The 53 expert surgeon panelists:
Vincent Arlet University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
John France West Virginia University, Morgantown, USA
Isador Lieberman Texas Back Institute, Plano, USA
Munish Gupta University of California at Davis, Sacramento, USA
Jeffrey Carlson Orthopaedic and Spine Center, Newport News, USA
Jens-Peter Witt University of Colorado Hospital, Denver, USA
Dean Chou University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, USA
Ronald Lehman Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, USA
Justin Smith University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA
Jonathan Sembrano University of Minnesota; Minneapolis VA Health Care System, Minneapolis, USA
David Polly University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
Lawrence Lenke Columbia University, New York, USA
Stephen Lewis Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, Canada
Dianming Jian The First Affiliated Hospital of Chongqing Medical University, Chongqing, China
John Chen Singapore General Hospital, Singapore, Singapore
Yoshiharu Kawaguchi Toyama University, Toyama, Japan
Tomoaki Toyone Teikyo University Mizonokuchi Hospital, Mizonokuchi, Japan
Arvind Bhave Deenanath Mangeshkar Hospital, Pune, India
Ajoy Prasad Shetty Ganga Hospital, Coimbatore, India
Xie En Hong Hui Hospital; Xi'an Jiaotong University College of Medicine, Xi'an, China
Richard Emery Mater Hospital, Townsville, Australia
Takashi Kaito Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Japan
Suhail Afzal Police Hospital, Srinagar, India
Chung Chek Wong Sarawaka General Hospital, Kuching, Malaysia
Saumyajit Basu Park Clinic, Kolkata, India
Vishal Moudgil Pims Medical College, Jalandhhar, India
Bhavuk Garg All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
Brian Hsu North Shore Institute of Spinal Disorders, Baulkham Hills, Australia
Mananbu Ito Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan
Kenneth Cheung The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
Yong Qiu Nanjing University, Nanjing, China
Salvador Fuster Hospital Clinic-university of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Massimo Balsano Regional Spinal Department; Santorso, Italy
Ufuk Aydinli Medicabil Private Hospital, Bursa, Turkey
Traian Ursu Foisor Orthopedics Hospital, Bucharest, Romania
Dimos Bouramas Athens Bioclinic, Athens, Greece
Pedro Berjano IRCCS Istituto Ortopedico Galeazzi, Milano, Italy
FC Oner UMC Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Josef Grohs Medical University, Vienna, Austria
Cajetan Nwadinigwe National Orthopaedic Hospital, Enugu, Nigeria
Christoph Mehren Schön Klinik München Harlaching, Munich, Germany
Andrea Piazzolla Aou Consorziale Policlinico Di Bari, Bari, Italy
Ahmet Alanay Acibadem University School of Medicine, Istanbul, Turkey
Herman Michael Dittmar Hospital Puerta de Hierro, Zapopan, Mexico
Nestor Adolfo Clinica Portoazul, Barranquilla, Colombia
Alexandre Cristante Iot HC FMUSP, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Emiliano Vialle Cajuru Hospital, Curitiba, Brazil
Mauricio Campos Daziano Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
Mohamed Maziad Faculty of Medicine AIn Shams University, Cairo, Eqypt
Amer Aziz Lahore Medical and Dental College, Lahore, Pakistan
Venugopal Menon Khoula Hospital, Mina al Fahal Muscat, Sultanate of Oman
Hany Soliman Al Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt
Sherif Elghamry Teachers Hospital, Cairo, Egypt