October 14-17, 2026 Henry B. González Convention Center, San Antonio, TX
Built around the theme The Connected Spine, NASS 2026 brings the global spine community together to connect evidence, innovation, and real-world practice. Through interdisciplinary spine education, cutting-edge research, new technologies and innovations, the meeting is intentionally designed to provide the evidence-based clarity you need to make confident decisions for your practice. You will leave with insights that you can immediately implement, saving time, reducing risk, and improving patient care.
Meeting highlights Include:
Comprehensive Spine Education—an enhanced focus on surgical education, as well as highly-interactive sessions designed for all members of the spine care team.
More Non-CME Sessions—engaging, focused, specialized content on new technology, techniques and emerging topics in spine, including industry presentations.
Cutting-Edge Research—expanded abstract presentations, new spotlight podium presentations featuring short research presentations held during lunch and breaks.
Key Opinion Leaders and World-Renowned Experts—the world's leading spine experts discuss and debate the tools, techniques and technology that will shape the future of spine care.
Special Focused Sessions for early-career spine professionals as well as women in spine surgery.
NEW! Half-Day Advanced Practice Practitioner (APP) Course—designed for nurse practitioners and physician assistants to strengthen the clinical knowledge and decision-making skills needed to manage complex spine presentations across interdisciplinary settings.
Technical Exhibition—the spine industry’s largest display of implants, instruments and additional products and services.
Spine Venture Village: Where Innovation in Spine Takes Shape—meet the next generation of spine innovators, learn about breakthrough technologies and emerging treatment paradigms, participate in daily innovation forums and peer-to-peer learning.
Network and Collaborate - ample opportunities to connect with friends and colleagues. Take part in the fun at the Kickoff Party, enjoy a wide range of special luncheons and receptions, participate in relaxing and fun activities in the exhibit hall, as well as experience diverse local cuisine.
Coding Update Course - held before NASS 2026, Coding Update will elevate your coding knowledge with the latest information from NASS expert coding faculty!
Our host city of San Antonio promises to provide an unforgettable experience, with world-class dining, shopping, must-see attractions, hidden gems to explore and so much more!
Register early. Bring a colleague. Be part of the conversations shaping the future of spine care.
William Mitchell, MD President
Jack Jallo, MD, PhD, FACS Program Chair
Paul Saiz, MD Program Chair
Richard Skolasky, ScD Program Chair
James Harrop, MD Special Programs Chair
Michael Vives, MD Special Programs Chair
NASS 2026 Scientific Abstract Reviewers
NASS thanks these volunteers who spent numerous hours reviewing abstracts:
Aazad Abbas, MD, BS
Jean-Jacques Abitbol, MD
Celeste Abjornson, PhD
Kabir Abubakar, MBBS, FWACS, PhD
Raed Abusuwwa, DO
Jose Roberto Acosta Gomez, MD
Favour Tope Adebusoye, MD
Emmanuel A. Adeyemo, MD
Alaaeldin A. Ahmad, MD
Sami I. Al Eissa, MD
Ahmet Alanay, MD
Luiz Carlos Almeida da Silva, MD
Abdulaziz Al-Mutair, BHSc, MD, FRCSC
Massiel Alvarado, MD
Luca Ambrosio, MD
David B. Anderson, PhD, MSc
Kristin R. Archer, PhD, DPT
Nelson Astur, MD, MSc, PhD
Michelle Atkinson, MD, FRACS
Mauricio J. Avila, MD
Waleed M. Awwad, MD, FRCSC
Jack M. Ayres, MD
Hifza Babar, MD
Siddharth A. Badve, MD
Carlos A. Bagley, MD, MBA
Mohamad Bakhaidar, MD, FRCSC
Joshua Bakhsheshian, MD, MHA
Mehmet B. Balioglu, MD
Hieu T. Ball, MD, MPH
Mabel Banson, MD
Lauren A. Barber, MD
Eduardo C. Barreto, MD
Rahul Basho, MD
Bryce Basques, MD, MHS
Jon Belding, MD
Shahrukh Bengali, MD
Daniel S. Bennett, MD, DABPM
Thami Benzakour, MD
John Berry-Candelario, MD, MPH
Sigurd H. Berven, MD
Kenneth R. Blank, PhD, MS, MHA
Evan Bohan, DPT
Andres Bonilla, PhD, DVM, MSc
Win Boonsirikamchai, MD
Jacques A. Bouchard, MD, FRCSC
Rachel Bratescu, MD
Shadi Bsat, MD
Justin V. Bundy, MD
Bilal B. Butt, MD
David M. Cabatan, MD
Juan Pablo Cabrera Cousino, MD
Mario A. Cahueque, MD
Andre L. Cardoso, MD, MSc
Allen L. Carl, MD
R. Carter Cassidy, MD
Anisse Chaker, MD
Vikram B. Chakravarthy, MD Joshua Chalif, MD, PhD
Donggune Chang, MD, PhD Louis Chang, MD
Kshitij Chaudhary, MS, DNB, FACS
Jose O. Chavez , MD
Tan Chen, MD, FRCSC, FACS
Christina W. Cheng, MD
Lee Onn Chieng, MD
Bohdan W. Chopko, MD, PhD
Po-Hsin Chou, MD
Victoria Christian, DO
Sean D. Christie, MD
Norman B. Chutkan, MD, FACS
Paulo Cibrao Coutinho, MD, MSc
Dan S. Cohen, MD
Christopher J. Colloca, DC, PhD
Emma Coltoff, PhD
Aaron M. Conger, DO
Josephine R. Coury, MD
Zachary Crawford, MD, PharmD
Davide Croci, MD
Joao Cruz, MD
Zachary Cupler, DC, MS
Hitesh Dabasia, FRCS (Tr & Orth), MBChB
Tapan K. Daftari, MD
Taikhoom M. Dahodwala, MD
Olumide A. Danisa, MD
Fernando L. Dantas, MD
Gali Dar, PhD
Justin Davis, MD
Wesley Day, MD, MPH
Joost DeBruijn, PhD
Raman Dhawan, MD
Meera Dhodapkar, MD
Jaime Diaz de Atauri, MD
Peramunugamage D. Dilanka, MBBS, MD
William H. Dillin, MD
Robert M. Dimick, MD
Patrick F. Doherty, MD, FACS
Jerry Y. Du, MD
Peter Z. Du, MD
Abdullah T. Eissa, MD
Ramzi El-Hassan, MD, MS
Adrian Elmi Terander, MD, PhD
Mohammad El-Sharkawi, MD, PhD
Reem Elwy, MBChB, MSc
Enrique Escobar, MD
Cortez Espinoza, DPT
Randall Faber, PA-C
H. Francis Farhadi, MD, PhD, FRCSC
Lisa A. Ferrara, PhD
John G. Finkenberg, MD
Felicity Fisk, MD, MS
Michael Forte, MD
Mitchell S. Fourman, MD
Anthony K. Frempong-Boadu, MD
Mark Frenkel, MD, MA
Tristan B. Fried, MD
Toru Funayama, MD, PhD
Amrit G, MBBS, MS
Anne Kathleen B. Ganal-Antonio, MD
Sapan D. Gandhi, MD
Bhavuk Garg, MD
Peter C. Gerszten, MD, MPH
Sennay Ghenbot, MD
Christopher C. Gillis, MD, FRCSC, FACS
Allison Glinka Przybysz, MD, MPH
Keshav Goel, MD
Matthew L. Goodwin, MD, PhD, FACSM
Lukas Grassner, MD, PhD
Garret P. Greeneway, MD
Carl A. Gregory, PhD
Richard D. Guyer, MD
Ram Haddas, PhD, MBA, MEng
Uri P. Hadelsberg, MD, MBA
Yong Hai, MD, PhD
Nameer Haider, MD, DABPM
Ali Hammed, MD
Bradley Hammoor, MD, MS
Waeel Hamouda, MD, FRCS, PhD
Kenneth K. Hansraj, MD
Maahir U. Haque, MD
Junbo He, MD
Joaquin Hidalgo, MD
Alan S. Hilibrand, MD
Eric K. Holder, MD
Jason A. Horowitz, MD
Patrick Huang, DPT
Robert Huang, MD
Heidi M. Hullinger, MD
Steven C. Humphreys, MD
Chun Wai Hung, MD
Raymond Hwang, MD, MEng, MBA
Richard A. Hynes, MD
Hiroyuki Inose, MD, PhD
Nikita S. Iyer, BA, MBA
George W. James, DPT
Pawel P. Jankowski, MD
Theodore Joaquin, MD
Evan K. Johnson, DPT, MS, OCS
Claire Johnson, PhD, DC, MS
Christopher Johnson, MD, PhD
Jack Johnson, DO
Samuel A. Joseph, MD
Koroush Kabir, MD, FACS, MBA
Aamir Kadri, MD
Piyush Kalakoti, MD
Hemant Kalia, MD, MPH
Eldin E. Karaikovic, MD, PhD
Ahmet Kartal, MD
Mamoru Kawakami, MD, PhD
Joel Kaye, MD
Noojan Kazemi, MD, FACS
Brian Kelly, PhD
Harish Kempegowda, MD
Sassan Keshavarzi, MD
Syed I. Khalid, MD
Imad Khan, MBBS, MPH
Inamullah Khan, MD
Shaima Khandaker, MD
Nicolas K. Khattar, MD
Andrew Kim, MD
Saechin Kim, MD, PhDBenoit Kindo, DO
Sameer A. Kitab, MD
James W. Klunk, DO
Panagiotis G. Korovessis, MD, PhD
Dallas E. Kramer, MD
Mithun Reddy Kumbharanahalli, MD
David B. Kurland, MD, PhD
Srinivasu Kusuma, MD
Apostolos Lagaras, MD, PhD, FRCS (Tr & Orth)
Mark Lambrechts, MD
Sameer Lamichhane, MS
Justin M. Lantz, DPT
Alexa Lauinger, BS
Brandon D. Lawrence, MD
Logan P. Leavitt, DO
Subum Lee, MD, PhD
Jin Young Lee, MD
June Ho Lee, MD, PhD
Alexander C. Lemons, MD
Yunda Li, MD, PhD
Jiann-Her Lin, MD
James K.C. Liu, MD
Sheng-fu L. Lo, MD, MHS
Yi Lu, MD, PhD
Mary Lundgren, DO, PhD
Hyun-Jin Ma, MD
Karthik H. Madhavan, MD
Alejandro J. Madrid-Sanchez, MD
Dominic Maggio, MD
Mohammed H. Mahboub, MD, FACS
Marc I. Malberg, MD
Greg M. Malham, MBChB, MD, FRACS
Shay Mandler, MD
Chaudry Ali Manzoor, MBBS
Thierry P. Marnay, MD
Antonio Martin Benlloch, MD, PhD
Leo Massari, MD, PhD
Paul Mastrokostas, BA
Tobias A. Mattei, MD
Thomas M. Mauri, MD
John Paul Mauriello, DO
Gregory P. McComis, MD
Nishank Mehta, MS, MBBS
Hiwot A. Melka, DC
Evan M. Miller, MD
Paolo Mimbella, MD
George S. Miz, MD
Akshat D. Modi, BS
Ayman Mohamed, MD
Luke Momper, MD, MS
Jeffrey A. Moore, MD
Don K. Moore, MD
Jorge A. Morales, MD
Christian Morgenstern, MD, PhD, MSc
Ram Mudiyam, MD, MBA
Benjamin Mugg, BS
Daniel S. Mulconrey, MD
Juan E. Muñoz Montoya, MD
Donald R. Murphy, DC
Hideki Nagashima, MD, PhD Elie N. Najjar, MD
Kazuyoshi Nakanishi, MD, PhD
Ankur Nanda, MBBS, MS, MBA
Joseph Nassar, BS
Austin Q. Nguyen, MD
Michael Nicolakis, MD
Alfonso De Jesus Nunez Salazar, ScD
Yoji Ogura, MD
Adeolu Olasunkanmi, MD
Oluwatobi Onafowokan, MBBS, MSc
Josiah N. Orina, MD
Lindsay Orosz, PhD, MSc, PA-C
Stephane Owusu-Sarpong, MD
Jonathan Pace, MD, MBA
Douglas W. Pahl, MD
Permsak Paholpak, MD
Ashok Para, MD
Brian Park, MD
Jack Parker, BS
Philip K. Paschal, MS
Mike J. Patetta, MD
Sean A.F. Peel, PhD
Zach Pennington, MD
Jason Pittman, MD, PhD
Spiros G. Pneumaticos, MD
John M. Popovich, PhD, DPT, ATC
Noah Poulin, PhD
Ashutosh A. Pradhan, MD
J. Scott Price, MD
Parker Prusick, MD
Xiaodong Qin, PhD
Esteban Quiceno Restrepo, MD
Gazanfar Rahmathulla, MD, MBA, FACS
Rakesh Ramakrishnan, MD
Omar Ramos, MD
Ricky Rasschaert, MD
Neeraja Revi, PhD
William E. Rivers, DO
Rita T. Roy, MD, MSc
Daniel Rusu, BSLuis Saavedra, MD
Shahbaaz Sabri, MD
Hakan Sabuncuoglu, MD, MBA
Shaan Sadhwani, DO
Rajiv Saigal, MD, PhD
Paul Saiz, MD
Durgadas P. Sakalkale, MD
Francisco J. Sandoval, MD
Pietro Scarone, MD
Thiago Scharth Montenegro, MD
Byron J. Schneider, MD
Andrew J. Schoenfeld, MD, MSc
Brian M. Scholl, MD
Anthony Seddio, MD
Guillermo C. Segvic, MD
Lali Sekhon, MD, PhD, MBA
Rahul V. Shah, MD
Ajoy P. Shetty, MS, MD
Scott Siegel, DC
Anuj Singla, MD
Priyank Sinha, FRCSEd, MD
Mohamed Soliman, MD, MSc, PhD
Jon Håvard Sommernes, MD
Seong Son, MD
Caple A. Spence, MD, MBA, FACS
James B. St. Clair, MD, PhD
Andrew R. Stephens, MD
Marcus Stone, PhD
Jeffrey A. Stone, MD, FACR
Willem S. Strydom, MD
Ying Hao Su, MD
Raveen R. Suga, DO
Waleed Sultan, MD
Jani M. Takatalo, PhD
Koji Tamai, MD
Shinji Tanishima, MD
Fernando Techy, MD
Fernando A. Terry, MD
Steven M. Theiss, MD
Santhosh A. Thomas, DO, MBA
Haijun Tian, MD, PhD
Constantine A. Toumbis, MD, PhD
Nam D. Tran, MD, PhD
Eeric Truumees, MD
Sung Huang Laurent Tsai, MD, MPH
Tsung-Hsi Tu, MD, PhD
Ranjith Unnikrishnan, MS, DNB, DO
Gad J. Velan, MD
Yagnesh Vellore, FRACS
Aman Verma, MBBS, MS
Anne Versteeg, MD, PhD, MHS
Andrew N. Vo, MD
Mauro Volpi, MD, PhD
Vagmin Vora, MD
Brian Vu, MD
Harsh Wadhwa, MD
Muhammad Waheed , MD
Andrew F. Walker, MD
Yuh Watanabe, MD, PhD
Scott Webb, DO
Mark Weidenbaum, MD
Marc A. Weinstein, MD
Walker C. Welch, BS
Benjamin Westerhaus, MD
Aaron Wey, MD
Marcel R. Wiley, MD
Tyler Williamson, DO
Jamie R. Wilson, MD, FRCS, MSc
Joshua Woo, BA
Thaddeus Woodard, MD
Shahab Yazdanpanah, MS
Tze yu Yeh Hsieh, MD
Hiroyuki Yoshihara, MD, PhD
Rachelle Yusufbekov, MEng, ASC
Mohamed Zaazoue, MD, MSc, MBA
Slavisa Zagorac, PhD
Ali Zarezadeh, MD
Athan G. Zavras, MD
Andrew Zhang, MD
Scott L. Zuckerman, MD, MPH
Sergio Zylbersztejn, MD, MSc