Drs. Zeeshan Sardar and Christopher Shaffrey, with faculty Drs. Christopher Ames and Peter Passias conduct an in-depth, case-driven webinar on cervical spine deformity.

Key discussion points include:

• Preoperative assessment: neurologic status (myelopathy), swallowing/airway considerations, and full-body alignment work-up
• Identify the “driver” of deformity: cervical vs cervicothoracic vs thoracolumbar contributors, including compensatory mechanisms and reciprocal change
• Choosing fusion levels + approach selection: when anterior-only is enough, when posterior-only is safer/more durable, and when a combined strategy is required
• Frailty and preoperative optimization

Chairs

Zeeshan Sardar, MD

Co-Chair
Spine and Scoliosis Surgery
Associate Professor of Orthopedic Surgery (in Neurological Surgery)
Co-Chief of Spinal Deformity
Medical Director, Spine Unit – Och Spine Hospital
Co-Director Och Spine Grand Rounds
Co-Chair, Data Operations Committee, American Spine Registry
Columbia University, College of Physicians and Surgeons
Och Spine Hospital at New York Presbyterian/Allen
New York, NY

Christopher Shaffrey, MD

Professor of Orthopedic Surgery and Neurosurgery
Chief, Spine Division
Duke University School of Medicine
Durham, NC

Faculty

Christopher Ames, MD

Professor, Dept. of Neurological Surgery
UCSF Weill Institute for Neurosciences
Director of Spinal Deformity & Spine Tumor Surgery
Co-director, Spinal Surgery and UCSF Spine Center
San Francisco, CA

Peter Passias, MD

Professor of Neurological and Orthopaedic Surgery
Associate Chief of Spine Division
Director of Research
Duke University School of Medicine
Durham, NC

Supported by Orthofix