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Events 2024

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AO Spine Europe and South Africa Course
Calendar 2024
AO Spine provides accredited and high-quality educational activities to thousands of surgeons and health care
professionals each year.

This is a summary of upcoming events in Europe and South Africa. Please note that the information in this document is
subject to change. Check our website for the most actual event information.

Registration and details for all AO Spine events including webinars, congress, symposia, and any education activities not
listed here can be found online at the course and event finder on our website.

Please click on course title to be directed online to the course page website, or scan the QR code on the back
page of this brochure.

Principles Courses
February 22–23 | English Prague, Czech Republic AO Spine Principles Course—Deformity Management (on 3D Bone Models)

March 5 | English Online, 20:00-21:00 CET (UTC AO Spine Principles Webinar—Spinal trauma
+01:00)

April 19–20 | German Anthering bei Salzburg, Austria AO Spine Principles Kurs —Notfälle und Degeneration in der
Wirbelsäulenchirurgie

April 26–27 | English Bern, Switzerland AO Spine Principles Level Specimen Course—From Freehand to Robotics

May 6 | English Online, 17:00-18:00 CEST (UTC AO Spine Research Webinar—Unveiling The New AO Spine/Praxis Guidelines
+02:00) For The Management Of Spinal Cord Injuries

June 10–11 | English Rotterdam, Netherlands AO Spine Principles Level Specimen Course—Decompression and
Instrumentation of the Spine

July 3 | English Valencia, Spain AO PEER Course-Principles of Clinical Research

September 5–6 | German Hamburg, Germany AO Spine Basis Kurs — Operative Techniken der Wirbelsäule (mit praktischen
Übungen am anatomischen Präparat)

September 12–13 | English Lodz, Poland AO Spine Principles Course— Posterior Spinal Approaches and Techniques

September 26–27 | Italian Bari, Italy AO Spine Corso Base—Patologia degenerativa del rachide cervicale. Diagnosi
e trattamento

September 28–29 | English Southampton, United Kingdom AO Spine Principles Course—Managing Spinal Complications

October 25–26 | English Bucharest, Romania AO Spine Principles Course–Degenerative Spine

November 2 | German Zürich, Switzerland AO Spine Basis Seminar — Fallbasierter Facharztprüfung-Vorbereitungskurs

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Advanced Courses
February 8–9 | English Tampere, Finland AO Spine Advanced Level Specimen Course—Posterior Correction of Adult
Deformities

March 8–May 2 | English Online, 13:00-14:00 CET (UTC AO Spine Online Course—The MISS Spectrum Series (2024)
+01:00)

April 12–13 | English Frankfurt, Germany AO Spine Advanced Course—Deformities of the Spine

April 18 | English Online, 18:00-19:00 CEST (UTC AO Spine Webinar—Risk stratification in the surgery of adult spinal deformity
+02:00)

April 23 | French Online, 18:00-19:00 CET (UTC AO Spine Webinar—Tout comprendre sur l alignement sagittal
+01:00)

May 10 | Italian Rome, Italy AO Spine simposio—Dalla ricerca internazionale di AO Spine alle pratica
clinica quotidiana: cosa cambieremo

May 14 | English Online, 18:00-19:00 CEST (UTC AO Spine Webinar—Management of spinopelvic dissociation
+02:00)

June 9–10 | Italian Verona, Italy AO Spine Corso Avanzato—Approcci chirurgici anterolaterali e posteriori al
rachide toracolombare

June 18 | English Online, 18:00-19:00 CEST (UTC AO Spine Webinar—Risk factors of PJK after adult spine surgery and
+02:00) management

August 23–24 | English Cape Town, South Africa AO Spine Principles Level Specimen Course—Basic posterior thoracic and
lumbar instrumentation techniques

September 5–6 | English Salzburg, Austria AO Spine Advanced Level Specimen Course—Anterior Spine Surgery and
Approaches

September 10 | English Online, 18:00-19:00 CET (UTC AO Spine Webinar—Cervical total disc replacement: State of art
+01:00)

September 19–20 | English Ljubljana, Slovenia AO Spine Advanced Seminar— Spinal infections

September 20–21 | English Bern, Switzerland AO Spine Advanced Level Specimen Course—Complex degenerative
pathologies: Current concept and future directions

October 8 | English Online, 18:00-19:00 CET (UTC AO Spine Webinar—Management of spinal metastases: Current status
+01:00)

AO Spine Fortgeschrittenen Kurs — Minimalinvasive Wirbelsäulenchirurgie –

October 10–11 | German Essen, Germany
Techniken, Vorteile und Grenzen (mit praktischen Übungen am anatomischen
Präparat)

October 13–17 | English Sofia, Bulgaria AO Spine Advanced Symposium—TBD. EANS

October 24 | Turkish Ankara, Turkey AO Spine Advanced Seminar—Lateral approaches and techniques in thoracic
and lumbar spine region

November 4–5 | Portuguese Lisbon, Portugal AO Spine Advanced Level Specimen Course—Minimally Invasive Lumbar
Spine Surgery

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Advanced Courses
November 7–9 | English Ioannina or Volos, Greece AO Spine Symposium—TBD. 17th Annual Congress of the Hellenic Spine
Society

November 12 | English Online, 18:00-19:00 CET (UTC AO Spine Webinar—Spondylodiscitis: Non-surgical vs Surgical Treatment,
+01:00) Current overview to Decision Making

November 15–16 | English Budapest, Hungary AO Spine Advanced Level Specimen Course—Resection of spinal tumors

November 22 | English Madrid, Spain AO Spine Advanced Seminar—My Worst Case

December 1–31 | English Tel Aviv, Haifa or Jerusalem, AO Spine Advanced Seminar—Minimally invasive and endoscopic spine
Israel surgery

December 8–10 | English Davos, Switzerland AO Spine Advanced Course—Degenerative Lumbar Spine: From MIS Fusion
to Complex Deformity and Revision (With Human Anatomical Specimen)

December 9–11 | English Davos, Switzerland AO Spine Advanced Course—Cervical Spine: Dealing with Complex, Revision
and Deformity Problems (With Human Anatomical Specimen)

Masters Courses
July 2 | English Jerusalem, Israel AO Spine Masters Seminar—Degenerative disease of the cervical spine

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The AO Foundation and DePuy Synthes partnership

For more than 60 years, the AO Foundation has partnered with DePuy Synthes (part of the Johnson & Johnson Family of Companies) to
transform surgery and save lives. This collaboration between the two independent organizations is rooted in mutual respect and a shared
mission to innovate in surgical education and improve patient outcomes. It is a central part of who we are, as AO.

A cooperation agreement governs the partnership and defines the framework for the areas of collaboration. The AO benefits from DPS
support for its hands-on training under an exclusive agreement, and it is in partnership with DPS that AO innovations in patient care are
developed for application in a clinical setting. DPS is the key industry partner of the AO Technical Commission (AO TC) and its Global
Expert Committees, Expert Groups, and Task Forces in the specialty areas of trauma, spine, craniomaxillofacial, and veterinary surgery.

An unrestricted grant provides DPS support for the AO s global educational offerings while enabling the AO to be fully independent in its
selection of course content and faculty: These decisions are made exclusively and independently by the AO. The agreement confirms
the independence of the AO and its surgeon volunteers. DPS supports the surgeon education programs for AO Trauma, AO Spine, AO
CMF, AO VET, AO Recon, and AO Sports.

The AO and DPS both benefit from this longstanding partnership, which has evolved over the decades. We look forward to many more
years of working together, and to seeing how our partnership will mature in the years to come.

Learn more about the collaboration

between the AO and DePuy Synthes here:

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