Invited Speakers
Dr. John Choi, MBChB FRACS - Orthopaedic Spine Surgeon
Spine Ortho Clinic, Melbourne
I am an orthopaedic spine surgeon from Melbourne, currently in private practice. Currently I am the Director at Large for the SMISS - AP, AO Spine Fellowship officer and on the review panel for Asian Spine Journal, Neurospine Journal. I am involved with AIMS as the supervisor of Spine Surgery Fellowship since 2017. I have worked on several commercialised spine innovations including Crestline platform, Lateral ALIF platform and ATP prosthesis such as Acceloc XTP. I was the first user of Globus GPS Excelsius Robot in the southern hemisphere and since 2019, I have been involved in over 200 Robotic spine procedures and regularly host and teach surgeons thru VSP, Workshops, Conferences and Meetings. Recently, also started Australia’s first biportal spine endoscopy surgery in 2021.
Prof SIOBHAN SCHABRUN – William and lynne gray endowed research chair in mobility and activity
University of Western Ontario, London, Canada
Dr Siobhan Schabrun is the William and Lynne Gray Endowed Research Chair in Mobility and Activity and Professor in the School of Physical Therapy at Western Ontario University, Canada. She has an undergraduate degree in Physiotherapy and a PhD in Neuroscience, specifically in the assessment and induction of neuroplasticity in humans, and has contributed more than 120 publications to the field. Dr Schabrun’s work is centred on the exploration of neuroplasticity in pain using clinical populations and human transitional pain models. Her work seeks to uncover biomarkers that can identify those at risk of developing chronic pain, to understand the mechanisms that cause chronic pain and to develop brain-based treatments and preventatives.