COMMUNITY SERVICE:

Member, Research Planning Committee of the North American Spine Society 2001-2004

Host, Spinal Deformity Tutorial, GICD-USA. New York, NY 3/5/01-3/6/01

Moderator, Spondylolisthesis and Trauma/Tumor Sessions. GICD-USA Course: Classic and Contemporary Insights in Spine Surgery, Dec 8, 2000. New York, NY

Deformity Study Group (Medtronic-Sofamor- Danek)
Spondylolisthesis, Study Group Leader – Amelia Island, Fla
Spondylolisthesis Study Group Leader– NYC 12/00
Kyphosis, Paralytic Study Group Leader-Puerto Rico 5/00
Kyphosis, Non-Idiopathic Group Leader-Naples, Fla 11/99

Moderator, Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis Session, 35th Annual Meeting, Scoliosis Research Society, Oct 19, 2000. Cairns, Australia

Scoliosis Research Society
Committees
Nominating 1992-1993, 2000-2001
Certification 1999-present
By-Laws 1999-present, Chairman 2001-2002
Research 1993-1995
Section Leader, Core Curriculum, 1999-present
Local Host, 33rd Annual Meeting, September 16-20, 1998. New York, NY

Team Spine Consultant, New York Yankees, 1993 - 1999

Visiting Professor, Department Orthopaedic Surgery. The Italian Hospital. December 21-23, 1997. Buenos Aires, Argentina

Moderator, Biomechanics Instrumentation I & II. North American Spine Society 11th Annual Meeting. October 26, 1996. Vancouver, BC, Canada

Moderator, Session 32. Intervertebral Disc. 42nd Annual Orthopaedic Research Society Meeting. February 21, 1996. Atlanta, GA

Program Committee Chairman for 12th International Congress GICD-USA, September 20, 1995, Asheville, NC

Reviewer:
1. SPINE (Advisory Board), 1994 – present
2. Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, 1994 – present
3. Journal of Orthopedic Research – 1998
4. Orthopedics Today (Spine Section) – 1998-present

Program Co-Chairman, Annual Meeting New Jersey/New York Orthopaedic Societies, 1994-1996.

Adult spinal deformity II- degenerative spondylolisthesis. 61st Annual AAOS Meeting – Instructional Course Lecture. February 24, 1994. New Orleans, LA

Spine trauma. One-On-One Sessions. Weidenbaum, M., Abei, M., Haher, T., Kaneda, K. Surgical Spine Disease Symposium. April 11, 1991. Washington University, St. Louis, MO

Segmental fixation for spine deformity. Hands-on Session. Chopin, D., DeWald, R., Weidenbaum, M. Surgical Spine Disease Symposium. April 12, 1991. Washington University, St. Louis, MO

Surgical approaches to the cervical, thoracic, and lumbar spine. Annual Postgraduate Orthopaedic Course in Surgical Anatomy. New York Orthopaedic Hospital. 1988-1996. New York, NY