AO Spine Knowledge Forum Deformity

How the AO Spine Knowledge Forum Deformity improves patient care

AO Spine Knowledge Forum (KF) Deformity aims to improve the care for patients with a spinal deformity by generating and disseminating meaningful and impactful clinical evidence.

They do this by engaging leading clinicians, researchers, and spine centers from around the world to perform evidence-based research and by disseminating the research findings and newfound knowledge through publications and presentations.

Practical tools for clinicians treating patients with spinal deformities

These selected clinical tools and articles developed by the AO Spine Knowledge Forum Deformity will help clinicians in planning appropriate treatments, assessing patient suitability, training next generation surgeons, and providing the best evidence to support decision-making, ultimately enhancing clinical practice and outcomes for spine deformity patients.

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KF Deformity Steering Committee

KF Advisory Board

KF Deformity Associate Members

Ahmed Abdelgawaad, Helios Hospitals Erfurt, Erfurt, Germany
Nelson Astur, Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein – Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Pedro Berjano, IRCCS Istituto Ortopedico Galeazzi, Milan, Italy
Aaron J. Buckland, Melbourne Orthopaedic Group Australia, Melbourne Australia
Anastasios Charalampidis, Karolinska University Hospital, Solna, Sweden
Elias Elias, University of Texas, Texas, USA
Swamy Ganesh, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
Yoshida Go, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
Munish Gupta, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, USA
Jeffrey Hills, UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, USA
Miranda van Hooff, Radboud University Medical Center/Sint Maartenskliniek, Nijmegen, Netherlands
Serena Hu, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
Yashar Javidan, University of California, Davis Health, Davis, CA, USA
Thorsten Jentzsch, Balgrist Universitätsklinik, Zürich, Switzerland
Kristen Jones, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
Krishna Kumar, VPS Lakeshore Hospital, Kochi, India
Darryl Lau, NYU Langone Health, New York, NY, USA
Brian Neuman, Washington University, St. Louis, MO, USA
Fred Nicholls, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
Christopher Nielsen, Toronto Western Hospital, Toronto, Canada
Colby Oitment, Scarborough General Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Robert Ravinsky, Permanente Oakland Medical Center, Oakland, CA, USA
Anna Rienmueller, Medizinische Universität Wien, Wien Austria
Brett Rocos, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, USA
Zeeshan Sardar, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
Juan Sardi, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Texas, USA
Jonathan Sembrano, University of Minnesota Medical School, Minnesota MN, USA
Alekos Theologis, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, USA
Hiroki Ushirozako Hamamatsu, University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan
Kota Watanabe, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
Zhu Zezhang, Nanjing University Medical School, Nanjing, China
Alisson Teles, Santa Casa de Porto Alegre.Porto Algere, Brazil
Bhavuk Garg, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
Mauricio Andres Campos Daziano, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
Nan Wu, Peking Union Medical College Hospital, Bejing, China
Rajendra Sakhrekar, Royal Perth Hospital, Perth, Australia
Shin Oe, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan
Sultan Aldebeyan, King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Arthur Odotei Sackeyfio, Focos Orthopaedic Hospital, Accra, Ghana
Omar Alnori, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar
Reuben Soh, Singapore General Hospital, Singapore, Singapore
Saman Shabani, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA
Sameh Abolfotouh, MEDCARE Hospital Dubai, UAE
Fatemeh Alavi, University Health Network, Toronto, Canada
Ioannis Avramis, Baylor University Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA
Alpaslan Senkoylu, Gazi University Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Ankara, Turkey