ORS 2023 Annual Meeting
ORS Spine Section Symposium
Friday, February 10, 2023
3:00 PM – 9:00 PM
This Session will Live Stream on the ORS 2023 Annual Meeting Virtual Platform.
3:00 PM – 3:15 PM
Welcome and Introduction
Lachlan Smith, PhD, Spine Section Chair
Session 1: Enhancing Spine Research through Leadership, Diversity and Mentoring
Moderators: Nadeen Chahine, PhD and Simon Tang, PhD
3:15 PM – 3:45 PM
Cultivating a Supportive Research Environment through Inclusive Leadership
Tristan McIntosh, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, General Medical Sciences, School of Medicine
Washington University in St Louis, USA
3:45 PM – 4:15 PM
Leading Integration of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Zoe Kinias, PhD, Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior
Academic Director of the INSEAD Gender Initiative
Institut Européen d’Administration des Affaires (INSEAD), France
4:15 PM – 4:45 PM
Panel Discussion with Speakers and Moderators
4:45 PM – 5:15 PM
Mentoring Speed-Networking
5:15 PM-6:00 PM
Networking Break and Boxed Dinners
6:00 PM – 6:15 PM
Trainee Poster Teasers
Session 2: Enhancing Spine Research through Collaboration
Moderator: Dino Samartzis, PhD
6:15 PM – 6:45 PM
The iPSpine Chronicles: Where Dreams were Born and Game-Changing Ideas Become Reality
Mariana Tryfonidou, DVM, PhD, Professor of Regenerative Orthopedics
Coordinator, iPSpine Consortium
Utrecht University, Netherlands
Session 3: Leveraging Developmental Biology and Stem Cells for Disc Regeneration
Moderators: Christine Le Maitre, PhD and Nilsson Holguin, PhD
6:45 PM – 7:05 PM
Non-Viral Gene Delivery of Development Factors to Treat Discogenic Back Pain
Devina Purmessur, PhD, Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering
The Ohio State University, USA
7:05 PM – 7:25 PM
Lessons Learned from Single Cell Analysis of Developing, Adult and Degenerated Human IVDs for Cell Therapies
Dmitriy Sheyn, PhD, Assistant Professor of Orthopedics
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, USA
7:25 PM – 8:00 PM
Panel Discussion with Speakers and Moderators
8:00 AM – 9:00 PM
Networking Reception
