AO Spine Knowledge Forum Trauma and Infection
Goals
AO Spine KF Trauma at the Global Spine Congress 2022 in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
AO Spine KF Trauma and Infection addresses the growing health care issue of spinal trauma with a goal to:
- improve the care of all patients with (suspected) spinal column injury;
- advance knowledge about patterns of spinal injury and their consequences;
- develop reliable classification systems based on the systematic study of all available knowledge;
- develop simple, clinically useful, diagnostic and therapeutic algorithms.
KF Trauma and Infection Steering Committee
Klaus Schnake
Chairperson
Malteser Waldkrankenhaus
St. Marien, Erlangen, Germany
Marcel Dvorak
Chair-elect
Vancouver General Hospital
Vancouver, Canada
Gregory D. Schroeder
Rothman Orthopaedic Institute,
Thomas Jefferson University
Philadelphia, USA
Mohammad El-Sharkawi
Assiut University Medical School
Assiut, Egypt
Richard Bransford
Harborview Medical Center
University of Washington
Seattle, USA
Chhabra Harvinder Singh
Sri Balaji Action Medical Institute
New Delhi, India
Andrei Fernandes Joaquim
University of Campinas
Campinas, Brazil
KF Trauma and Infection Advisory Board
Jens Chapman
Swedish Neuroscience Institute
Seattle, USA
Frank Kandziora
Unfallklinik Frankfurt
Frankfurt, Germany
Shanmuganathan Rajasekaran
Ganga Hospital
Coimbatore, India
Cumhur Öner
University Medical Centers
Utrecht, the Netherlands
Alexander R. Vaccaro
Thomas Jefferson University
Philadelphia, USA
Lorin Benneker
Sonnenhofspital Bern,
University of Bern
Bern, Switzerland
Emiliano Vialle
Cajuru Hospital, Catholic University of Paraná
Curitiba, Brazil
KF Trauma and Infection Associate Members
Mohamed Aly, Prince Mohamed Ben Abdel Aziz Hospital, Saudi Arabia
Sebastian Bigdon, Inselspital - University Hospital Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Joseph Butler, Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin, Ireland
Jose A. Canseco, The Rothman Orthopaedic Institute, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, USA
Gaurav Dhakal, National Trauma Center, National Academy of Medical Sciences, Kathmandu, Nepal
Andrei Fernandes Joaquim, University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil
Martin Holas, Teaching Hospital F. D. Roosevelt, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia
Rishi Kanna, Ganga Hospital, Coimbatore, India
Timothy A. Moore, MetroHealth Campus, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Sander Muijs, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Marko Neva, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland
Eugen Cezar Popescu, “Prof. Dr. N. Oblu” Emergency Hospital, Iasi, Romania
Philipp Schleicher, BG Unfallklinik am Main, Frankfurt, Germany
Ulrich Spiegl, Universitätsklinikum Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
Masahiko Takahata, Faculty of Medicine and Graduate School of Medicine, Hokkaido University, Hokkaido, Japan
Jin W. Tee, The Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, VA, Australia
Gaston Camino Willhuber, Hospital Italiano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Ratko Yurac, Clínica Alemana de Santiago, Santiago, Chile
Claudius Thomé, Medical University Innsbruck, Insbruck, Austria
Matthias Pumberger, Charité - Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany
Julian Scherer, The University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
Charlotte Dandurand, Vancouver General Hospital, Vacouver, BC, Canada
Maximilian Reinhold, Universitätsmedizin Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany
Ahmed Abdelazim Hassan, Assiut University Medical School, Assiut, Egypt
Said Sadiqi, University Medical Center Utrecht and St. Antonius Hospital, Utrecht, the Netherlands
Brian A. Karamian, Health University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Vishal Kumar, Mallika Spine Centre, Guntur, India
Knowledge Forum Manager
“Facing new challenges in spinal trauma deserves up to date recommendations for diagnostics and treatment. We are closing the gap between beliefs and evidence.”
Klaus Schnake, Chairperson KF Trauma and Infection, Chair-elect AO Spine Research Commission