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Dr. Michael Vitale speaks at the Global Spine Outreach Symposium

October 30, 2017

Dr. Michael Vitale spoke at the Global Spine Outreach Symposium in Mexico City.  He spoke on

          Surgical Strategies and Techniques for Treating Early Onset Scoliosis: An Update
          Landing Safely Every Time: Lessons Learned from Aviation
          Early Onset Techniques
Please see attached agenda here for the entire symposium.
GSO’s mission is to “transform the lives of children with severe spinal deformities worldwide by performing state-of-the-art surgeries free of charge.”
For more about GSO, please visit their Facebook page here.
Also check out this TV interview below and Newspaper interview here that were done while there.

 

Courtesy of collaboration with Columbia Orthopedics Site

 

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