Syndicom

NASS News — Trip Report

Hopefully everyone has recovered now from your journeys to and during the annual NASS conference just past in Toronto. During the meeting, NASS recognized three of its members for their extraordinary contributions to the field of spine care. Eugene J. Carragee, MD, of Palo Alto received the Leon Wiltse award for excellence in leadership and or clinical research in spine care. Kenneth M. C. Cheung, MD out of Hong Kong received the Henry Farfan award for his outstanding contribution to spine related basic science research, and finally, David A. Wong, MD, from Greenwood Village in our home state of Colorado (woohoo!!) received the David Selby award for a NASS member who has contributed greatly to the art and science of spinal disorder management through service to NASS.

In other news and worthy of recognition, the Syndicom team spent their days talking with people at the conference, demonstrating and conducting usability tests for TrialEdge, ProductEdge and SalesEdge.

We were very, very happy to catch up with old friends of SpineConnect as well as make new ones (16 new invitations going out to grow our community)! We also had great conversations with the folks from Seaspine, Sintea Biotech, Dfine, Spinus, Impliant, X-Spine, Medtronic, NexGen Spine, Paradigm, SpineVision and ScientX, not to mention the senior editor of Orthopedics Today!

That’s a lot of talking and demonstrating! So in order to nourish themselves, the Syndicom team ate at, and can now recommend, Aroma and Fred’s Not Here in Toronto!

In case you’re wondering, the next annual meeting for NASS is November 10-14, 2009 in San Francisco, but we hope to see and speak with you before then!

With many thanks to Eduardo! for the chocolate