The AO Spine Knowledge Forum (KF) Tumor is a group of 50 of the world’s leading experts in the treatment and research of spine tumors. At the Basel-Milano-Budapest (BMB) Spine meeting in Basel in 2019, AO Spine took the opportunity to record some of their advancements.
Besides creating new knowledge, the AO Spine KF members participate in various platforms worldwide to connect with colleagues, maintain friendships and collaborations, mentor one another, and pursue efforts to share recent advancements to the community that will improve treatment for spine oncology patients. With new self-operated technology designed by the AO Education Institute, AO Spine KF Tumor surgeons recorded several of their lectures at the latest BMB.
The BMB Spine 2019 meeting focused on evidence-based treatment of elderly spine patients, spine tumors, and osteoporosis. By publishing these lectures, we aim to share AO Spine surgeons' research, experience, and viewpoints with those managing and treating spinal tumors around the world. We hope you will enjoy this first series with expert lectures on primary tumors of the spine and on metastatic spine disease.
Professor and Chair of the Department of Neurosurgery
The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
Associate Professor of Neurosurgery and Director of the Minimally Invasive Spine Tumor Surgery Program
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
Professor and Staff Radiation Oncologist
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center, Toronto, ON, Canada
Professor of Neurosurgery
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
Molecular Understanding of Spine Tumors and Its Relevance to Spine Surgeons
Consultant Spinal Surgeon, Regional Clinical Lead Thames Valley Spinal Network, Oxford University Hospitals NHSFT, Oxford, UK
Professor and Director of the Spine Tumor Program in the Department of Neurosurgery
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA
Assistant professor of neurosurgery
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA
Intradural spinal cord tumors—current management and future directions
Clinical Associate Professor of Neurosurgery
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
An additional lecture on the classification of osteoporotic vertebral fractures is available by
Chief physician for the interdisciplinary center for spine and scoliosis therapy
Malteser Waldkrankenhaus St. Marien, Erlangen, Germany
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The content of these videos was part of the BMB Spine Meeting program in Basel in November 2019.
