MakatiMed hosts Asia Pacific spine operative workshop

MakatiMed holds 4th Philippine Spine Society-Asia Pacific Spine Operative Workshop

Makati Medical Center (MakatiMed) welcomed surgeons from here and overseas for the 4th Philippine Spine Society-Asia Pacific Spine Society (PSS-APSS) Spine Operative Course.

MakatiMed’s Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Section of Spine Surgery, worked closely with the Philippine Spine Society (PSS) and the Asia Pacific Spine Society (APSS) to make the two-day event happen.

Some notable foreign guests who were at the two-day event took part in case discussions and lectures. Among them were Dato’ Kwan Mun-Keong, MD, president of APSS, as part of the expert panel on Severe Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis (AIS); Yat Wa Wong, MD, incoming president of APSS, on Sacropelvic Fixation Techniques with Saw Bone Demonstration; Jason Cheung, MD, department chairperson and clinical professor of the Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, University of Hong Kong, on Non-Fusion Surgery; Chris Chan, MD of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Malaya, on Surgical Treatment for Severe Deformities in the Adolescent Spine; and Tomohiko Hasegawa, MD from Hamamatsu University School of Medicine’s Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, on Approach to Treatment of Symptomatic Degenerative Scoliosis.

Live surgeries on patients with varying diagnoses were also viewed on both days of the event. The course introduced new surgical procedures that exposed MakatiMed surgeons to innovative techniques.