Inside the 2027 SRS Regional Scientific Meeting in Buenos Aires, Argentina | Scoliosis Dialogues

We'll kind of start with the big picture.

Uh, this is a newer addition to the SRS, uh, family of regional meetings, uh, with the Asia Pacific meeting launched last year, and now Latin America.

Why does a dedicated regional meeting matter, and why Buenos Aires?

Go ahead.

Oh, well, uh, we're really happy to vi- have a regional meeting, 'cause, uh, sometimes it's, it's kind of hard for surgeons to go abroad to different meetings, uh, especially, you know, Chile is, like, at the end of the world, [laughs] uh, Argentina too.

We're, we're very far away from everything, so it's, it's good that we have the possibility of having, you know, meetings and, uh, uh, international faculty, and also that we can, you know, meet each other, the other surgeons in Latin America that sometimes it's also hard to, to get together in one place.

Argentina is actually a great, great place, 'cause they have, uh, quite a tradition in scoli surgery, and it's quite accessible from a lot of the other countries in Latin America.

And, uh, I believe that, um, uh, the mission of SRS is to foster the best treatment for the patients with spinal deformities.

Uh, one of the, the way to do this, to, to accomplish the mission, is to, to educate surgeons around the world, to give them the, the tools to offer the best treatments for the patients.

But it's hard to, uh, for, to find money and, and time to travel to go, to go to IMASS and annual session, an- annual meeting.

Then, uh, instead of the surgeon goes to SRS meetings, SRS comes to the surgeon around the world, and this is a way to, to accomplish its mission.

I love that.

Um, yeah, increasing the accessibility, uh, of the SRS mission to, to, uh, you know, to members of Latin America is a, a, a key feature of this meeting, I think.

Talk, maybe talk a little bit about the four partner societies behind, uh, uh, this meeting, um, you know, with SAPCV in Argentina, SCC in Chile, SDCC, and SILACO.

Talk a little bit about how, what that means and, and, uh, you know, how that, those, those organizations coming together have, have really elevated spine care in the region.

Oh, um, I'm from Brazil, and, uh, the Brazilian Spine Society is my, is very proud to, to be in colla- collaboration with SRS to, uh, um, to this meeting.

And, um, Brazilian Spine Society has around, uh, 1,500 members and, and the treatment of spinal deformity is growing a lot in our country, and we need to educate, uh, our, our surgeons here in Brazil.

And- Uh, the, uh, to have this meeting here in South America is a very good opportunity to, to the members, uh, present their papers, their, uh, uh, abstracts, and then, uh, and also to learn from other, from each other.

So it's a very good opportunity for education of surgeons in Brazil.

And, uh, Argentina is very, uh, close to Brazil.

It's a two or three-hour flight.

It's very easy to go.

So it's, uh- And about Chile.

Well, uh, we're very proud of, of being part of, of, of this, uh, initiative.

I mean, the Chilean Spine Society, we're very young.