We are pleased to invite spine surgeons, fellows, and senior residents to an intensive two-day hands-on course at the Faculty of Medicine – UFMG.

This advanced training combines live tissue experience with fresh cadaver lab sessions to develop critical surgical skills for scoliosis correction.

• Spine surgeons seeking advanced deformity techniques
• Orthopedic and neurosurgical fellows
• Senior residents preparing for complex spinal procedures

WHY ATTEND?

•  Hands-on cadaveric practice in a supervised academic setting
•  Refine your surgical skills for real-world complex scoliosis correction
•  Learn from leading experts in spine surgery
•  Enhance patient safety and surgical outcomes through advanced training
  

COURSE HIGHLIGHTS

•  Free-hand pedicle screw insertion
•  Flexible sublaminar fixation for the thoracic spine
•  Iliac, sacroiliac & S2 screw insertion techniques
•  Growing system construction
•  Scoliosis correction: teaching the main techniques for coronal and sagittal correction, including vertebral translation, direct vertebral derotation, and rod derotation maneuvers
•  Rib hump correction (costoplasty)
•  Severe stiff thoracic scoliosis correction: extrapleural interbody release & osteotomy (LIEPO)
•  Vertebrectomy via costotransversectomy (VCR)
•  Smith-Petersen and Pedicle Subtraction Osteotomies: SPO/PSO
•  Thoracotomy/Thoracophreniclumbotomy: anterior spine access and vascular damage control
  
  

FACULTY

Led by distinguished Brazilian spine surgeons: Asdrubal Falavigna, Carlos Abreu de Aguiar, Danusa Rozindo, Marcos Ferreira Jr, Luís Eduardo Munhoz da Rocha, Luiz Müller, André Andujar  and other experienced faculty.

FULL FACULTY

• Asdrubal Falavigna
• André Castilho
• André Andújar
• Bruno Fontes
• Carlos Abreu de Aguiar
• Christiano Simões
• Daniel Cunha
• Danusa Rozindo
• Erlon Ávila
• Guilherme Zanini
• Jefferson Leal
• Luís Eduardo Munhoz da Rocha
• Luiz Müller
• Marcos Ferreira Jr
• Rodrigo Perroni
• Rogério L C Resende