News and Updates

Welcome to the Safety in Spine Surgery Month, Week 2!
We had some amazing videos sharing the message about safety in spine surgery, with both top-level commentary as well as practical tips. This week our daily safety tip videos were seen by over 11,000 people, and our overall audience grew by 40%. Highlights included: Dr. Lehman asked us, “Why Read More...

Welcome to the Safety in Spine Surgery Month, Week 1!
Welcome to the Safety in Spine Surgery Month, Week 1! This week we reached over 2,000 unique visitors across our social media channels with the message of safety in spine surgery. We saw some excellent and diverse perspectives on what safety means to surgeons, industry, and our partners. Highlights Read More...

Announcing the 2021 Best New Methodologies and Techniques to Enhance Safety in Spine Surgery Awards
The Safety in Spine Surgery Project (S3P) is pleased to announce the 10 winners of the Safety in Spine Surgery Month Call for Abstracts / Call for Projects. The winning submissions for Best New Methodologies and Techniques to Enhance Read More...

First Annual Safety in Spine Surgery Month Announced
The Safety in Spine Surgery Project is pleased to announce the First Annual Safety in Spine Surgery month, taking place in April of 2021. The goal of this project is to improve safety in spine surgery by sharing guidelines, techniques, and protocols that make care better, and to share Read More...

Harvard Business Review Article: How One Health System Combines Telemedicine and Hands-on Care
By Rajiv K. Sethi, Aditya V. Karhade, Michael G. Glenn and Gary S. Kaplan— Until the Covid-19 pandemic struck, surgical patients in the U.S. had been increasingly traveling to designated Centers of Excellence, health systems that met stringent criteria for providing exceptional, high-value care for specific procedures such as knee Read More...

2020 Safety Summit Online CME Course Now Available
Less than 2 weeks before the 5th Annual Safety in Spine Surgery Summit on March 13, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital received its first COVID patient. These were the early days of an unprecedented strain on the city’s healthcare system. NYC is still fighting a hard battle every day and continues to Read More...

Save the Date for the 5th Annual Safety in Spine Surgery Summit
Save the date for the 5th Annual Safety in Spine Surgery Summit: April 13, 2020 in New York City. Friday, March 13, 2020 Location: The Heart Conference Center / New York-Presbyterian Hospital, 173 Fort Washington Avenue, New York, NY 10032 Chair: Michael G. Vitale, MD, MPH Co-chairs: John M. Flynn, MD Roger Härtl, MD Read More...

View Video Presentations from the 2019 Safety in Spine Surgery Summit
View the videos from presenters at the 4th Annual Safety in Spine Surgery Summit. Learn insights and practical techniques for improvement of safety in spine surgery from experts in the medical field as well as other fields. Click here to view Read More...

Why Attend Safety in Spine Surgery Summit?
Hear what leaders in the spine industry have to say about the Safety in Spine Surgery Summit. Michael Vitale, MD, MPH, Chief of Pediatric Orthopedics and Pediatric Spine Surgery at the Columbia University Medical Center, shares the motivation behind the S3P meeting. In addition, Drs. Sethi and Lenke explain what makes Read More...

Registration Open: 4th Annual Safety in Spine Surgery Summit
We are excited to be convening the 4th Annual Safety in Spine Surgery Summit on April 26, 2019 in New York City, NY! In addition to the fantastic roster of speakers, we look forward to sharing the following: Latest in Best Practices for Safety in Spine Surgery Using tools Read More...