Venue: Te Papa, Wellington

International Guest Speakers Dr Marcin Czyz and Dr Andrew King

7:00am-8.00am |  Registrations Open - Breakfast is available

8:00am-8:05am |  Welcome & Housekeeping -Johnny Manson

8:05am-9:15am | Session One: Opening Session - Moderator: Johnny Manson

8:05am-8:15am | C2# guidelines in elderly patients - Richard Storey

8:15am-8:25am | Cervical unilateral decompression - Phillip Insull

8:25am-8:35am | Anterior Odontoid Excision and Posterior Occipito-Cervical Fusion for Progressive Quadriplegia secondary to Fixed Atlanto-Axial Dislocation: 27 year follow-up - B Hodgson

8:35am-8:50am | Regional spine roster - Jonathan Richards

8:50am-9:00am | AI in private practice - Shay Mandler

9:00am-9:15am | Discussion

9:45am -10:00am | HDC Complaints - Neal Singleton

10:00am-10:10am | ALIF case - Neal Singleton

10:10am-10:20am | Worst Complication - Richard Cowley

10:20am-10:40am | Phlegmasia - Dean Mistry

10:40am-11:00am | Discussion

11:00am-12:30pm | Early lunch

12:30pm | Session Three | NZOSS Golf at Boulcotts Farm Golf Course (Bus leaves 11:15am sharp! - bring clubs and wear golf attire) 

Friday Evening - 7:00pm - 11:00pm | NZOSS Dinner at Noble Rot

Saturday 17th October 

8:00am- 8:55am | Registrations Open - Breakfast is available

8:55am-9:00am  |  Welcome back: Johnny Manson

9:00am-10:15am | Session Four : Early Practice - Moderator: Andrew Oakley

9:00am-9:10am | First Year in Practice - Shay Mandler

9:10am-9:20am | First Year in Practice - Alex Carslaw

9:20am-9:30am | Endoscopy early experience - Ryan Johnstone

9:30am-9:40am | Endoscopy early experience - James Watt 

9:40am-10:00am | Managing failed back surgery with AI - Marcin Cyzyz

10:00am-10:15am | Discusion

10:15am - 10:45am | Morning tea 

10:45am-12:15pm | Session Five: Other - Moderator: Rowen Schouten 

10:45am- 11:05am | Oncology for the general spine surgeon - Dr Marcin Czyz

11:05am-11:15am | Acute Vertebroplasty = Phillip Insull

11:15am-11:25am | 3D modelling - Jay Jefferies

11:25am-11:35am | Socioeconomic deprivation and lumbar back pain - Jonathan Chan

11:35am-11:45am | Ethnicity and deprivation - Tangi Purea

11:45am-11:55am | First Year in Practice - Henrik Baecker

11:55am-12.05pm | Fifty Years in Practice - Andy King

12:05pm - 12:15pm | Discussion

1:15pm-2:45pm | Session Six - Infection Control - Moderator: Peter Robertson

1:15pm-1:25pm | Humiguard 1 - Alpesh Patel

1:25pm-1:35pm | Humiguard 2 - Simon Manners

1:35pm-1:45pm | Disc culture - Andrew Suchowersky

1:45pm-1:55pm | Epidural Abscess - Luke Karalus

1:55pm-2:05pm | Discussion

2:05pm-2:25pm | Debate: Infection augments, Nothing - J Manson , Everything - O Shirley

2:25pm-2:35pm | Discussion

2:35pm-2:40pm | Closing Remarks and Conference Close