Day 1: 17 August 2024

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0700-0800          Registration

 

OPENING CEREMONIES

0800-0820          Invocation

                             National Anthem

                             Welcome Remarks/Messages       

                                      Dr. Ronald P. Tangente (President, Philippine Spine Society)

                                      Prof. Dato’ Dr. Kwan Mun-Keong (President, Asia Pacific Spine Society)

                                      Dr. Harish Pillai (Chief Executive Officer, Metro Pacific Hospital Holding, Inc.)

                                      Dr. Saturnino P. Javier (Medical Director, Makati Medical Center)

0820-0830          Operating Theatre 1 and 2 Live Surgeries

 

DEFORMITIES SESSION

0830-0845          Surgical Treatment for Severe Deformities in the Adolescent Spine [Prof. Chris Chan Yin Wei]

0845-0900          Non-fusion Surgery for AIS [Prof. Jason Pui Yin Cheung]

0900-0915          Operating Theatre 1 Live Surgery

 

CERVICAL DEGENERATIVE

0915-0925          (Personal) Approach to the Treatment of Symptomatic Kyphotic Cervical Spine [Dr. Choong Hoon Foo]

0915-0925          Operating Theatre 2 Live Surgery

0925-0935          Outcomes of Fusion Surgeries to the Degenerative Cervical Spine [Dr. Mikhail Lew P. Ver]

0935-0945          Outcomes of Non-fusion Surgeries to the Degenerative Cervical Spine [Dr. Kin Cheung Mak]

0945-1000          Q&A

1000-1030          AM Snack Symposium

1030-1100          Operating Theatre 1 and 2 Live Surgeries

 

DEFORMITIES

1100-1115          Treatment of Kyphotic Spine in Healed Pott’s (Pediatric) [Dr. Dilip Chad Raja Soundararajan]

1115-1135          Operating Theatre 1 and 2 Live Surgeries

1135-1145          Q&A

1145-1300          Lunch Symposium

1300-1330          Operating Theatre 1 and 2 Live Surgeries

 

CASE DISCUSSIONS

1330-1400          CASE 1: SEVERE AIS [Expert Panels: Dr Jose Martin S. Paiso/Prof. Dato Mun-Keong Kwan/Dr. Choong Hoon Foo]

1400-1410          Operating Theatre 1 Live Surgery

1410-1430          CASE 2: DEGENERATIVE CERVICAL CASE [Expert Panels: Dr Jose Martin S. Paiso/Prof. Dato Mun-Keong Kwan/Dr. Choong Hoon Foo]

1430-1440          Operating Theatre 2 Live Surgery

1440-1500          CASE 3: DEFORMITY [Expert Panels: Prof. Jason Pui Yin Cheung/Dr. Anthony A. Suguitan/Prof Tomohiko Hasegawa]

1500-1530          Operating Theatre 1 and 2 Live Surgeries

1800                    FACULTY DINNER

 

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Day 2: 18 August 2024

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0800-0810          Welcome Remarks: Dr. Anne Kathleen Ganal-Antonio (PSS Chairman, Scientific Committee)

0810-0830          Operating Theatre 1 and 2 Live Surgeries

 

DEGENERATIVE ADULT DEFORMITY

0830-0840          Approach to Treatment of Symptomatic Degenerative Scoliosis [Prof. Tomohiko Hasegawa]

0840-0850          Outcomes in Operative and Conservative Management of Degenerative Scoliosis [Dr. Wong Chung Chek]

0850-0900          Operating Theatre 1 and 2 Live Surgeries

0900-0910          Sacropelvic Fixation Techniques [Prof. Yat Wa Wong]

0910-0920          Operating Theatre 1 and 2 Live Surgeries

0920-0930          Fusion Options to the Lumbar Spine: Indications and Outcomes [Dr. Orland Joshua M. Alimbuyuguen]

0930-0940          Q&A

0940-1000          Operating Theatre 1 and 2 Live Surgeries

1000-1030          Snack Symposium

1030-1050          Operating Theatre 1 and 2 Live Surgeries

1050-1105          Technique of Cervical and Lumbar Spine Injections [Prof. Rafael C. Bundoc]

1105-1115          Outcomes of Endoscopic Decompression Surgeries to the Lumbar Spine [Dr. Buenaventura Alfredo B. Canto IV]

1115-1130          Operating Theatre 1 Live Surgery

1130-1140          Approach to Treatment of Non-union of OVCF (Kummels) [Prof. Jose Manuel F. Ignacio]

1140-1150          Operating Theatre 2 Live Surgery

1150-1215          Q&A

1215-1330          Lunch Symposium

1330-1400          Operating Theatre 1 and 2 Live Surgeries

 

CASE DISCUSSIONS

1400-1430          CASE 1: LONG FUSION VERSUS MULTIPLE ENDOSCOPIC DECOMPRESSION? [Expert Panels: Dr. Gian Karlo P. Dadufalza/Dr. Kin Cheung Mak/Dr. Jose Joefrey F. Arbatin Jr.]

1430-1440          Operating Theatre 1 and 2 Live Surgeries

1440-1500          CASE 2: ADULT DEFORMITY [Expert Panels: Prof Tomohiko Hasegawa/Dr. Dilip Chad Raja Soundararajan/Dr. Larry V. Acuna]

1500-1530          Operating Theatre 1 and 2 Live Surgeries

1800                     FELLOWSHIP NIGHT