Program

7:45AM - 8:30AM

8:30AM - 8:35AM

8:35AM - 9:30AM

9:30AM - 10:00AM

Registration, Coffee and Poster Mounting

Welcome to Country and Opening Remarks

Session 1: Single Molecule

Ashish Diwan - Low Back Pain – From Guidelines to Precision Medicine abs# 1
Alisha Sial - Diffusion Tensor Imaging of the Cervical Spinal Cord: A diagnostic tool to measure the functional state of the cervical spinal cord in Degenerative Cervical Myelopathy patients. abs# 2
Jo Gamble - MIC-1/GDF15 Overexpression is associated with increased functional recovery in traumatic spinal cord injury abs# 3

Session 2a : Surgery & Technology

Dr Morgan Giers - Machine learning model: predicting analytics for the management of lumbar degeneration disease abs# 4

10:00AM - 10:45AM

Coffee Break and Poster Viewing

10:45AM - 12:30PM

Session 2b : Surgery & Technology

Dr Teng Zhang - Towards radiation-free spine alignment synthesis with clinical validation abs# 5
Dr Kyle Sheldrick - Post Processing Of MRI scans can imporve LBP diagnosis abs# 6
Dr Simon Singer - Australia's Medical Devices Regulatory Framework abs# 7
Prof Manuela Ferarra - SUCCESS trail update abs# 8
Vivek Ramakrishna - Smart orthopaedic implants: A targeted approach for continuous postoperative evaluation in the spine abs# 9
Dr Ashish Diwan - Phase 1 AuDi trial update abs# 10
Dr John Choi - Robotics in Spinal Surgery abs# 11

12:30PM - 2:00PM

Lunch and Poster Viewing

2:00PM - 3:00PM

Session 3: Dangerous Ideas

Quize Chen - Healthcare disparities in culturally and linguistically diverse patients with low back pain
abs# 12
Javad Tavakoli - How and why transition zone in the intervertebral disc matters: new findings and old assumptions abs# 13
Giovanni Ferriera - A content analysis of online information about the benefits and harms of spine surgery abs# 14
Gem Chew - Determining the applicability of research for the ageing population abs# 15
Siobhan Schabrun - Available Soon abs# 16

3:00PM - 3:40PM

Coffee Break

3:40PM - 5:00PM

5:00PM - 6:30PM

6:30PM - 9:00PM

Session 4: PhD Presentations

Ben Goss - A narrative review of the history and evidence for restorative neurostimulation for chronic mechanical low back pain abs# 200
Alison M Slater - The thoracolumbar fascia and back pain abs# 117
Caitlin MP Jones - Systematic review and meta-analysis of the effectiveness of advice and education for the management of non-specific spinal pain abs# 18
Ji Tu - Smoking and tetramer tryptase+ Mast Cells accelerate intervertebral disc degeneration by inducing METTL14-mediated DIXDC1 m6 modification abs# 20

Drinks and Pyrmont Bridge Walk

Symposium Dinner and Prizes held at the ICC