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2018 Castellvi Spine

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2.Please rate your overall satisfaction with the organization of this meeting.(Required.)
3.The ACCME defines commercial bias as presentations giving an unbalanced view of therapeutic options by promoting a specific proprietary business interest of a commercial interest.

Was this CME course free of commercial bias?(Required.)
4.Did the faculty disclose significant relationships with commercial support?
(One or more of these methods: Syllabus / Opening Remarks / Verbally / On Slides)
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5.Please rate the quality of the meeting facilities.
6.How well were the Castellvi Spine course course objectives met?

Upon completion of the course participants should be able to:
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Assess and Critique emerging techniques in comparison to current treatment options
Discuss adult deformity and complications
Understand the use of lumbar techniques in spine surgery
Employ useful surgical techniques in total disc replacement surgery
Apply decision making strategies to complex cervical and lumbar degenerative disc disease procedures
7.Did you meet your personal goal/objective for what you intended to get out of this course?(Required.)
8.Do you intend to integrate what you learned at this conference into your current practice?(Required.)
9.Please rate the relevance of this program to your scope of practice:(Required.)
10.Please rate the OVERALL EFFECTIVENESS of each of our Castellvi Spine speakers
SESSION I: SPINE BIOMECHANICS & TECHNOLOGY
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Alejandro Castellvi, MD - Robots for Reconstruction
Ira L. Fedder, MD - Understanding the Interspinous Space
Lisa Ferrara, PhD - Additive Manufacturing
Scott A. Webb, DO - Alternative Polymer Materials
Marc A. Weinstein, MD - Biomechanics of Expandable Interbody Devices
William C. Welch, MD - Next Generation of Biomaterials
Rolando Garcia, Jr., MD - Evidence Based Outcomes for Motion Preservation Devices
Joseph M. Zavatsky, MD - MIS Approaches and the Biomechanics of Stability
Neel Anand, MD - TDR - Where Do We Stand?
11.Please rate the OVERALL EFFECTIVENESS of each of our Castellvi Spine speakers
SESSION II: REGENERATIVE MEDICINE

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 Farhan N. Siddiqi, MD - Tissue Engineering
William C. Tally, MD - Stem Cell Disc Regeneration Study
12.Please rate the OVERALL EFFECTIVENESS of each of our Castellvi Spine speakers
SESSION III: Advances is Spinal Technology
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Robert E. Isaacs, MD - PRO - Is the Price of Navigation Worth the Cost of Admission?
Marc A. Weinstein, MD - CON - Is the Price of Navigation Worth the Cost of Admission?
Joseph M. Zavatsky, MD - PRO - Is Post Expandable Technology Worth It When You Can Just Do and MIS ALIF?
Neel Anand, MD, Mch - CON - Is Post Expandable Technology Worth It When You Can Just Do and MIS ALIF?
Rolando Garcia, Jr., MD - PRO - Is a Lumbar TDR Work vs a Standalone ALIF?
Marc A. Weinstein, MD - CON - Is a Lumbar TDR Work vs a Standalone ALIF?
William C. Welch, MD - PRO - Is BMP & PEEK Worth It vs Textured PEEK of 3D Printing Technology?
Robert E. Isaacs, MD - Textured PEEK - Is BMP & PEEK Worth It vs Textured PEEK of 3D Printing Technology?
Boyle Cheng, PhD - 3D Printing - Is BMP & PEEK Worth It vs Textured PEEK of 3D Printing Technology?
Scott A. Webb, MD - PRO - Post Facet Replacement 
William C. Welch, MD - CON - Post Facet Replacement 
Steven J. Tresser, MD - PRO - Robotic Screw Placement vs Fluro
Scott A. Webb, MD - CON - Robotic Screw Placement vs Fluro
13.Please rate the OVERALL EFFECTIVENESS of each of our Castellvi Spine speakers
SESSION IV: Complications & Solutions
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Anders Cohen, DO - L5S1 ALIF Pseudo
William C. Welch, MD - Cerebrospinal Fluid Leaks
Joseph M. Zavatsky, MD - Proximal Junctional Kyphosis
John M. Small, MD - Flat Back Deformity
Sheyan J. Armaghani, MD - Infected Hardware
Ryan D. Murtagh, MD - Not Understanding Situational Awareness
Reginald J. Davis, MD, FACS - Managing Complications in Outpatient Surgery C&R
Alejandro Castellvi, MD - Navigation Complications & Solutions
Don Moore, MD - C5 Nerve Palsy
14.Please rate the OVERALL EFFECTIVENESS of each of our Castellvi Spine speakers
SESSION V: Advances in Spinal Technology
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Don Moore, MD - Pseudarthrosis Post Cervical Surgery
Jacob Januszewski, DO - Cervical Complications Following Treatment of Cervical Spondylosis with Cervical Myelopathy
Steven J. Tresser, MD - Risk Factors of Postop Neurologic Decline in Spinal Deformity Surgery
William C. Tally, MD - DVT Post Surgery
Devin K. Datta, MD - Complications of Tranexamic Acid
John M. Small, MD - Outcomes of Complications in Elderly Patients
Sheyan J. Armaghani, MD - Epidural Hematoma
Ira L. Fedder, MD - Complication Spinal Fixation & Osteoporosis
15.Please rate the OVERALL EFFECTIVENESS of each of our Castellvi Spine speakers
SESSION VI: The State of Spine
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Robin Young, CFA - State of the Spine Market
Lt. General William Welser - KEYNOTE: HONOR FLIGHT
Farhan N. Siddiqi, MD - Outpatient Surgery in the Present Time
Reginald J. Davis, MD, FACS - Outpatient Surgery in the Near Future
Jacob Januszewski, DO - Cervical Deformity
16.Please rate the OVERALL EFFECTIVENESS of each of our Atlanta Trauma Symposium speakers
SESSION VII: Games Changers in Spine Surgery
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Devin K. Datta, MD - Why is There Increasing Pseudarthrosis in Multilevel ACDF?
Robert E. Isaacs, MD - Real Time Intraoperative Spinal Balance Correction
17.Based on your CME needs, please give suggestions for future program topics/formats.
18.What barriers do you foresee that may hinder your implementation of changes learned at this activity? What educational strategies could help to overcome these barriers?
19.What do you see as your BIGGEST challenge in improving patient safety, patient care and/or patient outcomes? What educational strategies could help to overcome this challenge?
20.How did you hear about this CME Program?
21.Please provide your contact information. (Required.)
22.PHYSICIANS: The Foundation for Orthopaedic Research & Education (FORE) is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
FORE designates this live activity for a maximum of 14.5 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Please attest to the total number of credit hours (minimum .25- maximum 14.5) that you spent in this CME
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