Thursday, 10th July 2025


Time Topic Speaker Moderators Panelist
10:00 - 12:00 PM PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP      
10:00 - 11:00 am The Art of writing a Spine Scientific Paper   Vishal Kundnani, Rishi Kanna  
  Crafting A Compelling Title (8 Mins) Worawat Limthongkul    
  Abstract Is The Selling Point Of A Paper - How I Do It? (8 Mins) Prashanth J. Rao    
  The Simple Rules To Write The Introduction And Discussion (8 Mins) Bhavuk Garg    
  Focus On Your Figures And Tables (8 Mins) Rishi M. Kanna    
  The Easiest Way To Build The References (8 Mins) Nandan Marathe    
  Blunders To Be Avoided (8 Mins) Vishal Kundnani    
  Q & A (10 Mins)      
11:00 - 12:00 pm Neuromonitoring in Spine Surgery: From Luxury to Necessity?   Arjun Dhawale, Kshitij Chaudhary  
  Neuromonitoring in lateral MIS approach (OLIF, XLIF) (10 mins) Worawat Limthongkul    
  Cervical Spine Surgery and IONM: Where's the Line Between Essential and Excessive? (10 mins) Masato Tanaka    
  IONM in MISS Deformity Correction: Are We Flying Blind or Guided by Signals? (10 mins) Dhiraj Sonawane    
  Advances and Innovations in IONM for MISS (10 mins) G. Balamurali    
  Discussion (10 mins)      
12:00 - 06:00 PM LIVE RECORDED VIDEO SESSION      
12:00 - 12:10 pm Introduction      
12:11 - 12:30 pm Minimally Invasive Corpectomy Jacob Oh Akhil Tawari Akshay Hari, Girish Nair, Sandeep Sonone
12:31 - 01:00 pm Anterior Cervical Discectomy and Fusion Kshitij Chaudhary Chirayu Pamecha Wongthawat Liawrungrueang, Abhay Nene, Jonayed Sharif Ahmed
01:01 - 01:20 pm Cervical Disc Replacement Arvind Kulkarni Muralidharan V. G. Balamurali, Wenjian Wu, Dennis Hey
01:21 - 01:40 pm Cervical Laminectomy and Lateral Mass Fixation Sandeep Sonone Shah Waliullah Iago Tsertsvadze, Chandan Mohanti, Saumyajit Basu
01:41 - 02:10 pm Lumbar Tubular Discectomy Vishal Kundnani Nikhil Arbatti Mitchell Hansen, Jairam Jagiasi, Mohana Rao Patibandla
02:11 - 02:30 pm Lumbar Tubular Decompression Vishal Peshattiwar Satyen Mehta Mahendra Singh Tak, Bharat Chaubey, Rajesh Parasnis
02:31 - 02:50 pm MIS TLIF Rakesh Luhana Rakshit Srinivas Abhijit Pawar, Sudhir Dubey
02:51 - 03:10 pm MIS OLIF Sameh Abolfotouh Deepak Bhangale Worawat Limthongkul, Tomohisa Harada, Rohit Thakker
03:11 - 03:30 pm MIS ALIF John Choi Mayur Kardile Rohit Thakker, Umesh Srikantha
03:31 - 03:50 pm Lumbar Disc Replacement Raymond Yip V. Anand Naik Siddharth Badve, Philip Cheung, Ashish Tomar
03:51 - 04:10 pm L5-S1 OLIF Yoshihisa Kotani Umesh Srikantha Phanunan Sasiprapha, Amit Jhala
04:11 - 04:40 pm Lumbar Degenerative Scoliosis Masato Tanaka Sameer Ruparel Christos Zafeiris, Vishal Peshattiwar, Vikash Gupte
04:41 - 05:10 pm Single Position Lateral Fusion Umesh Srikantha Ashish Tomar Mayur Kardile, Sameh Abolfotouh, Amitava Biswas
05:11 - 05:40 pm Tubular Tumour Excision G. Balamurali Sachin Borkar Naresh Kumar, Abhay Kumar, Ashutosh Kumar
05:41 - 05:50 pm Conclusion      
Time Topic Speaker Moderators Panelist
09:30 - 12:00 PM PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOP      
09:30 - 11:00 am Spine Surgery for the young and young at heart   Himanshu Kulkarni, Priyank Patel  
  A lone lion stands fierce above them all! (12 mins) Nishant Kumar    
  Bound by loyalty, driven by purpose - A pack of wolves is the mightiest force! (12 mins) Priyank Patel    
  A proud certified spine fellow - Now to head to the Metros or to tier 2-3s? (12 mins) Himanshu Kulkarni    
  Field is set - Now buy the gear! (30 mins)
A. Kerrisons
B. Burrs
C. Scopes
D. Loupes
E. Other instruments
Tushar Pisal, Yadhu K.L.    
  Panel Discussion (15 mins)     Mahendra Tak, Tushar Pisal, Priyank Patel, Nishant Kumar, Yadhu K. L.
11:00 - 12:00 pm Mastering Social Media: A Guide for Spine Surgeons      
  Navigating the messenger services (16 mins)      
  WhatsApp (8 mins) Neeraj Bijlani    
  Telegram (8 mins) Ashok Shyam    
  From Scalpel to Scroll: How to Turn LinkedIn into a Global Classroom for Spine Surgery (8 mins) Ashwin K.    
  The Digital Scalpel: Navigating Instagram as a Modern Spine Surgeon (8 mins) Sharvin Seth    
  Beyond the Operating Room: Social Media for Spine Health Awareness (8 mins) Raj Sakhrekar    
  How Far Can We Go? The Content Boundaries for Spine Surgeons on Instagram & YouTube (8 mins) Saijyot Raut    
  Discussion (10 mins)      
12:00 - 06:00 PM LIVE RECORDED VIDEO SESSION      
12:00 - 12:10 pm Introduction      
12:11 - 12:30 pm Destandau Discectomy Dipak Shah   Kishore Godage
12:31 - 01:00 pm Destandau Decompression P. C. Dey    
01:01 - 01:20 pm UBE Discectomy Malcom Pestonji Sudhir Ganesan Abhishek Kashyap, Rohit Delat, Sagar Sharma
01:21 - 01:40 pm UBE Decompression Shailesh Hadgaonkar Anindya Basu Prem Shahi, Naresh Babu, Ghazwan Hasan
01:41 - 02:10 pm UBE Fusion Jwo- Luen Pao Vignesh P. Bhupesh Patel, Shardul Soman, Sudhir Ganesan
02:11 - 02:30 pm Transkembin Fusion Hamid Abbasi Varun Agarwal Hardik Suthar, Vikas Gupte, Amandeep Gujral
02:31 - 02:50 pm VBT Thoracoscopy Reuben Soh Amit Sharma Appaji Krishnan, Dhiraj Sonawane
02:51 - 03:10 pm Vertebroplasty with Cement Augmented Screw Niraj Vasavada Vishal Peshattiwar Dinesh Kumar, Abhijeet Wadi
03:11 - 03:30 pm Posterior Endoscopic Cervical Lamino Foraminotomy Pramod Lokhande Arun Banot Prashant Rao, Malcolm Pestonji
03:31 - 03:50 pm Transforaminal Endoscopic Discectomy Sukumar Sura Ravindranath Kommi Qingbing Meng, Felipe Nares, Karunakaran S.
03:51 - 04:10 pm Interlaminar Endoscopic Discectomy Girish Datar Manish Kothari Christos I. Kyrilis, Karthik Kailash, Asheesh Tandon
04:11 - 04:40 pm Endoscopic Decompression Sambhav Shah Prasad Padgaonkar Chen Bolai, Sidharth Verma
04:41 - 05:10 pm Full Endoscopic Fusion Jin Sung Luke Kim (Online)* Girish Datar Kim Soon, Pratik Patel, Shirazahmed Munshi
05:11 - 05:40 pm Robotic Fusion - MIS TLIF Gururaj Sangodimath S. Vidhyadhara Dinesh Kumar, Mirant Dave, Bhavuk Garg
05:41 - 05:50 pm Arthrospine Endoscopy Discectomy Mohinder Kaushal P. C. Dey Mukul Kaushal
05:51 - 06:00 pm Conclusion      
Time Topic Speaker Moderators
11:00 - 12:00 PM TRAINING VILLAGE    
12:00 - 06:00 PM INTERNATIONAL MIST MEETING    
12:30 - 01:00 pm Luncheon seminar   Takashi Tomita
01:00 - 01:05 pm Welcome    
01:05 - 01:55 pm Session 1: Endoscopy   Jacob Oh, Kartik Kailash
01:05 - 01:15 pm Clinical outcomes of unilateral Biportal endoscopy in lumbar disc herniation and degenerative lumbar canal stenosis - A retrospective observational study (10 mins) Chandrashekhar, Vijay Gaike  
01:15 - 01:25 pm Microendoscopic Lumbar Interbody Fusion (MELIF) (10 mins) Yukihiro Nakagawa  
01:25 - 01:35 pm Alignment Correction in Double Cages Biportal Endo-LIF (10 mins) Jwo-Luen Pao  
01:35 - 01:45 pm Comparison of Early Clinical and Radiological Outcomes Between Total Percutaneous Posterolateral Trans-Kambin Lumbar Interbody Fusion (KLIF) and Minimally Invasive Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion (MIS-TLIF) (10 mins) Niraj Vasavada  
01:45 - 02:00 pm Discussion (15 mins)    
02:00 - 02:55 pm Session 2: MIS Innovative   John Choi, Niraj Vasavada
02:00 - 02:10 pm Prone Lateral Surgery: Tips, Tricks and applications: A/Prof Reuben Soh, Singapore General Hospital (10 mins) Reuben Soh  
02:10 - 02:20 pm Feasibility of indirect decompression and when direct decompression is necessary? (10 mins) Worawat Limthongkul  
02:20 - 02:30 pm Minimally Invasive Surgical Management of Spinal Dural Arteriovenous Fistulas (10 mins) Mitchell Hansen  
02:30 - 02:40 pm Percutaneous Vertebral Body Stenting in AO DGOU OF3 and OF4 Fractures (10 mins) Kim Soon Oh  
02:40 - 02:55 pm Discussion (15 mins)    
02:55 - 03:05 pm Break    
03:05 - 03:45 pm Free Paper 1 (5 mins | 6 papers)   Worawat Limthongkul, Yukihiro Nakagawa
03:05 - 03:13 pm Prospective study to compare the outcomes ACDF vs posterior endoscopic cervical foraminotomy in surgical management of compressive unilateral cervical radiculopathy. (5 mins) Shubham Kadam
03:13 - 03:21 pm Early reoperation within 30 days after microendoscopic laminectomy does not affect patient satisfaction and outcomes. (5 mins) Yuta Urabe
03:21 - 03:29 pm Navigation-assisted unilateral biportal endoscopic extra foraminal lumbar inter body fusion (UBE/BESS-ELIF) (5 mins) Kenyu Ito
03:29 - 03:37 pm PROSPECTIVE COMPARATIVE STUDY TO ASSESS THE CLINICO-RADIOLOGICAL ADEQUACY OF CORD DECOMPRESSION AFTER NAVIGATED VS NON-NAVIGATED LAMINECTOMY IN CERVICAL SPONDYLOTIC MYELOPATHY (5 mins) Shubham Kadam
03:37 - 03:45 pm ERAS Protocols in MIS surgery - Narrative review & suggestion for a protocol for Indians (5 mins) Devesh Dholakia
03:45 - 04:00 pm Break    
04:00 - 04:32 pm Free Paper 2 (5 mins | 6 papers)   Wongthawat Liawrungrueang, Reuben Soh
04:00 - 04:08 pm Integration and application of Artificial intelligence and Surface Topography in scoliosis screening Rohan Shanker Tiwari
04:08 - 04:16 pm Are We Compromising Biology/Fusion for Hardware. Helping you to make the right biologic choices Devesh Dholakia
04:16 - 04:24 pm The thoracic kyphosis with little degeneration can be improved by correcting the lumbar alignment. Masanari Ogino
04:24 - 04:32 pm Revisiting the Efficacy of Staged Surgeries in Adult Spinal Deformity: A Comparative Analysis with Single-Stage Surgery Koki Kawashima
04:32 - 04:50 pm Break    
04:50 - 05:45 pm Session 3: MIS Innovative 2   Wenjian Wu, Masato Tanaka
04:50 - 05:00 pm Application of OLIF51 for adult spinal deformity. Advantage and Pitfall (10 mins) Yoshihisa Kotani
05:00 - 05:10 pm Technique of anterior lumbar interbody fusion and lumbar disc replacement. (10 mins) Philip Cheung
05:10 - 05:20 pm Feasibility of short segment CMIS fusion for adult degenerative scoliosis (10 mins) Wenjian Wu
05:20 - 05:30 pm Utility and surgical tips of minimally invasive PSO for adult spinal deformity (10 mins) Masayuki Ishihara
05:30 - 05:45 pm Discussion (15 mins)  
05:45 pm Closing Remarks Yukihiro Nakagawa