UCSF Techniques in Complex Spine Surgery Program
November 7 - 8, 2025
Vdara Hotel Las Vegas, NV
Course# MOR26004
spinevegas.ucsf.edu

Overview
The UCSF Techniques in Complex Spine Surgery Course is a three-day course emphasizing pioneering trends in spinal surgery. This course is designed to be interactive with didactic lectures given by leaders in the spine community as well as a hands-on bioskills lab portion.  Participants will review and practice surgical principles and techniques in the treatment of spinal deformities and tumors.  Interwoven into the course is the 4 University ("4Us") Symposium, which will allow engagement with international spine surgeons from South Korea, China, and Japan. As a result of hands-on sessions and case conferences with national and international leaders in spine surgery, residents, fellows, and surgeons with less than an advanced level of experience will have improved skills in cases dealing with complex spinal deformities.

Target Audience
Orthopaedic and neurosurgeons as well as their clinical support team and surgeons in training in the specialty of spine surgery.

Objectives
An attendee completing this course will increase skills and strategies to:

• Identify the indications, applications and surgical techniques for posterior column osteotomies, interbody fusion techniques, and transpedicular osteotomy and corpectomy techniques for spinal reconstruction;
• Evaluate and treat pain related to spinal disorders in a cost-effective and reliable manner based on recently published guidelines;
• Evaluate and treat lumbar degenerative disease and deformity in a cost-effective manner based on an evidence based approach, and avoid case-to-morbidity risk;

Identify risk factors that may predispose individuals to perioperative.

Course Chairs
Vedat Deviren, MD
Professor of Clinical Orthopaedic Surgery

Alekos Theologis, MD
Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery

Christopher P. Ames, MD
Professor of Neurological Surgery and Orthopaedic Surgery
Director, Spinal Deformity & Spine Tumor Surgery
Co-Director, Spinal Surgery and UCSF Spine Center
Director, California Deformity Institute
Director, Spinal Biomechanics Laboratory

Aaron Clark, MD, PhD
Associate Professor of Neurological Surgery