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November 14-16, 2025 Colorado Convention Center, Denver, CO

NASS 2025 Celebrates 40 Years of Advancing Global Spine Care

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Education: Symposia
Research, Mentoring, & Networking Events
Premeeting Webinars
Coding Course
Technical Exhibition
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Hotel Information
40th Anniversary Fun and Social Events
NASS and Denver
40th Anniversary T-Shirts

New Weekend Schedule, Robust Education Program and Expanded Social Activities

You’re invited to join NASS as we celebrate our 40th anniversary of the premier meeting in spine. This year’s meeting promises to provide both an amazing educational experience as well as a fun and festive weekend for attendees. Plus, an all-new weekend schedule, Friday through Sunday, November 14-16 in Denver, Colorado, allows attendees to spend less time out of the office and away from their practice. This year, we received a record-breaking 1,689 abstract submissions from nearly 40 countries, ensuring the meeting will provide attendees with a broader perspective across all specialties. The robust educational program will feature the latest surgical, medical, and multidisciplinary education and research presented through abstract podium presentations, symposia, Best Papers and iPosters featuring cutting-edge research, all addressing the hottest topics and trends in spine.

Attendees can look forward to some new sessions this year, including a Past Presidents Symposium with NASS leaders providing their perspective on today’s spine care, as well as the new Emerging Scholars Showcase featuring the top spine research from medical students in an interactive social setting. Additionally, symposia will be presented by leading international societies, there will be special sessions for early career spine professionals, residents and fellows, and women in spine. And you can explore and get hands-on with the latest innovations in spine from industry at the world’s largest spine technical exhibition. Our 40th Anniversary celebration will feature many special fun networking events onsite including a new kickoff party with live musical entertainment, the Exhibit Hall ‘Fun for All’ featuring a wide range of fun activities from pickleball competitions, golf simulators, and themed beverage breaks to birds of prey demos, oxygen and vitamin bars, and much more! We’ve also added many offsite activities as well including a new Presidential Soiree with an 80s cover band, entertainment and an expanded food menu. And attendees will have the opportunity to take excursions to some of Denver’s most popular tourist attractions. “The Mile High City”, will provide an amazing experience for attendees, with so many things to discover and explore. Explore the Meeting Program and register now to be part of the 40th Anniversary Celebration at NASS 2025.

Scott Kreiner, MD President

Allen Chen, MD, MBA, MPH Annual Meeting Program Chair

Brandon Lawrence, MD Annual Meeting Program Chair

John Shin, MD Annual Meeting Program Chair

Juan Uribe, MD Annual Meeting Program Chair

Participating International Societies

Experience a broad perspective on spine care at the NASS Annual Meeting thanks to participation of the following spine societies who will contribute to the robust educational program.

Brazilian Spine Society

Korean Minimally Invasive Spine Society (KOMISS)

Korean Spinal Endoscopic Spine Society (KOSESS)

Mexican Spine Society (Asociacion Mexicana de Cirujanos de Columna, A.C.) (AMCICO)

Taiwan Neurosurgical Society (TNS)

Taiwan Neurosurgical Spine Society (TNSS)

NASS 2025 Scientific Abstract Reviewers

NASS extends its gratitude to the volunteers who generously contributed their time to the abstract review process.

Muhammad Abdelbarr, MD, PhD

Ahmed Abouelhamd

Gomez Emmanuel Adeyemo, MD

Alaaeldin Ahmad, MD

Yunus Aji, MD

Mohammad Alfeeli

Abduljabbar Alhammoud, MD

Abdulaziz Almutair

Massiel Alvarado, MD

Luca Ambrosio

Kristin Archer, PhD, DPT

Nelson Astur, Basar Atalay, MD, PhD

Resham Atwaru, MD, FRCS (Tr & Orth)

Mohamed Awad

Waleed Awwad

Siddharth Badve, MD

Christian Baerlocher, MD

Carlos Bagley, MD, MBA

Joshua Bakhsheshian

Mabel Banson

Lauren Barber, MD

Anas Bardeesi

Eduardo Barreto, MD

Bryce Basques, MD, MHS

Mounir Ben Ismail

Sanam Bezanson

Samuel Blake, BS

Kenneth Blank, PhD, MS, MHA

Rachel Bratescu, MD

Benjamin Braun

Rachel Bronheim, MD

Nathaniel Brooks, MD

Rudolph Buckley

Thomas Buell, MD

Zorica Buser, PhD, MBA

Bilal Butt, MD

Mohamad Bydon, MD

Mario Cahueque

Robyn Capobianco, PhD

Allen Carl

Jeffrey Carlson

Anisse Chaker, MD

Joshua Chalif, MD, PhD

Stuart Changoor, MD

Chirag Chaudhary

Tan Chen, MD, FRCSC, FACS

Christina Cheng, MD

Jialun Chi

Bohdan Chopko

Brian Clifford, DPT, OCS, CSCS

Christopher Colloca

Emma Coltoff, BS

Rosalynn Conic

Rogelio Coronado, PT, PhD

Zachary Crawford

Matthew Cummock, DO

Zachary Cupler

Joseph Danto

Wesley Day, BS

Fred DeFrancesch

Bijan Dehghani, MD, MS

Peramunugamage Don Dilanka

Robert Dimick

Benjamin Dorenkamp

Diana Douleh

Marc Dreimann

Jerry Du, MD

Payman Emmanuel

Murray Echt

Ashraf El Naga, MD

Benjamin Elder, MD, PhD

Aladine Elsamadicy, MD

Hazem Elsebaie, PhD

Ahmed Emara, MD

William Mark Erwin

Michael Faloon, MD

Charbel Fawaz

Ira Fedder

John Finkenberg, MD

Brody Fitzpatrick, MD

Mitchell Fourman, MD

Douglas Fredericks

Mark Frenkel

Anne Kathleen Ganal-Antonio

Venkatanarayanan Ganapathy

Alfonso Garcia, MD

David Gendelberg, MD

Wende Gibbs, MD, MA

David Glassman

Ira Goldstein

Roberto Acosta Gomez

Adam Gordon, MD

Nikhil Goyal

Richard Guyer, MD

Hasibullah Habibi

Ram Haddas, PhD, MBA, Meng

Uri Hadelsberg, MD, MBA

Ali Hammed, MD

Muhammad Hanif, MBBS, MD

James Hawkins

Tom Hedman

Keemia Soraya Heidari, MD

Alan Hilibrand, MD

Jason Horowitz

Kelli Howell, MS

Patrick Hsieh, MD, MS

Paul Huddleston, MD, MS

Jonathan Hyde, MD

Richard Hynes

Brian Ipsen

George Jacobs

Frédéric Jacquot

Pemla Jagtiani, BS

George James, DPT

Theodore Joaquin

Aamir Kadri, MD

Hemant Kalia

Daniel Kang, MD

Eldin Karaikovic

Brian Karamian, MD

Joel Kaye, MD

Brian Kelly, PhD

Ali Kiapour, PhD, MMS

Andrew Kim, BS

Choll Kim, MD, PhD

Saechin Kim, MD, PhD

Daniel Kim

Sameer Kitab

Manisha Koneru

Eren Kuris, MD

Apostolos Lagaras

Justin Lantz, DPT

Steven Lasser, MD,

Jun Ho Lee

Taryn LeRoy, MD

Logan Leavitt

Javier Lecaros

Lindsay Lipinski, MD

James Liu, MD

Yi Lu, MD, PhD

Karthik Madhavan, MD

Tanmoy Maiti

Augustin Malzac

Ashley Maybin

Noelle McClellan, MSN, APRN, FNP-C

Nishank Mehta, MS, MBBS,

Addisu Mesfin, MD

Evan Miller

Paolo Mimbella

Marc Moisi

Don Moore, MD

Donald Murphy, DC

Ankur Nanda, MBBS, MS, MBA

Joseph Nassar, BS

Pratibha Nayak, PhD, MBA, MPH

Abhay Nene, MD

Mitchell Ng, MD

Kenneth Nwosu, MD

Ifije Ohiorhenuan

Duby Okonkwo, BS

Jonathan Oren, MD

Josiah Orina, MD

Lindsay Orosz, PA-C, MS

Robert Orr

Douglas Pahl, MD

Choon Keun Park

Peter Passias, MD

Vikas Patel, MD

Mike Patetta, MD

Adam Pearson, MD, MS

Brenton Pennicooke

Jill Plotke

Kornelis Poelstra, MD, PhD

Arthur Poetscher

J. Scott Price, MD

Gregory Przybylski, MD, MBA

Andrew Pugely, MD

Volodymyr Radchenko

Ricky Rasschaert

Charles Reitman, MD

Amanda Cyntia Lima Fonseca Rodrigues

Timothy Ryken

Durgadas Sakalkale, MD

Adil Samad, MD

Andre Samuel, MD

Pietro Scarone, MD

Byron Schneider, MD

Anthony Seddio, BS

David Semenoff

Abdul-Lateef Shafau, MD

Rahul Shah, MD

John Shim

John Shin, MD

Ravindra Shitut

Mohamed Shoaib

Vishwajeet Singh, MS, MBBS, DNB

Mohamed Soliman, MD, MSc, PhD

Carina Staab

Andrew Stephens, MD

Bjorn Stromqvis

Ying-Hao Su

Michael Suer

Quinn Tate, MD

Cary Templin

Daniel Tobert, MD

Felix Toussaint

Robby Turk, MD, MBA

Mauro Volpi, MD, PhD

Harsh Wadhwa, MD

Andrew Walker, MD

Mohamed Abdel Wanis

Joseph Weiner

Karen Weissmann, MD

Eric West

Marcel Wiley

Tyler Williamson, DO

Jamie Wilson, MD, FRCS, MSc

Hiroyuki Yoshihara, MD, PhD

Iyan Younus, MD,

Mohamed Zaazoue, MD, MSc, MBA

Orlando Zamora, MD

Anna-Marie Ziegler

Scott Zuckerman, MD, MPH