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AOSpine Member Representative - Presentation of shortlisted applicants
The Nomination Committee has approved the following candidates to enter the democratic election process
Your vote counts!
The Member Representative will be democratically elected by all voting members of AOSpine who are attending the Global Spine Congress in Singapore in 2018. All (present) AOSpine Voting members* will have one vote, to be cast anonymously via the electronic AO voting system. You will receive an email invitation to vote on Thursday 3rd May. If you need support to cast your vote, come to the AOSpine members lounge.
The winning candidate will need to get the majority of the votes. In case none of the members wins, a second round with the top two candidates will run on Friday 4th May.
The election results of the first round will be announced at the AOSpine Member Assembly on May 3, 2018.
Please find below the list of the shortlisted Member Representative Candidates:
You also have the chance to meet the candidates personally during their presentation on Thursday 3rd May between 10h – 10.30h in room 301.
The Member Representative will serve for two years: One year with member elect status (guest without voting rights), and one year as a full member of the AOSIB with voting rights. All candidates have already demonstrated their commitment to AOSpine and have been continuous members of the organization for a minimum of 4 years. They are passionate about developing AOSpine and willing to devote a significant amount of time and travel to this function without fiscal reimbursement. To view the Member Representative responsibilities and required experience, click 
here.
Register now for the Global Spine Congress
How to become an AOSpine Voting Member:
- You automatically qualify as AOSpine Voting Member if you have been a paying member for a minimum of three years.
- You can become an AOSpine Voting Member if you sign up as a member until 30th April 2018 for 3 or 5 years.
- Additionally, you need to be registered for the Global Spine Congress 2018 in Singapore and picked up your badge.
Yan Wang
My name is Yan Wang, MD. I am Chief Surgeon of 301 Spine Center and 301 Orthopedics. In the meanwhile I am the President of CAOS (Chinese Association of Orthopedic Surgeons) serving for over 120,000 Chinese orthopedic surgeons, Chairman of Chinese Spine Society and Past President of COA (Chinese Orthopedic Association). Since as one of the pioneers of Chinese Modern Spine Surgery I make contribution to Chinese Spine career. I am the National Representative of SRS and member of other societies (NASS,ABJS) which are closely related to international spine surgery and education. I’m a good communicator with strong interpersonal skills; furthermore my strengths include the educational experiences for Chinese Spine & AOSpine. I was honored to be elected as Deputy-editor of SPINE journal in 2008. I believe I can promote Chinese Spine to Global Spine Committee more efficiently and widely.
Jin-Sung Kim
I am Prof. Jin-Sung Kim, Seoul St Mary’s Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea.
I completed medical school at The Catholic University of Korea and then neurosurgical surgery residency training at St Mary’s Hospital affiliated with The Catholic University of Korea. Subsequently, I completed my spine fellowship at Wooridul Spine Hospital, Korea.
Main specialty is a MISS such as percutaneous endoscopic lumbar discectomy, tubular based laminotomy, MIS-TLIF, OLIF and Navigation guided surgery as well. I developed more than ten cutting-edge techniques of MISS from my sides. I also have more than 60 SCI(E) papers as a main author and more than 20 chapters of textbooks.
Ehab Shiban
I am 37 years old, married and have three children. Arabic is my native language. I am an Attending of neurosurgery in Munich with Prof. Bernhard Meyer. 70% of my clinical and research work is focused on spine care. Using the AOspine network many of us can work together to produce collaborations in many different fields of spine care: degenerative, trauma, infection and tumor. Thereby we can explore regional differences in decision-making, surgical preference, surgical outcome and postoperative patient care. Because of my Arabic heritage and my training in Germany, I think that I will be able to understand and better communicate the different requests of all AOspine members.
Sincerely,
Ehab Shiban
Neurosurgery department
Klinikum rechts der Isar
Technical University of Munich
Germany
Robin Pillay
I have been a South African Neurosurgery consultant from 1997-200 and a UK Spine & Neurosurgery Consutlant since 2001 with a subspeciality interest in spine especially cervical spine .
From 2007 – 2013 I was programme director for neurosurgery training in Liverpool.
I have been the chair of the Liverpool 2010 britspine organsing committee and invited Jeffrey Wang as our guest speaker and subsequently I was treasurer of BASS( british assoc of spine surgeons) and UKSSB ( united kingdom spine society)
In addition I have been an AO member since 2012 and hosted AO travelling fellows from CAOS in 2013 and 2017/8.
My other memberships include NASS and European Spine Society and I have presented papers at BASS, NASS, ESS and Australian Spine Society meetings.
I am also participating in the current AO subaxial cervical spine classification study.I think I will make a good ambassador for AO spine affairs internationally given my training and work experience which includes South Africa, UK and Australia
Amer Aziz
After six years in UK 1982-1987 returned home and served The Pakistan government health service till 2002 when I resigned aged 46 years as Professor of Orthopaedics having realized the red tape and limitations. Started our own Orthopaedic Department in 2002. Managed to set up a state of the art AO Spine recognized Department in 2013. It has now between 225 to 250 inpatients at any one time. With 30 plus resident, 10 consultants, 4 fellows, 10 modular operation theaters, CSSD, HMIS, spinal cord monitoring, 10 image intensifiers, MRI, CT color doppler Digital Radiology, Ultra Sound Machines, and Ultra Sonic knife. 12 foreign fellows from 10 countries have done training here to date.
This has been possible through the donations of the people of Pakistan, 15 million dollars to date. 125,000 dollars per month are being spent on free treatment of the poor and all surgeries are performed without any operating fee. Last year 1000 spine and 7250 orthopaedic procedures were performed including 500 joint replacements. A dedicated team of 17 Anesthetists allows us to operate 24/7. Our own rehab and physio and Orthotics departments provide in-house service. MIS and endoscopic spine surgery have also been introduced.
The motto is to keep abreast with all latest developments and constantly update the facility and train the best spine surgeons locally.
Newsletter 16 | April 2018