Wednesday, February 22, 20173:00 – 6:00 PM Registration for Attendees and Guests4:00 – 5:30 PM Workshop I — (non-accredited) — Located in Grand d

Thursday, February 23, 20177:00 – 7:50 aM registration and Continental breakfast for registrants7:00 – 7:50 aM breakfast & Learn session — (non-accredited)

7:50 – 8:00 AM Welcome and Dedication Joshua A. Hirsch, MD, FACR, FSIRJoInT sessIon 1: ConTroversIes In sPIne • Moderators: Joshua A. Hirsch, MD, FACR, FSIR, Johan W. Van Goethem, MD, PhD and John D. Barr, MD, FACR, FSIR, FAHA

8:00 – 8:25 AM KeynoTe: VeRtos IV – the Principle Investigator speaks Paul N.M. Lohle, MD8:25 – 8:50 AM KeynoTe: VAPoUR – the Principle Investigator speaks William Clark, MD8:50 – 9:05 AM Pro: More expensive, a la 3 0 tesla, Isn’t Necessarily Better Gordon K. Sze, MD, FACR9:05 – 9:20 AM Con: 3 0 tesla for spine Imaging is Better Because “It Just Is” Lawrence N. Tanenbaum, MD, FACR9:20 – 9:35 AM Pro: esI – our Patients Can’t Live Without them Nicholas A. Koontz MD9:35 – 9:50 AM Con: esI – Not on My Watch they Don’t Work Better than sham Christopher Gilligan, MD, MBA9:50 –10:05 AM Question and Answer session Faculty10:05 – 10:30 aM refreshment break / visit exhibits

ProGraM sCheduLe (subJeCT To ChanGe)

10:30 – 10:40 AM Pharmacologic Management of spine Pain Mihir Kamdar, MD10:40 – 10:50 AM the Clinical exam In Guiding therapy Wade H.M. Wong, DO, FACR, FAOCR10:50 – 11:00 AM Local Anesthetics Alone vs Local Anesthetic and steroids Laxmaiah Manchikanti, MD11:00 – 11:05 AM Interventional Scientific Presentation 11:05 – 11:10 AM Interventional Scientific Presentation 11:10 – 11:15 AM Interventional Scientific Presentation 11:15 – 11:25 AM the surgical Back; in this Case Don’t Waste time with the Needle William Taylor, MD11:25 – 11:35 AM MR Neurography and Ultrasound Guidance for Intervention Vinil N. Shah, MD 11:35 – 11:45 AM Peripheral stimulators Line Jacques, MD11:45 – 12:00 PM Question and Answer session Faculty

Interventional session I: skill sets “beyond the needle” (Located in Grand C) Moderators: John M. Mathis, MD, M.Sc, Gregory W. Petermann, MD and Luigi Manfre, MD (ESNR)

10:30 – 10:40 AM evaluating Pain? Demonstrating Pain Generators with Physiologic Imaging - sPeCt/FDG (sAMs) Troy Hutchins, MD10:40 – 10:50 AM MRI to Find the Pain Generator - Role in spine Imaging (sAMs) Johan W. Van Goethem, MD, PhD10:50 – 11:00 AM What Your Interventionalists Want to Know Imaging Parameters that support the Necessity for Pain Procedures (sAMs) Walter S. Bartynski, MD11:00 – 11:05 AM Diagnostic Scientific Presentation 11:05 – 11:10 AM Diagnostic Scientific Presentation 11:10 – 11:15 AM Diagnostic Scientific Presentation11:15 – 11:25 AM Pseudoarthrosis and Instability: What Your surgeons Want to Know (sAMs) Cynthia T. Chin, MD11:25 – 11:35 AM When the MRI should Get You thinking About stimulators and/or Pain Pumps (sAMs) Mark S. Wallace, MD 11:35 – 11:45 AM Lines and Angles: Assessing the Craniocervical Junction (sAMs) John L. Go, MD, FACR11:45 – 12:00 PM Question and Answer session Faculty

diagnostic session I: next Gen Imaging – What the referrer Wants to Know (Located in Grand d)Moderators: Stuart R. Pomerantz, MD and Timothy Amrhein, MD

12:00 – 1:00 PM Lunch on your own / Lunch & Learn

JoInT sessIon 2: neW horIzons • Moderators: Daniel T.D. Nguyen, MD and Puneet S. Pahwa, MD1:00 – 1:15 PM should the spine Radiologist Fear Machine Based Learning and AI? Richard H. Wiggins, III, MD, CIIP, FSIIM1:15 – 1:30 PM Variability and Diagnostic errors in spinal MRI Imaging Richard J. Herzog, MD, FACR1:30 – 1:45 PM Unified Spine Reporting: Good or Bad for Radiology? Adam E. Flanders, MD1:45 – 2:00 PM Do We Perform too Much spine Imaging? Michael T. Modic, MD, FACR2:00 – 2:15 PM spinal t B : Resurgent or in Decline? M. Judith Donovan Post, MD, FACR2:15 – 2:30 PM 3D Printing and the spine Jonathan M. Morris, MD2:30 – 2:45 PM Gadolinium Deposition: What Does it Mean? Meng Law, MD, MBBS, FRACR2:45 – 3:00 PM Question and Answer session Faculty3:00 – 3:30 PM refreshment break / visit exhibits3:30 – 4:30 PM Interventional roundtable for Trainees and aspiring Interventional spine Physicians (non-accredited) . Moderators: Lubdha M. Shah, MD, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Mario Muto, MD, A. Orlando Ortiz, MD, MBA, FACR, and Gregg H. Zoarski, MD 4:30 – 6:00 PM Workshop II — (non-accredited) — Located in Grand d6:30 – 8:30 PM Welcome reception for registrants and registered Guests

breaK-ouT sessIon I

10:30 – 10:40 AM LABeL trial and Wilson Approach – Understanding Placebo. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Waleed Brinjikji, MD10:40 – 10:50 AM Cervical Augmentation Giovanni C. Anselmetti, MD10:50 – 11:00 AM Instrumented Augmentation Orlando Ortiz, MD, MBA, FACR11:00 – 11:10 AM Up-to-Date Percutaneous treatment of spinal Instability: Ct-Guided Fixation Luigi Manfre, MD (ESNR)11:10 – 11:20 AM Master Level sacroplasty Keith E. Kortman, MD11:20 – 11:30 AM RFA and Augmentation Jack W. Jennings, MD, PhD11:30 – 11:35 AM Interventional Scientific Presentation11:35 – 11:40 AM Interventional Scientific Presentation11:40 – 11:45 AM Interventional Scientific Presentation 11:45 – 12:00 PM Question and Answer session Faculty

Interventional session II: advanced augmentation (Located in Grand C)Moderators: Sean Tutton, MD and Allan L. Brook, MD, FSIR

10:30 – 10:40 AM Dual energy Ct and the spine (sAMs) Rajiv Gupta, MD, PhD10:40 – 10:50 AM Advanced and Ultrafast MRI Imaging of the Cord including spectroscopy (sAMs) Otto Rapalino, MD10:50 – 11:00 AM Most Common Missed Diagnoses in spine Imaging (sAMs) Paul E. Kim, MD11:00 – 11:10 AM Ultrasound in spine Intraoperative Guidance (sAMs) Lubdha M. Shah, MD11:10 – 11:20 AM Diffusion tensor Imaging of the spine (sAMs) Mahmud Mossa-Bossa, MD, DABR11:20 – 11:30 AM 4D time-resolved MRA of the spine (sAMs) Falgun H. Chokshi, MD11:30 – 11:35 AM Diagnostic Scientific Presentation11:35 – 11:40 AM Diagnostic Scientific Presentation11:40 – 11:45 AM Diagnostic Scientific Presentation 11:35 – 12:00 PM Question and Answer session Faculty

12:00 – 12:30 PM assr annual business Meeting (assr Members only) or Lunch on your own12:30 – 1:00 PM Joint Meeting with other societies (non-accredited)

diagnostic session II: advanced diagnostics (Located in Grand d) Moderators: Allison M. Grayev, MD and Jared Narvid, MD

1:00 – 1:10 PM Ct-Guided Interventions of the Foramen ovale (sAMs) Ramin Sean Pakbaz, MD1:10 – 1:20 PM Brachytherapy for spinal tumors (sAMs) Erik Lise, MD1:20 – 1:30 PM Workup and treatment of symptomatic Dural tears (sAMs) Peter Kranz, MD1:30 – 1:40 PM Interspinous spacers Stefano Marcia, MD1:40 – 1:50 PM treatment of Facet Joint synovial Cysts Keith E. Kortman, MD1:50 – 1:55 PM Interventional Scientific Presentation 1:55 – 2:00 PM Interventional Scientific Presentation2:00 – 2:10 PM Advanced Practitioners; opportunities to enhance Your spine Practice Marion L. Growney MSN, ACNP/Teresa L. Vanderboom MSN, ANP2:10 – 2:20 PM Percutaneous Discectomy: think ozone (sAMs) Mario Muto, MD (ESNR)2:20 – 2:30 PM Ct-Guided spinal Interventions (sAMs) Todd S. Miller, MD2:30 – 2:40 PM MRI-Guided spinal Interventions (sAMs) John A. Carrino, MD2:40 – 2:45 PM Interventional Scientific Presentation2:45 – 3:00 PM Question and Answer session Faculty

Interventional session III: Interventional Potpouri (Located in Grand C) Moderators: David Pasquale, MD and Alyssa T. Watanabe, MD

FrIday, February 24, 20177:00 – 7:55 aM Continental breakfast for registrants7:00 – 7:45 aM breakfast & Learn session — (non-accredited)

7:55 – 8:00 aM Introduction of Keynote speaker . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Joshua A. Hirsch, MD, FACR, FSIR8:00 – 8:30 aM KeynoTe: how Medical device Companies are Planning for value-based Paradigms of the Future (non-accredited) Omar Ishrak, CEO – Medtronic

JoInT sessIon 3: eConoMICs and PoLICy . WhaT you as a sPIne radIoLoGIsT Can’T aFFord noT To KnoW • Moderators: Alexander M. Norbash, MD, and Joachim M. Farhinas, MD

8:30 – 8:40 AM Billing/Coding Update Raymond K. Tu, MD8:40 – 8:50 AM Just Culture and spine Practice H. Benjamin Harvey, MD8:50 – 9:00 AM Pain Medicine Certificate for Radiologists Frederick E. Weiss, MD, PT, DPT, RMSK9:00 – 9:10 AM Update from Washington MACRA and Health Care Reform Gaurang V. Shah, MD9:10 – 9:20 AM “Doctor, You Have a Peer to Peer Review”; the Ugly Face for Medical Management Utilization Bassem A. Georgy, MD9:20 – 9:30 AM spine Care Models: optimizing Delivery and Quality for Next Generation Care Jeffrey A. Stone, MD, FACR9:30 – 9:40 AM Maintenance of Certification; an ABR Update Anne C. Roberts, MD, FACR9:40 – 9:45 AM Scientific Presentation9:45 – 10:00 AM Question and Answer session Faculty10:00 – 10:30 aM refreshment break / visit exhibits

breaK-ouT sessIon II

breaK-ouT sessIon III

1:00 – 1:10 PM Current Landscape of Regenerative Medicine – state of the evidence Christopher R. Hancock, MD1:10 – 1:20 PM Palliative Ct-Guided Cordotomy for Medically Intractable Pain in Cancer Patient Timothy M. Shepard, MD1:20 – 1:30 PM Percutaneous spinal Fixation Bohdan W. Chopko, MD, PhD1:30 – 1:40 PM spinal Metastasis – think Cryoablation Jonathan M. Morris, MD1:40 – 1:50 PM Microwave Ablation of osseous tumors Majid A. Khan, MD1:50 – 1:55 PM Interventional Scientific Presentation 1:55 – 2:00 PM Interventional Scientific Presentation2:00 – 2:10 PM Why and How Interventionalists should Build their stimulator and Pain Pump Practice Doug P. Bealle, MD2:10 – 2:20 PM spinal Cord stim Update: Constant Current vs Constant Voltage Nrupen Baxi, MD2:20 – 2:30 PM spinal Cord stim Update: New DRG stimulators the Future or Just Part of it? Timothy R. Deer, MD2:30 – 2:40 PM High-Frequency stimulation vs Paresthesia-Inducing stimulation for spinal Cord stimulation Edgar L. Ross, MD2:40 – 2:45 PM Interventional Scientific Presentation2:45 – 3:00 PM Question and Answer session Faculty

Interventional session Iv: new Technologies--Focus on stimulators (Located in Grand C) Moderators: Donald F. Schomer, MD, MBA and John T. Wald, MD

3:00 – 3:30 PM refreshment break / visit exhibits

3:30 – 5:00 PM Multidisciplinary Case Management Conference Moderators: Kent B. Remley, MD (Chair) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . John L. Go, MD, FACR, Roland R. Lee, MD,FACR, Ronil V. Chandra, MBBS, FRANZCR5:00 – 6:30 PM Workshop III — (non-accredited) Located in Grand d

saTurday, February 25, 2017 7:00 – 7:55 aM Continental breakfast for registrants7:00 – 7:55 aM breakfast & Learn session — (non-accredited)

8:00 – 8:20 AM sPeCIaL LeCTure: Understanding the Role of Placebo and Nocebo in Interventional spine Laxmaiah Manchikanti, MD

JoInT sessIon 5: euroPe vs . us • Moderators: Johan W. Van Goethem MD, PhD, and Adam E. Flanders, MD, and Richard H. Wiggins, III, MD, CIIP, FSIIM8:20 – 10:00 AM A “Fun-Filled” Interactive session Featuring transatlantic talent that You Won’t Want to Miss! Faculty10:00 – 10:15 aM refreshment break / visit exhibits

10:15 – 10:30 aM Gold Medal Lecture

JoInT sessIon 6: MuLTIdIsCIPLInary onCoLoGy For The sPIne sPeCIaLIsT • Moderators: William P. Dillon, MD and Charles Kerber, MD10:30 – 10:45 AM spine Imaging – An oncologist’s Perspective Kevin T. Murphy, MD10:45 – 11:00 AM the oncologic spine: A surgeon’s Perspective Sunil P. Jeswani, MD 11:00 – 11:15 AM Multidiscipinary spine oncology: Radiology’s Role Wende N. Gibbs, MD11:15 – 11:30 AM Interventional techniques for Palliation in the oncologic Patient; Changing Lives Allan L. Brook, MD, FSIR11:30 – 11:45 AM Building Bridges Instead of Burning them: Cancer Pain as a Model for true Interdisciplinary Care Mihir Kamdar, MD11:45 – 12:00 PM Question and Answer session Faculty

12:00 – 1:00 PM Lunch and Learn session - Tbd (non- accredited) or Lunch on your own

sPeCIaL JoInT sessIon 4: MuLTIdIsCIPLInary Case ManaGeMenT ConFerenCe

breaK-ouT sessIon III (ConTInued)

1:00 – 1:20 PM special Lecture: Vascular Diseases of the Pediatric spinal Cord (sAMs) Susan Palasis, MD1:20 – 1:30 PM Interpreting the Pediatric Cervical spine: Pearls and Pitfalls (sAMs) David Mirsky, MD1:30 – 1:40 PM Pediatric Cervical spine trauma (sAMs) V. Michelle Silvera, MD1:40 – 1:50 PM Childhood Myelopathy Sarah S. Milla, MD1:50 – 1:55 PM Diagnostic Scientific Presentation 1:55 – 2:00 PM Diagnostic Scientific Presentation2:00 – 2:10 PM Infectious and Inflammatory Conditions of the Pediatric Spine (sAMs) Asim F. Choudhri, MD2:10 – 2:20 PM Pediatric Intramedullary tumors (sAMs) Aylin Tekes, MD2:20 – 2:30 PM Pediatric extramedullary tumors (sAMs) Laura L. Hayes, MD2:30 – 2:40 PM the Role of Nuclear Medicine in the evaluation of Pediatric spinal Disease Adina Alazraki, MD, FAAP2:40 – 2:45 PM Diagnostic Scientific Presentation2:45 – 3:00 PM Question and Answer session Faculty

diagnostic session III: deep dive on Pediatric spine (Located in Grand d)Moderators: Jeffrey H. Miller, MD, Mai-Lan Ho, MD, and Dennis Shaw, MD

breaK-ouT sessIon Iv

3:00 – 3:30 PM refreshment break / visit exhibits

3:30 – 5:00 PM Workshop Iv – (non-accredited) - Located in Grand d

5:15 – 6:45 PM Workshop v – (non-accredited) - Located in Grand d

7:00 – 9:30 PM Closing Party

sunday, February 26, 2017 7:00 – 7:55 aM Continental breakfast for registrants

JoInT sessIon 7: assr on The CuTTInG edGe; FroM researCh To PoLICy • Moderators: Roland R. Lee, MD, FACR and Bassem A. Georgy, MD

8:00 – 8:25 AM KeynoTe: Normal and Pathological Anatomical Features of the spine that Affect CsF oscillatory Flow Victor M. Haughton, MD8:25 – 8:45 AM Physics of oscillatory CsF Flow Kent-Andre Mardal, PhD8:45 – 9:00 AM CsF Pressure Waves, a Hydrodynamic Factor that Impacts the spinal Cord Erika K. Lindstrom, PhD9:00 – 9:15 AM simulation – Is it Ready for Prime time in spine Interventions? Allan L. Brook, MD, FSIR9:15 – 9:30 AM Radiation Risk to spine Interventionalists Kieran P.J. Murphy, MD, FRCPC9:30 – 9:45 AM Debate: the Multi-society Pain Workgroup – AssR is a Participating society--Was that the Right Decision? Gregory J. Lawler, MD9:45 – 10:00 AM Debate: Why the MPW is Harmful for Interventional Pain specialists Including AssR Members Standiford Helm II, MD10:00 – 10:30 aM refreshment break / visit exhibits

JoInT sessIon 8: a sIMuLTaneous LooK To The PasT and FuTure • Moderators: Charles Kerber, MD and Joshua A. Hirsch, MD, FACR, FSIR

10:30 – 10:45 AM Best Articles in spine Imaging 2016 Jeffrey S. Ross, MD10:45 – 11:00 AM Best Articles in spine Intervention 2016 Huy M. Do, MD11:00 – 11:15 AM systems errors in spine Imaging Anandh G. Rajamohan, MD11:15 – 11:30 AM spine Imaging: What is the Innovation We Will be Discussing at this Meeting in 2018? Majda M. Thurnher, MD (ESNR)11:30 – 11:45 AM spine Intervention: What is the Innovation We Will be Discussing at this Meeting in 2018? John D. Barr, MD, FACR, FSIR, FAHA11:45 – 12:00 AM Meeting Highlights and Closing thoughts Joshua A. Hirsch, MD, FACR, FSIR12:00 PM 2017 ANNUAL sYMPosIUM CoNCLUDes

breaK-ouT sessIon Iv (ConTInued)

1:00 – 1:20 PM special Lecture: How I As An MsK Radiologist Look at spinal MRI Richard J. Herzog, MD, FACR1:20 – 1:30 PM Diagnosis, Follow-Up and treatment of Cervical Arterial Dissections Gregg H. Zoarski, MD1:30 – 1:40 PM Don’t Miss this Unexpected Finding – the tethered Cord Paul A. Caruso, MD1:40 – 1:50 PM spontaneous spinal Hematoma: 3 Clinical Radiological Pearls Ronil V. Chandra, MBBS, FRANZCR1:50 – 1:55 PM Diagnostic Scientific Presentation 1:55 – 2:00 PM Diagnostic Scientific Presentation2:00 – 2:10 PM Whiplash: Current Concepts and Investigational techniques Edward P. Quigley III, MD, PhD2:10 – 2:20 PM Post-operative spine Imaging: Constructs and Complications Amish H. Doshi, MD2:20 – 2:30 PM The 2 Big S’s of Symptomatic Spine: Inflammatory Spondyloarthropathies and Spinal Infection Jason F. Talbott, MD, PhD2:30 – 2:40 PM Cervical spondylotic Myelopathy – a surgeon’s Perspective Erica F. Bisson, MD2:40 – 2:45 PM Diagnostic Scientific Presentation2:45 – 3:00 PM Question and Answer session Faculty

diagnostic session Iv: Learnings I Can use When I Get back to My Practice (Located in Grand d)Moderators: Michele H. Johnson, MD and Mark Stern, MD