Scoliosis Dialogues: An SRS Podcast
Jul 15, 2026 · 31 min · 10 segments
Send us Fan Mail Join host **Christina K. Hardesty, MD**, as she sits down with **W.G. Stuart Mackenzie, MD**, and **Kariman Abelin-Genevois, MD…
Kariman Abelin-GenevoisGuest
Stuart MackenzieGuest
Christina HardestyHostAnd as program chairs, I'd like to know how this theme helped shape your curation of the scientific program and what you think might be one standout session or abstract that perfectly embodies that concept.
So, you know, this is two years ago, Sukh and Shah, as the current SRS president emailed Karaman and I and the education co-chairs, Eric Kleinberg and Nick Fletcher, with this idea for the theme for the meeting.
Before we get to the scientific program, it's really reflected in the program that the educational co-chairs have made.
Both the pre-course, the half-day courses, the lunchtime sessions on Wednesday, they focus on every different aspect of the Bridges and Transitions theme.
It is the transitions from early career to late career in the pre-course techniques from freehand to emerging technologies, the transitions anatomically from the cervical, thoracic, lumbar, and sacrum, as well as transition in age of our patients from pediatric to adult.
I think that, uh, this topic is really reflecting, uh, the, the society we are, uh, evolving in because, uh, uh, we are dealing with peds adults.
We are dealing with different areas of the spine, and we are also dealing with different areas of management of the patients, non-op operative, uh, even the way patients can be enhanced and, uh, Now, today, we have a lot about biology, how to make patients in a better condition.
And even when we had the discussions around the selection of the abstracts, You could see that the reviewers were also focused on that looking and how we would balance those different app starts that were selected within the program to make it easy for people to go through the meeting, the sessions.
I saw there's a great looking session, I think maybe on Thursday, about optimizing patients for these treatments.
Yeah, this is the kind of session that shows that we are not only surgeons, that we really care about our patients and we care about the pathway they are going through, through their lives, through their surgeries, through all the different steps that should make them better than they were prior to the decisions that we made with them.
I think, Chris, to answer your question about how it's reflected in the scientific program, at the beginning of the translational science and basic science session on Thursday, we have a grouping of four papers where the authors have taken quite large populations of the typical patients with typical alignment.
starting with a pediatric paper, ending with an adult paper to help better establish the sagittal balance norms.
And it's going to be a really interesting conversation to see across those four papers, how those, the parallels and the differences at those different times and age groups.
And as program chairs, I'd like to know how this theme helped shape your curation of the scientific program and what you think might be one standout session or abstract that perfectly embodies that concept.
So, you know, this is two years ago, Sukh and Shah, as the current SRS president emailed Karaman and I and the education co-chairs, Eric Kleinberg and Nick Fletcher, with this idea for the theme for the meeting.
Before we get to the scientific program, it's really reflected in the program that the educational co-chairs have made.
Both the pre-course, the half-day courses, the lunchtime sessions on Wednesday, they focus on every different aspect of the Bridges and Transitions theme.
It is the transitions from early career to late career in the pre-course techniques from freehand to emerging technologies, the transitions anatomically from the cervical, thoracic, lumbar, and sacrum, as well as transition in age of our patients from pediatric to adult.
I think that, uh, this topic is really reflecting, uh, the, the society we are, uh, evolving in because, uh, uh, we are dealing with peds adults.
We are dealing with different areas of the spine, and we are also dealing with different areas of management of the patients, non-op operative, uh, even the way patients can be enhanced and, uh, Now, today, we have a lot about biology, how to make patients in a better condition.
And even when we had the discussions around the selection of the abstracts, You could see that the reviewers were also focused on that looking and how we would balance those different app starts that were selected within the program to make it easy for people to go through the meeting, the sessions.
I saw there's a great looking session, I think maybe on Thursday, about optimizing patients for these treatments.
Yeah, this is the kind of session that shows that we are not only surgeons, that we really care about our patients and we care about the pathway they are going through, through their lives, through their surgeries, through all the different steps that should make them better than they were prior to the decisions that we made with them.
I think, Chris, to answer your question about how it's reflected in the scientific program, at the beginning of the translational science and basic science session on Thursday, we have a grouping of four papers where the authors have taken quite large populations of the typical patients with typical alignment.
starting with a pediatric paper, ending with an adult paper to help better establish the sagittal balance norms.
And it's going to be a really interesting conversation to see across those four papers, how those, the parallels and the differences at those different times and age groups.
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