Research Development Committee

AAOS Research Symposia: Intervertebral Disc Degeneration

• Principal Investigators: Gunnar B.J. Andersson, MD PhD, Howard S. An, MD, Theodore R. Oegema Jr., PhD and Lori Setton, PhD
• Dates: September 15-18, 2005
• Participants: Basic scientists, engineers and clinicians (By invitation only.)
• Purpose of Workshop: Discuss the present state of the field and the emerging areas that could have an impact on the field, develop a consensus on future directions in new areas of cooperative research and develop strategies for the rapid translation of basic research into patient care.
• Overview of Topics:
  • Biology and Biomechanics of Intervertebral Disc Degeneration
  • Mechanism of Pain and Intervertebral Disc Degeneration
  • Modeling in Disc Degeneration
  • Treatment of Intervertebral Disc Degeneration
• Intervertebral Disc Degeneration (IDD) Symposium Agenda (PDF 99 Kb)
• IDD Faculty Biosketches (PDF 682 Kb)
• IDD Participant Contact Information (PDF 58 Kb)
• IDD Symposium Photos
• A supplement to the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery will be published in mid 2006.
• The AAOS gratefully acknowledges the following companies for their unrestricted educational grants in support of this program:
  • Zimmer Spine
  • EBI
  • Synthes Spine
  • DePuy Spine
• The AAOS also gratefully acknowledges the following for their generous funding in support of this program:
  • The National Institutes of Health
  • The Orthopaedic Research Society

For more information on this research symposium, please contact Erin L. Ransford, AAOS Manager of Research Development, at ransford@aaos.org or (847) 384-4319.