Spine Day 2025

Milwaukee, WI US
October 3, 2025
MCW Spine Research Day will be a one day CE course reviewing multiple relevant areas to the practitioner managing spine related conditions. The day will be made up of several presentations from a variety of professions. The theme for this year’s event is optimizing the peri-operative period.

Target Audience

  • Medical Doctors
  • Chiropractors
  • Physician Assistants
  • Nurse Practitioners
  • Physical Therapists
  • Athletic Trainers

Learning Objectives

Participants who engage in this learning intervention will be able to:

  • Attendees will be able to identify predictors of back pain in adolescents as well as overall prevalence.
  • List benefits of pain psychology in adolescents with back pain and incorporate techniques to navigate this recommendation with patients and families.
  • List benefits of deformity correction for adolescents and describe long term complications in adulthood.
Additional information

Contact

Name: 
Allison Schroeder
Phone Number: 
+1 (414) 955-0952
Course summary
Available credit: 
  • 4.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™
    AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™
  • 4.50 Hours of Participation
    Hours of Participation credit.
  • 4.50 Physical Therapist
Course opens: 
06/26/2025
Course expires: 
11/17/2025
Event starts: 
10/03/2025 - 8:30am CDT
Event ends: 
10/03/2025 - 2:00pm CDT
Cost:
$4.00

7:00-7:50 AM 

 Registration and Breakfast 

7:50-8:00 AM 

Opening Remarks (Not for CE) 

Shelly Timmons, MD, PhD

Jeffrey King, DC, MS 

8:00-8:20 AM 

Prevalence and burden of back pain in adolescents 

Jeffrey King, DC, MS 

8:20-8:30 AM 

Platform Presentation -Providence Bracing in Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis: A Scoping Review 

Jacob Kodra 

8:30-8:50 AM 

Physical Therapy Intervention for the Adolescent Back Pain Patien

Kaitlin Hong DPT 

8:50-9:00 AM 

Platform Presentation-From bad to worse: Defining the impact of concomitant spinal cord injury and traumatic brain injury 

Shannon Kafura 

9:00-9:20 AM 

Considerations for the adolescent spinal cord injury patient 

Colton Sauer MD 

9:20AM-10:20AM

Keynote: Low Back Pain and Spondylolysis in the Pediatric Patient 

Anastasia Fischer MD, FAAFP, FASCM 

10:20AM-11:30 AM 

Break/ Lunch/ Poster Break

11:30-11:40 AM 

Platform Presentation-Cervical Spinal Pathology & Neck Disability in Fighter Pilots: Associations Between MRI Findings & NDI Correlates 

Ji Ho Lee 

11:40 AM-12:00 PM 

Back to the Barre – a discussion of spinal concerns in dancers 

Heather Curtiss, MD 

12:00-12:20 AM 

 Anterior Vertebral Body Tethering - The Search for the Holy Grail Continues 

Ben Esscott MD 

12:20-12:30 PM 

Platform presentation-Innovative AI Framework for the Rigo Classification System 

Greg Johnson 

12:30-12:40 PM

Break

12:40-1:20PM

Deformity surgery: perspectives of a pediatric and adult spine surgeon 

Channing Tassone MD and Christopher Wolfla MD 

1:20-1:30PM

Platform Presentation- Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonists and Postoperative Outcomes Following Laminectomy in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes: A Retrospective Cohort Study 

Ankit Choudhury 

1:30-1:50 PM 

Beyond Biomechanics: Biopsychosocial Science in Adolescent Back Pain Care

Nicholas D. Young, Ph.D

1:50 -2:00 PM

Closing remarks

Medical College of Wisconsin, Medical Education Building -Kerrigan Auditorium - M1540
8701 W. Watertown Plank Road
Milwaukee, WI 53226
United States
+1 (414) 955-0950
Activity Director:
Jeff King DC, MS
 

Planning Committee:

Karin Swartz MD
Heather Curtiss MD
Nicole Trochil DC
Pam Fleckenstein PT
Narayan Yoganandan PhD
Antje Kroner PhD

 

 

In accordance with the ACCME® Standards for Integrity and Independence in Accredited Continuing Education, Standard 3, all persons in control of content must disclose any relevant financial relationships. It is the policy of the Medical College of Wisconsin to identify, mitigate and disclose the absence or presence of all relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies held by the speakers/presenters, authors, planners, and other persons who may influence content of this accredited continuing education. The following in control of content had no relevant financial relationships to disclose. 

Jeff King DC, MS 
Karin Swartz, MD
Jacob Kodra 
Shannon Kafura 
Christopher Wolfla MD 
Ankit Choudhury
Stacey Birchbauer
Gregory Johnson
Ji Ho Lee

 

The following persons in control of content disclosed the following financial relationships which were reviewed via the MCW conflict of interest mitigation process and addressed:

 

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ACCME Accreditation Statement:

The Medical College of Wisconsin is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.


AMA Credit Designation Statement:

The Medical College of Wisconsin designates this Live Activity for a maximum of 4.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.  Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Hours of Participation for Allied Health Care Professionals
The Medical College of Wisconsin designates this activity for up to 4.50 hours of participation for continuing education for allied health professionals.

 

For Chiropractors:

This program has been approved for 4.50 CE credits by the Chiropractic Examining Board of the State of Wisconsin.

 

For Physical Therapists:

This program has been approved for 4.50 CE credits by the Wisconsin Physical Therapy Association. 

 

 

 

Available Credit

  • 4.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™
    AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s)™
  • 4.50 Hours of Participation
    Hours of Participation credit.
  • 4.50 Physical Therapist

Price

Cost:
$4.00
Please login or register to take this course.

General Registration

$50.00

Wisconsin Chiropractic Association (WCA) Members 

$25.00

REGISTRATION:

Register at ocpe.mcw.edu/neurosurgery. If you don’t have an account, click “Create New Visitor Account” in the lower right corner. Once your account is created, select Spine Day 2025 under “Featured Courses,” register, and follow the prompts. 

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