Speakers

MBBCh (WITS), FC Ortho (SA), MMed (UKZN), IGASS Spine Fellowship.

Dr. Miseer serves as the Head of Orthopaedic Spinal Surgery at Tygerberg Academic Hospital, Cape Town. His practice extends to all aspects of spinal surgery, including degenerative disease, trauma and malignancy, with particular interests in spinal tuberculosis and paediatric and adolescent deformity correction.

He is a full-time lecturer at the Faculty of Health Sciences at Stellenbosch University and is Co-Director of the Stellenbosch University Spine Fellowship - a year-long fellowship that has seen several its graduates go on to develop successful units throughout the country.

Dr. Miseer serves on several academic boards and is the current Treasurer of The South African Spine Society and Chairperson for the South African chapter of AOSpine. He is an examiner for the Colleges of Medicine South Africa and is both a contributor and reviewer for local and international peer-reviewed journals.

Consultant Spinal Surgeon

Peter Loughenbury is a fellowship trained consultant orthopaedic spinal surgeon at Leeds General Infirmary. His practice includes surgical treatment for a full range of spinal conditions from the skull base to the pelvis. His entire surgical practice is focused on spinal surgery with a special interest in adult and paediatric spinal deformity.

He studied medicine at the University of Leeds and completed both basic and higher surgical training in trauma and orthopaedics in the Yorkshire Deanery. He gained specialist training in complex spinal surgery in the cervical, thoracic and lumbar spine as the National Spinal Fellow at Leeds General Infirmary - a combined neurosurgical and orthopaedic fellowship. He built on this experience with fellowship posts with the Scottish National Spinal Deformity Service at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children in Edinburgh, and as an AO Spine Fellow at Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane, Australia.

Project Manager SIRIS Spine , Senior Advisor Spine Tango EUROSPINE, the Spine Society of Europe

As a medical doctor with a master's degree in biomedical engineering, training in medical statistics, project management in various IT projects and five years of management experience at the Federal Office of Public Health in Switzerland, he combines several relevant competencies for the implementation and operation of medical registries.

Since 2006, he has worked in the field of collecting, reporting, analysing and publishing data on spinal pathologies and has co-authored more than 120 papers.

He was involved in the development of the international spine registry Spine Tango at a very early stage and now advises EUROSPINE on the further development of Spine Tango, its platform, and the new mandatory national implant registry SIRIS Spine in Switzerland, which is based on Spine Tango.

MMedSc MCh FRCS Orth Consultant Spine Surgeon

Derek works as a consultant spine surgeon at the Mater Private Hospital, Dublin. He previously trained as a trauma and orthopaedic surgeon in Ireland before specialising in spine surgery, training also in France and the UK. Derek directs the MSc Physiotherapy spinal studies module in UCD, he chairs the PatientLine sub-committee with Eurospine, has authored/co-authored over 70 publications in his field, won several international awards as an academic fellow and has a keen interest in advocating for chronic back pain patients.

Derek is a board member with the Road Safety Authority, volunteers for Irish Doctors for the Environment, is the upcoming clinical lead for healthcare sustainability at Mater Private Network and acts as a clinical advisor for Johnson & Johnson and Zoan Biomed. Playing the piano and going kitesurfing are his essential tools for maintaining good mental health!

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Professor and Head of Physiotherapy, University of Limerick

Kieran graduated as a Physiotherapist in 1999. In 2004 he completed an MSc in Manipulative Therapy. He joined the University of Limerick in 2005. He completed his PhD on low back pain in 2012. He has published over 170 journal articles, including two randomised clinical trials on low back pain. He was awarded the 2021 President’s award for research excellence and impact at UL.

His research on LBP was chosen as an exemplar of research impact at UL (http://www.ul.ie/research/sites/default/files/Case-back-pain-web.pdf). He has been short-listed on three occasions for the teaching excellence award at UL, and received a national ‘Teaching Hero’ award in 2021.

He is currently involved in several research projects relating to musculoskeletal pain, nationally and internationally. He is the Physiotherapy Lead within Allied Health, and Course Director for the (pre-registration) MSc in Physiotherapy.

Consultant Orthopaedic and Spine Surgeon

David recently took up post as a Consultant Orthopaedic and Spine Surgeon in Galway University Hospital. He completed the Irish Higher Specialist Training programme in Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery before undertaking fellowship experience abroad in Oxford and New York.

As well as being a major trauma centre, John Radcliffe/Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre is 1 of 5 sarcoma centres in the UK. A joint orthopaedic and neurosurgical the unit, a full remit of spine care is offered across all age groups. Hospital for Special Surgery is consistently ranked as the #1 hospital for orthopaedic surgery in the United States of America. Completing an AOSpine fellowship in HSS David furthered his specialist training in deformity, degenerative and minimally invasive spine surgery.

MB BCh BAO, PhD, FRCS, Consultant Bariatric Surgeon.

Consultant Bariatric Surgeon at St. Vincent’s University Hospital, Dublin and Professor of Surgery at University College Dublin. She is a graduate of NUI Galway medical school, was awarded a PhD from NUI Galway in 2012. She completed the RCSI Higher Surgical Training scheme in General Surgery in 2016.

During her training, she spent two years on Fellowship in the Bariatric & Metabolic Institute in Cleveland Clinic, Ohio. She then completed her training with a Bariatric Fellowship in the UK. She has co-authored >120 publications in peer-reviewed journals and has written several book chapters on the topics of bariatric and endocrine surgery. Her research interests include obesity and cancer, fatty liver disease and bariatric surgery mechanisms.