BONUS EPISODE: Revisit the 2025 Harrington Lecture with Peter Newton, MD | Scoliosis Dialogues

Well, thank you.

Uh, these two questions are what I want to, to focus on today and, um, and encourage you all to, to do for yourselves and, uh, your family and for your, uh, careers, uh, in general.

So these are my disclosures.

The lo- the list keeps growing.

It's been a lot of fun.

Well, first, uh, uh, Dr. Blakemore, thank you for the privilege to, to give this address.

Uh, and, and I know you've had a spectacular year leading our organization, Laurel.

It's, uh, incredible to see what you've done and what this, uh, organization continues to do for the care of, uh, children with, uh, scoliosis, and it's really an honor to-- and a privilege to, to be able to join you.

You heard about, uh, Dr. Harrington just now, and, uh, as I think about people who, uh, must have been asking this question, what are we doing and where are we going? He was one of those folks.

Uh, he was absolutely an innovator.

Uh, went through a very challenging problem, but has really, uh, changed our, really our career paths, uh, by, uh, creating an instrumentation system that allowed us to take care of children.

I, I really couldn't get very much further down this, uh, lecture without noting two of the absolute greats in our, uh, system who've, uh, passed this year.

Uh, John Dubousset really was also, uh, an incredible innovator.

Uh, brought us the, uh, CD system.

And, and I gotta say, uh, he inspired so much of my research in three D.

Uh, I-- there's nothing that I have sorted out in the-- in three D that he didn't know already.

Uh, and, uh, he's just an absolutely, uh, brilliant mind, and, and I, uh, miss him and think of him often as I contemplate three-dimensional alignment of the spine.

And Harry, uh, was similarly, uh, involved in popularizing the CD instrumentation system.

Traveled the world bringing us into the next generation of, uh, instrumentation after Harrington, and really, uh, innovated throughout his career to bring us much of the current systems that we have today.

Uh, Harry was, uh, really a dear and close friend, and, uh, I think him-- of him often and, uh, will cherish all the, uh, the memories I've had of both of these men and, and their inspirations to me in my career.