroads in the support of motion preservation technology and all spine surgery. […]

In light of the horrible situation in Haiti, we wanted to share with our members ways they might offer aide. There are numerous orthopaedic teams – supported and/or organized by hospitals or health plans – headed to Haiti to provide orthopaedic assistance and/or surgery. A few examples: Piedmont Health Care Piedmont Health Care in Atlanta is sending down a team of orthopaedic surgeons with specific expertise (hands, trauma, head, etc) to work with local doctors at the Hospital Albert Schweitzer in Port-au-Prince. Surgical Implant Generation Network (SIGN) A non nonprofit group out of Seattle, the Surgical Implant Generation Network, is sending down a surgeon who specializes in a novel bone-mending technique; he’s bringing 400 pounds of equipment/devices. Dr. Zirkle, SIGN Founder, […]

Medical Industry E-Mail News Service(TM) — Nov 19 2008 — The Drug Information Association (DIA) – the premier, multidisciplinary, nonprofit association that provides a neutral forum for the exchange of information critical to the advancement of the drug discovery and lifecycle management processes, has opened an office in Beijing, China. “DIA’s success in China depends on our ability to engage local thought leaders in DIA’s unique educational and networking events, where they will be able to exchange professional experiences,” says Marie Dray, President, DIA Board of Directors. “We are delighted to announce that one of these bright innovators, Dr. Ling Su, DIA Board Member and VP of Clinical R&D – Asia Pacific, Wyeth, China, will lead our volunteer advisory council […]