2017 was an exciting year for EUROSPINE, the Spine Society of … The year was kicked off with a press release on the topic of ‘Text Neck - the global disease of new generations’, which was not only interesting to read and may have made you look up from your phone more often than usual, but it also generated a huge (social) media impact for EUROSPINE and therefore a much broader audience for the next impressive activities throughout the year:

>> Have a look at our past events to go through the exciting meetings EUROSPINE has held or attended in this past year: www.eurospine.org/pastevents.htm

We held the first-ever EUROSPINE Advanced Course in January 2017, which is offered to already practicing spine specialists who have completed the EUROSPINE Diploma, either directly or through the equivalence programme – another exciting project which was pursued in 2017 and now offers the equivalence diploma to graduates from national societies’ courses of France, Germany, Greece, Portugal, Spain and Turkey! Delegates and faculty of the first EUROSPINE Advanced Course where not only engaged in highly interactive case-based discussion and practiced during the cad- and dry-lab sessions, but they also agreed on the success of the course and promptly EUROSPINE organised a second Advanced Course in October 2017! This second course was as successful as the first one and the curriculum will continue during 2018 Education Week, which will be held including not only the 5 modules of the EUROSPINE Diploma, but also the 2 modules of the ERUOSPINE Advanced Diploma AND the EUROSPINE Literature Review Course on Critical Appraisal of the Spine Literature.

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But back to the beginning of 2017, which continued with the cooperative SRS course on ‘Current Concepts in Spine Deformity’ in Prague, Czech Republic. Followed by the EUROSPINE TFR Course 2017 in , Germany >> Read here why you shouldn’t miss the upcoming TFR Course 2018 in , Portugal 12-16 March

EUROSPINE couldn’t wait for spring and summer to arrive, so we ran towards it as a team – 201km to be exact! During Wings for Life World Run 2017, a global event of epic dimension: 155.288 participants ran at exactly the same time in 111 locations globally! > have a look at our presentation, explaining what is Wings for Life, what happened 2017 and how to participate 2018 – potentially even have your start fee sponsored! Register now and support Team EUROSPINE on 6 May 2018 – wherever you are: win.gs/2jrB58i

Also in May, EUROSPINE held a symposium at the 2017 Global Spine Congress in , Italy and in June the well-known EUROSPINE Education Week took place in Strasbourg, France with 101 participants, out of which 23 received their EUROSPINE Diploma this year!

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Summer was great, EUROSPINE worked hard towards the Annual Meeting in , meanwhile still participating at important meetings such as the 16 World Congress of Neurosurgery in Istanbul, Turkey.

October came and so the main event of the year: EUROSPINE 2017, which again was a great success, again broke records in terms of participants and again was a wonderful time to exchange knowledge, discuss newest advancements and network among peers from all over the world!

But 2017 still had more in store – the CAOS-EUROSPINE Degenerative Disease of Spine and Spinal Trauma Course in Wuhan, China and the previously mentioned second EUROSPINE Advanced Course. In November EUROSPINE held a Research Symposium at the 7th Annual Meeting of the Egyptian Spine Association (ESA) and like every year, we participated at the annual meeting of the German Society for Spine Surgery (DWG) in Stuttgart, Germany and the Brazil Spine Society Course 2017 in Ribeiro Preto, Brazil.

In December the EUROSPINE office team together with our professional congress organiser Mondial, visited to meet with industry and therefore potential exhibitors at EUROSPINE 2018. In Barcelona, EUROSPINE will celebrate it’s 20th Anniversary and we very much look forward to spending these exciting days together with you >> registration starts on 15 January 2018

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