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XI. VISITING PROFESSORSHIPS
 
1. Visiting Lecturer, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, September 13, 1991.
 
  • Results of Cotrel-Dubousset Instrumentation (CDI) for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) with minimum 2-year follow-up
   
2. Visiting Lecturer, West Virginia University, Morgantown, October 30, 1991.
 
  • The surgical treatment of degenerative spondylolisthesis with spinal stenosis
   
3. Visiting Lecturer, Grand Rounds, Columbus Orthopaedic Society, Columbus, Ohio, October 30, 1992.
 
  • The surgical treatment of spinal fractures
   
4. Visiting Lecturer, Grand Rounds, University of Louisville, Kentucky, January 16, 1995.
 
  • Pathology of sagittal spinal alignment
   
5. Visiting Lecturer, University of California, San Francisco, April 27, 1998.
 
  • Classifying adolescent idiopathic scoliosis. Perspectives for anterior vs posterior surgical treatment
   
6. Visiting Lecturer, Grand Rounds, University of Louisville, Kentucky, May 12, 1998.
 
  • Anterior solid rod instrumentation for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis
  • A new and comprehensive classification system for adolescent idiopathic scoliosis
   
7. Visiting Professor, Oakland Children's Hospital, Pediatric Spinal Deformity Conference, California, March 20, 1999.
 
  • Congenital scoliosis. Spontaneous lumbar curve response to selective anterior vs posterior thoracic instrumentation and fusion
   
8. Guest Lecturer, Grand Rounds, University of Missouri, Columbia, January 4, 2000
 
  • Newest classification of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis
   
9. Visiting Professor, Ohio State University, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, February 11, 2000.
 
  • A new and comprehensive classification of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis. Predicting and assessing treatment
   
10. Visiting Professor, Thomas Jefferson University, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, March 2, 2000.
 
  • A new and comprehensive classification of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis. A basic algorithm of treatment
   
11. Guest Speaker, Japanese Orthopaedic Association Annual Meeting, Kobe, Japan, April 2000.
 
  • Clinical results of posterior fusion for degenerative lumbar pathology
  • Pediatric and adult spinal deformity
   
12. Visiting Professor, Grand Rounds, Tufts University, New England Baptist Medical Center, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, May 2000.
 
  • Degenerative scoliosis - assessment and treatment
   
13. Visiting Professor, Grand Rounds, University of Illinois, Chicago, June 10, 2000.
 
  • Classification of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis
   
14. Invited Lecturer, Yamada Inoue Memorial, 35th Annual Meeting of the Japanese Scoliosis Society, Nagoya, Japan, November 16, 2001.
 
  • Pros and cons of pedicle screws in the treatment of scoliosis and other spinal deformities
   
15. Visiting Professor, University of Cincinnati, Children's Hospital, March 19-20, 2002.
 
  • Anterior treatment of scoliosis
  • The use of pedicle screws in the treatment of spinal deformity
  • A new comprehensive classification of AIS
   
16. Visiting Professor, Northwestern University Department of Orthopedic Surgery, June 28, 2002.
 
  • A new surgical classification of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis
   
17. Visiting Professor, Atlanta Scottish Rite Hospital, Georgia, November 2002.
 
  • New classification of AIS. treatment based
  • Thoracic pedicle screws in the treatment of pediatric spinal deformity
  • Surgical treatment of neuromuscular spinal deformity
  • Primary and revision treatment of pediatric kyphosis
  • Anterior treatment of scoliosis. State of the art
   
18. Visiting Professor, Northwestern University, Department of Neurosurgery, Chicago, Illinois, December 2002.
 
  • A new classification system of AIS. Treatment based
   
19. Visiting Professor, University of Washington, Department of Neurosurgery, Seattle, January 2003.
 
  • Idiopathic scoliosis. Classification and surgical management
  • Spondylolisthesis
   
20. Visiting Professor, Shriners Hospital, Springfield, Massachusetts, April 3, 2003.
 
  • A new classification of AIS - Treatment based
   
21. Visiting Professor, Grand Rounds, Columbia, Presbyterian University Medical Center, New York, New York, April 24, 2003.
 
  • A new classification of AIS - Treatment based
  • Thoracic pedicle screws for spinal deformity
   
22. Visiting Professor, Michigan State University Resident Program, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 2003.
 
  • A new classification of AIS
  • TPS for spinal deformity
  • Anterior scoliosis surgery. State-of-the-art
  • Spondylolisthesis
   
23. Visiting Professor, Grand Rounds, Rush-Presbyterian - St. Luke's Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois, October 2003.
 
  • A new classification of AIS. Treatment based
   
24. Visiting Professor, New York University Hospital for Joint Disease, New York, New York, October 10, 2003
 
  • A new classification of AIS. Treatment based
  • Use of thoracic pedicle screws in pediatric and adult spinal deformity
   
25. Visiting Professor, University of Indiana Medical Center, January 14, 2004.
 
  • A new classification of AIS. Treatment based
  • Overview of adult scoliosis deformity
   
26. Visiting Professor, Twin Cities Spine Center, Minneapolis Minnesota, May 7, 2004.
 
  • A new classification of AIS. Treatment based
  • The use of thoracic pedicle screws (TPS) in pediatric and adult spinal deformity
   
27. Visiting Professor, St. Luke's-Roosevelt Medical Center, New York, New York, June 10, 2004.
 
  • Advances in spinal deformity treatment.
  • Endoscopic approaches and TPSA new classification of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis
   
28. Guest Lecturer, Japanese Scoliosis Society Annual Meeting, Shizuoka, Japan, November 12, 2004.
 
  • Treatment of severe pediatric scoliosis
   
29. Visiting Professor, AI duPont Hospital, Wilmington, Delaware, January 25-26, 2005.
 
  • What's new in adolescent idiopathic scoliosis
  • Lenke classification for AIS. Treatment based
  • Use of TPS for pediatric spinal deformity
   
30. Visiting Professor, Carolina Medical Center, Charlotte, North Carolina, April 25, 2005
 
  • Update on evaluation and treatment of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis
   
31. Visiting Professorship and Resident Graduation Speaker, University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, May 5-6, 2005.
 
  • Spinal osteotomies. What, why, when, where, and how
  • Spondylolisthesis. Spectrum of pathology in all ages
  • Evaluation and treatment of pediatric idiopathic scoliosis. State of the art
   
32. Presidential Guest Lecturer, 10th Annual Brazilian Spine Society Meeting, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, May 11-13, 2005.
 
  • Lenke Classification System of AIS
  • Evaluation and treatment of adult spinal deformity
  • Use of pedicle screws in pediatric and adult spinal deformity
  • Spine osteotomy for the treatment of fixed deformity
 
 
 
   
33. Visiting Professor, Stanford University Medical Center, San Francisco, California, June 22, 2005
 
  • Evaluation and treatment of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis. State-of-the-art
     
34. Visiting Professor, Michigan State Grand Rapids Orthopaedic Program, Grand Rapids, Michigan, July 27, 2005.
 
  • Lenke Classification of AIS - Treatment directed
  • Evaluation and treatment of adult scoliosis
 
   
35. Visiting Professor, Texas Scottish Rite Hospital, 2nd Annual Spine Research Symposium, Dallas, Texas, October 6, 2005.
 
  • Surgical solutions for optimal correction of primary and revision severe pediatric spinal deformities
     
36. Visiting Professor, City Wide Spine & UCSD Grand Rounds, San Diego, California, February 8, 2006.
 
  • Grand Rounds - Classification & treatment of AIS
  • Use of TPS & osteotomies to avoid anterior release surgery in spinal deformity
 
   
37. Guest Lecturer, Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center, Grand Rounds, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, April 18-19, 2006.
 
  • The Lenke Classification System of operative AIS: Treatment directions
     
38. Visiting Professor, Walter-Reed Army Medical Center, Grand Rounds, Washington D.C., May 8-9, 2006.
 
  • Classification and surgical treatment of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis
  • Use of pedicle screws & posterior osteotomies to avoid anterior releases in spinal deformity surgery
 
 
 
39. Visiting Professor, Beijing 301 Hospital, Beijing, China, May 21, 2006.
 
  • Classification and surgical treatment of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis
     
40. Visiting Professor, Nanjing Gulou Hospital, Nanjing, China, May 23, 2006.
 
  • Use of pedicle screws and posterior osteotomies to avoid anterior releases in spinal deformity surgery
     
41. Visiting Professor, Cedar-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, June 27, 2006.
 
  • The use of pedicle screws & osteotomies to avoid anterior release/fusion in pediatric & adult spinal deformity surgery
  • The Lenke Classification System of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis: Treatment directions
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Grand Rounds, Walter-Reed Army Medical Center, Washington D.C., May 8-9, 2006
 
  • Classification and surgical treatment of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis
  • Use of pedicle screws & posterior osteotomies to avoid anterior releases in spinal deformity surgery
   
43 Beijing 301 Hospital, Beijing, China, May 21, 2006
 
  • Classification and surgical treatment of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis
   
44 Nanjing University, Gulou Hospital, Nanjing, China, May 23, 2006
 
  • Use of pedicle screws and posterior osteotomies to avoid anterior releases in spinal deformity surgery
  • Current scoliosis surgical treatment:  What’s new, what’s out
   
45 Peking University Medical College (PUMC), Beijing, China, May 22, 2006
 
  • Current scoliosis surgical treatment:  What’s new, what’s out
   
46 Cedar-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, June 27, 2006
 
  • The use of pedicle screws & osteotomies to avoid anterior release/fusion in pediatric & adult spinal deformity surgery
  • The Lenke Classification System of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis:  Treatment directions
   
47 Grand Rounds, Brown Medical School/Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, Rhode Island, October 17-18, 2006
 
  • The Lenke Classification System of adolescent idiopathic scoliosis:  Treatment directions
   
48 Grand Rounds, Akron Children’s Musculoskeletal Health Center, Akron, Ohio, December 8, 2006
 
  • Cervical & cervicothoracic deformity correction techniques
  • Current pediatric & adult scoliosis treatment 2006:  What’s new, what’s out
  • Management themes in infantile & juvenile idiopathic & congenital scoliosis
  • Spondylolisthesis:  Spectrum of pathology in all ages
  • Treatment of kyphotic spinal deformity:  Is there any reason for a formal anterior approach anymore?
  • Difficult deformity case discussions
   
49 Grand Rounds, Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center, New York, New York, May 8, 2007
 
  • Surgical treatment decisions for AIS based on the Lenke classification system
   
50 Washington University Neurosurgery Grand Rounds, St. Louis, Missouri, August 23, 2007
 
  • Current spinal deformity treatment 2007:  What’s new, what’s out
   
51 9th HC Yang Visiting Professorship, University of Hong Kong, September 24-28, 2007
 
  • Thoracic pedicle screw placement and correction techniques
  • Surgical treatment decisions for AIS based on the Lenke Classification System
  • Posterior VCR for non-idiopathic severe pediatric deformity
   
52 Neio University, Tokyo, Japan, October 10, 2007
 
  • Posterior VCR for the treatment of pediatric and adult spinal deformity
   
53 Grand Rounds, University of Kansas, Wichita, Kansas, October 25, 2007
 
  • Evaluation & surgical treatment of adult degenerative lumbar scoliosis
  • The Lenke classification of AIS: 
  • Treatment based Surgical treatment of spinal deformity circa 2007:  Extreme makeovers
   
54 Research Triangle Park Orthopaedic Society Grand Rounds, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, April 22, 2008
 
  • Spinal deformity surgery in 2008:  Extreme makeovers
   
55 Grand Rounds, Case Western University, Cleveland, Ohio, April 30, 2008
 
  • Spinal deformity correction in 2008:  Extreme makeovers from a posterior only approach
   
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