THURSDAY 29, ISSLS, ORAL PRESENTATIONS, ROOM A-B

08.15 EUROSPINE MEDAL LECTURE AND AWARD SESSION
Chairs: R. GUNZBURG and F. PELLISÉ
08.15 EuroSpine Open Paper Award 2008
PHARMACOLOGICAL ENHANCEMENT OF DISC DIFFUSION AND DIFFERENTATION OF HEALTHY, AGEING AND DEGENERATED DISCS
S. Rajasekaran, K. Venkatadass, J. Naresh, K. Ganesh, A.P. Shetty, Spine Surgery Unit, Ganga Hospita, Coimbatore, India
08.25 European Spine Journal - Grammer Award 2008
ADENOVIRUS VECTOR-MEDIATED EX VIVO GENE TRANSFER OF BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR TO BONE MARROW STROMAL CELLS PROMOTES AXONAL REGENERATION AFTER TRANSPLANTATION IN COMPLETELY TRANSECTED ADULT RAT SPINAL CORD
M. Koda, T. Kamada, M. Hashimoto, M. Murakami, H. Shirasawa, S. Sakao, H. Ino, K. Yoshinaga, S. Koshizuka, H. Moriya, M. Yamazaki, Eur Spine J (2007) 16:22062214
08.35 Announcement of on-site EuroSpine Awards
EuroSpine Educational Activities
P. Sell, Chairman of EuroSpine Educational Committee
08.40 EuroSpine Medal Lecture 2008
BUILDING THE SPINE; NOVEL INSIGHTS INTO AN ANCIEN MECHANISM
Denis Duboule, Professor of zoology and animal biology at Geneva University, Director of the "Frontiers in Genetics", Professeur en génomique du développement à la Faculté des sciences de la vie, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale Lausanne
09.20 EuroSpine Presidential Address
Medical Meetings: Past, present, future
R. Gunzburg
10.00 Coffee break
10.30 ISSLS PRIZE PAPERS
Chair: G. ANDERSSON
Introduction and Award Ceremony sponsored by DePUY SPINE
Awards Presentation
CLINICAL
10.40 EARLY PREDICTORS OF CHRONIC WORK DISABILITY: A PROSPECTIVE, POPULATION-BASED STUDY OF WORKERS WITH BACK INJURIES
J. A. Turner, G. Franklin, D. Fulton-Kehoe, L. Sheppard, B. Stover, R. Wu, J. V. Gluck, T.M. Wickizer, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington
10.50 Discussion
BIOMECHANICS
10.56 INTEGRATING THEORETICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL METHODS FOR FUNCTIONAL TISSUE ENGINEERING OF THE ANNULUS FIBROSUS
N. Nerurkar, R. Mauck, D. Elliott, Philadelphia, PA, USA
11.06 Discussion
EUROSPINE & ISSLS ORAL PRESENTATIONS ROOM A-B
BASIC SCIENCE
11.12 A MICROSTRUCTURAL INVESTIGATION OF INTERLAMELLAR CONNECTIVITY AND MECHANICAL DISRUPTION WITHIN THE LUMBAR INTERVERTEBRAL DISC ANNULUS
M. L. Schollum, S. P. Veres, P. A. Robertson, N. D. Broom, Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Auckland, Auckland, N. Z., Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Auckland Hospital, Auckland, New Zealand Discussion
11.20 Harry Farfan Presidential Guest Speaker
Professor Jiri Dvorak
Zurich, Switzerland
Introduction - Dr Dieter Grob
11.51 ISSLS Presidential address
D. Grob
Introduction - R. Gunzburg
12.30 Lunch & Workshops