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Jan 16 - Jan 19, 2026
Spine: Base to Summit 2026
Vail, Colorado
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Grand Hyatt Vail
Description
Confirmed, Invited & Past Faculty
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Grand Hyatt Vail
04.00PM - 04.10PM
Welcome
04.10PM - 05.39PM
Session 1 Cases: Debates, Discussions & Disagreements
04.10PM - 04.10PM
Debate: 84 y/o with central cord syndrome after a fall with near full recovery. To operate or not?
04.10PM - 04.15PM
Dude the patient recovered… Do not operate! …the patient will be fine.
04.15PM - 04.20PM
The risk of progressive neurologic injury is too high. Operate and save the patient!
04.20PM - 04.25PM
Discussion
04.25PM - 04.28PM
Case: Young female, had a C5-6 qne C6-7 ACDF. Now, has pseudarthrosis at both levels and adjacent segment at C4-5. What now?
04.28PM - 04.38PM
Discussion
04.38PM - 04.41PM
Case: L5-S1 isthmic spondy. What’s the hook? Variance in treatment.
04.41PM - 04.51PM
Discussion
04.51PM - 04.54PM
Case: Severe lumbar stenosis above a previous L4-5 fusion. Decompression alone or fusion?
04.54PM - 05.04PM
Discussion
05.04PM - 05.07PM
Case: Disc osteo after lumbar interbody fusion.
05.07PM - 05.17PM
Discussion
05.17PM - 05.22PM
Complications: My Worst Case of the Last Year and What You Can Learn: Lumbar
05.22PM - 05.27PM
Complications: My Worst Case of the Last Year and What You Can Learn: Cervical
05.27PM - 05.33PM
Non-CME Technology Updates: Tech Update #1: Supported by Synergy Spine Solutions
05.33PM - 05.39PM
Non-CME Technology Updates: Tech Update #2: Supported by Johnson & Johnson MedTech
05.39PM - 06.15PM
Session 2: The Lifestyle & Business of Spine
05.39PM - 05.59PM
Breaking the mold: New approaches to spine surgeon pay and
leadership transition.
05.59PM - 06.15PM
Discussion
06.15PM - 06.15PM
Adjourn
06.15PM - 07.15PM
Welcome Reception with Exhibits
06.35AM - 07.00AM
Non-CME Breakfast Workshop: Supported by Augmedics
07.00AM - 07.18AM
Session 3: Techniques & Technology
07.00AM - 07.05AM
Welcome
07.05AM - 07.13AM
Endoscopy – The Far East vs. the West. Why the difference in adoption?
Why would I build it into my US practice?
07.13AM - 07.18AM
Discussion
07.18AM - 07.35AM
Session 3: Debate: Interbody - L4-5 Degenerative Spondylolisthesis
07.18AM - 07.23AM
I’m Anti-TLIF – here’s why!
07.23AM - 07.28AM
I’m Anti-OLIF/LLIF – here’s why!
07.28AM - 07.30AM
Rebuttal
07.30AM - 07.32AM
Rebuttal
07.32AM - 07.35AM
Discussion
07.35AM - 07.52AM
Session 3: Debate: PEEK vs Titanium
07.35AM - 07.40AM
PEEK = Performance
07.40AM - 07.45AM
Titanium= Metal beats plastic every day of the week.
07.45AM - 07.47AM
Rebuttal
07.47AM - 07.49AM
Rebuttal
07.49AM - 07.52AM
Discussion
07.52AM - 08.38AM
Session 3: Image-Guided Surgery
07.52AM - 08.00AM
Robotics: The next generation systems are coming. What’s on the surgeon’s
wish list?
08.00AM - 08.08AM
Augmented Reality: Beyond traditional navigation. How AR will transform the OR.
08.08AM - 08.16AM
Image-guided bony resection
08.16AM - 08.26AM
Discussion
08.26AM - 08.38AM
Session 3: Complications: My Worst Case of the Last Year and What You Can Learn
08.26AM - 08.32AM
Case
08.32AM - 08.38AM
Case
08.38AM - 09.34AM
Session 4: Patient Optimization & Protocols
08.38AM - 08.46AM
Diagnosis of metabolic bone disease: What are the limitations of DEXA? Are there other ways to measure bone health?
08.46AM - 08.54AM
Bone health optimization: Screening, pre-treatment, and implementing a metabolic bone health program for better surgical outcomes.
08.54AM - 09.02AM
Malnutrition: The silent killer of patient outcomes.
09.02AM - 09.10AM
Discussion
09.10AM - 09.18AM
Spine ERAS in 2026: How do I implement an evidence-based program?
09.18AM - 09.26AM
Strategies to optimize my outpatient surgery experience: Looking beyond my skill, and understanding the elements of success!
09.26AM - 09.34AM
Discussion
09.34AM - 09.54AM
Session 4: The Lifestyle & Business of Spine
09.34AM - 09.49AM
Peak Performance: Finding your groove at work without sacrificing your personal life.
09.49AM - 09.54AM
Discussion
09.54AM - 10.10AM
Session 4: Video Highlights – Surgical Snippets with Take Home Tips
09.54AM - 10.02AM
MIS TLIF: My efficient and complete disc preparation
10.02AM - 10.10AM
LLIF: Tips and tricks to avoiding subsidence
10.10AM - 10.10AM
Adjourn
04.00PM - 04.10PM
4:00 Après Ski
04.10PM - 04.20PM
Session 5 : My Worst Case in the Last Year and What You Can Learn
04.10PM - 04.14PM
Welcome
04.14PM - 04.20PM
Case
04.20PM - 04.40PM
Session 5 : Non-CME Technology Presentation
04.20PM - 04.40PM
Tech Presentation #1: Supported by Cerapedics
04.40PM - 04.52PM
Cases: Debates, Discussions & Disagreements: Walking Trauma Debate: TLICs 4, L2 burst fracture, neuro intact
04.40PM - 04.44PM
Burst fractures have become an excuse to place perc screws; non-op is the way to go.
04.44PM - 04.48PM
MIS treatment of burst fractures has been a game changer for my patients
04.48PM - 04.52PM
Discussion
04.52PM - 05.16PM
Cases: Debates, Discussions & Disagreements: Management of Subacute Cervical Fractures and Dislocations
04.52PM - 04.55PM
Case: Unilateral facet fracture/dislocation treated non-op, now with pain +/- deformity.
04.55PM - 05.04PM
Discussion
05.04PM - 05.07PM
Case: Type 2 odontoid fracture in the elderly with delayed union
05.07PM - 05.16PM
Discussion
05.16PM - 05.40PM
Cases: Debates, Discussions & Disagreements: To Brace or Not to Brace? “Walking” TL Trauma
05.16PM - 05.19PM
Case: Elderly woman with an osteoporotic TL compression/burst Fx with TL kyphosis
05.19PM - 05.28PM
Discussion
05.28PM - 05.31PM
Case: 75 y/o AS or DISH with TL burst and with intact posterior column
05.31PM - 05.40PM
Discussion
05.40PM - 05.46PM
Session 5 : Non-CME Technology Update
05.40PM - 05.46PM
Tech Update #3: Supported by ATEC
05.46PM - 06.15PM
Session 6: The Emperor of All Maladies: Spine Mets
05.46PM - 05.49PM
Case: 40 y/o female with breast CA and thoracic mets with mild myelopathy
05.49PM - 05.58PM
Discussion
05.58PM - 06.01PM
Case: 60 y/o male with plasmacytoma with thoracic kyphosis
06.01PM - 06.10PM
Discussion
06.10PM - 06.15PM
Case
06.10PM - 06.10PM
The Day It All Went South: The Case That Has Been Revised So Often It Put My Kids Through
College…and Med School
Adjourn
07.00AM - 07.50AM
Session 7: Spine Odyssey - 2031: Where Will Our Field Be in The Near Future?
07.00AM - 07.05AM
Welcome
07.05AM - 07.15AM
Artificial Intelligence: AI Live demonstration: Degenerative spondylolisthesis in 2031.
How will our management change?
07.15AM - 07.23AM
Practical ways to integrate AI into my everyday practice and what are the boundaries? What can’t AI do?
07.23AM - 07.31AM
Will AI and big data overtake RCTs as the gold standard in evidence-based care?
07.31AM - 07.38AM
Discussion
07.38AM - 07.50AM
Panel discussion: Strategies to manage patients who are using AI to help navigate their spine care.
07.50AM - 08.26AM
Session 7: Spine Pain is Gain(ing): How Will Emerging “Spine Fellowships” in Pain Management Impact Our Field?
07.50AM - 07.55AM
Spine surgery as we know it is facing an existential threat: We must stand up and own the spine
07.55AM - 08.00AM
The future of spine surgery must involve our collaboration and sharing of the spine field.
08.00AM - 08.05AM
We need to put ourselves in their shoes: What I’ve learned from my pain
management colleagues
08.05AM - 08.12AM
Discussion
08.12AM - 08.20AM
It’s time to secede! As ortho & neuro spine continue to converge, when will dedicated spine residency training become a reality?
08.20AM - 08.26AM
Discussion
08.26AM - 08.56AM
Session 8: It’s All Deformity Surgery Whether You Like It or Not
08.26AM - 08.32AM
Analyzing the sagittal plane: Software, measurements, parameters, spinal shape & distribution.
08.32AM - 08.40AM
L4-S1 is key for long-term success. Get it right the first time!
08.40AM - 08.48AM
Will patient specific rods enable all surgeons to be good deformity surgeons?
08.48AM - 08.56AM
Discussion
08.56AM - 09.10AM
Session 8: Debate: Big deformity belongs in high volume centers
08.56AM - 09.01AM
- Yes! Be real and know your limits.
09.01AM - 09.06AM
- No! Letting deformity patients go out of my practice is egregious disservice to my community.
09.06AM - 09.10AM
Discussion
09.10AM - 09.56AM
Session 8: The Lifestyle & Business of Spine
09.10AM - 09.30AM
The partnership playbook: Making the most of PE, hospitals, family offices, and strategic allies.
09.30AM - 09.35AM
Discussion
09.35AM - 09.43AM
My technical pearls to minimal blood loss in open spine surgery
09.35AM - 09.35AM
Video Highlights – Surgical Snippets with Take Home Tips
09.43AM - 09.51AM
Robotics in the OR - Setup, workflow, registration, and screw execution.
09.51AM - 09.56AM
Discussion
09.56AM - 10.15AM
Free Papers
09.56AM - 09.58AM
#1
09.58AM - 10.00AM
#2
10.00AM - 10.02AM
#3
10.02AM - 10.04AM
#4
10.04AM - 10.06AM
#5
10.06AM - 10.08AM
#6
10.08AM - 10.10AM
#7
10.10AM - 10.12AM
#8
10.12AM - 10.15AM
Discussion
10.15AM - 10.15AM
Adjourn
04.10PM - 04.15PM
Session 9: Welcome
04.15PM - 04.25PM
Session 9: My Worst Case in the Last Year and What You Can Learn
04.15PM - 04.20PM
Case #1
04.20PM - 04.25PM
Case #2
04.25PM - 04.45PM
Session 9: Non-CME Technology Presentation
Tech Presentation #2: Supported by Medtronic
04.45PM - 05.32PM
Session 9: Cases: Debates, Discussions, and Disagreements - Deformity for Degen Surgeons
04.45PM - 04.48PM
Case: Treating the fractional curve only in adult deformity. Genius or ignorant?
04.48PM - 04.57PM
Discussion
04.57PM - 05.00PM
Case: 70 y/o with adjacent segment disease after a degen. fusion. Is this really a deformity or an expected degeneration?
05.00PM - 05.09PM
Discussion
05.09PM - 05.12PM
Case: Doc fix me, my curve got worse and I want to Heli Ski. Progressive deformity without pain
05.12PM - 05.21PM
Discussion
05.21PM - 05.24PM
Case: Peri operative sacral fracture after ALIF in a patient with osteoporosis.
05.24PM - 05.32PM
Discussion
05.32PM - 05.44PM
Session 9: Non-CME Technology Updates
05.32PM - 05.38PM
Tech Update #4: Supported by Kuros Biosciences
05.38PM - 05.44PM
Tech Update #5: Supported by Carlsmed
05.44PM - 06.15PM
Session 10: The Lifestyle & Business of Spine
05.44PM - 06.00PM
Complication management: Strategies to mitigate the anxiety and shame we feel as surgeons when things go awry.
06.00PM - 06.05PM
Discussion
06.05PM - 06.10PM
Case
06.05PM - 06.05PM
The Day It All Went South: The Case That Has Been Revised so Often It Put My Kids Through College…
and Med School
06.10PM - 06.15PM
Case
Adjourn
07.00AM - 07.05AM
Session 11: Motion is Lotion: Progress and Pitfalls in Motion Preservation Surgery
07.00AM - 07.05AM
Welcome
07.05AM - 07.18AM
Session 11: Cervical
07.05AM - 07.13AM
What are the long-term consequences of expanding indications
for cervical arthroplasty?
07.13AM - 07.18AM
Discussion
07.18AM - 07.33AM
Session 11: Debate: Multilevel DDD with stenosis – What’s the future?
07.18AM - 07.23AM
Multilevel (3+) CDR
07.23AM - 07.28AM
Multilevel ACDF
07.28AM - 07.33AM
Discussion
07.33AM - 07.46AM
Session 11: Lumbar Arthroplasty: Have We Been Looking at the Wrong Side? Replace the Facets Not the Disc.
07.33AM - 07.41AM
Who is the ideal patient for lumbar facet arthroplasty? …Assuming they exist.
07.41AM - 07.46AM
Discussion
07.46AM - 08.00AM
Session 11: Panel Discussion
07.46AM - 08.00AM
Cervical & lumbar arthroplasty revisions: Revision of fusion to arthroplasty, and revision of multilevel arthroplasty to long construct fusion.
08.00AM - 08.18AM
Session 12: Special Lecture
08.00AM - 08.18AM
Tips from my 8-hour major deformity case that can help you in your next 2-hour adult degen. case
08.18AM - 09.08AM
Session 12: What’s New and Why it Matters to Your Practice
08.18AM - 08.26AM
Is pelvic fixation enough? When and why to include SI joint fusion in thoracolumbar deformity.
08.26AM - 08.34AM
Rethinking the workhorse: Can ACDF outcomes be improved?
08.34AM - 08.42AM
Which SPECT is better at identifying back pain generators: CT, MRI, or neither?
08.42AM - 08.48AM
Discussion
08.48AM - 09.08AM
Panel Discussion: Spine surgeons in the US perform unnecessary spine surgeries. Do we?
09.08AM - 09.30AM
Session 12: Great Talks! (They just didn’t fit anywhere else)
09.08AM - 09.13AM
When I’ll do surgery on 80 (or 90) year-olds.
09.13AM - 09.18AM
Arthroplasty and insurance: Understanding the pressure points
09.18AM - 09.23AM
How direct spinal cord monitoring has changed IMSCT surgery.
09.23AM - 09.30AM
Discussion
09.30AM - 10.00AM
Session 12: Have I Got a Story for You! The Case That’ll Never Be Forgotten
09.30AM - 09.36AM
Case
09.36AM - 09.42AM
Case
09.42AM - 09.48AM
Case
09.48AM - 09.54AM
Case
09.54AM - 10.00AM
Summation
Adjourn
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