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9/26/2016 (cjh) RandalR.Betz,M.D.HomeAddress: 50730thStreet,OceanCity,NJ08226
Tel.(609)398-0070BusinessAddress: InstituteforSpineandScoliosis 3100PrincetonPike,Lawrenceville,NJ08648 Tel.609-912-1500,FAX609-912-1600 Email:[email protected]: Philadelphia,PABirthDate: January9,1952CitizenshipStatus: USAMilitaryService: NoneMaritalStatus: Married(Betsey) 4children(Christine,RandalJr.,Aimee,Laurie) 13grandchildrenAPPOINTMENTSInstituteforSpineandScoliosis,Lawrenceville,NJ PediatricScoliosisandSpineSurgeon 2014-PresentIcahnSchoolofMedicineatMountSinai ClinicalProfessor(Voluntary),DepartmentofOrthopaedics 2014–PresentMountSinaiHospital ActiveStaff,DepartmentofOrthopaedics 2015–PresentSt.Peter’sUniversityHospital 2015–Present ActiveStaff,DepartmentofSurgeryPrincetonHealthCareSystem,Plainsboro,NJ 2014–Present AffiliateStaff,DepartmentofSurgery, SectionofOrthopaedicSurgery
RandalR.Betz,MD 2TempleUniversitySchoolofMedicine,Philadelphia
ProfessorofOrthopaedicSurgery 1997–PresentAssociateProfessorofOrthopaedicSurgery 1991–1997AssistantProfessorofOrthopaedicSurgery 1985–1991
St.Christopher’sHospitalforChildren,Philadelphia,PA Courtesystaff,DepartmentofSurgery(Orthopaedics) 2015–Present Consultingstaff,DepartmentofSurgery(Orthopaedics) 1984–2015DrexelUniversityCollegeofMedicine,Philadelphia,PA ClinicalAssistantProfessorofOrthopaedicSurgery 2001–PresentTempleUniversityHospital,Philadelphia StaffOrthopaedicSurgeon 1998–PresentShrinersHospitalsforChildren,Philadelphia ChiefofStaffEmeritus 2012–2014 MedicalDirectorofResearch 2012–2014 MedicalDirectorofSpinalCordInjuryUnit 1983–2014 ChiefofStaff 2000–2012 AssistantChiefofStaff 1988–1999 StaffOrthopaedicSurgeon 1983–1987ShrinersHospitalsforChildren,Greenville ConsultingMedicalStaff 2007-2014ShrinersBurnsHospital,Boston ConsultingMedicalStaff 2008–2014ShrinersHospitalsforChildren,Tampa ConsultingMedicalStaff 2007–2014MassachusettsGeneralHospital 2008–2014 ConsultantinSurgery(SurgeryService)TempleUniversityChildren'sMedicalCenter,Philadelphia,PA StaffOrthopaedicSurgeon(hospitalclosed2002) 1998–2002
RandalR.Betz,MD 3EDUCATIONANDTRAININGUndergraduateSchool
PennsylvaniaStateUniversityStateCollege,PA
BS,Pre-Med,1973Graduate/ProfessionalSchool
TempleUniversitySchoolofMedicinePhiladelphia,PAMD,1977
GraduateMedicalEducation
Internship,GeneralSurgeryTempleUniversityHospitalPhiladelphia,PA,1977-1978
Residency,OrthopaedicSurgeryTempleUniversityHospitalPhiladelphia,PA,1978-1982
Fellowship,PediatricOrthopaedicsAlfredI.duPontInstituteWilmington,DE,1982-1983
PostdoctoralFellowshipExperience
ABCTravelingFellowship,1989NorthAmericanTravelingFellowship,1984Berg-SloatTravelingFellowship,1983
Licensures Pennsylvania MD020978E NewJersey 25MA07977600 SouthCarolina 29608
PuertoRico 15835Florida ME98616 NewYork 246151-1Massachusetts 230015NationalBoardofExaminers 189055DEA AB8263852
RandalR.Betz,MD 4
CDS#ofNewjersey D10351000NPI# 1851369979
BoardCertification
AmericanBoardofOrthopaedicSurgery,Jul.1985(grandfatheredforlife;volunteerrecertified1998)
AmericanBoardofPhysicalMedicineandRehabilitation:SpinalCordInjuryMedicine,Nov.1998;recertified2009-2019
ProfessionalHonorsandAwards ScoliosisResearchSocietyLifetimeAchievementAward,2015 ScoliosisResearchSociety,SeniorMentor,SRSTravelingFellowship,2013 AmericanSpinalInjuryAssociationLifetimeAchievementAward,2009 TopDoc,PhiladelphiaMagazine,May2004;May2005,May2006,May2007,May2008, May2009,May2010,May2011 A.EstinComarrMemorialAwardforClinicalService,AmericanParaplegiaSociety,2003AcademicHonorsandAwards
AlphaEpsilonDelta(InternationalPremedicalHonorSociety)PhiEtaSigma(FreshmanHonorSociety)AlphaOmegaAlpha1977(HonorMedicalSociety)PhiLambdaUpsilon(HonorChemicalSociety)
PROFESSIONALORGANIZATIONS:Local,Regional,National• AmericanAcademyforCerebralPalsyandDevelopmentalMedicine 1991–Present Emeritus2014–Present Active1991–2014• AmericanAcademyofOrthopaedicSurgeons 1987–Present
ProgramCommittee,Pediatrics,1991-1992 CommitteeonEvaluations1986-1992
• AmericanParaplegiaSociety Boardmember-at-large2009 BoardofDirectors2007-2008
ResearchCommittee1993-1995• AmericanSpinalInjuryAssociation
BoardofDirectors1997-2001 SpineCommittee1997-2000[Chair],2007-2008
• BritishScoliosisSociety(honorarymember),2001&2005• CollegeofPhysiciansofPhiladelphia• InternationalFunctionalElectricalStimulationSociety• InternationalSpinalCordSociety
RandalR.Betz,MD 5• NorthAmericanSpineSociety
CommitteeonInstructionalCourses,1994-1995 ProgramChair,NASS/JSRSSpineAcrosstheSea,1994 InstructionalCourseCommittee1994
• OrthopaedicIn-TrainingExamination,QuestionWriter1996-2000• OrthopaedicResearchandEducationFoundation Member,ShandsCircle,2005-Present• PediatricOrthopaedicSocietyofNorthAmerica ResearchCommittee,2001-2005
Chair,ScientificProgramCommitteeforCombined MeetingofEPOS/POSNA,1990
• PhiladelphiaOrthopaedicSociety ProgramChair1985-1986
• ScoliosisResearchSociety 1986-Present SeniorMentor,SRSTravelingFellowship,2013 PastPresident2006-2009 President,2005 President-Elect,2004 FirstVice-President,2003 BoardMember-At-Large,2002 Fellowship(Membership)Committee1996-2000 (Chair2000)
EducationCommitteeChair,1988 ProgramCommittee,1993-1995 PedicleFixationoftheLumbarSpine Chair,1986-1993 InternationalMeetingofAdvancedSpineTechniques EmeritusChair,2003-Present Chair,1994-2002 StandingCommittee,2007-2009
WorldwideCourseCommittee Chair,2004-2007 BoardLiaison,2007-2009 LongRangePlanningCommittee Chair,2005-2007 NewsletterCommittee BoardLiaison,2007-2009 WebsiteCommittee BoardLiaison,2007-2009 SpinalCordMonitoringCommittee BoardLiaison,2007-2009
RandalR.Betz,MD 6• SpinalDeformityEducationGroup Chair,Jan.2003-Dec.2004 FirstVice-Chair,2001-2003 BoardofDirectors2000-2001COMMITTEESProfessional• Reviewer,2009CongressionallyDirectedMedicalResearchPrograms(CDMRP)SpinalCord
InjuryResearchProgramExploratoryHypothesisDevelopmentAward-RehabilitationandOutcomeMeasures
• EditorialBoard,SpineUniverse(2000-2013)• EditorialBoard,JournalofPediatricOrthopaedics(1999-present)• AssociateEditor,SpinalFrontiers• ReviewerforJournalofBoneandJointSurgery(through6/2006),Spine(through6/2006), JournalofPediatricOrthopaedics(through6/2006),Orthopedics(through2/2004)UniversityMember,ENTSearchCommittee,TempleUniversityHospital,1995Member,AnesthesiaSearchCommittee,TempleUniversityHospital,1987Member,RadiologySearchCommittee,TempleUniversityHospital,1989Chair,CommitteefortheJohnW.LachmanEndowedChairforOrthopaedics, TempleUniversityHospital,1987-1989Co-Chair,CommitteefortheG.DeanMacEwenEndowedChairforOrthopaedics, LouisianaStateUniversityMedicalCenter,1992-2003PROFESSIONALACTIVITIESResearchGrantSupport:ShrinersHospitalsMulcaheyMJ,HaleyS,BetzR,KozinS,JamesM,HartD,OtsukaN,LawrenceJ,VogelL,SturmP,MontpetitK,BilodeauN,BenarochT,CantinM,ChantaleJ,GogolaG,HamdyR:Multicenterproject:Acomputeradaptivetesting(CAT)platformfortheassessmentofphysicalfunctioningofchildrenwithcerebralpalsy.ShrinersHospitalsforChildren2012:$150,685;2011:$161,728;2010:$161,728.MulcaheyMJ(PI),SamdaniAF,HunterL,MohamedFB,BetzR,FaroS,SmithB.Diffusiontensorimagingandthepediatricspinalcord:validityandreliabilitytestingwithestablishmentof
RandalR.Betz,MD 7classificationforpediatricspinalcordinjury.ShrinersHospitalsforChildren2011:$73,962;2010:$133,623;2009:$99,000.AndersonC,RussellH,DaharshE,KlaasS,BatlleE,GarmaS,MulcaheyMJ,BetzR,McDonaldC,VogelL:Relationshipbetweensocialparticipation,qualityoflife,andpsychosocialfactorsofchildrenandadolescentswithspinalcordinjuriesandtheircaregivers.ShrinersHospitalsforChildren2010:$7,774.MulcaheyMJ,HaleyS,ChafetzR,AndersonC,TuckerC,BetzR,VogelL,McDonaldC:Developmentandvalidationofcomputeradaptivetestingforassessmentofactivityperformance,participation,andqualityoflifeinpediatricSCI.ShrinersHospitalsforChildren2010:$107,672.BetzR,TuckerC,MulcaheyMJ,McCarthyJ,JohnstonT,ShewokisT,EngsbergJR,RossS,GatesP:Multicenterproject:Supportedspeedtreadmilltrainingexerciseprogram(SSTTEP)formarginallyambulatorychildrenwithcerebralpalsy.ShrinersHospitalsforChildren2010:$14,652.RuggieriM,BetzR,PontariM,BravermanA,KozinS,SmithB,BarbeM:Feasibilityofsomaticnervetransferforurinarybladderreinnervation:preludeforrestorationofbladderemptyingwithfunctionalelectricalstimulation.ShrinersHospitalsforChildren2009:$207,646.McDonaldC,MulcaheyMJ,BetzRR,VogelL:ProgressivespinaldeformityinpediatricSCI:effectoftreatmentonnaturalhistory,functionandselfappraisedqualityoflife(Project#9155).ShrinersHospitalsforChildren2008:$32,475;2007:$90,176;2006:$100,768;2005:$84,800.MulcaheyMJ,HaleyS,ChafetzR,AndersonC,TuckerC,BetzR,VogelL,McDonaldC:developmentandvalidationofcomputeradaptiveassessmentactivity,performanceparticipation,andqualityoflifeinpediatricSCI(Project#9146).ShrinersHospitalsforChildren2008:$182,998;2007:$184,267.MulcaheyMJ,BetzRR,SmithBT,VogelL:Multi-centerproject:Theinternationalstandardsforneurologicalclassificationofspinalcordinjury:reliabilitytestingwhenappliedtochildrenandyouth(Project#8956).ShrinersHospitalsforChildren,2008:$49,130;2007:$55,414;2006:$53,800.BetzRR(PI):Conference:12thannualconferenceoftheInternationalFunctionalElectricalStimulationSociety.ShrinersHospitalsforChildren2007:$26,000.
RandalR.Betz,MD 8BetzRR,MulcaheyMJ,SmithB,GaughanJ:Prospectivecomparisonbetweenvertebralbodystaplingandthoracolumbosacralbracingintreatmentofyouthwithidiopathicscoliosis(Project#8951/9098).ShrinersHospitalsforChildren2007:$21,235;2006:$50,000.LauerRT,JohnstonT,BetzRR,MulcaheyMJ,SmithBT:Lowerextremitycyclingwithelectricalstimulationtoimprovehealthandfitnessofchildrenwithspinalcordinjuries(Project#9190).ShrinersHospitalsforChildren,2006:$202,125;2005:$385,550;2004:$430,475.MulcaheyMJ,BetzRR:The9thInternationalConferenceofUpperLimbSurgeryinTetraplegia(Project#8430).ShrinersHospitalsforChildren2006:$20,000.MulcaheyMJ,BetzRR:TheHowardH.SteelConference:InjuriesandDysfunctionoftheSpinalCordinChildren(Project#8431).ShrinersHospitalsforChildren2006:$20,000.LeeS,BendaB,McCarthyJJ,BetzRR:Strengthtrainingusingelectricalstimulationforchildrenwithcerebralpalsy.ShrinersHospitalsforChildren,2006:$84,350;2005:$42,350;2004:$206,977.McCarthyJJ,BendaB,BetzRR,SmithBT,ShewokisP,LaughtonC:Electricalstimulationgaittrainingtoeffectimprovementsinwalkingfunctionandpostureforchildrenwithcerebralpalsy.ShrinersHospitalsforChildren,2006:$191,299;2005:$206,371;2004:$231,373.RuggieriMR,BravermanAS,BarbeM,BetzRR,D’AndreaL,KozinS,SmithBT,PontariMA:Feasibilityofsomaticnervetransferforurinarybladderreinnervation:preludeforrestorationofbladderemptyingwithfunctionalelectricalstimulation(Project#8510).ShrinersHospitalsforChildren,2006:$241,178;2005:$230,361;2004:$255,806;2003:$192,189;2002:$183,989;2001:$182,681.AntonacciMD,BetzRR:Transplantationofunmodifiedhumanmarrowstromalcellsafteranacutethoracicspinalcordhemi-sectioninjuryinaratmodel.ShrinersHospitalsforChildren,2004:$10,417.BetzRR,MulcaheyMJ,McCarthyJJ:Functionalneuromuscularstimulationforchildrenwithspinalcordinjuriesandcerebralpalsy.ShrinersHospitalsforChildren2003:$600,000;2002:$827,634;2001:$803,001;2000:$775,846;1999:$749,610;1998:$661,541;1997:$500,000;1996:$509,876;1995:$600,000.TrioloRJ,BetzRR:Functionalneuromuscularstimulationofthelowerextremitiesinchildrenwithspinalcordinjury.ShrinersHospitalsforChildren:1994:$681,150;1993:$695,354;1992:$668,610;1991:$552,729;1990:$541,043;1989:$506,020;1988:$386,880;1987:$316,460;1986:$286,000.
RandalR.Betz,MD 9BetzRR,TrioloRJ:Developmentofgraspandupperextremitycontrolwithfunctionalneuromuscularstimulationinchildren.ShrinersHospitalsforChildren:1994:$225,000;1993:$286,000;1992:$275,000;1991:$136,450;1990:$115,386;1989:$83,470.ResearchGrantSupport:IndustryandOtherOrganizationsBetzRR:Acomparisonbetweenthevertebralbodywedgesystemandstandardanteriorinstrumentationforcorrectionofparalyticscoliosisinchildrenandadolescents.MedtronicSofamorDanek,Memphis,TNBetzRR(asamemberoftheHarmsStudyGroup):ProspectivetestingofthealgorithmoftreatmentbasedontheHarmsScoliosisStudyGroupclassificationsystemofoperativeidiopathicscoliosisandAnteriorinstrumentationforcorrectionofidiopathicscoliosis.DePuy-Spine,Inc.,Raynham,MA.$80,800annually,2002-Present.BetzRR(asamemberoftheChestWallandSpineDeformityStudyGroup):EvaluationoftheSynthesverticalexpandableprosthetictitaniumribinchildrenwiththoracicdeformity(IRB#3931).SynthesSpine,Inc.,Paoli,PA.$82,238annually,2004-present.BetzRRandothers:EvaluationoftheeffectivenessofusingthePediGuardforpediclescrewinsertion(IRB#4727).SpineVision,Inc.,Paris,France.$29,600,2005-present.BetzRRandothers:APhaseIImulti-center,randomized,controlledstudytoevaluatethesafetyandefficacyofautologousincubatedmacrophagesforthetreatmentofpatientswithacompletespinalcordinjury(IRB#4405).Proneuron,Inc.,Ness-Ziona,Israel.$1,108,100,2004–2006.KozinSH,MulcaheyMJ,BetzRR:Restorationofelbowextensioninchildrenwithtetraplegia:aprospectivecomparisonofthedeltoidtotricepsandbicepstotricepstransfer.AmericanSocietyforSurgeryoftheHand,1999-2001:$20,000.BetzRR:Efficacyofvideoassistedthoracoscopy(VATS)ascomparedtoopenlateralthoracotomy(OLT)forspinalvisualizationandaccesstoperformmulti-leveldiscectomiesandfusionforthecorrectionofscoliosis.TempleUniversitySchoolofMedicine:Jun.1995-Jun.1996:$3,000;SofamorDanekUSA:$3,000.
BetzRR,LongeneckerS:Theroleofischemiainsomatosensoryevokedpotentials.TempleUniversitySchoolofMedicine:1986:$2,700.
RandalR.Betz,MD 10PatentsBetzRR,BodenS,GuptaM,O’BrienM,SandhuH,ShelokovA,ShelokovG,SybertDR,VaccaroA,WeiG,BoyceTM,CohenR,RichardC,ShimpLA:Deliverysystems,tools,andmethodsofuse(PatentNo.9,220,598).Dateofpatent:Dec.29,2015.MorrisJW,KnaackDA,ShimpLA,BehnamK,SkinnerRP,BetzRR:Hemostaticbonegraft(PatentNumber:US8,545,864).Dateofpatent:Oct.1,2013.BetzR,MolzFJ:Orthopaedicscrewsystemwithlinearmotion(PatentNumber:US8,317,830).Dateofpatent:Nov.27,2012.BetzR,MolzFJ,JustisJR:Systemsandmethodsforuseinspinalsupport(PatentNumber:US8,298,264).Dateofpatent:Oct.30,2012.BetzRR,BodenS,ClarkC,ForsythF,MorrisJW,TraianedesK:Osteoimplantsandmethodsfortheirmanufacture(PatentNumber:US8,268,008).Dateofpatent:Sep.18,2012.DenoziereG,BetzR:Patient-specificspinalimplantsandrelatedsystemsandmethods(PatentNumber:US8,246,680).Dateofpatent:Aug.28,2012.ChaoNT,HubbardD,RybickiC,SacherR,DonahueJR,SiuS,BetzR:Instrumentsandmethodsformanipulatingvertebra(PatentNumber:US8,007,516).Dateofpatent:Aug.30,2011.ChaoNT,HubbardD,RybickyC,SacherR,DonahueJR,SiuS,BetzR:Instrumentsandmethodsformanipulatingvertebra(PatentNumber:US7,951,175).Dateofpatent:May31,2011.ChaoNT,HubbardD,RybickyC,SacherR,DonahueJR,SiuS,BetzR:Instrumentsandmethodsformanipulatingvertebra(PatentNumber:US7,951,168).Dateofpatent:May31,2011.ChaoNT,SiuS,SacherR,GurleyJP,BetzR,NewtonPO:Constrainedmotionbonescrewassembly(PatentNumber:US9,095,379).Dateofpatent:May31,2011.LauerR,SmithBT,BetzRR:Neuralprosthesiswithfuzzylogiccontrolsystem(PatentNumberUS7,398,255).Dateofpatent:Jul.8,2008.BetzRR,ShermanMC,DrewryT:Methodsandapparatusforfusionlesstreatmentofspinaldeformities(PatentNumber:US6,623,484).Dateofpatent:Sep.23,2003.
RandalR.Betz,MD 11SmithBT,McGeeB,DouglasJ,BetzRR,IgnatoskiM:Portablefunctionalelectricalstimulation(FES)systemforupperorlowerextremityapplications(PatentNumber:US6,424,868).Dateofpatent:Jul.23,2002.BetzR,ShermanMC,DrewryT:Methodsandapparatusforfusionlesstreatmentofspinaldeformities(PatentNumber:US6,287,308).Dateofpatent:Sep.11,2001.BetzRR,ShermanMC,DrewryT:Methodsandapparatusforfusionlesstreatmentofspinaldeformities(PatentNumber:US5,951,553).Dateofpatent:Sep.14,1999.SmithBT,McGeeB,DouglasJ,BetzRR,IgnatoskiM:Portablefunctionalelectricalstimulation(FES)forupperandlowerextremityapplications(PatentNumber:US5,861,017).Dateofpatent:Jan.19,1999.PUBLICATIONSBooks,Monographs,ChaptersSamdaniAF,SponsellerPD,NewtonPO,BetzRR,ShufflebargerHL(eds.).NeuromuscularSpineDeformity.NewYork:ThiemeMedicalPublishers,inpress.• BetzRR,SamdaniAF:Neuromuscularscoliosis:introduction• MiyanjiF,BetzRR:Uniquechallengeswithscoliosisanddislocatedhips,ch.6• PahysJM,SamdaniAF,BetzRR:Thepatientwithspinalcordinjury:surgical
considerations,ch.10CahillPJ,TrobischPD,BetzRR,SamdaniAF:Adolescentscoliosis.InMinimallyInvasiveSpineSurgery:SurgicalTechniquesandDiseaseManagement(PhillipsFM,LiebermanI,PollyDW,eds.).NewYork:Springer,inpress.BetzRR:Anteriorapproachtoscoliosis,ch.156.INOperativeOrthopaedics,3rded.(SchaferMF,ButlerJP,eds.).Philadelphia:Lippincott-RavenPublishers,inpress.MulcaheyMJ,BetzRR,BrydenA,CalhounC,LavelleW,Schmidt-ReadM,StiefboldG.Orthotics,ch.36.In:Harvinder,Singh,Chhabra(eds.).ISCoSTextbookonComprehensiveManagementofSpinalCordInjury.NewDelhi:WoltersKluwer,2015,pp.558-579.BetzRR,MurrayHH:Orthopaediccomplications,ch.18.InSpinalCordInjuryintheChildandYoungAdult(VogelLC,ZebrackiK,BetzRR,MulcaheyMJ,eds.)London:MacKeithPress,Jan.27,2015.
RandalR.Betz,MD 12BetzRR:SeveredeformityfromCharcotspineinapatientwithspinalcordinjury,ch.17.INComplexSpineCases(ed.GuptaM,VaccaroAR,GuptaS).London,UK:JaypeeBrothersMedicalPublishers,Jan.2015.BetzRR,NewtonPO,D’AndreaLP,ClementsDH,GrewalH:Anteriorsurgeryforthoracicscoliosis,ch.15.InSpinalDeformity:TheEssentials,2nded.NewYork,NY:ThiemeMedicalPublishers,Aug.2014,pp.144-153.VogelLC,BetzRR,MulcaheyMJ:Spinalcordinjuriesinchildrenandadolescents,ch.8.InVol.109:SpinalCordInjury,1sted.,HandbookofClinicalNeurologySeries(VerhaagenJ,McDonaldJWIII,eds.).Elsevier,Nov.2012.SamdaniAF,HwangSW,MulcaheyMJ,BetzRR:Pediatricspinalcordinjury.IN:TheCervicalSpine,5thed.(BenzelEC,ed.).Philadelphia:LippincottWilliams&Wilkins,Aug.2012.TheTextbookofSpinalSurgery,3rded.(BridwellKH&DeWaldRW,eds.).Philadelphia:LippincottWilliams&Wilkins,Dec.2011.• ClementsDH,SamdaniAF,BetzRR:Thoracoplasty• NewtonPO,BetzRR,ClementsDH:Openandthoracoscopicanteriorthoracicsurgery• OswaldT,BetzRR:StaplingtechniquesfordeformityNewtonPL,O’BrienM,ShufflebargerHL,BetzRR,DicksonRA,HarmsJ(eds.):IdiopathicScoliosis:theHarmsStudyGroupTreatmentGuide.NewYork:ThiemeMedicalPublishers,Sep.2010.• O’BrienM,BetzR:Ch.20--Complicationsandtheirmanagement• BetzR,LavelleWF,NewtonPO:Ch.27—CorrectionwithoutfusionBetzRR,AsgharJ,SamdaniAF:Emergingtechniques:Non-fusionanterior/stapling,ch.39a.InTheGrowingSpine:ManagementofSpinalDisordersinYoungChildren(ed.AkbarniaBA,YaziciM,ThompsonGH).BerlinHeidelberg:Springer-Verlag,2010.VogelLC,BetzRR,MulcaheyMM:Spinalcorddisordersinchildrenandadolescents,ch.45.IN:SpinalCordMedicine:PrinciplesandPractice(LinVW,ed.).NewYork,NY:DemosMedicalPublishing,2010,pp.595-623.SamdaniAF,BetzRR:Infantileandjuvenileidiopathicscoliosis.INSurgicalManagementofSpinalDeformities(ErricoT,LonnerB,MoultonA,eds.).NewYork,NY:Elsevier,Nov.2008.SamdaniA,AsgharJ,BetzRR:Theuseofspinalinstrumentationinthetraumaticallyinjuredpediatricspine,ch.49.INSpineTrauma:AdultandPediatric(KimDH,LudwigSC,VaccaroAR,eds.).Philadelphia:WBSaunders,Inc.,Jul.2008.
RandalR.Betz,MD 13D’AndreaLP,AsgharJ,GuilleJT,BetzRR:Intervertebralstaplingforspinaldeformity,ch.54.INSpineSurgery:TricksoftheTrade(VaccaroAR,AlbertT,eds.).NewYork,NY:ThiemePublishers,Dec.2007.KimDH,BetzRR,HuhnSL,NewtonPO,eds.:SurgeryofthePediatricSpine.NewYork:Thieme,Dec.2007.• SimonSL,BetzRR:Ch.39:Spinalcordinjuryinchildrenevaluationandearlytreatment
principles• MulcaheyMJ,BetzRR:Ch.66:RehabilitationofchildrenwithspinalcordinjuryNewtonPO,BetzRR,HarmsJ,O’BrienMF,ShufflebargerHL(eds.):RoundtablesinSpineSurgery:AdvancedSpinalDeformity.St.Louis,MO:QualityMedicalPublishing,Inc.,2007.D’AndreaLP,BetzRR:Intervertebralstaplingforspinaldeformity,ch.19.In:MinimallyInvasiveSpineSurgery(VaccaroAM,BonoCM,eds.).NewYork,NY:InformaHealthCareUSA,2007,pp.179-188.BetzRR,NewtonPO,D’AndreaLP,ClementsDH,GrewalH:Anteriorsurgeryforthoracicscoliosis,ch.15.INSpinalDeformity:TheEssentials(HearyRF,AlbertTJ,eds).NewYork,NY:ThiemeMedicalPublishers,2007.DavisR,JohnstonT,SmithB,BetzR:Developmentofamulti-functional22-channelfunctionalelectricalstimulatorforparaplegia.In:EngineeringforNeuralEnhancementandReplacement(WalkerCFandDiLorenzoDJ,eds).CRCPress,BocaRaton,2005.BetzRR,ClementsDH,BalsaraRK,NewtonPO,LenkeLG,CrawfordAH:Minimallyinvasivesurgery:segmentalfixationrodandscrewtechnology.INEmergingSpineSurgeryTechnologies:EvidenceandFrameworkforEvaluatingNewTechnology(CorbinTP,ConnollyPJ,YuanHA,BaoQ-B,BodenSD,eds.).St.Louis,MO:QualityMedicalPublishing,Inc.,2004.BetzRR,MulcaheyMJ,ClementsDH:PediatricspinalcordinjuryandSCIWORA.INTheCervicalSpine,4thed.(CRClark,etal.,eds.).Philadelphia:LippincottWilliams&Wilkins,Nov.2004.BetzRR:Radiographicandfunctionaloutcomesofsurgicaltreatment.INAdolescentIdiopathicScoliosisMonograph(PONewton,ed.).Rosemont,IL:AmericanAcademyofOrthopaedicSurgeons,Oct.2004.BetzRR:Surgicaltreatmentbythoracoscopicmethods.INAdolescentIdiopathicScoliosisMonograph(PONewton,ed.).Rosemont,IL:AmericanAcademyofOrthopaedicSurgeons,Oct.2004.
RandalR.Betz,MD 14BetzRR,NewtonPO,ClementsDH,BalsaraRK:ThoracoscopicanteriorreleaseandfusionusingMOSS-Miamiinstrumentation,ch.23.INAtlasofMinimalAccessSpineSurgery(ReganJJ&LiebermanIH,eds.).St.Louis,MO:QualityMedicalPublishing,Inc.,2004.BetzRR:Kyphosisofthethoracicandthoracolumbarspineinthepediatricpatient:normalsagittalparametersandscopeoftheproblem,ch.42.INAAOSInstructionalCourseLectures,Volume53,2004,pp.479-484.ModernAnteriorScoliosisSurgery(LenkeLG,BetzRR,HarmsJ,eds.).St.Louis,MO:QualityMedicalPublishing,Inc,2004• LenkeLG,BetzRR,HarmsJ:TheLenketreatment-directedclassificationsystemfor
adolescentidiopathicscoliosis,ch.4• BetzRR,LenkeLG:Radiographicscoringsystemforscoliosis,ch.5• BalsaraR,ClementsDHIII,BetzRR:Complicationsinadolescentidiopathicscoliosis,ch.12• BalsaraR,BetzRR:Doubleanteriorthoracotomy,ch.16• BetzRR,ChanDPK,LenkeLG:Overviewandindicationsforanteriorinstrumentation,ch.23• BetzRR:MOSS-Miamisinglesolidrod,ch.27• ClementsDHIII,BetzRR,BalsaraR:ThoracoscopicinsertionofMOSSinstrumentation,ch.
35BetzRR,NewtonPO,ClementsDH,LenkeLG:Deformitiesinchildhood.B.Anteriorinstrumentationforthoracicadolescentidiopathicscoliosis.INTheAdultandPediatricSpine,3rded.(FrymoyerJW,WieselSW,eds.).Philadelphia:LippincottWilliamsandWilkins,2004,pp.559-566.VaccaroAR,AnHS,BetzRR,CotlerJM,BalderstonRA:Themanagementofacutespinaltrauma:prehospitalandin-hospitalemergencycare,ch.22.InstructionalCourseLectures:Spine(AnHS,ed.).Rosemont,IL:AmericanAcademyofOrthopaedicSurgeons,2003,pp.207-219.BetzRR,SteelHH:Convexthoracoplastyofthespine,chapter28.INSurgicalTechniquesfortheSpine(HaherT,MerolaA,eds.).NewYork:Thieme,2003,pp.131-134.PrinciplesandPracticeofSpineSurgery(VacarroAR,BetzRR,ZeidmanSM,eds.)Philadelphia:Mosby,Inc.,2002• BetzRR,MulcaheyMJ:Pediatricspinalcordinjury,ch.31,pp.401-406• BetzRR,LenkeLG:Adolescentidiopathicscoliosis,ch.45,pp.593-608• LenkeLG,BetzRR:Neuromuscularscoliosis:surgicaltreatment,ch.46,pp.609-628VogelLC,BetzRR,MulcaheyMJ:Pediatricspinalcorddisordersinchildrenandadolescents.INSpinalCordMedicineTextbook(LinV,ed.).NewYork,NY:Demos,2002.
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296. FlynnJM,EmansJB,SmithJT,BetzRR,DeeneyVF,PatelNM,CampbellRM:VEPTRto
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292. SmithTF,RussellHF,KellyEH,MulcaheyMJ,BetzRR,VogelLC:Examinationand
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283. HwangSW,SamdaniAF,StantonP,MarksMC,BastromT,NewtonPO,BetzRR,CahillPJ:
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282. CoronaJ,MillerDJ,DownsJ,AkbarniaBA,BetzRR,BlakemoreLC,CampbellRM,Flynn
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281. HwangM,ZebrackiK,BetzRR,MulcaheyMJ,VogelLC:Normativebloodpressureand
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280. MulcaheyMJ,GaughanJP,BetzRR,SamdaniAF,BarakatN,HunterLN:Neuromuscular
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279. HwangSW,SamdaniAF,LonnerBS,MarksMC,BastromTP,BetzRR,CahillPJ:A
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272. LammertseDP,JonesLA,CharlifueSB,KirshblumSC,AppleDF,RagnarssonKT,Poonian
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271. ChaputCD,GeorgeK,SamdaniAF,WilliamsJI,GaughanJ,BetzRR:Reductionin
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270. SamdaniAF,CahillPJ,GargH,BonetH,BetzRR:Acuteintraoperative
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269. MiyanjiF,SlobogeanGP,SamdaniAF,BetzRR,ReillyCW,SlobogeanBL,NewtonPO:Is
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268. MarksM,NewtonPO,PetcharapornM,BastromTP,ShahS,BetzR,LonnerB,MiyanjiF:
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267. CahillPJ,AsgharJ,BetzRR,WangW,RamseyC,BaranGR:Theuseofatransitionrod
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PO,BetzRR,CahillP:Impactofdirectvertebralbodyderotationontheribprominence:arepreoperativefactorspredictiveofchangesintheribprominence?Spine(PhilaPa1976)37(2):E86-89,Jan.2012.
265. SponsellerPD,FlynnJM,NewtonPO,MarksMC,BastromTP,PetcharapornM,McElroy
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264. HwangSW,SamdaniAF,JeaA,RavalA,GaughanJP,BetzRR,CahillPJ:Outcomesof
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263. BarakatN,MohamedFB,HunterLN,ShahP,FaroSH,SamdaniAF,FinsterbuschJ,Betz
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245. ClementsDH,MarksM,NewtonP,BetzRR,LenkeL,ShufflebargerH,HarmsStudy
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243. FlynnJM,RamirezN,EmansJB,SmithJT,MulcaheyMJ,BetzRR:Isthevertebral
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242. BetzRR,ChafetzR,VogelLC,SamdaniAF,MulcaheyMJ:Descriptionofsensory
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241. SamdaniAF,RanadeA,SciubbaDM,CahillPJ,AntonacciMD,ClementsDH,BetzRR:
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240. LavelleWF,SamdaniAF,CahillPJ,BetzRR:ClinicaloutcomesofNitinolstaplesfor
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239. MohamedFB,HunterLN,BarakatN,Liu,C-SJ,SairH,SamdaniAF,BetzRR,FaroSH,
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236. FlynnJM,RamirezN,BetzR,MulcaheyMJ,PinoF,Herrera-SotoJA,CarloS,CornierAS:
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235. CahillPJ,MarvilS,CuddihyL,SchuttC,IdemaJ,ClementsDH,AntonacciMD,AsgharJ,
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234. BetzRR,LavelleWF,SamdaniAF:Bonegraftingoptionsinchildren.Spine(PhilaPa1976)
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232. RamirezN,FlynnJM,EmansJB,BetzR,SmithJT,PriceN,St.HilaireT,JoshiAP,Campbell
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231. SamdaniAF,FineAL,SagooSS,ShahSC,CahillPJ,ClementsDH,BetzRR:Apatientwith
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230. ZahraM,SamdaniA,PiggottK,Gonzalez-BritoM,SolanoJ,DeLosSantoR,BuitragoJC,
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229. TsutsuiS,PawelekJ,BastromT,LenkeL,LoweT,BetzR,ClementsD,NewtonPO:
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228. KuluzJ,SamdaniA,BenglisD,Gonzalez-BritoM,SolanoJP,RamirezMA,LuqmanA,De
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227. JohnstonTE,LauerR,SmithBT,BetzRR,MulcaheyMJ:Arandomizedcontrolledtrialon
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226. FlynnJM,BetzRR,O’BrienM,NewtonPO,HarmsStudyGroup:Radiographic
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225. ClementsDH,BetzRR,NewtonPO,RohmillerM,MarksMC,BastromT:Correlationof
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224. LonnerBS,AuerbachJD,EstreicherMB,BetzRR,D’AndreaL,CrawfordAH,LenkeLG,
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223. RanadeA,SamdaniAF,WilliamsR,BarnesK,McGirtMJ,RamosG,BetzRR:Feasibility
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222. HelgesonMD,ShahSA,NewtonPO,ClementsDH3rd,BetzRR,MarksMC,BastromT,
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221. McCarthyKP,ChafetzRS,MulcaheyMJ,FrischRF,D’AndreaLP,BetzRR:Clinicalefficacy
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220. TisJE,O’BrienMF,NewtonPO,LenkeLG,ClementsDH,HarmsJ,BetzRR:Adolescent
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219. BetzRR,RanadeA,SamdaniAF,ChafetzR,D’AndreaLP,GaughanJP,AsgharJ,GrewalH,
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217. MulcaheyMJ,GaughanJ,BetzRR:Agreementofrepeatedmotorandsensoryscoresat
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216. SamdaniAF,RutterL,BetzRR,MulcaheyMJ:Visionlossfollowingspinefusionfor
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214. SamdaniAF,AsgharJ,RanadeA,SciubbaDM,CahillPJ,AntonacciMD,ClementsDH,
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213. ChafetzRS,GaughanJP,VogelLC,BetzR,MulcaheyMJ:Theinternationalstandardsfor
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212. PahysJM,MulcaheyMJ,HutchinsonD,BetzRR:Scapularstabilizationinpatientswith
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209. PahysJM,GuilleJT,D’AndreaLP,SamdaniAF,BeckJ,BetzRR.Neurologicinjuryinthe
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207. SamdaniAF,RanadeA,DolchHJ,WilliamsR,St.HilaireT,CahillP,BetzRR:Bilateraluse
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206. PahysJM,SamdaniAF,BetzRR:Intraspinalanomaliesininfantileidiopathicscoliosis:
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205. SamdaniAF,St.HilaireT,EmansJB,SmithJT,SongK,CampbellRJ,BetzRR:The
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204. SponsellerPD,ShahSA,AbelMF,SucatoD,NewtonPO,ShufflebargerH,LenkeLG,
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203. SponsellerPD,BetzR,NewtonPO,LenkeLG,LoweT,CrawfordA,SucatoD,LonnerB,
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202. AsgharJ,SamdaniAF,PahysJM,D’AndreaLP,GuilleJT,ClementsDH,BetzRR,Harms
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201. PierceSR,LauerRT,ProsserLA,MohamedFB,DoughertyJB,FaroSH,BetzRR.Incidental
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200. McCarthyJJ,PalmaDA,BetzRR:Comparisonofautograftandallograftfixationin
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197. MulcaheyMJ,GaughanJ,BetzRR:Agreementofrepeatedmotorandsensoryscoresat
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196. SamdaniAF,FayssouxRS,AsgharJ,McCarthyJJ,BetzRR,GaughanJ,MulcaheyMJ:
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195. ChafetzRS,VogelLC,BetzRR,GaughanJP,MulcaheyMJ:Internationalstandardsfor
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194. ChenY,AndersonCJ,VogelLC,ChlanKM,BetzRR,McDonald:Changeinlifesatisfaction
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193. BetzRR,MulcaheyMJ,RamirezN,FlynnJ,SmithJT,St.HilaireT,CampbellJrRM:
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192. UpasaniVV,CaltoumC,PetcharapornM,BastromT,PawelekJ,MarksM,BetzRR,Lenke
LG,NewtonPO:Doesobesityaffectsurgicaloutcomesinadolescentidiopathicscoliosis?Spine(PhilaPa1976)33(3):295-300,2008.
191. MulcaheyMJ,HaleySM,DuffyT,PengshengN,BetzRR:Measuringphysicalfunctioning
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190. PatelPN,UpasaniVV,BastromTP,MarksMC,PawelekJB,BetzRR,LenkeLG,Newton
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189. HunterLN,Sison-WilliamsonM,MendozaMM,McDonaldCM,MolitorF,MulcaheyMJ,
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188. NoggleJC,SciubbaDM,SamdaniAF,AndersonDG,BetzRR,AsgharJ:Minimallyinvasive
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187. RitzmanTF,UpasaniVV,PawelekJB,BetzRR,NewtonPO:Returnofshouldergirdle
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186. SponsellerPD,TakenagaRK,NewtonP,BoachieO,FlynnJ,LetkoL,BetzR,BridwellK,
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185. JohnstonTE,SmithBT,OladejiO,BetzRR,LauerRT:Outcomesofahomecycling
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184. AndersonCJ,VogelLC,ChlanKM,BetzRR:Copingwithspinalcordinjury:strategies
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183. RuggieriMR,BravermanAS,D’AndreaL,BetzR,BarbeMF:Functionalreinnervationof
thecaninebladderafterspinalroottransectionandgenitofemoralnervetransferatoneandthreemonthsafterdenervation.JNeurotrauma25:401-409,Apr.2008.
182. JohnstonTE,SmithBT,BetzRR,LauerRT.Exercisetestingusingupperextremity
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DH,LenkeLG,LoweTG,NewtonPO:Adolescentidiopathicscoliosispatientsreportincreasedpainat5yearscomparedto2yearsaftersurgicaltreatment.Spine(PhilaPa1976)33(10):1107-1112,2008.
179. PahysJM,ChicorelliAM,AsgharJ,BetzRR,SamdaniAF:Cervicalpseudomeningocele
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ShufflebargerHL,GaughanJ:PediGuard:asolutionforthechallengesofpediclescrewplacement.TempleUnivJOrthopSurgSportsMed3:18-22,2008.
RandalR.Betz,MD 32177. HutchinsonD,WeinikM,BetzRR:Utilityofelectrophysiologicalstudiesinassessing
peripheralsensoryandmotornerveinvolvementintheupperlimbaftertraumatictetraplegia.TopSCIRehabil13(4):10-23,2008.
176. VitaleMG,MatsumotoH,RoyeDPJr,GomezJA,BetzRR,EmansJB,SkaggsDL,SmithJT,
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175. SamdaniAF,AsgharJ,PahysJ,D’AndreaL,BetzRR:Concurrentspinalcorduntethering
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173. SamdaniAF,Torre-HealyA,AsgharJ,HerlichAM,BetzRR:Strategiestoreduceblood
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172. GuilleJT,D’Andrea,LP,BetzRR:Fusionlesstreatmentofscoliosis.OrthopClinNAm
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170. OladejiO,JohnsonTE,SmithBT,MulcaheyMJ,BetzRR,LauerRT:Qualityoflifein
childrenwithspinalcordinjury.PediatrPhysTher19:296-300,2007.169. Sison-WilliamsonM,BagleyA,HongoA,VogelLC,MulcaheyMJ,BetzRR,McDonaldCM:
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168. ChafetzRS,MulcaheyMJ,BetzRR,AndersonCJ,VogelLC,GaughanJP,O’DelMA,
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166. MulcaheyMJ,GaughanJ,BetzRR,VogelLC:RateragreementontheISCSCImotorand
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165. AndersonCJ,VogelLC,ChlanKM,BetzRR,McDonaldCM:Depressioninadultswho
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164. MerendaLA,DuffyT,BetzRR,MulcaheyMJ,DeanG,PontariM:Outcomesofurinary
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163. AchildiO,BetzRR,GrewalH:Lapbeltinjuriesandtheseatbeltsyndromeinpediatric
spinalcordinjury.JSpinalCordMed30(Suppl1):S21-S24,2007.162. LauerR,JohnstonTE,SmithBT,MulcaheyMJ,BetzRR,MaurerAH:Bonemineraldensity
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161. GuptaMC,WijesekeraS,SossanA,MartinL,VogelLC,BoakesJL,LermanJA,McDonald
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160. MulcaheyMJ,GaughanJ,BetzRR,JohansenKJ:TheInternationalStandardsfor
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159. MatulloKS,SamdaniA,BetzR.Low-backpainandunrecognizedCobbsyndromeina
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156. BetzRR:Pointofview:Doescomputer-assistedspinesurgeryreduceintraoperative
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neuroprosthetichandsysteminachildwithaC7spinalcordinjury.Paraplegia30:598-606,1992
38. BetzRR,MulcaheyMJ,SmithBT,TrioloRJ,WeissAA,MoynahanM,KeithMW,Peckham
PH:BipolarlatissimusdorsitranspositionandfunctionalneuromuscularstimulationtorestoreelbowflexioninanindividualwithC4tetraplegiaandC5denervation.JAmParaplegiaSoc15:220-228,1992
37. KreschEN,BaranEM,MandelS,WhitenackSH,BetzRR,BessHL:Correlationanalysisof
somatosensoryevokedpotentialwaveforms.ArchPhysMedRehabil73:829-834,199236. KozinSH,WeissAA,WebberJB,BetzRR,ClancyM,SteelHH:Indexfingerpollicization
forcongenitalaplasiaorhypoplasiaofthethumb.JHandSurg17A:880-884,199235. CareyPJ,AlburgerPD,BetzRR,ClancyM,SteelHH:Both-boneforearmfracturesin
children.Orthopedics15(9):1015-1019,199234. AlburgerPD,WeidnerPL,BetzRR:Supracondylarfracturesofthehumerusinchildren.J
PediatrOrthop12(1):16-19,199233. BackeHA,BetzRR,MesgarzadehM,BeckT,ClancyM:Post-traumaticspinalcordcysts
evaluatedbymagneticresonanceimaging.Paraplegia29:607-612,199132. BridwellKH,McAllisterJW,BetzRR,HussG,ClancyM,SchoeneckerPL:Coronal
decompensationproducedbyCotrel-Dubousset"derotation"maneuverforidiopathicrightthoracicscoliosis.Spine(PhilaPa1976)16(7):769-777,1991
31. LinPS,BetzRR,PatelRP:AvulsionfractureinvolvingthebodyofL5:acasereport.Spine
(PhilaPa1976)16(3):371-372,199130. BrennanEJ,BetzRR:Successinobtaininganorthopedicsresidency.AcademicMed
65(12):780,199029. BetzRR,SteelHH,EmperWD,HussGK,ClancyM:Treatmentofslippedcapitalfemoral
epiphysis.Spicacastimmobilization.JBoneandJointSurg72A:587-600,1990
RandalR.Betz,MD 4628. BodenBP,MoyerRA,BetzRR,SapegaAA:Arthroscopically-assistedanteriorcruciate
ligamentreconstructionusingthesemitendinosusandgracilistendons:1.5to3yearfollow-up.ContempOrthop20(2):187-194,1990
27. BetzRR,CoopermanDR,WoppererJM,SutherlandRD,WhiteJJJr,SchaafHW,
AschlimanMR,ChoiIH,BowenJR,GillespieR:Latesequelaeofsepticarthritisofthehipininfancyandchildhood.JPediatrOrthop10(3):365-372,1990
26. BridwellKH,BetzRR,CapelliAM,HussGK,HarveyC:Sagittalplaneanalysisinidiopathic
scoliosispatientstreatedwithCotrel-Duboussetinstrumentation.Spine(PhilaPa1976)15(7):644-649,1990
25. DearolfWWJr,BetzRR,VogelLC,LevinJ,ClancyM,SteelHH:Scoliosisinpediatric
spinalcordinjuredpatients.JPediatrOrthop10(2):214-218,199024. BetzRR,IorioR,LombardiAV,ClancyM,SteelHH:Scoliosissurgeryin
neurofibromatosis.ClinOrthop245:53-56,198923. CrossettLS,BeatyJH,BetzRR,WarnerW,ClancyM,SteelHH:Congenitalpseudarthrosis
ofthetibia.Long-termfollow-upstudy.ClinOrthop245:16-18,198922. LyonsCJ,BetzRR,MesgarzadehM,ReveszG,BonakdarpourA,ClancyM:Theeffectof
magneticresonanceimagingonmetalspineimplants.Spine(PhilaPa1976)14(7):670-672,1989
21. MasonRJ,BetzRR,OrlowskiJP,BellGR:Thesyndromeofinappropriateantidiuretic
hormonesecretionanditseffectonbloodindicesfollowingspinalfusion.Spine(PhilaPa1976)14(7):722-726,1989
20. IorioR,ClancyM,BetzRR:Treatmentoptionsforunicameralbonecysts.Orthopedics
12:876-878,198919. MannherzRE,BetzRR,ClancyM,SteelHH;Juvenileidiopathicscoliosisfollowedto
skeletalmaturity.Spine(PhilaPa1976)13(10):1087-1090,198818. EckerML,BetzRR,TrentPS,MahboubiS,MesgarzadehM,BonakdarpourA,Drummond
DS,ClancyM:ComputertomographyevaluationinCotrel-Duboussetinstrumentationinidiopathicscoliosis.Spine(PhilaPa1976)13(10):1141-1144,1988
17. HussGK,BetzRR,ClancyM:AdrapingtechniqueforspinalsurgeryusingtheStagnara
wake-uptest.AORNJournal48(3):530-535,1988
RandalR.Betz,MD 4716. O'DonnellCS,BunnellWP,BetzRR,BowenJR,TippingCR:Electricalstimulationinthe
treatmentofscoliosis.ClinOrthop229:107-113,198815. BetzRR,JayKumarS,PalmerCT,MacEwenGD:Chiaripelvicosteotomyinchildrenand
youngadults.JBoneandJointSurg70A:182-191,198814. HillmanJS,MesgarzadehM,ReveszG,BonakdarpourA,ClancyM,BetzRR:Proximal
femoralfocaldeficiency:aradiologicanalysisof49cases.Radiology165:769-773,198713. SteelHH,LinPS,BetzRR,KalamchiA,ClancyM:Iliofemoralfusionforproximalfemoral
focaldeficiency.JBoneandJointSurg69A:837-843,198712. MoyerRA,BetzRR,BonakdarpourA:Eosinophilicgranulomaofacromion:acasereport.
SkeletalRadiol16(4):333-335,198711. OstrumRF,BetzRR,ClancyM,SteelHH:Casereport.Bifurcatedfemurwithanormal
tibiaandfibula.JPediatrOrthop7:224-226,198710. BetzRR,MagillJT,LonerganRP:Thepercutaneouslateralretinacularrelease.AmJ
SportsMed15(5):477-482,19879. CampoRD,BetzRR:Lossofproteoglycansduringdecalcificationoffreshmetaphyses
withdisodiumethylenediaminetetraacetate(EDTA).CalcifTissueInt41:52-55,19878. SmergelEM,HarckeHT,PizzutilloPD,BetzRR:Useofbonescintigraphyinthe
managementofslippedcapitalfemoralepiphysis(SCFE).ClinNuclearMed12(5),19877. BetzRR,GelmanAJ,DeFilippGJ,MesgarzadehM,ClancyM,SteelHH:Magnetic
resonanceimaging(MRI)intheevaluationofspinalcordinjuredchildrenandadolescents.Paraplegia25:92-99,1987
6. BetzRR,BunnellWP,Lambrecht-MulierE,MacEwenGD:Scoliosisandpregnancy.J
BoneJointSurg69A(1):90-96,19875. MoyerRA,BetzRR,IaquintoJ,Mar.ettoP,AlburgerPD,ClancyM:Arthroscopicanterior
cruciatereconstructionusingthesemitendinosusandgracilistendons:Preliminaryreport.ContemporaryOrthopaedics12(1):17-23,1986
4. MesgarzadehM,ReveszG,BonakdarpourA,BetzRR:Theeffectonmedicalmetal
implantsbymagneticfieldsofmagneticresonanceimaging.SkeletalRadiol14:205-206,1985
RandalR.Betz,MD 483. LevyDW,BonakdarpourA,PutongPB,MesgarzadehM,BetzRR:Subungual
keratoacanthoma.SkeletalRadiol13:287-290,19852. BetzRR,LonerganR,PattersonR,LittonJ,YuchaT,BoalR:Thepercutaneouslateral
retinacularrelease.Orthopaedics5(1):57-62,19821. BetzRR,BrowneE,PerryG,ResnickEJ:Thecomplexvolarmetacarpophalangealjoint
dislocation:Casehistoryandreviewofliterature.JBoneJointSurg64A:1374-1375,1982
ElectronicArticles5. BetzRR,SamdaniAF,CahillPJ:VertebralbodystaplingforAIS.ScoliosisResearchSociety
eTextbook,www.srs.org,2010.4. MulcaheyMJ,GaughanJ,BetzRR,Johansen,KJ:TheInternationalStandardsfor
NeurologicalClassificationofSpinalCordInjury:reliabilityofdatawhenappliedtochildrenandyouths.SpinalCordOct.3,2006.
3. BetzRR,MulcaheyMJ:Newsurgicaltreatmentsforscoliosis:vertebralbodystaplingand
wedgeosteotomies.SpineUniverse.com,Feb.2002;Viewpoint,ShrinersHospitalsforChildren,www.shrinershq.org,Sep.2001
2. ClementsDH,BetzRR,BalsaraRK:Advancesinsurgicalmanagementofidiopathic
scoliosis.Thoracoscopicanteriorinstrumentation.SpineUniverse.com,Aug.20011. JordanMA,CarrC,BetzRR:Scoliosis:nursingcaremanagement.SpineUniverse.com,
Feb.2001OtherArticlesFalatynSP,BetzRR:Casediscussion:IsolatedL2-L3lumbardegenerativediscdisease.SpinalFrontiers4:9-10,1997RaisisLW,BetzRR,ClancyM,OstrumRF,SteelHH:Percutaneousepiphysiodesis:safer,kinder,morecosmeticthanopenboneblockprocedure.OrthopedicsToday8(9):14,1988BetzRR:Cotrel-Duboussetspinesystem:safeandeffective,butexpensive.OrthopedicsToday8(4),1988
RandalR.Betz,MD 49PresentationsbyDr.Betzorco-authors:CahillPJ,LavelleW,KurraS,AlbaneseSA,BetzRR:Retrospectivereviewofshoulderbalancecomparingadolescentidiopathicscoliosis(AIS)toearlyonsetscoliosis(EOS).10thInternationalCongressonEarlyOnsetScoliosis(ePoster),Utrecht,Holland,Nov.11-18,2016.CahillPJ,KurraS,LavelleW,AlbaneseSA,BetzRR:Surgicalsiteinfectionsafterearlyonsetscoliosisdefinitivefusionsurgeries.10thInternationalCongressonEarlyOnsetScoliosis(ePoster),Utrecht,Holland,Nov.11-18,2016.BennettJ,SamdaniA,CahillP,AsgharJ,BetzR,PahysJ,YaszayB,MiyanjiF,LonnerB,NewtonP:Significantintraoperativeneuromonitoringalertsinpatientsundergoingfusionforadolescentidiopathicscoliosis:whataretheoutcomesofsurgery?EuroSpine2016,Berlin,Germany,Oct.5-7,2016.LenkeLG,LehmanJrRA,LonnerBS,ErricoTJ,BetzRR,SamdaniAF,BlankeK,HarmsStudyGroup:OptimalselectionofthelowestinstrumentedvertebraforLenketype5&6thoracolumbar/lumbarmajorAIScurvesatminimum5-yearfollow-up.51stScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting(podium),Prague,CzechRepublic,Sep.21-24,2016.LenkeLG,NewtonPO,LehmanRA,KellyMP,ClementsDH,ErricoTJ,BetzRR,SamdaniAF,BlankeKM,YanY,HarmsStudyGroup:RadiographicresultsofselectingthetouchedvertebraasthelowestinstrumentedvertebrainLenketype1(mainthoracic)andtype2(doublethoracic)curvesataminimum5-yearfollow-up.51stScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting(podium),Prague,CzechRepublic,Sep.21-24,2016.LonnerBS,RenY,YaszayB,CahillPJ,ShahSA,BetzRR,SamdaniAF,ShufflebargerHL,NewtonPO:Evolutionofsurgeryforadolescentidiopathicscoliosisover20years:haveoutcomesimproved?51stScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting(podium),Prague,CzechRepublic,Sep.21-24,2016.NewtonPO,BastromT,BartleyCE,YaszayB,MarksMC,BetzRR,LenkeLG,ClementsDHIII,HarmsStudyGroup:Acriticalassessmentof>10-yearfollow-upofspinalfusionsforadolescentidiopathicscoliosis:outcomeimprovementandcontinuedfollow-uprequired.51stScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting(podium),Prague,CzechRepublic,Sep.21-24,2016.YaszayB,BastromT,LonnerBS,BetzRR,ShahSA,AsgharJK,MiyanjiF,SamdaniAF,NewtonPO:Progressivedeclineinpulmonaryfunction5yearspost-operativeinpatientswhounderwentanteriorinstrumentationforsurgicalcorrectionofadolescentidiopathicscoliosis.51stScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting(podium),Prague,CzechRepublic,Sep.21-24,
RandalR.Betz,MD 502016.BetzRR,AntonacciMD,CuddihyL,LevinDM:ConcurrentposteriorspinalfusionandvertebralbodytetheringforapatientwithMarfansyndromewithspondylolisthesisandsevereidiopathicscoliosis.51stScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting(casepresentation),Prague,CzechRepublic,Sep.21-24,2016.PahysJM,GrovesML,WangJ,CahillPJ,BetzRR,HayesK,MorrisonM,Children’sSpineStudyGroup,SamdaniAF:Preoperativehalogravitytractioninseverepediatricspinaldeformity:asinglecenterprospectivestudy.51stScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting(podium),Prague,CzechRepublic,Sep.21-24,2016.PahysJM,KellyMP,SamdaniAF,CahillPJ,AsgharJK,SponsellerPD,BetzRR,BastromT,HarmsStudyGroup,ShahSA:Whatistheoptimalpelvicobliquityforpatientswithcerebralpalsyundergoingspinalfusion?51stScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting(podium),Prague,CzechRepublic,Sep.21-24,2016.YaszayB,BastromT,LonnerBS,BetzRR,ShahSA,AsgharJK,MiyanjiF,SamdaniAF,NewtonPO:Progressivedeclineinpulmonaryfunction5yearspost-operativeinpatientswhounderwentanteriorinstrumentationforsurgicalcorrectionofadolescentidiopathicscoliosis.51stScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting(podium),Prague,CzechRepublic,Sep.21-24,2016.SamdaniAF,StephenJ,OrlandoG,PahysJM,BetzRR,NewtonPO,MiyanjiF,ShahSA,MarksMC,YaszayB,CahillPJ,SponsellerPD:Analysisofpatientswithcerebralpalsyrequiringreoperationafterspinalfusion:associatedriskfactorsandimpactonqualityoflife.23rd51stScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting(eposter),Prague,CzechRepublic,Sep.21-24,2016;InternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(podium),Washington,DC,Jul.13-16,2016.BetzRR,MulcaheyMJ,CuddihyL,SamdaniAF,AntonacciMD:Amotion-preservingsurgicaltreatmentforneuromuscularscoliosis:proofofconcept.55thInternationalSpinalCordSocietyannualmeeting(podium),Vienna,Austria,Sep.14-16,2016.BetzRR,MulcaheyMJ,CuddihyL,AntonacciMD:Amotion-preservingsurgicaltreatmentforneuromuscularscoliosis:acasereport.AmericanSpinalInjuryAssociationannualmeeting(podium),Philadelphia,PA,Apr.13-16,2016.ClementsDH,BetzRR,NewtonPO,MarksMC,BastromT,HarmsStudyGroup:DoessymmetrymatterinselectingfusionlevelsinLenke1AIS?50thannualScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting(podium),Minneapolis,MN,Sep.30-Oct.3,2015.
RandalR.Betz,MD 51SamdaniAF,AmesRJ,AsgharJK,OrlandoG,PahysJM,YaszayB,MiyanjiF,LonnerBS,LehmanRA,NewtonPO,CahillPJ,BetzRR:SignificantintraoperativeneuromonitoringalertsinpatientsundergoingfusionforAIS:whataretheoutcomesofsurgery?50thannualScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting(podium),Minneapolis,MN,Sep.30-Oct.3,2015.MiyanjiF,DesaiS,SamdaniAF,ShahSA,AsgharJK,YaszayB,ShufflebargerHL,BetzRR,newtonPO:Two-yearfollow-upinspineclinicalresearch:anadequatebenchmark?50thannualScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting(podium),Minneapolis,MN,Sep.30-Oct.3,2015.JainA,SponsellerPD,CahillPJ,YaszayB,SamdaniAF,NjokuD,AbelMF,PahysJM,BetzRR,ShahSA,NewtonPO,MarksMC:Neuromotorsub-classificationofGMFCS-5predictscomplicationsandHRQoLinpatientswithcerebralpalsyafterspinefusion.50thannualScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting(podium),Minneapolis,MN,Sep.30-Oct.3,2015.SamdaniAF,AmesRJ,PahysJM,KimballJS,GrewalH,PelletierGJ,BetzRR:Anteriorvertebralbodytetheringforimmatureidiopathicscoliosis:resultsofpatientsreachingskeletalmaturity.50thannualScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting(podium),Minneapolis,MN,Sep.30-Oct.3,2015.BumpassDB,LenkeLG,KellyMP,BlankeKM,BetzRR,ClementsDH,LabelleH,LehmanRA,LonnerBS,LuhmannSJ,NewtonPO,PahysJM,ParentS,SamdaniAF,ShahSA,SponsellerPD,SucatoDJ:RadiographicvariabilityamongScheuermann’skyphosispatients:appreciatingtheindividualdifferencesofthedeformity.50thannualScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting(podium),Minneapolis,MN,Sep.30-Oct.3,2015.LenkeLG,NewtonPO,LehmanJrRA,KellyM,ClementsIIIDH,ErricoTJ,BetzRR,SamdaniAF,BlankeDM,HarmsStudyGroup.RadiographicresultsofselectingthetouchedvertebraasthelowestinstrumentedvertebrainLenketype1(mainthoracic)andtype2(doublethoracic)curvesataminimum5-yearfollow-up.NomineeforLuisA.GoldsteinAwardforBestClinicalResearchePoster,50thannualScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting,Minneapolis,MN,Sep.30-Oct.3,2015.LonnerBS,RenY,MarksMC,BetzRR,NewtonPO,SamdaniAF,LeftonD,ChenK,DabrowskiC:Radiographicmarkersofdiscdegeneration-tenyearsfollowingsurgeryforadolescentidiopathicscoliosis.50thannualScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting(ePoster),Minneapolis,MN,Sep.30-Oct.3,2015;21stInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(podium),Valencia,Spain,Jul.16-19,2014.KnottPT,SturmPF,LonnerBS,BetzRR,CahillPJ,BetschM,McCarthyRE,KellyMP,LenkeLG:Canradiographybeminimizedinpediatricspinaldeformityusingsurfacetopography?50th
RandalR.Betz,MD 52annualScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting(ePoster),Minneapolis,MN,Sep.30-Oct.3,2015. MiyanjiF,ReillyCW,ShahSA,ClementsDH,SamdaniAF,DesaiS,LonnerBS,ShufflebargerHL,BetzRR,NewtonPO:Therateandriskofcurveprogressionfollowingskeletalmaturity–doesthestoryendwithcurvemagnitude?50thannualScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting(ePoster),Minneapolis,MN,Sep.30-Oct.3,2015WilliamsJI,BetzRR,SandhuF,PowellD,SmithJT,SyedH,SpitzS,SmithJT,GaffneyC,KafchinskiL,LandryD,GaughanJ:Theuseofdynamicsurgicalguidance(DSG)shortensplacementofpediclescrewtimewhileimprovingaccuracy,ateachinginstrumentforresidents:acadavericstudy.50thannualScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting(ePoster),Minneapolis,MN,Sep.30-Oct.3,2015;22ndInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(2-minutepointpresentation),KualaLumpur,Malaysia,Jul.8-11,2015.PahysJM,SamdaniAF,CahillPJ,AmesRJ,KhatriV,KimballJS,GrewalH,PelletierGJ,BetzRR:Thefirst100consecutiveanteriorvertebralbodytetheringproceduresforimmatureadolescentidiopathicscoliosisatasingleinstitution:outcomesandcomplicationsintheearlypostoperativeperiod.22ndInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(2-minutepointpresentation),KualaLumpur,Malaysia,Jul.8-11,2015.LaGrecaJ,CyrM,FlynnT,CahillPJ,SamdaniAF,VitaleMG,El-HawaryR,SmithJT,PhillipsJH,FlynnJM,GlotzbeckerMP,GargS:Patientswithoutintraoperativeneuromonitoring(IONM)alertsduringimplantationofribbasedgrowingconstructsdidnotsustainneurologicinjuryduringsubsequentroutineexpansions.22ndInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(podium),KualaLumpur,Malaysia,Jul.8-11,2015.PahysJM,CahillPJ,NewtonPO,BetzRR,SponsellerPD,LehmanRA,KellyM,HarmsStudyGroup,SamdaniAF:Obesitymarkedlyincreasestherateofdeepsurgicalsiteinfectionsandimplantfailureafterposteriorspinalfusionforadolescentidiopathicscoliosis.22ndInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(podium),KualaLumpur,Malaysia,Jul.8-11,2015.SamdaniAF,BastromT,AmesRJ,MiyanjiF,PahysJM,MarksMC,LonnerBS,NewtonPO,ShufflebargerHL,YaszayB,CahillPJ,Betz,RR:Whatisdifferentaboutpatientswithadolescentidiopathicscoliosiswhoachieveaminimalclinicallyimportantdifference(MCID)inappearance?22ndInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(podium),KualaLumpur,Malaysia,Jul.8-11,2015.LenkeLG,NewtonPO,LehmanRA,KellyMP,ClementsDH,ErricoTJ,BetzRR,SamdaniAF,BlankeKM,HarmsStudyGroup:Radiographicresultsofselectingthetouchedvertebraasthe
RandalR.Betz,MD 53lowestinstrumentedvertebrainLenkeType1(mainthoracic)andType2(doublethoracic)curvesataminimumfive-yearfollow-up.22ndInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(podium),KualaLumpur,Malaysia,Jul.8-11,2015.MurphyJS,UpasaniVV,YaszayB,BastromT,BartleyCE,SamdaniAF,LenkeLG,NewtonPO:Validationofthe“substantially”touchedvertebraasthelowestinstrumentedvertebrainthoracicmajorcurveswithARlumbarmodifiers.22ndInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(podium),KualaLumpur,Malaysia,Jul.8-11,2015.JainA,SponsellerPD,NjokuD,ShahSA,SamdaniAF,CahillPJ,BetzRR,NewtonPO,MarksMC:Complicationratesafterspinalsurgeryforadolescentidiopathicscoliosisvarysignificantlybasedonreportingmethodology:whotobelieve?22ndInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(podium),KualaLumpur,Malaysia,Jul.8-11,2015.TrobischPD,CahillPJ,SamdaniAF,HarmsStudyGroup,BetzRR,AsgharJ:Sagittalbalanceandcompensatorymechanismaftersegmentalinstrumentationforadolescentidiopathicscoliosis.12thHongKongInternationalOrthopedicForum(HKIOF)&10thAnnualAsiaPacificSpineSociety(APSS)&AsiaPacificPediatricOrthopaedicSociety(APPOS)(podium),HongKong,Jun.5-7,2015;48thannualScoliosisResearchSocietymeeting(ePoster),Lyon,France,Sep.18-21,2013;PediatricOrthopaedicSocietyofNorthAmericaannualmeeting(podium),Denver,CO,May16-19,2012.KetschekA,SpillaneM,WangW,OrlandoG,SamdaniA,BetzRR,PahysJ,GalloG,CahillPJ:Anovelanimalmodelforcongenitalscoliosisinchickenembryos.12thHongKongInternationalOrthopedicForum(HKIOF)&10thAnnualAsiaPacificSpineSociety(APSS)&AsiaPacificPediatricOrthopaedicSociety(APPOS)(podium),HongKong,Jun.5-7,2015;AmericanAcademyofOrthopaedicSurgeonsannualmeeting(podium),NewOrleans,LA,Mar.11-15,2014.BetzR,PahysJ,CahillP,SamdaniA,AsgharJ:Lowerextremityparalysispresenting36hoursafterattemptedposteriorspinalfusionforseverescoliosisinanadolescent.4thISCoSandASIAJointScientificMeeting(poster),Montreal,Canada,May14-16,2015.CahillPJ,PahysJM,BetzRR,BastromTP,MarksMC,HarmsStudyGroup,SamdaniAF:Anatomyofthelearningcurveinsurgeryforadolescentidiopathicscoliosis.PediatricOrthopaedicSocietyofNorthAmericaannualmeeting(poster),Atlanta,GA,Apr.29-May2,2015.CahillPJ,PahysJM,HayesK,BetzRR,SamdaniA:Anterior/posteriorsurgeryincerebralpalsyscoliosis:perioperativeoutcomesofsingledayvs.two-stagesurgery.AmericanAcademyofOrthopaedicSurgeonsannualmeeting(poster),LasVegas,NV,Mar.24-28,2015.SamdaniAF,BennettJT,SinglaA,MiyanjiF,LonnerBS,ShahSA,ShufflebargerHL,AsgharJ,
RandalR.Betz,MD 54PahysJM,MarksMC,NewtonPO,BetzRR,CahillPJ:DoPonteosteotomiesenhancecorrectioninAIS?Ananalysisof191Lenke1Aand1Bcurves.21stInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(podium),Valencia,Spain,Jul.16-19,2014.MiyanjiF,BastromT,SamdaniAF,YaszayB,AsgharJ,ShahSA,BetzRR,ShufflebargerHL,NewtonPO:TheoptimalsurgicalapproachforLenke5curves:istheanteriorapproachreadyforacomeback?21stInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(podium),Valencia,Spain,Jul.16-19,2014.PahysJM,SamdaniAF,AuriemmaM,DakwarE,BetzRR,CahillPJ:Failureandsuccessinvertebralbodystapling.21stInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(podium),Valencia,Spain,Jul.16-19,2014.LonnerBS,NewtonPO,ShahSA,SamdaniAF,ShufflebargerHL,AsgharJ,SponsellerPD,BetzRR,YaszayB,RenY:Riskfactorsofproximaljunctionalkyphosisinadolescentidiopathicscoliosis:thepelvisandotherconsiderations.21stInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(podium),Valencia,Spain,Jul.16-19,2014.MarksMM,BastromT,PetcharapornM,ShahSA,SamdaniAF,BetzRR,LonnerBS,MiyanjiF,NewtonPO:Themotionsparingbenefitsofselectivethoracicfusionforadolescentidiopathicscoliosis.21stInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(podium),Valencia,Spain,Jul.16-19,2014.DakwarE,SamdaniAF,OrlandoG,AuriemmaM,PahysJM,BetzRR,CahillPJ:Theeffectofvertebralbodystaplingonsagittalprofile.PediatricOrthopaedicSocietyofNorthAmerica(ePoster),Hollywood,CA,Apr.30-May3,2014.MarksM,BastromTP,PetcharapornM,ShahS,BetzR,LonnerB,MiyanjiF,NewtonPO:Theeffectoftimeandfusionlengthonmotionoftheunfusedlumbarsegmentsinadolescentidiopathicscoliosis.AmericanAcademyofOrthopaedicSurgeonsannualmeeting,NewOrleans,LA,Mar.11-15,2014.SmithJT,HeflinJA,VitaleMG,El-HawaryR,BetzR:Theuseofrib-baseddistractionindysplasticearlyonsetscoliosisassociatedwithneurofibromatosis.7thInternationalCongressonEarlyOnsetScoliosisandGrowingSpine(ICEOS)(podium),RanchoBernardo,CA,Nov.21-22,2013.TheologisAA,CahillP,AuriemmaM,BetzR,DiabM:Vertebralbodystaplinginchildrenwithidiopathicscoliosis<10yearsofagewithcurvemagnitude30-39degrees.AmericanCollegeofSurgeonsannualmeeting,WashingtonDC,Oct.6-10,2013.
RandalR.Betz,MD 55VitaleMG,MatsumotoH,ParkHY,McCallaD,RoyeDP,KangWW,BetzRR,CahillPJ,GlotzbeckerMP,LuhmannSJ,GargS,SawyerJR,SmithJT,FlynnJM:Theclassificationforearlyonsetscoliosis(C-EOS)predictstimingofVEPTRanchorfailure.48thannualScoliosisResearchSocietymeeting(ePoster),Lyon,France,Sep.18-21,2013;20thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(ePoster),Vancouver,BC,Canada,Jul.10-13,2013.PahysJ,SamdaniA,CahillP,HarmsStudyGroup,BetzR:DoespostoperativeshoulderimbalanceleadtoaddingoninposteriorspinalfusionforLenke1Aand1Bcurves?48thannualScoliosisResearchSocietymeeting(podium),Lyon,France,Sep.18-21,2013.PahysJ,CahillP,AsgharJ,BetzR,HarmsStudyGroup,SamdaniA:Doessizematter?Comparisonof6.35mmvs.5.5mmdiameterrodsforposteriorspinalfusioninadolescentidiopathicscoliosis.48thannualScoliosisResearchSocietymeeting(ePoster),Lyon,France,Sep.18-21,2013;20thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(ePoster),Vancouver,BC,Canada,Jul.10-13,2013.SinglaA,SamdaniAF,FlynnJ,BennettJT,MiyanjiF,PahysJ,MarksM,LonnerB,NewtonPO,CahillPJ,BetzRR:WhatisdifferentaboutsurgicallytreatedAISpatientswhoachieveaminimalclinicallyimportantdifference(MCID)inappearanceat5yearspost-surgery?48thannualScoliosisResearchSocietymeeting(podium),Lyon,France,Sep.18-21,2013.HwangSW,SamdaniAF,RoguskiM,SugrueP,KawakamiN,SturmP,BetzRR,El-HawaryR,PahysJM,CahillPJ:RiskfactorsassociatedwithprogressionofChiariImalformationrelatedscoliosisafterdecompression.48thannualScoliosisResearchSocietymeeting(ePoster),Lyon,France,Sep.18-21,2013;20thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(ePoster),Vancouver,BC,Canada,Jul.10-13,2013. SamdaniAF,SinglaA,AmesR,PahysJM,BetzRR:Earlyrecognitionofovercorrectionafteranteriorvertebralbodytethering.48thannualScoliosisResearchSocietymeeting(casediscussion),Lyon,France,Sep.18-21,2013.ClementsDH,BetzRR,NewtonPO,MiyanjiF,MarksM,BastromT,HarmsStudyGroup:Doesoperativecareofadolescentidiopathicscoliosisimproveoutcomescomparedtononoperativetreatment?48thannualScoliosisResearchSocietymeeting(podium),Lyon,France,Sep.18-21,2013.DakwarE,SamdaniAF,AuriemmaM,PahysJM,BetzRR,CahillPJ:Fusionaftervertebralbodystapling.48thannualScoliosisResearchSocietymeeting(podium),Lyon,France,Sep.18-21,2013.
RandalR.Betz,MD 56SamdaniAF,AmesR,PahysJM,KimballJ,GrewalH,PelletierG,BetzRR:Singleinstitutionresultsofanteriorvertebralbodytetheringforimmatureidiopathicscoliosis.20thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(podium),Vancouver,BC,Canada,Jul.10-13,2013.SmithJ,HeflinJ,VitaleM,El-HawaryR,BetzR:Theuseofrib-baseddistractionindysplasticearlyonsetscoliosisassociatedwithneurofibromatosis.20thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(podium),Vancouver,BC,Canada,Jul.10-13,2013.SinglaA,SamdaniAF,SponsellerP,BennettJT,PahysJM,MarksMM,LonnerBS,NewtonPO,MiyanjiF,BetzRR,CahillPJ:Selectivethoracicvs.non-selectivefusioninLenke3curves.20thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(podium),Vancouver,BC,Canada,Jul.10-13,2013.DakwarE,SamdaniAF,AuriemmaM,PahysJM,BetzRR,CahillPJ:Hybridconstructsforthegrowingspine.20thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(podium),Vancouver,BC,Canada,Jul.10-13,2013.MulcaheyMJ,GaughanJP,BetzRR,SamdaniAF,BarakatN,HunterLN:PredictorsofneuromuscularscoliosisafterSCI.40thAmericanSpinalInjuryAssociationannualmeeting(podium),Chicago,IL,May6-8,2013.CahillPJ,SamdaniAF,AsgharJ,AntonacciMD,SponsellerP,ShahS,ClementsDH,BetzRR:Skeletalmaturityinpatientswithcerebralpalsy.PediatricOrthopaedicSocietyofNorthAmericaannualmeeting(eposter),Toronto,Canada,May1-4,2013.TrobischPD,SamdaniAF,PahysJM,BetzRR,CahillPJ:Congenitalvertebralmalformationsandassociatedabnormalities:theinfluenceoflocationandcomplexity.GermanSpineSociety,Stuttgart,Germany,Dec.6-8,2012.TrobischPD,SamdaniAF,BetzRR,BastromT,PahysJM,CahillPJ:Analysisofriskfactorsforlossoflordosisinpatientswhohadsurgicaltreatmentwithsegmentalinstrumentationforadolescentidiopathicscoliosis.GermanSpineSociety,Stuttgart,Germany,Dec.6-8,2012;19thInternationalMeetingforAdvancedSpineTechniques(ePoster),Istanbul,Turkey,Jul.18-21,2012.TrobischP,SamdaniA,PahysJ,BetzR,LonnerB,CahillP:MorbusScheuermann–welchequantifizierbarenradiologischenParameterkorrelierenmitveränderterSchmerzwahrnehmungoderFunktionalität?DeutscherKongressfurOrthopädieundUnfallchirurgie(DKOU2012).Berlin,Germany,Oct.23-26,2012.
RandalR.Betz,MD 57CidambiK,BastromT,BartleyCE,ClementsDH,BetzRR,LenkeLG,NewtonPO,HarmsStudyGroup:Surgicaltreatmentofmainthoracicadolescentidiopathicscoliosis:aprospectiveten-yearfollow-upstudy.AmericanAcademyofOrthopaedicSurgeonsannualmeeting(poster),Chicago,IL,Mar.19-23,2012;47thScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting(podium),Chicago,IL,Sept.5-8,2012.YaszayB,AsgharJ,BastromT,SamdaniAF,SturmP,BetzRR,ShufflebargerHL,NewtonPO,HarmsStudyGroup:Determiningoptimalpost-operativecoronalparametersforselectivethoracicfusion.AmericanAcademyofOrthopaedicSurgeonsannualmeeting(poster),Chicago,IL,Mar.19-23,2012.PahysJM,ZebalaL,CahillPJ,KellyM,AsgharJ,LenkeLG,BetzRR,SamdaniAF:Comparisonofsurgicaltreatmentsforinfantileandjuvenilescoliosis.47thScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting(podium),Chicago,IL,Sept.5-8,2012.SponsellerPD,ShahSA,SamdaniAF,YaszayB,NewtonPO,ThaxtonLM,BastromT,MarksMC.Woundinfectionsafterspinedeformitycorrectionincerebralpalsy:riskfactors.47thScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting(podium),Chicago,IL,Sept.5-8,2012.SamdaniAF,BelinEJ,MiyanjiF,PahysJM,ShahSA,NewtonPO,BetzRR,SponsellerPD:Majorperioperativecomplicationsforsurgeryaftercerebralpalsy:assessmentofriskfactors.47thScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting(podium),Chicago,IL,Sept.5-8,2012.SamdaniAF,BelinEJ,PahysJM,MiyanjiF,CahillPJ,ShufflebargerHL,LonnerBS,NewtonPO,BetzRR:UnplannedreturntotheoperatingroominpatientswithAIS:arewedoingbetterwithpediclescrewsthanwithhybridconstructs?47thScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting(podium),Chicago,IL,Sept.5-8,2012.SamdaniAF,AsgharJ,MiyanjiF,MarksMC,HoashiJS,LonnerBS,CahillPJ,PahysJM,NewtonPO,BetzRR:RecurrenceofribprominencefollowingAISsurgerywithpediclescrewsanddirectvertebralbodyderotation.47thScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting(podium),Chicago,IL,Sept.5-8,2012.ClementsDH,BetzRR,NewtonPO,LenkeLG,MarksMC,BastromT,HarmsStudyGroup:DoesfollowingtheLenkeclassificationtreatmentalgorithmimproveoutcomes?47thScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting(podium),Chicago,IL,Sept.5-8,2012.PahysJM,CahillPJ,d’AmatoC,AsgharJ,BetzRR,ChestWall&SpineDeformityStudyGroup,SamdaniAF:Indicationsandtreatmentprotocolsforhalogravitytractioninseverepediatricscoliosis:asurveyoftheexperts.47thScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting(ePoster),
RandalR.Betz,MD 58Chicago,IL,Sept.5-8,2012;19thInternationalMeetingforAdvancedSpineTechniques(ePoster),Istanbul,Turkey,Jul.18-21,2012.CahillPJ,HoashiJS,BetzRR,BastromT,MarksMC,HarmsStudyGroup,SamdaniAF:Isthereanyroleforthefive-degreerule?47thScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting(ePoster),Chicago,IL,Sept.5-8,2012;19thInternationalMeetingforAdvancedSpineTechniques(ePoster),Istanbul,Turkey,Jul.18-21,2012.YaszayB,AsgharJ,BastromT,SamdaniAF,SturmP,BetzRR,ShufflebargerHL,NewtonPO,HarmsStudyGroup:Determiningoptimalpost-operativecoronalparametersforselectivethoracicfusion.19thInternationalMeetingforAdvancedSpineTechniques(ePoster),Istanbul,Turkey,Jul.18-21,2012.AsgharJ,JoshiAP,PahysJM,ShufflebargerHL,UscholdTD,St.HilaireT,GartS,BetzRR,d’AmatoCR,VitaleMG,FlynnJM,SmithJT,SamdaniAF:VEPTRgraduates:definitivefusionofpatientstreatedwithVEPTRatanearlyage.19thInternationalMeetingforAdvancedSpineTechniques(podium),Istanbul,Turkey,Jul.18-21,2012.WilliamsBA,McCallaD,AkbarniaBA,BetzRR,BlakemoreLC,FlynnJM,JohnstonCE,McCarthyRE,SmithJT,SnyderBD,SponsellerPD,SturmP,ThompsonGH,YaziciM,VitaleM:IntroducingtheEarlyOnsetScoliosisclassificationsystem.19thInternationalMeetingforAdvancedSpineTechniques(podium),Istanbul,Turkey,Jul.18-21,2012.CahillPJ,SamdaniAF,WangW,BetzRR,BaranGR:Cementaugmentationofscrewfixation.19thInternationalMeetingforAdvancedSpineTechniques(ePoster),Istanbul,Turkey,Jul.18-21,2012.HwangSW,SamdaniAF,PahysJM,JeaA,KimballR,RothkrugA,AmesR,BetzRR:Factorsassociatedwithalossofcorrectioninspinalcordinjury-relatedscoliosisusingpediclescrewconstructs.19thInternationalMeetingforAdvancedSpineTechniques(ePoster),Istanbul,Turkey,Jul.18-21,2012.TrobischPD,SamdaniAF,PahysJM,NewtonPO,BetzRR,LonnerBS,CahillPJ:AnalysisofpainandfunctioninrelationtoradiographicparametersinpatientswithScheuermann’skyphosis.19thInternationalMeetingforAdvancedSpineTechniques(ePoster),Istanbul,Turkey,Jul.18-21,2012.HwangSW,SamdaniAF,MarksMC,BastromT,GargH,LonnerBS,PahysJM,ShahSA,MiyanjiF,ShufflebargerHL,NewtonPO,BetzRR:Outcomesofadolescentidiopathicscoliosisusingpediclescrewonlyconstructswithaminimumof5yearsoffollow-up.19thInternationalMeetingforAdvancedSpineTechniques(ePoster),Istanbul,Turkey,Jul.18-21,2012.
RandalR.Betz,MD 59CahillPJ,SamdaniAF,GargH,PahysJM,LonnerBS,BetzRR,HarmsStudyGroup:PredictionofpostoperativeheightincreaseafterdeformitycorrectioninScheuermann’skyphosis.19thInternationalMeetingforAdvancedSpineTechniques(ePoster),Istanbul,Turkey,Jul.18-21,2012.CahillPJ,SamdaniAF,MerendaL,CostelloK,SantangeloA,BetzRR,MulcaheyMJ,HarmsStudyGroup:Spinalappearancequestionnaire(SAQ):lackofsurgeonagreementonitsintent.19thInternationalMeetingforAdvancedSpineTechniques(ePoster),Istanbul,Turkey,Jul.18-21,2012.CahillPJ,HoashiJS,BetzRR,BastromT,HarmsStudyGroup,SamdaniAF:Istherea“Jul.effect”insurgeryforadolescentidiopathicscoliosis?19thInternationalMeetingforAdvancedSpineTechniques(ePoster),Istanbul,Turkey,Jul.18-21,2012.TrobischP,SamdaniA,PahysJ,BetzR,LonnerB,CahillP:Scheuermann’sdisease:whichquantifiableradiographicparameterscorrelatewithpainorfunction?GermanOrthopaedicSocietyannualmeeting,Berlin,Oct.23-26,2012.RussellH,SmithT,KellyE,MulcaheyMJ,BetzR,VogelV:Caregivercopingandparticipationinyouthwithspinalcordinjury.AssociationofSpinalCordInjuryProfessionalsannualmeeting(podium),LasVegas,NV,Sep.3-5,2012.LonnerB,TerranJS,NewtonPO,BetzRR,ShahSA,SponsellerPD,SamdaniA,ShufflebargerHL:Scheuermann’skyphosis:impactonqualityoflifein86patients.AmericanAcademyofOrthopaedicSurgeonsannualmeeting,SanFrancisco,CA,Feb.7-11,2012.TrobischP,SamdaniA,O’NeilC,BetzR,CahillP:Successofnonoperativetreatmentforsevereformsofinfantileidiopathicscoliosis.GermanSocietyforOrthopaedicSurgeryandTraumatology(podium),Berlin,Oct.25-28,2011.TrobischP,SamdaniA,PahysJ,BetzR,CahillP:PostoperativetrunkshiftinpatientswithadolescentidiopathicscoliosisLenketype1&2:Howcommonisitandwhataretheriskfactors?GermanSocietyforOrthopaedicSurgeryandTraumatology(podium),Berlin,Oct.25-28,2011.TrobischP,SamdaniA,HarmsStudyGroup,AsgharJ,BetzR,CahillP:Segmentalinstrumentationforadolescentidiopathicscoliosis.Canwereallycontrolthesagittalbalance?GermanSocietyforOrthopaedicSurgeryandTraumatology(podium),Berlin,Oct.25-28,2011.
RandalR.Betz,MD 60LonnerBS,TerranJS,NewtonPO,ShahSA,SamdaniAF,SponsellerP,ShufflebargerHL,BetzRR:MRIscreeninginoperativeScheuermann’skyphosis:isitnecessary?46thScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting(podium),Louisville,KY,Sep.14-17,2011.LonnerBS,NewtonPO,TerranJS,BetzRR,SponsellerP,ShahSA,SamdaniAF,ShufflebargerHL:Scheuermann’skyphosis:impactonqualityoflifein86patients.46thScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting(podium),Louisville,KY,Sep.14-17,2011.CahillPJ,SamdaniAF,PahysJ,GreshM,YaszayB,MarksMC,BastromTA,LonnerB,ShahS,ShufflebargerHL,NewtonPO,BetzRR:Youthandexperience:theeffectofsurgeonexperienceonoutcomesinAISsurgery.46thScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting(podium),Louisville,KY,Sep.14-17,2011.PahysJ,SamdaniAF,BetzRR,TrobischP,GargH,NewtonPO,MarksMC,BastromTA,HarmsStudyGroup,CahillPJ:Assessmentofproximaljunctionalkyphosisandshoulderbalancewithproximalscrewsvs.hooksinposteriorspinalfusionforadolescentidiopathicscoliosis.46thScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting(podium),Louisville,KY,Sep.14-17,2011.SamdaniAF,GargH,CahillPJ,MarksMC,BastromTA,ClementsDH,ShahS,ShufflebargerHL,BetzRR,NewtonPO:5-yearresultsforLenke1or2curves:comparisonofanterior,posteriorhybrid,andposteriorallpediclescrews.46thScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting(podium),Louisville,KY,Sep.14-17,2011.MarksMC,BastromT,PetcharapornM,BetzRR,ShufflebargerHL,LonnerBS,ShahSA,NewtonPO:Post-operativetrunkmobilityisbetterwiththeanteriorapproachvs.posteriorinthoracolumbarscoliosis.46thScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting(ePoster),Louisville,KY,Sep.14-17,2011;18thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(ePoster),Copenhagen,Denmark,Jul.13-16,2011.MarksMC,BastromT,PetcharapornM,BetzRR,ShufflebargerHL,LonnerBS,ShahSA,NewtonPO:Trunkmotionimprovesovertimeafterspinalfusionforadolescentidiopathicscoliosis.46thScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting(ePoster),Louisville,KY,Sep.14-17,2011;18thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(ePoster),Copenhagen,Denmark,Jul.13-16,2011.LonnerBS,TerranJS,NewtonPO,BastromT,ShahSA,ShufflebargerHL,BetzRR,SamdaniAF,SponsellerP:Ispre-operativePFTassessmentworthwhileinSK?46thScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting(ePoster),Louisville,KY,Sep.14-17,2011;18thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(ePoster),Copenhagen,Denmark,Jul.13-16,2011.
RandalR.Betz,MD 61BetzRR,WilliamsJI,GeorgeK,GaughanJP,SamdaniAF:Cananewpedicledrillingprobewithelectricalconductivitymeasurementcapabilitiesanticipatepediclebreach?Acadaverstudy.18thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(ePoster),Copenhagen,Denmark,Jul.13-16,2011.ChaputC,GeorgeK,SamdaniAF,GaughanJP,BetzRR:Prospective,randomizedtrialofpedicledrillingprobethatmeasureselectricalconductivityandreducesradiationexposure.18thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(ePoster),Copenhagen,Denmark,Jul.13-16,2011.ClementsDH,MarksM,NewtonPO,BetzRR,BastromT,HarmsStudyGroup:Outcomesofrule-breakersandrule-followersoftheLenkeclassificationtreatmentalgorithm.18thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(ePoster),Copenhagen,Denmark,Jul.13-16,2011.CoronaJ(etal),BetzRR:Clinicaluncertaintydefined:aformalevaluationofEquipoiseamongtreatmentoptionsforpatientswithearlyonsetscoliosis.18thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(ePoster),Copenhagen,Denmark,Jul.13-16,2011.HellerJE,SamdaniAF,AsgharJ,ClementsDH,GrewalH,ChafetzRS,BetzRR,CahillPJ:Vertebralbodystaplingplusanexpandablehybridrod:earlyresultsofanon-fusionalternativeinthetreatmentofskeletallyimmaturechildrenwithidiopathicscoliosisandahighriskoffusion.18thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(ePoster),Copenhagen,Denmark,Jul.13-16,2011.LonnerB,YaszayB,Terran,NewtonPO,ShahS,SponsellerP,SamdaniAF,BetzRR,ShufflebargerHL:Earlyand1yearcomplicationratesinScheuermann’skyphosis:arethesurgicalchallengesdifferentfromadolescentidiopathicscoliosis?18thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(ePoster),Copenhagen,Denmark,Jul.13-16,2011.MiyanjiF,MarksM,SamdaniAF,ShufflebargerHL,ShahS,BetzRR,NewtonPO:Baselinedatavariabilityinprospectivemulti-centerdatabases:howcomparableisthedatabetweendifferentcenters?18thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(ePoster),Copenhagen,Denmark,Jul.13-16,2011.SamdaniAF,CahillPJ,HwangSW,KingJ,EdwardsA,FineAL,FergusonJL,BetzRR:Largercurvemagnitudeisassociatedwithmarkedlyincreasedperioperativecomplicationsafterscoliosissurgeryinpatientswithspinalcordinjury.18thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(podium),Copenhagen,Denmark,Jul.13-16,2011.SamdaniAF,MarksMC,BastromTA,CahillPJ,GargH,LonnerB,ShahS,MiyanjiF,ShufflebargerHL,NewtonPO,BetzRR:TreatmentofAISwithallpediclescrewconstructswithminimum5
RandalR.Betz,MD 62yearfollow-up.18thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(ePoster),Copenhagen,Denmark,Jul.13-16,2011.CoronaJ,MillerDJ,DownsJ,AkbarniaBA,BlakemoreLC,BetzRR,CampbellJrRM,FlynnJM,JohnstonCE,McCarthyRE,RoyeJrDP,SkaggsDL,SmithJT,SnyderBD,SponsellerPD,SturmPF,ThompsonGH,YaziciM,VitaleMG:Findingthetippingpoint:whenshouldsurgerybeperformedinchildrenwithearlyonsetidiopathicscoliosis?124thAmericanOrthopaedicAssociationannualmeeting(poster),Boston,MA,Jun.22-25,2011.JohnstonTE,MulcaheyMJ,BetzRR,LauerRT:Effectsofcyclingonboneandmuscleinpediatricspinalcordinjury.InternationalSpinalCordSociety/AmericanSpinalInjuryAssociationannualmeeting,WashingtonDC,Jun.4-8,2011.CuddihyL,DanielssonA,SamdaniAF,CahillPJ,MulcaheyMJ,BetzRR:Vertebralbodystaplingvs.bracingforpatientswithhigh-riskmoderateidiopathicscoliosis.PediatricOrthopaedicSocietyofNorthAmericaannualmeeting(podium),Montreal,Quebec,Canada,May11-14,2011;SpineArthroplastySocietyannualmeeting(podium),LasVegas,Apr.26-29,2011;45thScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting(podium),Kyoto,Japan,Sep.21-24,2010.YaszayB,SchulteC,MarksM,NewtonP,BetzR,ShahS,LonnerB,FlynnJ,ShufflebargerH,HarmsStudyGroup:Acomparisonofperioperativeanddelayedmajorcomplicationsfollowing1630AISprocedures.PediatricOrthopaedicSocietyofNorthAmericaannualmeeting(podium),Montreal,Quebec,Canada,May11-14,2011;AmericanAcademyofOrthopaedicSurgeonsannualmeeting(poster),SanDiego,CA,Feb.15-19,2011.SmithJT,EmansJ,SamdaniA,BetzR,WadeJ:Caninfectionassociatedwithribbaseddistractionbemanagedwithoutimplantremoval?Amulticenterstudy.PediatricOrthopaedicSocietyofNorthAmericaannualmeeting(podium),Montreal,Quebec,Canada,May11-14,2011;4thInternationalCongressonEarlyOnsetScoliosisandGrowingSpine,Nov.19-20,2010,Toronto,Ontario.BarakatN,HunterL,FinsterbuschJ,GaughanJ,SamdaniA,MulcaheyM,BetzR,FaroS,MohamedF:Diffusiontensorimagingofthepediatricspinalcordusinganinner-FoVEPIpulsesequenceinnormalsandpatientswithSCI.InternationalSocietyforMagneticResonanceinMedicineannualmeeting(podium),Montreal,Quebec,Canada,May7-13,2011.KatzJ,DongR,DeStefanoL,PrysakM,ClevengerR,BetzRR,DonaldG:Novelnano-technologyplatformforcovalentlybondingantimicrobialstoorthopaedicbiomaterialsreducesbacterialnumbersonnumeroussubstrates.SpineArthroplastySocietyannualmeeting(podium),LasVegas,Apr.26-29,2011.
RandalR.Betz,MD 63HwangSW,SamdaniA,LonnerB,NewtonP,MarksMC,BastromT,BetzRR,CahillP:Directvertebralbodyderotation:howmuchcorrectionoftheribdeformitycanbeexpected?AANS/CNSSectiononDisordersoftheSpineandPeripheralNerves(digitalposter),Phoenix,AZ,Mar.9-12,2011.HwangSW,MarksMC,BastromT,BetzRR,CahillP,SamdaniAF:Directvertebralbodyderotation:acomparisonofdifferenttechniques.AANS/CNSSectiononDisordersoftheSpineandPeripheralNerves(oralposterpresentation),Phoenix,AZ,Mar.9-12,2011.HwangSW,SamdaniA,NewtonP,LonnerB,MarksMC,BastromT,CahillP,BetzRR:Directvertebralbodyderotation,thoracoplastyorboth:whichisbetterwithrespecttoinclinometerandSRS-22scores?AANS/CNSSectiononDisordersoftheSpineandPeripheralNerves(oralposterpresentation),Phoenix,AZ,Mar.9-12,2011.YaszayB,Bartley,BastromT,NewtonP,HarmsStudyGroup:Wheneverydoseofradiationmattersintheyoungpatient:howdobendingfilmsinfluencesurgicaldecisionmakinginmoderateAIScurves?AmericanAcademyofOrthopaedicSurgeonsannualmeeting(podium),SanDiego,CA,Feb.15-19,2011.SponsellerP,FlynnJ,NewtonP,MarksM,BastromT,PetcharapornM,BetzR:SignificantdifferencesamongpatientsinLenkecurvetypes.AmericanAcademyofOrthopaedicSurgeonsannualmeeting(podium),SanDiego,CA,Feb.15-19,2011.SponsellerP,NewtonP,LonnerB,ShahS,ShufflebargerH,BetzR,MarksM,BastromT:Dopediclescrewsalonecontrolcurvesinpatientswithopentriradiatecartilages?AmericanAcademyofOrthopaedicSurgeonsannualmeeting(podium),SanDiego,CA,Feb.15-19,2011.AntonacciMD,CahillPJ,NydickJ,AsgharJ,TantorskiM,ClementsDH,BetzRR,SamdaniAF:CervicalsagittalplanedecompensationafterpediatricAISsurgery:impartinggreaterthan30degreesthoracickyphosisisessentialtomaintainingorimprovingcervicalalignment.CervicalSpineResearchSociety38thannualmeeting(podium),Charlotte,NC,Dec.2-4,2010.MillerDJ,CoronaJ,DownsJ,AkbarniaBA,BlakemoreLC,BetzRR,CampbellRMJr,JohnstonCE,McCarthyRE,RoyeDP,SkaggsDL,SmithJT,SnyderBD,SponsellerPD,SturmPF,ThompsonGH,YaziciM,VitaleMG,FlynnJM.Tooperateornottooperate?Determiningtheoptimaltimingofsurgicalinterventionforpatientswithearlyonsetneuromuscularscoliosis.4thInternationalCongressonEarlyOnsetScoliosisandGrowingSpine,Nov.19-20,2010,Toronto,Ontario.
MulcaheyMJ,SantangeloA,CostelloK,MerendaL,ChafetzR,SamdaniAF,BetzRR:Cognitivetestingofthespinalappearancequestionnaire(SAQ)withtypicallydevelopingyouthandyouth
RandalR.Betz,MD 64withidiopathicscoliosis.45thScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting(podium),Kyoto,Japan,Sep.21-24,2010.ChoR,YaszayB,BastromT,BartleyC,NewtonPO,HarmsStudyGroup:WhichLenke1Acurvesarethegreatestriskforaddingon…andwhy?45thScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting(podium),Kyoto,Japan,Sep.21-24,2010.SamdaniAF,SagooS,ShahS,CahillPJ,ClementsDH,BetzRR:Thepatientwithmyelomeningocele:isuntetheringnecessarypriortodeformitycorrection?45thScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting(podium),Kyoto,Japan,Sep.21-24,2010.SharkeyMS,FlynnJ,SponsellerP,MarksMC,BastromT,NewtonPO,HarmsStudyGroup:Selectivethoracicfusioninadolescentidiopathicscoliosis:implicationsoflevelingthelowestinstrumentedvertebraonlumbarcurveandcoronalbalance.45thScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting(podium),Kyoto,Japan,Sep.21-24,2010.SponsellerP,FlynnJ,NewtonPO,MarksMC,BastromT,PetcharapornM,BetzRR:SignificantdifferencesamongpatientsinLenkecurvetypes.45thScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting(podium),Kyoto,Japan,Sep.21-24,2010.SponsellerP,NewtonPO,LonnerB,ShahS,ShufflebargerH,BetzRR,MarksMC,BastromT:Dopediclescrewsalonecontrolcurvesinpatientswithopentriradiatecartilages?45thScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting(podium),Kyoto,Japan,Sep.21-24,2010.YaszayB,SchulteC,MarksMC,NewtonPO,BetzRR,ShahS,LonnerB,ShufflebargerH,FlynnJ,HarmsStudyGroup:Acomparisonofperioperativeanddelayedmajorcomplicationsfollowing1630AISprocedures.45thScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting(podium),Kyoto,Japan,Sep.21-24,2010.HwangSW,MarksMC,BastromT,BetzRR,CahillPJ:FactorsassociatedwithlossofcoronaldeformitycorrectioninpatientswithAIS.45thScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting(podium),Kyoto,Japan,Sep.21-24,2010.MiyanjiF,SlobogeanG,SamdaniAF,BetzRR,ReillyC,SlobogeanB,NewtonPO:Largercurvemagnitudeisassociatedwithincreasedperioperativehealthcareresourceutilization:amulti-centeranalysisof422AIScurves.45thScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting(podium),Kyoto,Japan,Sep.21-24,2010.OnoT,BastromT,NewtonPO,HarmsStudyGroup:Definingtwocomponentsofshoulderbalance:clavicletiltandtrapezialprominence.45thScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting
RandalR.Betz,MD 65(poster),Kyoto,Japan,Sep.21-24,2010;17thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(ePoster),Toronto,Canada,Jul.21-24,2010.HwangSW,MarksMC,BastromT,BetzRR,SamdaniAF,CahillPJ:Impactofderotationmaneuversonthethoracicsagittalplaneinadolescentdeformitycorrection.45thScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting(poster),Kyoto,Japan,Sep.21-24,2010;17thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(ePoster),Toronto,Canada,Jul.21-24,2010.LarkR,YaszayB,BastromT,NewtonPO,HarmsStudyGroup:AddingfusiontothethoraciccurveinLenke5curves—risksandbenefits.45thScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting(poster),Kyoto,Japan,Sep.21-24,2010;17thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(podium),Toronto,Canada,Jul.21-24,2010.HwangSW,SamdaniAF,NewtonPO,LonnerB,MarksMC,BastromT,CahillPJ,BetzRR:Directvertebralbodyderotation,thoracoplastyorboth:whichisbetterwithrespecttoinclinometerandSRS-22scores?45thScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting(poster),Kyoto,Japan,Sep.21-24,2010;17thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(podium),Toronto,Canada,Jul.21-24,2010.ClementsDH,ClementsDHIV,ColipC,DarvishK,BetzRR,HarmsStudyGroup:Theeffectonpediclescrewpulloutstrengthofoptimizingpediclefillusingatooltosizeanddilatethepedicle.17thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(podium),Toronto,Canada,Jul.21-24,2010.ShahS,NewtonPO,LonnerB,ShufflebargerH,BastromT,MarksMC,HarmsStudyGroup:Rodstrength:isitanimportantfactorincoronalandsagittalrealignmentaftersurgeryinAIS?17thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(podium),Toronto,Canada,Jul.21-24,2010.CahillPJ,SamdaniAF,ClementsDH,BetzRR:ObesitydoesnotaffectfusionlevelsinAIS:amatchedcohortanalysis.17thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(ePoster),Toronto,Canada,Jul.21-24,2010.ChaputC,GeorgeK,SamdaniAF,GaughanJ,BetzRR:Saferpediclescrewsinthelumbarspine:reductioninradiation.17thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(ePoster),Toronto,Canada,Jul.21-24,2010.CahillPJ,AsgharJ,BookerR,BetzRR,WangW,BaranG:Theuseoftransitionrodsmaypreventproximaljunctionalkyphosis:afiniteelementanalysis.17thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(ePoster),Toronto,Canada,Jul.21-24,2010.
RandalR.Betz,MD 66ClementsDH,BetzRR,NewtonPO,MarksMC,BastromT,HarmsStudyGroup:Doespediclescrewinstrumentationimprovetrunkshapecomparedtohybridtechniques?17thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(ePoster),Toronto,Canada,Jul.21-24,2010.GarrasDN,ShahS,LonnerB,BastromT,MarksMC,HarmsStudyGroup:DoesobesityaffectsagittalalignmentinAIS?17thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(ePoster),Toronto,Canada,Jul.21-24,2010.HwangSW,FowlerJ,MarksMC,BastromT,GaughanJ,LonnerB,BetzRR,SamdaniAF,CahillPJ:HowtallwillIbeaftermyscoliosissurgery?Auni-andmulti-variateanalysisoffactorsassociatedwithchangeofheightin461AISpatients.17thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(ePoster),Toronto,Canada,Jul.21-24,2010.HwangSW,SamdaniAF,LonnerB,NewtonPO,MarksMC,BastromT,BetzRR,CahillPJ:Directvertebralbodyderotation:Howmuchcorrectionoftheribhumpcanbeexpected?17thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(podium),Toronto,Canada,Jul.21-24,2010.HwangSW,GaughanJ,BetzRR,CahillPJ:Meta-analysisofChiariImalformationsandscoliosisoutcomesaftersurgicaldecompression.17thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(ePoster),Toronto,Canada,Jul.21-24,2010.LonnerB,PennP,YaszayB,ShahS,SponsellerP,ShufflebargerH,SamdaniAF,NewtonPO,BetzRR:Earlyand1yearcomplicationandreoperationratesinScheuermann’skyphosis:acomparativeanalysistooperativeAIS.17thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(ePoster),Toronto,Canada,Jul.21-24,2010.MiyanjiF,SlobogeanB,VergheseR,ReillyC,BetzRR,NewtonPO:DoesstatisticalsignificanceofSRS-22correlatewithclinicalsignificance?Amulti-centerlongitudinalstudyevaluatingtheminimalclinicallyimportantdifferenceoftheSRS-22.17thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(ePoster),Toronto,Canada,Jul.21-24,2010.SamdaniAF,SchulzJ,CahillPJ,BetzRR:VEPTRforthetreatmentofinfantileidiopathicscoliosis.17thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(ePoster),Toronto,Canada,Jul.21-24,2010.TrobischP,BharuchaN,NewtonPO,ShahS,SamdaniAF,BetzRR,LonnerB:RaceandAIS:arethereracialdifferencesindeformitycharacteristicsandclinicalseveritypreoperatively?17thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(ePoster),Toronto,Canada,Jul.21-24,2010.
RandalR.Betz,MD 67YaszayB,LarkR,BastromT,NewtonPO,HarmsStudyGroup:Factorsinfluencingfusionofthethoracicspineinthoracolumbar/lumbarcurves.17thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(ePoster),Toronto,Canada,Jul.21-24,2010.YaszayB,Bartley,BastromT,NewtonPO,HarmsStudyGroup:Wheneverydoseofradiationmattersintheyoungpatient:howdobendingfilmsinfluencesurgicaldecisionmakinginmoderateAIScurves?17thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(ePoster),Toronto,Canada,Jul.21-24,2010. RussellH,MulcaheyMJ,BetzR,KellyE,GorzkowskiJ,VogelL:Relationshipsbetweencopingandpsychosocialoutcomesinyouthwithspinalcordinjury.AmericanSpinalInjuryAssociationannualmeeting(podium),Nashville,TN,May25-27,2010.MarksMC,NewtonPO,BetzRR,SponsellerP,LonnerBS,ShahSA,ShufflebargerHL,HarmsStudyGroup:Surgicalsiteinfection(SSI)inspinalsurgery:thenewest“never”event.AmericanAcademyofOrthopaedicSurgeonsannualmeeting(podium),NewOrleans,LA,Mar.9-13,2010;NorthAmericanSpineSocietyannualmeeting(podium),SanFrancisco,CA,Nov.10-14,2009.LonnerBS,KeanKE,SponsellerP,ShufflebargerHL,ShahSA,CrawfordAH,O’BrienMF,BetzRR,NewtonPO:Scheuermann’skyphosis:prospectiveevaluationofclinicalpresentationandimpactonqualityoflifein43patients.AmericanAcademyofOrthopaedicSurgeonsannualmeeting(poster),NewOrleans,LA,Mar.9-13,2010;16thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(ePoster),Vienna,Austria,Jul.15-18,2009.JohnstonTE,WatsonKE,EngsbergJR,RossSA,GatesPE,BetzRR:GaitchangesfollowingaSupportedSpeedTreadmillTrainingExerciseProgram(SSTTEP)formarginallyambulatorychildrenwithcerebralpalsy.APTACombinedSectionsMeeting(podium),SanDiego,CA,Feb.17-20,2010.BetzRR,MulcaheyMJ,KozinSH,SamdaniAF:OrthopaedicconsiderationsofthechildandadolescentwithtetraplegiasecondarytoSCI.H.H.SteelConference:PediatricSpinalCordInjuriesandDysfunction(podium),LakeBuenaVista,FL,Dec.3-5,2009;InternationalSpinalCordSociety48thannualscientificmeeting(poster),Florence,Italy,Oct.21-24,2009;InternationalMeetingonUpperLimbinTetraplegia(podium),Philadelphia,PA,Sept.17-20,2007.BetzRR,ChafetzR,VogelLC,SamdaniAF,MulcaheyMJ:Descriptionofsensorypreservationinchildrenandadolescentswithincompletespinalinjury.H.H.SteelConference:PediatricSpinalCordInjuriesandDysfunction(podium),LakeBuenaVista,FL,Dec.3-5,2009;InternationalSpinalCordSociety48thannualscientificmeeting(poster),Florence,Italy,Oct.21-24,2009.
RandalR.Betz,MD 68MohamedFB,SairHI,HunterL,SamdaniA.MulcaheyMJ,BetzRR,LiuCS,BarakatN,FaroSH:Diffusiontensorimagingofpediatricspinalcordinjuredpatientsat1.5T:preliminarydatainnormalsandinpatientswithspinalcordinjury.RadiologicalSocietyofNorthAmerica95thAnnualMeeting,Chicago,IL,Nov.29–Dec.4,2009;AmericanSocietyofNeuroradiology(ASNR)47thannualmeeting,Vancouver,BC,May16-21,2009;AmericanSocietyofFunctionalNeuroradiology(ASFNR)annualmeeting,Feb.25-27,2009. YaszayB,NewtonPO,BastromT,PetcharapornM,HarmsStudyGroup:Lenke5curves:thresholdsforselectingL3vs.L4asthedistalleveloffusion.24thannualmeetingoftheNorthAmericanSpineSociety(podium),SanFrancisco,CA,Nov.10-14,2009;16thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(ePoster),Vienna,Austria,Jul.15-18,2009.ImrieM,YaszayB,NewtonPO,WengerDR,BastromT,HarmsStudyGroup:DoesmaximizingcurvecorrectionofLenke1curvesinAISrisksecondarydecompensation?24thannualmeetingoftheNorthAmericanSpineSociety(podium),SanFrancisco,CA,Nov.10-14,2009;16thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(ePoster),Vienna,Austria,Jul.15-18,2009.TantorskiM,SamdaniAF,CahillPJ,RanadeA,KochS,ClementsDH,BetzRR,AsgharJ:TriggeredEMGtestinginthethoracicspine:isitreliable?24thannualmeetingoftheNorthAmericanSpineSociety(podium),SanFrancisco,CA,Nov.10-14,2009.ShahSA,NewtonPO,LonnerBS,ShufflebargerHL,BastromT,MarksMC,HarmsStudyGroup:RodStrength:IsitanImportantFactorinCoronalandSagittalRealignmentafterSurgeryforAdolescentIdiopathicScoliosis?NorthAmericanSpineSocietyannualmeeting(podium),Boston,MA,Nov.10-14,2009;16thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(ePoster),Vienna,Austria,Jul.15-18,2009.AsgharJ,TantorskiM,SamdaniAF,CahillPJ,ClementsDH,AntonacciD,BetzRR:PercutaneouspediclescrewplacementfordeformityusingallAPtechnique:definingthelearningcurve.NorthAmericanSpineSocietyannualmeeting(ePoster),SanFrancisco,CA,Nov.10-14,2009;16thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(ePoster),Vienna,Austria,Jul.15-18,2009.ClementsDH,BetzRR,NewtonPO,MarksMM,BastromT,HarmsStudyGroup:Areweimprovingpostoperativesagittalcontourwithnewposteriorinstrumentationcomparedto“oldschool”instrumentation?NorthAmericanSpineSocietyannualmeeting(podium),SanFrancisco,CA,Nov.10-14,2009;44thannualmeetingoftheScoliosisResearchSociety(podium),SanAntonio,TX,Sep.23-26,2009.
RandalR.Betz,MD 69ShufflebargerHL,WilliamsSK,NewtonPO,SamdaniAF,BetzRR,LonnerBS,SponsellerP:Multicenterstudyofposteriorvertebralcolumnresectionforpediatricdeformity.NorthAmericanSpineSocietyannualmeeting(podium),Boston,MA,Nov.10-14,2009;44thannualmeetingoftheScoliosisResearchSociety(podium),SanAntonio,TX,Sep.23-26,2009.AsgharJ,CahillPJ,SamdaniAF,AntonacciD,ClementsDH,BetzRR:Theeffectofoperativepositionduringposteriorspinalfusionforadolescentidiopathicscoliosis:doesitinfluencesagittalandaxialalignmentofthethoracicspine?NorthAmericanSpineSocietyannualmeeting(ePoster),SanFrancisco,CA,Nov.10-14,2009;16thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(podium),Vienna,Austria,Jul.15-18,2009.ShahSA,NewtonPO,LonnerBS,BetzRR,BastromT,MarksMC,HarmsStudyGroup:Longersurgicaltimesmayincreaseyourcomplicationrate.NorthAmericanSpineSocietyannualmeeting(ePoster),SanFrancisco,CA,Nov.10-14,2009;ScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting(poster),SanAntonio,TX,Sep.23-26,2009;16thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(podium),Vienna,Austria,Jul.15-18,2009.HunterL,SamdaniAF,BetzRR,VogelLC,ChafetzR,GaughanJ,MulcaheyMJ:NeuromuscularscoliosisinchildrenwithSCIasafunctionofage,timesinceinjury,neurologicallevel,motorlevel,andinjuryseverity.InternationalSpinalCordSociety48thannualscientificmeeting(poster),Florence,Italy,Oct.21-24,2009;44thannualmeetingoftheScoliosisResearchSociety(podium),SanAntonio,TX,Sep.23-26,2009.MarksMC,NewtonPO,PetcharapornM,BastromT,ShahSA,BetzRR,LonnerBS,MiyanjiF:AmoredistalfusionisassociatedwithincreasedmotionatL4/L5:Asetupfordegeneration?44thannualmeetingoftheScoliosisResearchSociety(podium),SanAntonio,TX,Sep.23-26,2009.PahysJ,SamdaniA,BetzR:Intraspinalanomaliesininfantileidiopathicscoliosis:prevalenceandroleofMRI.44thannualmeetingoftheScoliosisResearchSociety(podium),SanAntonio,TX,Sep.23-26,2009;2ndInternationalCongressonEarlyOnsetScoliosisandGrowingSpine(ICEOS),Montreal,Quebec,Nov.7-8,2008.HunterL,MolitorF,MulcaheyMM,BetzRR,VogelLC,McDonaldCM:ReliabilitytestingoftheShrinerspediatricinstrumentforneuromuscularscoliosis(SPINS):aqualityoflifequestionnaireforchildrenwithspinalcordinjury.44thannualmeetingoftheScoliosisResearchSociety(poster),SanAntonio,TX,Sep.23-26,2009;16thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(podium),Vienna,Austria,Jul.15-18,2009.CahillPJ,RanadeA,SamdaniA,AsgharJ,AntonacciMD,ClementsD,BetzRR:Whatdoesascoliometerreallymeasure?44thannualmeetingoftheScoliosisResearchSociety(poster),SanAntonio,TX,Sep.23-26,2009.
RandalR.Betz,MD 70CahillPJ,MarvilSC,SchuttC,IdemaI,ClementsD,AntonacciMD,AsgharJ,SamdaniAF,BetzRR:Autofusionoftheskeletallyimmaturespineaftergrowingrodinstrumentation.44thannualmeetingoftheScoliosisResearchSociety(podium),SanAntonio,TX,Sep.23-26,2009.CahillPJ,AsgharJ,SmithJR,MarvilSC,TantorskiME,SamdaniA,ClementsD,AntonacciMD,BetzRR:Therateofchangeinspinopelvicparametersfollowingspondylolisthesissurgery.44thannualmeetingoftheScoliosisResearchSociety(poster),SanAntonio,TX,Sep.23-26,2009.CahillPJ,SamdaniA,SmithJR,FinlaysonC,MarvilSC,TantorskiME,HammerbergK,AsgharJ,BetzRR,SturmP:Complicationratesinpediatricspondylolisthesissurgery:adualcenter16yearretrospectivereview.44thannualmeetingoftheScoliosisResearchSociety(podium),SanAntonio,TX,Sep.23-26,2009.JohnstonTE,WatsonKE,EngsbergJ,RossSA,GatesPE,TuckerCA,BetzRR.Strength,functionandgaitchangesfollowingaspeedsupportedtreadmilltrainingexerciseprogram(SSTTEP)formarginallyambulatorychildrenwithcerebralpalsy:apreliminaryreport.AmericanAcademyforCerebralPalsyandDevelopmentalMedicine(poster),Phoenix,AZ,Sep.2009.SamdaniA,St.HilaireT,EmansJ,SmithJ,SongK,CampbellR,BetzR:TheutilityofVEPTRintheolderchildwithcomplexspineandchestdeformity.16thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(podium),Vienna,Austria,Jul.15-18,2009;2ndInternationalCongressonEarlyOnsetScoliosisandGrowingSpine(ICEOS),Montreal,Quebec,Nov.7-8,2008.FayssouxRS,SamdaniAF,AsgharJ,McCarthyJJ,GaughanJ,BetzRR,MulcaheyMJ:ChronicSCIinchildren:doesMRIcorrelatewiththestandardizedclinicalexam?16thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(ePoster),Vienna,Austria,Jul.15-18,2009.YaszayB,NewtonPO,ShufflebargerHL,ShahSA,BastromT,HarmsStudyGroup:AnewindicationforPontereleasesinadolescentidiopathicscoliosis:restoringthoracickyphosis.16thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(ePoster),Vienna,Austria,Jul.15-18,2009.AsgharJ,YaszayB,SamdaniAF,CahillPJ,AntonacciMD,ClementsDH,BetzRR:Theinfluenceofscoliosiscorrectiononthespinalcanalmorphologyacrossapexofthoraciccurve.16thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(ePoster),Vienna,Austria,Jul.15-18,2009.SamdaniAF,FaroSH,MohamedF,HunterLN,SairH,LiuC-J,BarakatN,BetzRR,MulcaheyMJ:Demonstrationofdiffusiontensorimaging(DTI)inchildrenwithandwithoutspinalcordinjury
RandalR.Betz,MD 71(SCI).16thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(ePoster),Vienna,Austria,Jul.15-18,2009.ShufflebargerHL,DunoyerC,HarmsStudyGroup:EstablishmentofaminimalEMGthresholdforthoracicpediclescrewplacement.16thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(ePoster),Vienna,Austria,Jul.15-18,2009.SponsellerP,NewtonPO,FlynnJM,MarksMC,BastromT,PetcharapornM,BetzRR:Lenketypesselectmorethanshape.16thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(ePoster),Vienna,Austria,Jul.15-18,2009.SamdaniAF,RanadeA,WilliamsR,RamosG,BetzRR:Feasibilityandaccuracyofpediclescrewsinchildrenyoungerthan8yearsofage.16thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(ePoster),Vienna,Austria,Jul.15-18,2009;ShrineSurgeonsannualmeeting,Boston,MA,Nov.20-23,2008.MarksMC,NewtonPO,BetzRR,SponsellerP,LonnerBS,ShahSA,ShufflebargerHL,HarmsStudyGroup:Surgicalsiteinfection(SSI)inspinalsurgery:thenewest“never”event.16thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(ePoster),Vienna,Austria,Jul.15-18,2009.SamdaniAF,AsgharJ,CahillPJ,ClementsDH,AntonacciMD,NewtonPO,BetzRR,HarmsStudyGroup:PostoperativetrunkshiftinLenke1curves:incidence,riskfactors,andcorrelationwithSRS-30.16thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(ePoster),Vienna,Austria,Jul.15-18,2009.SamdaniAF,BirknesJ,WilliamsRC,RamirezN,FlynnJM,BetzRR:SelectivetreatmentofthethoraciccurvebyVEPTRinthegrowingspine:whathappenstothelumbarcurve?16thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(podium),Vienna,Austria,Jul.15-18,2009.SamdaniAF,FaroSH,MohamedF,HunterL,SairH,LiuC,BarakatN,BetzRR,MulcaheyMJ:Diffusiontensorimagingofpediatricspinalcordinjuredpatientsat1.5T:preliminarydatainnormalsandinpatientswithspinalcordinjury.16thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(ePoster),Vienna,Austria,Jul.15-18,2009;AmericanSocietyofNeuroradiology47thAnnualMeeting&NERFoundationSymposium(podium:FaroSHpresenter),Vancouver,BC,May16,2009;3rdAnnualMeetingoftheAmericanSocietyofFunctionalNeuroradiology(poster),SanAntonio,TX,Feb.24,2009.SamdaniAF,Gonzalez-BritoM,DietrichD,BetzRR,KuluzJ.Anewmodelofpediatricspinalcordinjuryininfantpiglets:functionaloutcome,MRimaging,andhistopathology.44thannual
RandalR.Betz,MD 72meetingoftheScoliosisResearchSociety(podium),SanAntonio,TX,Sep.23-26,2009;CongressofNeurologicalSurgeons(podium),SanDiego,CA,Sep.15-20,2007.SamdaniAF,PaulC,BetzRR,FischerI,NeuhuberB:Graftingstemcellstotheinjuredspinalcord:islumbarpuncturebetterthanIV?44thannualmeetingoftheScoliosisResearchSociety(poster),SanAntonio,TX,Sep.23-26,2009;16thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(ePoster),Vienna,Austria,Jul.15-18,2009.SamdaniAF,SagooS,ShahS,CahillPJ,ClementsDH,BetzRR:Thepatientwithmyelomeningocele:isuntetheringnecessarypriortodeformitycorrection?16thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(ePoster),Vienna,Austria,Jul.15-18,2009.SamdaniAF,BirknesJ,WilliamsRC,RamirezN,FlynnJM,BetzRR:SelectivetreatmentofthoraciccurvebyVEPTRinthegrowingspine:whathappenstothelumbarcurve?44thannualmeetingoftheScoliosisResearchSociety(poster),SanAntonio,TX,Sep.23-26,2009;16thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(podium),Vienna,Austria,Jul.15-18,2009.FlynnJM,St.HilaireT,EmansJB,BetzRR,CampbellJrRM,CameronDB,theChestWallandSpineDeformityStudyGroup:Isdefinitivespinalfusion,orVEPTRremoval,neededafterVEPTRexpansionsareover?Ananalysisofthe39“VEPTRGraduates.”PediatricOrthopaedicSocietyofNorthAmericaannualmeeting,Boston,MA,Apr.20–May2,2009;43rdScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting(podium),SaltLakeCity,UT,Sep.10-13,2008.SchlecterJA,NewtonPO,UpasaniVV,YaszayB,LenkeLG,BetzRR,LoweT,HarmsStudyGroup:Riskfactorsfordistaladding-onidentified:whattowatchoutfor.PediatricOrthopaedicSocietyofNorthAmericaannualmeeting,Boston,MA,Apr.20–May2,2009;NorthAmericanSpineSocietyannualmeeting(podium),Toronto,Ontario,Oct.14-18,2008;43rdScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting(podium),SaltLakeCity,UT,Sep.10-13,2008.NewtonPO,MarksM,BetzRR,LonnerB,ShufflebargerHL,O’BrienM,HarmsStudyGroup:Whatisthe‘best’surgicalapproachforaLenke1mainthoraciccurve?Resultsofaprospective,multi-centerstudy.PediatricOrthopaedicSocietyofNorthAmericaannualmeeting,Boston,MA,Apr.20–May2,2009.ShahSA,SponsellerP,NewtonP,SucatoD,BetzRR:Pelvicfixationincerebralpalsyscoliosisresultsinbetterrestorationofpelvicobliquity,sittingability,andalowerreoperationrate:Dothebenefitsoutweighthecosts?PediatricOrthopaedicSocietyofNorthAmericaannualmeeting,Boston,MA,Apr.20–May2,2009;ScoliosisResearchSocietyWorldwideProgrammeon“SpinalDeformity:CurrentConcepts.”NewDelhi,India,Oct.2-4,2008.
RandalR.Betz,MD 73DuffS,SullivanM,KeatingC,MulcaheyM,BetzR:Evidenceofanticipatorycontrolduringliftsoffamiliarandnovelobjectsinchildrenwithtetraplegia.AmericanPhysicalTherapyAssociationCombinedSectionsMeeting,LasVegas,NV,Feb.9-12,2009.AntonacciD,NydickJ,KleinT,SamdaniA,AsgharJ,BetzR:Growingrodinstrumentationforcervicalkyphosisinapediatricquadriplegicpatient:acasestudy.2ndInternationalCongressonEarlyOnsetScoliosisandGrowingSpine(ICEOS),Montreal,Quebec,Nov.7-8,2008.BetzRR,SamdaniAF,GaughanJ,BaileySI,BrownCW,AsgharJ,CahillPJ,D’AndreaLP,BourlionM:CTscananalysisofpediclescrewplacement:measurementofbreachisnotreliable.NorthAmericanSpineSocietyannualmeeting(podium),Toronto,Ontario,Oct.14-18,2008;15thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(ePoster),HongKong,Jul.8-11,2008.AsgharJ,SamdaniAF,SciubbaDM,ClementsDH,CahillPJ,AntonacciMD,BetzRR:SurgicaltrunkrotationcorrectioninpatientswithmoderateAIS(<75deg.):Anallpediclescrewconstructwithderotationisbetterthanthoracoplasty.NorthAmericanSpineSocietyannualmeeting(podium),Toronto,Ontario,Oct.14-18,2008;15thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(ePoster),HongKong,Jul.8-11,2008.AntonacciMD,CahillPJ,NydickJ,AsgharJ,TantorskiM,ClementsDH,BetzRR,SamdaniAF,HarmsStudyGroup:CervicalsagittalplanedecompensationafterpediatricAISsurgery.NorthAmericanSpineSocietyannualmeeting(podium),Toronto,Ontario,Oct.14-18,2008;43rdScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting(ePoster),SaltLakeCity,UT,Sep.10-13,2008;15thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(podium),HongKong,Jul.8-11,2008.BetzRR,RanadeA,SamdaniAF,ChafetzR,D’AndreaLP,GaughanJ,AsgharJ,GrewalH,MulcaheyMJ:Vertebralbodystapling:atreatmentoptionforthegrowingchildwithscoliosis.43rdScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting,SaltLakeCity,UT,Sep.10-13,2008;15thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(ePoster),HongKong,Jul.8-11,2008.UpasaniVV,NewtonPO,PawelekJB,BastromTP,LenkeLG,LoweT,ClementsDH,LonnerB,BetzRR,HarmsStudyGroup:Increasepatientsatisfactionafterfusionforadolescentidiopathicscoliosisbyminimizingthedeformity-flexibilityquotient!43rdScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting(podium),SaltLakeCity,UT,Sep.10-13,2008.SponsellerP,NewtonPO,BetzRR,ClementsDH,CrawfordA,O’BrienM,MarksMC,BastromTP:5-yearclinicalandradiographicresultsofselectivethoracicfusionwithlumbarcurve>40degrees.43rdScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting(podium),SaltLakeCity,UT,Sep.10-13,2008.FlynnJ,BastromTP,NewtonPO,LenkeLG,CrawfordAH,LoweTG,BetzRR,ClementsDH,LonnerB,MarksMC,HarmsStudyGroup:‘Don’tendyourfusionatT12inidiopathicscoliosis’:
RandalR.Betz,MD 74wisdomormyth?43rdScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting(podium),SaltLakeCity,UT,Sep.10-13,2008.UpasaniVV,NewtonPO,PawelekJB,BastromTP,LenkeLG,LoweT,CrawfordC,BetzRR,LonnerB,HarmsStudyGroup:Preservationofthoracickyphosis:acriticalcomponenttomaintainingpostoperativelumbarlordosisduringthesurgicaltreatmentofadolescentidiopathicscoliosis.43rdScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting(podium),SaltLakeCity,UT,Sep.10-13,2008.NewtonPO,MarksMC,BastromTP,BetzRR,ClementsDH,LonnerB,CrawfordA,LetkoL,ShufflebargerHL,O’BrienM:Postoperativetrunkflexibilitylossismodestbutincrementalasthefusionprogressesdistally.43rdScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting(podium),SaltLakeCity,UT,Sep.10-13,2008.O’BrienM,ShufflebargerHL,MacagnoA,MarksMC,BastromTP,BetzRR,NewtonPO,LonnerB,CrawfordA,ShahSA,HarmsStudyGroup:Postoperativeleftshoulderelevation(LSE):anunexpectedconsequenceofsurgicalcorrectionofLenke1mainthoraciccurves.43rdScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting(podium),SaltLakeCity,UT,Sep.10-13,2008.SamdaniAF,PaulC,NeuhuberB,BetzRR,FischerI:Transplantationofhumanmarrowstromalcellsandmono-nuclearbonemarrowcellsintotheinjuredspinalcord:acomparativestudy.43rdScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting(podium),SaltLakeCity,UT,Sep.10-13,2008.ClementsDH,BetzRR,NewtonPO,MarksM,BastromT,HarmsStudyGroup:Theeffectofimplantdensityonthesagittalcurveinscoliosiscorrection:correlationwiththenumberandtypeoffixationanchors.43rdScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting(ePoster),SaltLakeCity,UT,Sep.10-13,2008.AsgharJ,SamdaniAF,PahysJ,D’AndreaLP,GuilleJT,ClementsDH,BetzRR,HarmsStudyGroup:CTevaluationofrotationcorrectioninAIS:acomparisonofanallpediclescrewconstructvs.ahook-rodsystem.43rdScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting(podium),SaltLakeCity,UT,Sep.10-13,2008;15thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(ePoster),HongKong,Jul.8-11,2008;PediatricOrthopaedicSocietyofNorthAmericaannualmeeting,May1-3,2008,Albuquerque,NM.AsgharJ,SciubbaD,McCarthyJJ,SamdaniAF,CahillP,ClementsDH,AntonacciMD,BetzRR:AretriggeredEMGthresholdsreliableforassessingthoracicpediclescrewbreachinthecerebralpalsypopulation?43rdScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting(ePoster),SaltLakeCity,UT,Sep.10-13,2008;15thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(ePoster),HongKong,Jul.8-11,2008.
RandalR.Betz,MD 75PahysJM,SamdaniAF,D’AndreaLP,ClementsDH,BetzRR:DemineralizedbonematrixinPSFforAIS.15thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(ePoster),HongKong,Jul.8-11,2008.AsgharJ,RanadeA,CahillPJ,SamdaniAF,ClementsH,AntonacciMD,BetzRR:Theinterobserverandintraobserverreliabilityofassessingthoracicpediclescrewpositionbasedoncomputedtomography.15thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(ePoster),HongKong,Jul.8-11,2008.HunterL,BetzRR,Sison-WilliamsonM,BagleyA,VogelLC,McDonaldC,SamdaniAF,MulcaheyMJ:Poorcomplianceofthoracolumbosacralorthosis(TLSO)wearinchildrenwithspinalcordinjury.15thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(ePoster),HongKong,Jul.8-11,2008.ShahSA,NewtonPO,ShufflebargerHL,O’BrienM,BetzRR,BastromTP,MarksMC,HarmsStudyGroup:Theuniplanarscrew;anewtoolinthesurgicaltreatmentofAIS.15thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques,HongKong,Jul.8-11,2008.O’BrienM,ShufflebargerHL,NewtonPO,BetzRR,LonnerB,LetkoL,HarmsJ,CrawfordA,ShahSA,SponsellerPD,FlynnJ,Boachie-AdjeiO,GuptaMC,MacagnoA,AbelMF:Efficacyofhemivertebraresectionforcongenitalscoliosis(CS):amulticenterretrospectivecomparisonof3surgicaltechniques.15thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques,HongKong,Jul.8-11,2008.HelgesonMD,ShahSA,BetzRR,ClementsDH,NewtonPO,BastromT,MarksM:Proximalkyphosisinadolescentidiopathicscoliosisfollowingfourtypesofinstrumentation.75thAmericanAcademyofOrthopaedicSurgeonsannualmeeting,SanFrancisco,CA,Mar.5-9,2008.ShahS,BetzRR,NewtonPO,ClementsDS,ShufflebargerH,LoweTG:EvolutionofthoracicpediclescrewsinAISoveratenyearperiod:aretheoutcomesbetter?75thAmericanAcademyofOrthopaedicSurgeonsannualmeeting,SanFrancisco,CA,Mar.5-9,2008;NorthAmericanSpineSocietyannualmeeting(ePoster),Austin,TX,Oct.23-27,2007;ScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting,Edinburgh,Scotland,Sept.5-8,2007;InternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(ePoster),ParadiseIsland,Bahamas,Jul.11-14,2007.UpasaniV,CaltoumC,PetcharapornM,BastromT,PawelekJ,BetzR,ClementsD,LenkeL,LoweT,NewtonP:Adolescentidiopathicscoliosispatientsreportincreasedpainat5yearscomparedto2yearsaftersurgicaltreatment.75thAmericanAcademyofOrthopaedicSurgeonsannualmeeting(poster),SanFrancisco,CA,Mar.5-9,2008;ScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting(podium),Edinburgh,Scotland,Sept.5-8,2007;WesternOrthopaedic
RandalR.Betz,MD 76Association(poster),SanDiego,California,Jul.18-21,2007;InternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(ePoster),ParadiseIsland,Bahamas,Jul.11-14,2007.FayssouxR,SamdaniAF,AsgharJ,MulcaheyMJ,McCarthyJJ,BetzRR:Sagittalprofileofpediatricpatientswithspinalcordinjury:aradiographicanalysis.75thAmericanAcademyofOrthopaedicSurgeonsannualmeeting(poster),SanFrancisco,CA,Mar.5-9,2008;ScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting(poster),Edinburgh,Scotland,Sept.5-8,2007;InternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques,ParadiseIsland,Bahamas,Jul.11-14,2007.FayssouxR,MulcaheyMJ,AsgharJ,SamdaniAF,McCarthyJJ,BetzRR:ChronicSCIinthepediatricpopulation:doesMRIcorrelatewithInternationalStandardsforNeurologicalClassificationofSCIscores?75thAmericanAcademyofOrthopaedicSurgeonsannualmeeting(poster),SanFrancisco,CA,Mar.5-9,2008;NorthAmericanSpineSocietyannualmeeting(ePoster),Austin,TX,Oct.23-27,2007;InternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(ePoster),ParadiseIsland,Bahamas,Jul.11-14,2007.JohnstonTE,SmithBT,BetzRR,LauerRT:Theimpactofcyclingand/orelectricalstimulationonhipsubluxationinchildrenwithspinalcordinjury.CombinedSectionMeetingoftheAmericanPhysicalTherapyAssociation,Nashville,TN,Feb.7,2008.HarelY,MetinkoAP,NemersonSF,EvansBJ,GaughanJ,BetzRR:Doesestimatedbloodloss(EBL)duringposteriorspinalfusion(PSF)surgeryinpediatricpatientswithnon-idiopathicscoliosis(NIS)exceedtheEBLduringPSFinpediatricpatientswithidiopathicscoliosis(IS)?SocietyofCriticalCareMedicineannualcongress,Honolulu,Hawaii,Feb.2-6,2008.HarelY,MetinkoAP,NemersonSF,EvansBJ,GaughanJ,BetzRR:Doesestimatedbloodloss(EBL)duringposteriorspinalfusion(PSF)surgeryexceed50%oftheestimatedbloodvolume(EBV)foridiopathicscoliosisinpediatricpatients?SocietyofCriticalCareMedicineannualcongress,Honolulu,Hawaii,Feb.2-6,2008.HarelY,MetinkoAP,NemersonSF,EvansBJ,GaughanJ,BetzRR:Transfusionreplacementtherapyforintra-opandpost-opbleedingforposteriorspinalfusion(PSF)inpediatricpatients.SocietyofCriticalCareMedicineannualcongress,Honolulu,Hawaii,Feb.2-6,2008.DuffSV,MulcaheyMJ,BetzRR,KeatingC:Enhancinggraspcontrolinchildrenwithspinalcordinjury.InternationalSymposiumonNeuralRegeneration[poster],Monterey,CA,Dec.5-9,2007.HutchinsonD,MulcaheyMJ,SmithBT,BetzRR:Integrationofneuromuscularelectricalstimulationapproachesintoclinicalpractice.12thannualconferenceoftheInternationalFESSociety,Philadelphia,PA,Nov.11-14,2007.
RandalR.Betz,MD 77PahysJM,MulcaheyMJ,HutchinsonD,BetzR:Scapularstabilizationinthepatientwithspinalcordinjury.InternationalMeetingonUpperLimbinTetraplegia,Philadelphia,PA,Sept.17-20,2007.AsgharJ,ClementsDH,PahysJ,SamdaniAF,D’AndreaLP,GuilleJT,BetzRR:AnalysisoftriggeredelectromyographicthresholdofthoracicpediclescrewsassessedbyCT.NorthAmericanSpineSocietyannualmeeting,Austin,TX,Oct.23-27,2007;InternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques,ParadiseIsland,Bahamas,Jul.11-14,2007.BetzRR,GaughanJ,BaileySI,D’AndreaLP,SamdaniAF,BourlionM:Computedtomographyscanmeasurementofpediclescrewbreach:isthemeasurementreliable?NorthAmericanSpineSocietyannualmeeting,Austin,TX,Oct.23-27,2007;InternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(ePoster),ParadiseIsland,Bahamas,Jul.11-14,2007.HelgesonM,ShahS,BetzR,ClementsD,NewtonP,BastromT,MarksM,HarmsStudyGroup:Evaluationofproximaljunctionalkyphosisinadolescentidiopathicscoliosisfollowingpediclescrew,hook,andhybridinstrumentation.NorthAmericanSpineSocietyannualmeeting,Austin,TX,Oct.23-27,2007;ScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting,Edinburgh,Scotland,Sept.5-8,2007;InternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(ePoster),ParadiseIsland,Bahamas,Jul.11-14,2007.ShahS,SponsellerP,AbelM,NewtonPO,SucatoD,LetkoL,BetzRR:Anterior/posteriorsurgeryforcerebralpalsyscoliosis:stagedorsameday?NorthAmericanSpineSocietyannualmeeting(ePoster),Austin,TX,Oct.23-27,2007;ScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting(poster),Edinburgh,Scotland,Sept.5-8,2007;InternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(ePoster),ParadiseIsland,Bahamas,Jul.11-14,2007.ShahS,SponsellerP,AbelM,NewtonP,SucatoD,LetkoL,BetzR,HarmsStudyGroup:Thefeasibilityofneuromonitoringforcerebralpalsyscoliosisandtheoutcomeofneurologicalcomplications.NorthAmericanSpineSocietyannualmeeting(poster),Austin,TX,Oct.23-27,2007;ScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting(podium),Edinburgh,Scotland,Sept.5-8,2007;InternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(ePoster),ParadiseIsland,Bahamas,Jul.11-14,2007.AsgharJ,SamdaniAF,PahysJ,D’AndreaLP,GuilleJT,ClementsDH,BetzRR,HarmsStudyGroup:CTevaluationofrotationcorrectioninAIS:acomparisonofanallpediclescrewconstructvs.ahook-rodsystem.ScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting,Edinburgh,Scotland,Sept.5-8,2007;InternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(ePoster),ParadiseIsland,Bahamas,Jul.11-14,2007.ClementsDH,BetzRR,NewtonPO,MarksM,BastromT,PorterS,HarmsStudyGroup:Correlationofscoliosiscurvecorrectionwiththenumberandtypeoffixationanchors.Scoliosis
RandalR.Betz,MD 78ResearchSocietyannualmeeting,Edinburgh,Scotland,Sept.5-8,2007;InternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(ePoster),ParadiseIsland,Bahamas,Jul.11-14,2007.O’BrienMF,NewtonP,BetzR,MarksM,HarmsStudyGroup:Complicationsinthesurgicaltreatmentofadolescentidiopathicscoliosis:atenyearreviewofaprospectivedatabasewith1292patients.ScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting(podium),Edinburgh,Scotland,Sept.5-8,2007;InternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(ePoster),ParadiseIsland,Bahamas,Jul.11-14,2007.PatelPN,BastromTP,MarksMC,PawelekJB,BetzRR,LenkeLG,NewtonPO:Spontaneouslumbarcurvecorrectioninselectivethoracicfusionsofidiopathicscoliosis:anteriorversusposteriorapproaches.ScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting(podium),Edinburgh,Scotland,Sept.5-8,2007;InternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(ePoster),ParadiseIsland,Bahamas,Jul.11-14,2007.PawelekJ,NewtonP,PerryA,HarmsStudyGroup:Thevariationinhowsurgeonscontourrodsforscoliosiscorrectionissubstantial.ScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting(poster),Edinburgh,Scotland,Sept.5-8,2007;InternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(podium),ParadiseIsland,Bahamas,Jul.11-14,2007.RitzmanT,UpasaniV,BastromT,PawelekJ,BetzR,NewtonP,HarmsStudyGroup:Returnofshouldergirdlefunctionafteranteriorversusposterioradolescentidiopathicscoliosissurgery.ScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting(podium),Edinburgh,Scotland,Sept.5-8,2007;InternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(ePoster),ParadiseIsland,Bahamas,Jul.11-14,2007.ShufflebargerH,MarksM,NewtonP,HarmsStudyGroup:Bloodlossandoperativetimeinscoliosissurgeryasafunctionofconstructtypeandsurgeonexperience.ScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting(poster),Edinburgh,Scotland,Sept.5-8,2007;InternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(ePoster),ParadiseIsland,Bahamas,Jul.11-14,2007.ShufflebargerH,NewtonP,MarksM,HarmsStudyGroup:Therateofunplannedsecondsurgeriesinadolescentidiopathicscoliosis.ScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting,Edinburgh,Scotland,Sept.5-8,2007;InternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(ePoster),ParadiseIsland,Bahamas,Jul.11-14,2007.SponsellerP,BetzR,NewtonP,LenkeL,LoweT,CrawfordA,LonnerB,HarmsStudyGroup:Differencesincurvebehaviorafterfusioninadolescentidiopathicscoliosiswithopentriradiatecartilage.ScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting,Edinburgh,Scotland,Sept.5-8,2007;InternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(ePoster),ParadiseIsland,Bahamas,Jul.11-14,2007.
RandalR.Betz,MD 79SponsellerPD,ShahS,SucatoD,AbelM,NewtonP,LenkeL,ShufflebargerH,LetkoL,MarksM,HarmsStudyGroup:Infectionafterspinesurgeryincerebralpalsy:riskfactorsandtreatment.ScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting,Edinburgh,Scotland,Sept.5-8,2007;InternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(ePoster),ParadiseIsland,Bahamas,Jul.11-14,2007.SponsellerPD,ShahS,AbelM,NewtonP,SucatoD,LetkoL,BetzR,ShufflebargerH,D’AndreaL,ClementsD,MarksM:Scoliosissurgeryincerebralpalsy:differencesbetweenunitrodandcustomrods.ScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting,Edinburgh,Scotland,Sept.5-8,2007;InternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(ePoster),ParadiseIsland,Bahamas,Jul.11-14,2007.SucatoDJ,NewtonPO,BetzRR,LenkeLG,LoweTG,CrawfordAH,LetkoL,LonnerBS:PatientswhohaveaselectivethoracicfusionforLenke1and2curveshavesimilarbalancebutimprovedfunctionaloutcomescoresattwoyearswhencomparedtothosefusedintothelumbarspine.ScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting,Edinburgh,Scotland,Sept.5-8,2007;InternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(ePoster),ParadiseIsland,Bahamas,Jul.11-14,2007.TsutsuiS,PawelekJ,BastromT,NewtonP,HarmsStudyGroup:TheisolatedeffectofascoliosisfusiononSRSoutcomesquestionnairemeasuresismodest.ScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting(podium),Edinburgh,Scotland,Sept.5-8,2007;InternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(ePoster),ParadiseIsland,Bahamas,Jul.11-14,2007.UpasaniV,CaltoumC,PetcharapornM,BastromT,PawelekJ,MarksM,BetzR,LenkeL,NewtonP:Doesbodymassaffectsurgicaloutcomesinadolescentidiopathicscoliosis?ScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting(poster),Edinburgh,Scotland,Sept.5-8,2007;WesternOrthopaedicAssociation(podium),SanDiego,California,Jul.18-21,2007;InternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(ePoster),ParadiseIsland,Bahamas,Jul.11-14,2007.MulcaheyMJ,GaughanJ,ChafetzR,BetzRR,VogelLC:Testingalimitednumberofdermatomesasapredictorofthe56dermatomescore.AmericanParaplegiaSociety,Kissimmee,FL,Aug.27-29,2007.VogelLC,AndersonC,ChlanK,McDonaldC,BetzR:ImpactofmedicalcomplicationsonlifesatisfactioninadultswithpediatriconsetSCI.AmericanParaplegiaSociety,Kissimmee,FL,Aug.27-29,2007.VogelLC,AndersonC,ChlanK,BetzR,McDonaldC.UpperextremitypainandwheelchairuseinadultswithpediatriconsetSCI.AmericanParaplegiaSociety,Kissimmee,FL,Aug.27-29,2007.
RandalR.Betz,MD 80AsgharJ,SamdaniAF,PahysJ,FayssouxR,D’AndreaLP,GuilleJT,ClementsDH,BetzRR,HarmsStudyGroup:CanMRIaxialrotationmeasurementsinAIScorrelatewithCT?InternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(ePoster),ParadiseIsland,Bahamas,Jul.11-14,2007.BetzRR,EmansJ,SmithJ,MulcaheyMJ,DuffyT,SongK,CampbellR:Isthereanybenefittochestwallandspinedeformitycorrectionwithatitaniumribdeviceafterage10?InternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(ePoster),ParadiseIsland,Bahamas,Jul.11-14,2007.ClementsDH,BetzRR,NewtonPO,ShahS,MarksM,BastromT,PorterS,HarmsStudyGroup:SagittalcontourcorrelatedwithhookversusscrewposteriorconstructsforLenke1curves.InternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(ePoster),ParadiseIsland,Bahamas,Jul.11-14,2007.FlynnJM,BetzRR,O’BrienMJ,PorterS,NewtonPO,HarmsStudyGroup:Anewradiographicclassificationofcomplicationsfromthesurgicalmanagementofadolescentidiopathicscoliosis.InternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(ePoster),ParadiseIsland,Bahamas,Jul.11-14,2007.LonnerB,ClementsD,SponsellerP,BetzR,NewtonP:Doubleandtriplecurvaturesinidiopathicscoliosis:incidenceandsurgicaloutcomes.InternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(ePoster),ParadiseIsland,Bahamas,Jul.11-14,2007.LoweTG,ChienJ-T,BetzR,LenkeL,NewtonP,ClementsD,LineBG:Aretrospectiveradiographicandclinicalcomparisonofadolescentidiopathicdoublethoracic(LenkeII)curvestreatedbyselectiveanteriorinstrumentationandfusionofthemainthoraciccurveversusposteriorinstrumentationandfusionofbothcurves.InternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(ePoster),ParadiseIsland,Bahamas,Jul.11-14,2007.O’BrienM,NewtonP,BetzR,ShufflebargerH,LonnerB,LetkoL,HarmsJ,CrawfordA,ShahS,SponsellerP,MarksM,MacagnoA:Resultsofthreeclassesofsurgicaltreatmentforcongenitalscoliosisduetohemivertebrae:amulticenterretrospectivereview.InternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(ePoster),ParadiseIsland,Bahamas,Jul.11-14,2007.PorterST,D’AndreaLP,GuilleJT,ClementsDH,BetzRR,NewtonPO,HarmsStudyGroup:EffectofselectivefusionontrunkflexibilityforLenke5adolescentidiopathicscoliosis.InternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(ePoster),ParadiseIsland,Bahamas,Jul.11-14,2007.RitzmanT,UpasaniV,BastromT,PawelekJ,BetzR,LonnerB,NewtonP:Comparisonofcompensatorycurvespontaneousderotationafterselectivelumbarorthoracicfusions.InternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(ePoster),ParadiseIsland,Bahamas,Jul.11-14,2007.
RandalR.Betz,MD 81SturmPF,FlynnJM,BetzRR,SmithJT,EmansJB,GolloglyS,CampbellRM,SmartMP:VEPTRinpatientswithapreviousspinalfusion.InternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques,ParadiseIsland,Bahamas,Jul.11-14,2007.SucatoDJ,NewtonPO,LonnerBS,BetzRR,D’AndreaLP,CrawfordAH,LenkeLG,MilbrandtTA,TalwalkerVR,McClungA:Definingtheincidenceofcomplicationsandriskfactorsassociatedwiththeuseofsinglelungventilationforthoracoscopicsurgeryinpediatricspinaldeformity.InternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(ePoster),ParadiseIsland,Bahamas,Jul.11-14,2007.SucatoDJ,BetzRR,ClementsDH,NewtonPO,CrawfordAH,LenkeLG,LoweTG,HarmsStudyGroup:LargethoracicAIScurvesgreaterthan70°:dotheyneedananteriorrelease?InternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(ePoster),ParadiseIsland,Bahamas,Jul.11-14,2007.ChenY,AndersonCJ,VogelLC,ChlanKM,BetzRR,McDonaldCM:Independentlivinginadultswithpediatric-onsetspinalcordinjury.AmericanSpinalInjuryAssociationannualmeeting(poster),TampaBay,FL,May30-Jun.2,2007.ChafetzRS,MulcaheyMJ,BetzRR,VogelL,SchottlerJ:PatientknowledgeandunderstandingofseverityofinjuryasdefinedbytheASIAexam.AmericanSpinalInjuryAssociationannualmeeting(poster),TampaBay,FL,May30-Jun.2,2007.DuffSV,MulcaheyMJ,BetzR,KeatingC:Refinementofgraspcontrolfollowingspinalcordinjuryinchildren.AmericanSpinalInjuryAssociationannualmeeting(poster),TampaBay,FL,May30-Jun.2,2007.DuffSV,MulcaheyMJ,BetzR,SullivanM:Retentionofcontrolstrategiesforliftsoffamiliarobjectsinchildrenwithspinalcordinjury.AmericanSpinalInjuryAssociationannualmeeting(poster),TampaBay,FL,May30-Jun.2,2007.MulcaheyMJ,BetzRR,CampbellRS,SmithJT,FlynnJ,RamirezN:Mortalityinchildrenwithhypoplasticchestwalldeformityfollowingreconstructivesurgery.PediatricOrthopaedicSocietyofNorthAmericaannualmeeting(ePoster),Hollywood,FL,May24-26,2007;ScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting(poster),Monterey,California,Sep.13-16,2006;13thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(podium),Athens,Greece,Jul.12-15,2006.HutchinsonD,KochanP,KreyCH,PorthS,MulcaheyMJ,BetzRR,WallackAM:Initialexperienceinassessingthephrenicnerveinhighlevelspinalcordinjury(SCI).HowardH.SteelConference:InjuriesandDysfunctionoftheSpinalCordinChildren,Orlando,FLNov.29–Dec.2,2006.
RandalR.Betz,MD 82FlynnJM,Ramirez-LluchN,CampbellR,SmithJT,BetzR:Useoftheverticalexpandableprostheticribformanagementofspinaldeformityinnon-ambulatoryspinabifidapatients.AmericanAcademyofPediatrics,Atlanta,GA,Oct.7,2006.JohnstonTE,LauerRT,SmithBT,BetzRR:Cardiovasculareffectsofcyclingand/orelectricalstimulationinpediatricspinalcordinjury.AmericanAcademyforCerebralPalsyandDevelopmentalMedicine,Boston,Sep.13-16,2006.BagleyA,MendozaM,HunterL,WilliamsonM,MulcaheyMJ,BetzR,VogelL,McDonaldC:Thevalidityofthoracic-lumbar-sacralorthosiscompliancemonitorsinchildrenwithspinalcordinjury.AmericanAcademyforCerebralPalsyandDevelopmentalMedicine,Boston,Sep.13-16,2006.ChafetzRS,CalhounC,MulcaheyMJ,HutchinsonD,BetzRR:AclinicallydrivenactivitybasedrehabilitationprogramforchildrenandadolescentswithSCI.AmericanAcademyforCerebralPalsyandDevelopmentalMedicine,Boston,Sep.13-16,2006.FlynnJM,GauglerR,EmansJB,SmithJT,BetzRR,SkaggsDL,,SongKM,MorelandMS,CampbellRM:VEPTRtotreatnon-syndromiccongenitalscoliosis:amulticenter,mid-termfollow-upstudy.ScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting,Monterey,California,Sep.13-16,2006[podium].SmithJT,SmartMP,EmansJB,BetzRR,SkaggsDL,SongK,MorelandMS,CampbellRMJr:ResultsofsurgicalexperienceusingtheVEPTRdeviceforthetreatmentofthoracicinsufficiencysyndrome:amulticenterstudy.ScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting,Monterey,California,Sep.13-16,2006[poster];13thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques,Athens,Greece,Jul.12-15,2006[poster].VitaleMG,RoyeDPJr,MatsumotoH,BetzRR,EmansJB,SkaggsDL,SmithJT,SongK,CampbellRMJr:Healthrelatedqualityoflifeinchildrenwiththoracicinsufficiencysyndrome:areportfromtheChestWallandSpineDeformityCoreStudyGroup.ScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting,Monterey,California,Sep.13-16,2006[podium];13thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques,Athens,Greece,Jul.12-15,2006[poster].GuilleJT,D’AndreaLP,BetzR,SmithJ,CampbellC:CoronalCobbcorrectionwiththeVEPTRdeviceinpatientswithscoliosisandchestwallabnormalities.ScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting,Monterey,California,Sep.13-16,2006(poster);13thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques,Athens,Greece,Jul.12-15,2006(podium).ClementsD,PorterS,BetzR,NewtonP,MarksM:SRSquestionnaireoutcomescomparisonofposteriorpediclescrewinstrumentationversusthoracoscopicanteriorinstrumentationforselectivefusionofLenkeIadolescentidiopathiccurves.ScoliosisResearchSocietyannual
RandalR.Betz,MD 83meeting,Monterey,California,Sep.13-16,2006;13thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques,Athens,Greece,Jul.12-15,2006.SmithJT,SmartM,EmansJ,BetzRR,SkaggsDS,SongK,MorelandM,MulcaheyMJ:SummarydatafortheinitialmulticenterVEPTRinvestigationaldevicestudyforthetreatmentofthoracicinsufficiencysyndrome(TIS).13thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques,Athens,Greece,Jul.12-15,2006(podium).NewtonPO,PerryA,BastromT,LenkeLG,BetzRR,ClementsD,D’AndreaL,HarmsStudyGroup:Factorsthatinfluencetwo-yearpulmonaryfunctiontestingaftersurgicaltreatmentofadolescentidiopathicscoliosis.Astudyof269patients.13thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques,Athens,Greece,Jul.12-15,2006.ClementsDH,MarksM,NewtonPO,BetzRR,LenkeLG,O’BrienM,LoweTG,HarmsStudyGroup:AnalysisofadherencetoLenkeclassificationtreatmentalgorithmrecommendations.13thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques,Athens,Greece,Jul.12-15,2006.BetzRR,GaughanJ,ShufflebargerHS,BervenS,Bourlion,M:Developmentofamulticenter,randomizedclinicaltrialforevaluationofthePediGuarddeviceforpediclescrewinsertion.13thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques,Athens,Greece,Jul.12-15,2006.FlynnJM,GauglerRL,EmansJB,SmithJT,BetzRR,SkaggsDL,SongKM,MorelandMS,CampbellRM:VEPTRtotreatnon-syndromiccongenitalscoliosis:amulticenterstudy.13thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques,Athens,Greece,Jul.12-15,2006.MehtaS,BetzRR,MulcaheyMJ,McDonaldC,VogelLC,AndersonCA,D’AndreaLP,AntonacciMD:Theeffectofbracingonparalyticscoliosissecondarytospinalcordinjury.AmericanSpinalInjuryAssociationannualmeeting(SynthesAwardforResidentResearchinSpinalColumnandSpinalCordinjury),Boston,MA,Jun.24-28,2006;AmericanParaplegiaSocietyannualmeeting(ErnestBorsAwardforScientificDevelopment),LasVegas,NV,Sep.5-8,2005;EasternOrthopaedicAssociationannualmeeting,RioGrande,PuertoRico,Oct.13-16,2004;39thScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting,BuenosAires,Argentina,Sep.6-9,2004;11thInternationalMeetingforAdvancedSpineTechniques,Southampton,Bermuda,Jul.1-3,2004;theHowardH.SteelConferenceonInjuriesandDysfunctionoftheSpinalCordinChildren,Orlando,FL,Dec.2003.LonnerBS,NewtonPO,BetzRR,ScharfC,O’BrienM,SponsellerP,LenkeLG,CrawfordAH,LoweTG,LetkoL,HarmsJ,ShufflebargerHL:OperativemanagementofScheuermann’skyphosisin78patients.Radiographicoutcomes,complications,andtechnique.AmericanAcademyofOrthopaedicSurgeonsannualmeeting,Chicago,Mar.22-26,2006;ScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting,Miami,FL,Oct.27-30,2005;12thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques,Banff,Alberta,Canada,Jul.7-9,2005.
RandalR.Betz,MD 84CrawfordA,BabekirN,LoweTG,BetzR,LenkeL,HaherT,MerolaA,NewtonP,ClementsD,SucatoDJ,LetkoL:Correctionofleftthoraciccurves:acomparisonofanteriorversusposteriorinstrumentation.AmericanAcademyofOrthopaedicSurgeonsannualmeeting,Chicago,IL,Mar.22-26,2006;12thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques,Banff,Alberta,Canada,Jul.7-9,2005.CrawfordA,BabekirN,LoweGT,BetzR,LenkeL,HaherT,MerolaA,NewtonP,ClementsD,SucatoDJ,LetkoL:Comparisonbetweenleftandrightthoraciccurvesinidiopathicscoliosis.ScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting,Miami,Florida,Oct.28-30,2005;12thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques,Banff,Alberta,Canada,Jul.7-9,2005.KishanS,NewtonPO,BetzRR,LenkeLG,LoweTG,ClementsDH,D’AndreaLP,SucatoDJ:Thoracoscopicanteriorinstrumentationaffectspulmonaryfunctionlessthanopenthoracotomyattwoyearspost-op.ScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting,Miami,Florida,Oct.28-30,2005;12thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques,Banff,Alberta,Canada,Jul.7-9,2005.LoweTG,ChienJT,BetzRR,LenkeLG,NewtonPO,ClementsDH,CrawfordAH,LetkoL:Thesurgicaltreatmentofdoublethoraciccurvesinadolescentidiopathicscoliosis:factorsinvolvedinthedecisiontoperformaselectivefusionofthemainthoraciccurveversusaposteriorfusion.ScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting,Miami,FL,Oct.27-30,2005;12thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques,Banff,Alberta,Canada,Jul.7-9,2005.McCarthyKP,BetzRR,D’AndreaLP,FrischRF,ChafetzRS,MulcaheyMJ:Vertebralwedgeosteotomiesforthefusionlesstreatmentofparalyticscoliosis:two-yearfollow-up.ScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting,Miami,Florida,Oct.28-30,2005;12thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques,Banff,Alberta,Canada,Jul.7-9,2005.MerolaAA,NewtonPO,O’BrienMF,HaherTR,LoweTG,LenkeLG,Clements,D,BetzR,CrawfordA,SponsellerPD,SucatoDJ,LonnerB,CarusoSA,KubeckJP,ShantiN,MarksM:Lumbarsagittalplanealignmentwithrespecttoinstrumentationtypeandsurgicaltechnique.ScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting,Miami,FL,Oct.27-30,2005;12thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques,Banff,Alberta,Canada,Jul.7-9,2005.NewtonP,GaynorT,MarksM,GolloglyS,HarmsStudyGroup:Shortfusionwithresidualdeformityvs.longfusionwithbettercorrection—whichisbetter?ScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting,Miami,Florida,Oct.28-30,2005;12thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques,Banff,Alberta,Canada,Jul.7-9,2005.NewtonP,MarksM,BetzR,LenkeL,LoweT,ClementsD,HaherT,MerolaA,D’AndreaL,CrawfordA,HarmsJ:Ten-yeartrendsinthesurgicaltreatmentofprimaryrightthoracic
RandalR.Betz,MD 85adolescentidiopathicscoliosis.ScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting,Miami,FL,Oct.27-30,2005;12thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques,Banff,Alberta,Canada,Jul.7-9,2005.SucatoDJ,NewtonPO,BetzRR,PicettiGG,LenkeLG,HreskoMT,HuSS,BraunJT,RoyeDP,VitaleMG:DefiningthelearningcurveforperformingathoracoscopicanteriorspinalfusionandinstrumentationforAIS:amulti-centerstudy.Podiumpresentationatthe20thAnnualmeetingoftheNorthAmericanSpineSociety,Philadelphia,PA,Sept.27–Oct.1,2005.AndersonCJ,Vogel,LC,BetzRR,McDonaldC:Impactofenvironmentalfactorsonoutcomesofadultswithpediatric-onsetSCI.AmericanAcademyofCerebralPalsyandDevelopmentalMedicineannualmeeting,Orlando,FL,Sept.14-17,2005.JohnstonTE,SmithBT,LauerR,BetzRR:PhysiologicresponsestoarmergometryandlegFESergometryinpediatricspinalcordinjury.AmericanAcademyofCerebralPalsyandDevelopmentalMedicineannualmeeting,Orlando,FL,Sep.14-17,2005;AmericanParaplegiaSocietyannualmeeting,LasVegas,NV,Sep.5-8,2005;10thInternationalFunctionalElectricalStimulationSocietyannualmeeting,Montreal,Quebec,Jul.5-9,2005.CalhounCL,ChafetzR,JohnstonT,LauerR,MulcaheyMJ,HutchinsonD,SmithB,BetzR.Clinicalandresearchactivitybasedrehabilitationforchildrenwithspinalcordinjury.AmericanAcademyofCerebralPalsyandDevelopmentalMedicine,Orlando,FL,Sep.14-17,2005.MulcaheyMJ(presentedbyR.Betz):PreliminaryreliabilityofASIAmotorandsensoryexaminchildren.AmericanParaplegiaSocietyannualmeeting,LasVegas,NV,Sep.5-8,2005.BetzRR,O’BrienM,PorterS,NewtonP,ClementsD,LenkeL,LoweT,HarmsJ,D’AndreaL,HarmsStudyGroup:Openanteriorspinalfusionforthoracicadolescentidiopathicscoliosis(AIS):aprospectivefive-yearfollow-up.12thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques,Banff,Alberta,Canada,Jul.7-9,2005.ClementsDH,MarksM,PorterST,BetzRR,D’AndreaLP,NewtonPO,HarmsStudyGroup:Trunkshapecorrectionandpatientsatisfactioninadolescentidiopathicscoliosis.12thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques,Banff,Alberta,Canada,Jul.7-9,2005.MarksM,NewtonP,BetzR,ClementsD,LoweT,D’AndreaL:Postoperativetrunkmotioninadolescentidiopathicscoliosis:doestheregionoffusionaffectmotion?12thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques,Banff,Alberta,Canada,Jul.7-9,2005.O’BrienM,NewtonP,LonnerB,BetzR,LoweT,LenkeL,CrawfordA,SponsellerP,MarksM,HarmsStudyGroup:EvaluationofpulmonaryfunctioninpatientswithScheuermann’s
RandalR.Betz,MD 86kyphosis.12thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques,Banff,Alberta,Canada,Jul.7-9,2005.SucatoDJ,NewtonPO,BetzRR,LenkeLG,CrawfordA,ClementsD,LoweT,D’AndreaL,LetkoL,MarksM:Anteriorreleasepriortoaposteriorspinalfusionandinstrumentation:isthethoracoscopicapproachaseffectiveasanopenthoracotomy?12thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques,Banff,Alberta,Canada,Jul.7-9,2005.JohnstonTE,SmithBT,StackhouseC,BetzRR:Reciprocalversusswing-throughgaitusingimplantedfunctionalelectricalstimulationinmotorcompleteSCI.Acasereport.10thInternationalFunctionalElectricalStimulationSocietyannualmeeting,Montreal,Quebec,Jul.5-9,2005.MulcaheyMJ,GaughanJR,BetzRR:Reliabilityoftheinternationalstandardsforneurologicalclassificationofspinalcordinjuryinchildrenandyouth.AmericanSpinalInjuryAssociationannualmeeting,Dallas,TX,May12-14,2005.SmithBT,JohnstonT,BetzRR,MulcaheyMJ:ImplantedFESforuprightmobilityinpediatricspinalcordinjury:afollow-upreport.2ndInternationalIEEEEMBSSpecialTopicConferenceonNeuralEngineering,Washington,DC,Mar.16-19,2005.CheungE,GuilleJ,BetzRR,MulcaheyMJ,D’AndreaLP,CerroneJ,CampbellR,JohnstonCE,LubickyJP,SegalL:Thenaturalhistoryandresultsofsurgicaltreatmentofpatientswithfusedribsandcongenitalscoliosis.AmericanAcademyofOrthopaedicSurgeonsannualmeeting,Washington,DC,Feb.24,2005;39thScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting,BuenosAires,Argentina,Sep.6-9,2004;11thInternationalMeetingforAdvancedSpineTechniques,Southampton,Bermuda,Jul.1-3,2004.NewtonPO,FaroF,GolloglyS,BetzR,ClementsD,LenkeL,LoweT,CrawfordA,HaherT,MerolaA:Pulmonaryfunctioninadolescentidiopathicscoliosis.AmericanAcademyofOrthopaedicSurgeonsannualmeeting,Washington,DC,Feb.25,2005;39thScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting,BuenosAires,Argentina,Sep.6-9,2004.DuffSV,MulcaheyMJ,BetzRR:Temporalandforcecoordinationduringgraspinginchildrenwithspinalcordinjury[poster].TheSocietyforNeuroscience,SanDiego,CA,Oct.24,2004.RuggieriMR,BarbeM,BravermanAS,D’AndreaL,BetzRR:Orthotopicandheterotopicreinnervationofthecanineurinarybladderdemonstratedbyfunctionalelectricalstimulationandnervetracinghistochemistry(poster).ContemporaryTopicsinPediatricSpinalCordInjury,ShrinersHospitals,Philadelphia,Oct.11-12,2004;IIInternationalCongressonNeuroregeneration,RiodeJaneiro,Brazil,Sep.20-24,2004.
RandalR.Betz,MD 87ClementsDH,BetzRR,D’AndreaLP,NewtonPO,MulcaheyMJ,MarksM,PorterS:Ribresectionandribdeformitycorrection:evaluationbyscoliometer.39thScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting,BuenosAires,Argentina,Sep.6-9,2004.SongK,ReddingG,CampbellRM,MorelandM,SkaggsD,EmansJ,BetzR,SmithJT:Changesinrespiratoryfailureofchildrenwiththoracicinsufficiencysyndrome.39thScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting,BuenosAires,Argentina,Sep.6-9,2004;11thInternationalMeetingforAdvancedSpineTechniques,Southampton,Bermuda,Jul.1-3,2004.JacobP,BetzRR,MulcaheyMJ,PorthS,VogelLC:Diagnosticdilemma:casereportoffibrocartilaginousemboliinanadolescentfemale(poster).39thScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting,BuenosAires,Argentina,Sep.6-9,2004;TheHowardH.SteelConferenceonInjuriesandDysfunctionoftheSpinalCordinChildren,Orlando,FL,Dec.2003.ClementsDH,BetzRR,D’AndreaLP,NewtonPO,MulcaheyMJ,MarksM,PorterS:Ribresectionandribdeformitycorrection:evaluationbyscoliometer(eposter).11thInternationalMeetingforAdvancedSpineTechniques,Southampton,Bermuda,Jul.1-3,2004.SongK,ReddingG,CampbellRM,MorelandM,SkaggsD,EmansJ,BetzR,SmithJT:ExpansionthoracoplastyforTISledtodiscontinuationofventilatorsupportin1/35childrenandimprovementofhypercapneain14/21childrenwiththeseabnormalitiesbeforeexpansion.ChildrenwithhypoplasticthoraxandCO2retentioncanbenefitfromexpansionthoracoplasty.11thInternationalMeetingforAdvancedSpineTechniques,Southampton,Bermuda,Jul.1-3,2004.FlynnJM,SkaggsDL,BetzR,SmithJT,SongK,EmansJ,MorelandM,SnyderB,MillmanJ,CampbellR:VEPTRforearlyonsetscoliosis:anewparadigmforanunsolvedproblem.11thInternationalMeetingforAdvancedSpineTechniques,Southampton,Bermuda,Jul.1-3,2004.ClementsDH,BetzRR,NewtonPO,D’AndreaLP,MulcaheyMJ,PorterS:Sagittalcontourinpatientswithadolescentidiopathicscoliosis(eposter).11thInternationalMeetingforAdvancedSpineTechniques,Southampton,Bermuda,Jul.1-3,2004.SkvirskiI,BetzR,KochS,MaddoxG,ChandlerD,DrumE,D’AndreaL,SzeremetaW:Intraoperativeneurophysiologicmonitoringperformedduringprostheticsurgicalproceduresforcongenitalspinalandchestwallmalformations.IXSpinalCordMonitoringMeeting,Rome,Italy,May3-6,2004.NewtonPO,FaroF,BetzRR,D’AndreaLP,ClementsDH,LenkeLG,LoweTG,MerolaAA,HaherTR:Selectivevs.nonselectivefusionofLenkeIcurvesinadolescentidiopathicscoliosis(AIS).AmericanAcademyofOrthopaedicSurgeonsannualmeeting,SanFrancisco,Mar.2004.
RandalR.Betz,MD 88VogelL,BetzR,DeVivoM,McDonaldC:MedicalcomplicationsintheyoungchildwithSCI.TheHowardH.SteelConferenceonInjuriesandDysfunctionoftheSpinalCordinChildren,Orlando,FL,Dec.2003.ChafetzR,McDonaldC,MulcaheyMJ,BetzR,AndersonC,VogelL,MartinS,FlannaganA:TheimpactofprophylacticTLSObracingonfunctionalactivitiesandADLsinthepediatricSCIpopulation.TheHowardH.SteelConferenceonInjuriesandDysfunctionoftheSpinalCordinChildren,Orlando,FL,Dec.2003.McCarthyJ,ChafetzR,BetzR:Theincidenceanddegreeofhipsubluxation/dislocationinchildrenwithspinalcordinjury.TheHowardH.SteelConferenceonInjuriesandDysfunctionoftheSpinalCordinChildren,Orlando,FL,Dec.2003.KozinS,BetzR,MulcaheyMJ,LutzC:Comparisonbetweenbicepstotricepsanddeltoidtotricepsforelbowextensionintetraplegia.TheHowardH.SteelConferenceonInjuriesandDysfunctionoftheSpinalCordinChildren,Orlando,FL,Dec.2003.MulcaheyMJ,BetzR,KozinS,SmithB,LutzC,HutchinsonD:MinimalinvasiveimplantationofFreehandduringinitialrehabilitation.TheHowardH.SteelConferenceonInjuriesandDysfunctionoftheSpinalCordinChildren,Orlando,FL,Dec.2003.JohnstonT,BendaB,SmithB,BetzR,MulcaheyMJ,BarriskillA,DavisR:InitialexperienceswiththePraxismulti-functionalfunctionalelectricalstimulationsystem.TheHowardH.SteelConferenceonInjuriesandDysfunctionoftheSpinalCordinChildren,Orlando,FL,Dec.2003.AndersonC,BetzR,VogelL,WillisKM:Overviewofadultoutcomesinpediatric-onsetspinalcordinjuries:implicationsfortransitiontoadulthood.TheHowardH.SteelConferenceonInjuriesandDysfunctionoftheSpinalCordinChildren,Orlando,FL,Dec.2003.VogelLC,BetzR,AndersonC:Medicalcomplicationsinadultswithpediatric-onsetspinalcordinjuriesandtheirimpactonlong-termoutcomes.TheHowardH.SteelConferenceonInjuriesandDysfunctionoftheSpinalCordinChildren,Orlando,FL,Dec.2003.HutchinsonD,MulcaheyMJ,BetzR,KozinSH,SmithB:HeterotrophicnervetransferforadolescentswithtetraplegiaresultinginLMNimpairment(poster).TheHowardH.SteelConferenceonInjuriesandDysfunctionoftheSpinalCordinChildren,Orlando,FL,Dec.2003.BarbeMF,RuggieriMR,BravermanAS,D’AndreaL,KozinS,PontariMA,BetzR:Reinnervationofthecanineurinarybladderdemonstratedbyfunctionalelectricalstimulationandnervetracinghistochemistry(poster).TheHowardH.SteelConferenceonInjuriesandDysfunctionoftheSpinalCordinChildren,Orlando,FL,Dec.2003.
RandalR.Betz,MD 89ChafetzRS,MulcaheyMJ,BetzRR:Therelationshipbetweenupperextremityreconstructionandambulationinachildwithtetraplegia(poster).TheHowardH.SteelConferenceonInjuriesandDysfunctionoftheSpinalCordinChildren,Orlando,FL,Dec.2003.ChafetzR,MulcaheyMJ,McDonaldC,BetzR,AndersonC,VogelL,GaughanJ,O’DellMA,FlanaganA:ApilotstudyevaluatingthedifferencebetweenlevelofindependenceandtypicalperformanceathomeofADLsinthepediatricspinalcordinjurypopulation(poster).TheHowardH.SteelConferenceonInjuriesandDysfunctionoftheSpinalCordinChildren,Orlando,FL,Dec.2003.BetzRR,MulcaheyMJ,D’AndreaLP,ClementsDH:Acuteevaluationandmanagementofspinalcordinjury.TheHowardH.SteelConference:InjuriesandDysfunctionoftheSpinalCordinChildren,Orlando,Dec.2003.GuilleJT,BetzRR,BalsaraRK,MulcaheyMJ,D’AndreaLP,ClementsDH:Thefeasibility,safety,andutilityofvertebralwedgeosteotomiesforthefusionlesstreatmentofparalyticscoliosis.TheHowardH.SteelConference:InjuriesandDysfunctionoftheSpinalCordinChildren,Orlando,Dec.2003;ScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting,QuebecCity,Sep.2003;InternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques,Rome,Italy,Jul.2003.BetzRR,MulcaheyMJ,LebbyE,D’AndreaLP,AntonacciD:Sagittalprofileofpatientswithspinalcordinjury:aradiographicanalysisandimplicationsontreatment.TheHowardH.SteelConference:InjuriesandDysfunctionoftheSpinalCordinChildren,Orlando,Dec.2003;ScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting,QuebecCity,Sep.2003;InternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques,Rome,Italy,Jul.2003;AmericanParaplegiaSocietyannualmeeting(poster),LasVegas,NV,Sep.2002.McCarthyJJ,JohnstonTE,FinsonFL,SmithBT,BetzRR,MulcaheyMJ:Functionalelectricalstimulation(FES)asanalternativeoradjuncttotraditionalorthopaedicstrategiesinchildrenwithCP.ShrineSurgeonsannualmeeting,Sacramento,CA,Nov.2003.BetzRR,KimJ,D’AndreaLP,MulcaheyMJ,BalsaraRK,ClementsDH:Aninnovativetechniqueofvertebralbodystaplingforthetreatmentofpatientswithadolescentidiopathicscoliosis.ShrineSurgeonsannualmeeting,Sacramento,CA,Nov.2003;ScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting,QuebecCity,Sep.2003;InternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques,Rome,Italy,Jul.2003.RuggieriM,Barbe,Braverman,D’AndreaL,KozinS,PontariM,BetzRR:Functionalurinarybladderreinnervationinacaninemodel.InternationalContinenceSociety,Florence,Italy,Oct.2003.
RandalR.Betz,MD 90NewtonPO,BetzRR,ClementsDH,LenkeLG,CrawfordAA,LoweTG,HaherTR,MerolaAA,WengerDR:Anteriorthoracoscopicinstrumentation:amatchedcomparisontoopenanteriorinstrumentationandposterioropeninstrumentation.NorthAmericanSpineSocietyannualmeeting,SanDiego,Oct.2003.O’BrienMF,KukloTR,RichardsBS,LenkeLG,PollyDW,SchreiberD,PintericR,SchroederT,BlankeKM,TheSpinalDeformityStudyGroup:AISSection:Amulticenterclinicalandradiographicanalysisofanteriorandposteriorsurgicaltechniquesfortreatmentofthoracolumbar/lumbarAIS:thecurrentstateoftheart.ScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting,QuebecCity,Sep.2003.D’AndreaLP,BetzRR,NewtonPO,LenkeLG,ClementsDH,HarmsJ,HaherTR,LoweTG,MerolaAA,CrawfordAH,SucatoDJ:Effectsofcontinuedposteriorspinalgrowthonsagittalcontourafteranteriorspinalfusionwithinstrumentationofdifferentsizesforadolescentidiopathicscoliosis.ScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting,QuebecCity,Sep.2003.LauerR,SmithB,BetzRR,McCarthyJJ:Comparisonofelectromyographic(EMG)meanfrequencyduringgaitbetweenchildrenwithandwithoutcerebralpalsy.AmericanAcademyofCerebralPalsyandDevelopmentalMedicineannualmeeting,Montreal,Quebec,Sep.2003.McCarthyJM,JohnstonTE,FinsonFL,SmithBT,BetzRR,MulcaheyMJ:Functionalelectricalstimulation(FES)asanalternativeoradjuncttotraditionalorthopaedicstrategiesinchildrenwithcerebralpalsy.AmericanAcademyofCerebralPalsyandDevelopmentalMedicineannualmeeting,Montreal,Quebec,Sep.2003.FaroF,NewtonP,MarksM,WengerD,BetzR,ClementsD,D’AndreaL,LenkeL,LoweT,MerolaA,HaherT:Factorsinvolvedinthedecisiontoperformaselectivevs.non-selectivefusionofLenkeIBandIC(KingII)curvesinadolescentidiopathicscoliosis.InternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques,Rome,Italy,Jul.2003.TisJ,OswaldT,NewtonP,WengerD,LenkeL,BetzR,MarksM:Pelvicinfluenceonlumbarlordosisinthoracolumbaradolescentidiopathicscoliosis.InternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques,Rome,Italy,Jul.2003.BetzRR,PetrizzoAM,KernerPJ,FalatynSP,ClementsDHIII,HussGK:Allograftversusnograftwithaposteriormultisegmentedhooksystemforthetreatmentofidiopathicscoliosis.10th
InternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques,Rome,Italy,Jul.2003;NorthAmericanSpineSocietyannualmeeting,NewYorkCity,Oct.1997;ScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting,St.Louis,Missouri,Sep.1997.JohnstonTE,SmithBT,BetzRR,BendaBJ,MulcaheyMJ,DavisR,BarriskillA:Initialexperienceswithbladder/bowelmanagementusingthePraxismulti-functionalimplantedFESsystem.
RandalR.Betz,MD 91InternationalFunctionalElectricalStimulationSocietyannualconference,Queensland,Australia,Jul.2003.LauerR,SmithB,BetzR,McCarthyJJ:Anadaptiveneuro-fuzzycontrolalgorithmforelectricallystimulatedgaitinthechildwithcerebralpalsy.InternationalFunctionalElectricalStimulationSocietyannualconference,Queensland,Australia,Jul.2003.BetzRR,ClementsDH,LenkeLG,LoweTG,NewtonPO,MerolaAA,HaherTR,WengerDR,HarmsJ:Correctionofthoracicadolescentidiopathicscoliosiswithanteriorinstrumentation:howdoespreoperativesagittalprofileaffecttheindications?AmericanAcademyofOrthopaedicSurgeonsannualmeeting(poster),NewOrleans,Feb.2003.BetzRR,LenkeLG,ClementsDH,NewtonPO,HarmsJ,WengerDR,LoweTG,HaherT,MerolaAA:Limitationsofanteriorinstrumentationforcorrectionofthoracicadolescentidiopathicscoliosisintheimmature(Risser0)patient.AmericanAcademyofOrthopaedicSurgeonsannualmeeting(poster),NewOrleans,Feb.2003;PediatricOrthopaedicSocietyannualmeeting(poster),SaltLakeCity,May2002.SmithBT,BetzRR,JohnstonT,BendaB,MulcaheyMJ,DavisR,BarriskillA:InitialexperienceswiththePraxismulti-functionalimplantableFESsystemforindividualswithspinalcordinjury.1stFESnetConference,Glasgow,UK,Sep.2002.HutchinsonD,MulcaheyMJ,BetzRR,KozinSH,SmithB:HeterotrophicnervetransferforadolescentswithtetraplegiaresultinginLMNimpairment.AmericanParaplegiaSocietyannualmeeting,LasVegas,Sep.2002.JohnstonTE,SmithBT,BetzRR,MulcaheyMJ:StabilityofanimplantedFESsystemforuprightmobility.AmericanParaplegiaSocietyannualmeeting,LasVegas,Sep.2002.ClementsDH,BetzRR,NewtonPO,LenkeLG,LoweTG,MerolaAA,HaherTR,MarksM:Incidenceofvascularcomplicationsassociatedwithanteriorthoracicinstrumentationforadolescentidiopathicscoliosis.ScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting,Seattle,WA,Sep.2002.BetzRR,MacDonaldJH,LenkeLG,LoweTG,NewtonPO,ClementsDH,WengerDR,HaherT,MerolaA,HarmsJ,ShufflebargerHL:Perioperativecomplicationsofspinalfusionforthoracicadolescentidiopathicscoliosis.ScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting,Seattle,WA,Sep.2002;AmericanAcademyofOrthopaedicSurgeonsannualmeeting,Dallas,TX,Feb.2002.EuleJM,LoweTG,LenkeLG,BetzRR,HarmsJ,ClementsDH,NewtonPO,BarmadaA,HaherTR,MerolaAA:SelectiveanteriororposteriorthoracicfusionsinLenke1adolescentidiopathic
RandalR.Betz,MD 92scoliosislumbarcurvesgreaterthan40degrees.ScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting,Seattle,WA,Sep.2002.BetzRR,SmithBT,BendaBJ,JohnstonTE,MulcaheyMJ,MiddletonJ,DavisG,DavisR,CousinsR,BarriskillA:ClinicaltrialofthePraxismulti-functionalimplantableFESsystemforparaplegia.InternationalFunctionalElectricalStimulationSociety(IFESS)7thannualconference,Ljubljana,Slovenia,Jun.2002.ClementsDH,BetzRR,BalsaraRK,PorterS:Video-assistedmini-openapproachforinsertionofanteriorthoracicinstrumentationinadolescentidiopathicscoliosis.9thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(e-poster),Montreux,Switzerland,May2002.ClementsDH,BetzRR:ComparisonofefficacyoftheINS-1™pediclescrewtestcomparedtoconventionalpediclescrewstimulationinlumbarspinalinstrumentation.Apreliminaryreport.9thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(e-poster),Montreux,Switzerland,May2002.BetzRR,LenkeLG,ClementsDH,NewtonPO:Thoracoscopicversusopenthoracotomycorrectionbyanteriorinstrumentationforthetreatmentofthoracicadolescentidiopathicscoliosis.PediatricOrthopaedicSocietyannualmeeting(poster),SaltLakeCity,May2002;7thStrykerSpineInvitationalSymposium,Sardinia,Sep.2001;ScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting,Cairns,Australia,Oct.2000.BetzRR,MulcaheyMJ,HutchinsonD,SmithBT:Scapularstabilizationforpatientswithtetraplegiasecondarytospinalcordinjury:preliminaryexperience.ShrineSurgeonsannualmeeting,Houston,TX,Nov.2001;AmericanParaplegiaSociety,LasVegas,NV,Sep.2001;7thInternationalConferenceonTetraplegia,Bologna,Italy,Jun.2001.McCarthyJJ,PalmaD,BetzRR:Pembertonosteotomy:useofallograftvs.autograft.ShrineSurgeonsannualmeeting,Houston,TX,Nov.2001.WilsonPL,NewtonPO,WengerDR,HaherTR,MerolaAA,LenkeLG,LoweTG,ClementsDH,BetzRR:Amulti-centerstudyanalyzingtherelationshipofstandardizedradiographicscoringsystemofadolescentidiopathicscoliosis(AIS)andtheScoliosisResearchSociety(SRS)outcomesinstrument.ScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting,Cleveland,Ohio,Sep.2001.MerolaAA,BrkaricM,HaherTR,KohaniO,BetzRR,ClementsDH,HussGK,LenkeLG,LoweTG,NewtonPO,WengerDR,MarksMC:DooutcomeparameterscorrelatewithsurgicalcomplicationsutilizingtheSRSquestionnaireinthetreatmentofAIS?ScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting,ClevelandOhio,Sep.2001;8thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques[ePoster],ParadiseIsland,Bahamas,Jul.2001.
RandalR.Betz,MD 93SmithBT,MulcaheyMJ,BetzRR:AnimplantableupperextremityneuroprosthesisinagrowingchildwithaC5spinalcordinjury.7thInternationalConferenceonTetraplegia,Bologna,Italy,Jun.2001.MerendaL,BetzRR:Casereport:TheeffectofurinarytractinfectiononcontinenceinpatientswiththeVocaresystem(poster).InternationalFESSociety,Cleveland,Ohio,Jun.2001.BetzRR,JohnstonTE,SmithBT,MulcaheyMJ,McCarthyJJ:Percutaneousimplantablefunctionalelectricalstimulationforuprightmobilityinchildrenwithspinalcordinjury:descriptionofsurgicaltechnique(poster).InternationalFESSociety,Cleveland,Ohio,Jun.2001.JohnstonTE,BetzRR,SmithBT,MulcaheyMJ:Animplantablefunctionalelectricalstimulationsystemforuprightmobilityinchildrenandadolescentswithspinalcordinjury(poster).InternationalFESSociety,Cleveland,Ohio,Jun.2001.SmithBT,BetzRR,MulcaheyMJ:ImplantableFESsystemforupperorlowerlimbfunctioninthegrowingchildwithaspinalcordinjury.InternationalFESSociety,Cleveland,Ohio,Jun.2001.CoiroD,SmithBT,BetzRR:Gaiteventdetectionusingintramuscularelectromyographytotriggerfunctionalelectricalstimulationinthechildwithcerebralpalsy.InternationalFESSociety,Cleveland,Ohio,Jun.2001.HardingSP,WeissAA,MulcaheyMJ,BetzRR:Splitflexorpollicislongustendontransfer:acomparisonwitharthrodesisforstabilizationofthethumbIPjointinadolescentswithtetraplegia.AmericanSpinalInjuryAssociationannualmeeting,LongBeach,CA,May2001;AmericanParaplegiaSocietyannualmeeting(poster),LasVegas,Sep.1998;SixthInternationalConferenceonSurgicalRehabilitationoftheUpperLimbinTetraplegia(Quadriplegia)(poster),Cleveland,May1998.FinsonR,McCarthyJ,SmithB,BetzR,MulcaheyMJ:Effectsofintramuscularelectricalstimulationonjointexcursionsduringgaitinchildrenwithcerebralpalsyrequiringsurgicallengthenings(poster).PediatricOrthopaedicSocietyofNorthAmericaannualmeeting,Cancun,May2001;AmericanAcademyofCerebralPalsyandDevelopmentalMedicineannualmeeting,Toronto,Sep.2000.BetzRR,JohnstonT,MulcaheyMJ,SmithBT:Implantablefunctionalelectricalstimulationforuprightmobilityinchildren:preliminaryexperience.PediatricOrthopaedicSocietyofNorthAmericaannualmeeting,Cancun,May2001;ShrineSurgeonsannualmeeting,Montreal,Sep.2000.BetzRR,LenkeLG,LoweTG,HarmsJ,ClementsDH,NewtonPO,HaherT,MerolaA,WengerD:Proximalscrewpull-outduringanteriorinstrumentationforthoracicscoliosis:preventive
RandalR.Betz,MD 94techniques.PediatricOrthopaedicSocietyofNorthAmericaannualmeeting,Cancun,May2001;ScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting,Cairns,Australia,Oct.2000.BetzRR,LenkeLG,LoweTG,ClementsDH,MerolaA,HaherT,NewtonPO,WengerDR,HussGK,BlankeK:Comparisonofanteriorversusposteriorinstrumentationforcorrectionofthoracicadolescentidiopathicscoliosis:analysisbyanobjectiveradiographicscoringsystem.AmericanAcademyofOrthopaedicSurgeonsannualmeeting,SanFrancisco,Mar.2001.PediatricOrthopaedicSocietyofNorthAmericaannualmeeting,Vancouver,May2000;ScoliosisResearchSociety,SanDiego,Sep.1999.LaRoccaS,BetzRR:Aquantitativemeasureoflatissimusdorsiandserratusanteriorstrengthafterastandardposterolateralthoracotomy.Spine+Science+Management,NewOrleans,LA,Nov.2000.MulcaheyMJ,BetzRR:Thesatisfactionwithtotallyimplantedfunctionalelectricalstimulationonpatient-directedoutcomes.5thScientificCongressoftheParalympicGames,Sydney,Australia,Oct.2000.MerolaA,BrkaricM,HaherT,KohaniO,LoweT,LenkeL,BetzR,HussG,WengerD,NewtonP,ClementsD:Amulti-centerprospectivestudyof737questionnairesutilizingtheScoliosisResearchSociety(SRS)instrumentforthesurgicaltreatmentofadolescentidiopathicscoliosis.NominatedfortheRussellHibbsAward,ScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting,Cairns,Australia,Oct.2000.KukloT,LenkeLG,WonDS,GrahamEJ,SweetFA,BetzRR,BlankeKM:Spontaneousproximalthoraciccurvecorrectionfollowingselectivefusionofthemainthoraciccurveinadolescentidiopathicscoliosis.ScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting,Cairns,Australia,Oct.2000.ClementsDH,BetzRR,LoweTG,LenkeLG,NewtonPO:Adolescentidiopathicscoliosiswithexcessivethoracickyphosis:comparisonofanteriorvs.posteriorinstrumentationformaintainingcorrection.ScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting,Cairns,Australia,Oct.2000.WoodJ,LoweT,BetzR,ClementsD,LenkeL,NewtonP,MerolaA,HaherT,WengerD,HarmsJ:Largemagnitudeadolescentidiopathicscoliosis:anteriorvs.posteriorsurgicalstabilization.ScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting,Cairns,Australia,Oct.2000.LenkeL,BetzR,ClementsD,NewtonP,MerolaA,LoweT,WengerD,CrawfordA:Interobserverandintraobserverreliabilityofchoosingthestablevertebra:comparingthetraditionalversusanewmethod.ScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting,Cairns,Australia,Oct.2000.BetzRR:Scoliosisclassification…recentdevelopments.ShrineSurgeonsannualmeeting,Montreal,Sep.2000
RandalR.Betz,MD 95McCarthyJJ,WeibelB,BetzRR:Resultsofpelvicosteotomiesforhipsubluxationinchildrenwithspinalcordinjury.AmericanAcademyofCerebralPalsyandDevelopmentalMedicineannualmeeting,Toronto,Sep.2000.VogelLC,AndersonCJ,MulcaheyMJ,BetzRR:What’snewinthebasiccareofthechildwithaspinalcordinjury?AmericanAcademyofCerebralPalsyandDevelopmentalMedicineannualmeeting,Toronto,Sep.2000.AndersonCJ,LubickyJP,BetzRR,VogelLC:Adultemploymentofindividualswhosustainedpediatric-onsetspinalcordinjuries.AmericanParaplegiaSocietyannualmeeting,LasVegas,Sep.2000;AmericanSpinalInjuryAssociationannualmeeting,Chicago,Apr.2000.BetzRR:Acuteevaluationandmanagement,includingSCIWORA.AmericanParaplegiaSocietyannualmeeting,LasVegas,Sep.2000.BetzRR:Whatconstitutesgoodorthopaediccareforthechildwithspinalcordinjury?AmericanParaplegiaSocietyannualmeeting,LasVegas,Sep.2000.VogelLC,LubickyJP,BetzRR,AndersonCJ:Medicalcomplicationsinadultswithpediatric-onsetSCI:implicationsonqualityoflife.AmericanParaplegiaSocietyannualmeeting(poster),LasVegas,Sep.2000.MoralesV,MerendaL,BetzR,MulcaheyMJ:ApplicationoftheVocaresysteminayoungsterwithtraumaticspinalcordinjury.AmericanParaplegiaSocietyannualmeeting(poster),LasVegas,Sep.2000.GrahamEJ,LenkeLG,LoweTG,BetzRR,BridwellKH,KongY:Prospectivepulmonaryfunctionevaluationfollowingopenthoracotomyforanteriorthoracicspinalfusioninadolescentidiopathicscoliosis.AmericanOrthopaedicAssociationannualmeeting[poster],HotSprings,VA,Jun.2000;ScoliosisResearchSociety,SanDiego,Sep.1999.SmithBT,CoiroD,FinsonR,McGeeB,BetzRR:Intramuscularelectromyographyforgaiteventdetectiontotriggerfunctionalelectricalstimulationinchildrenwithcerebralpalsy.WorldCongressonMedicalPhysicsandBiomedicalEngineering,Chicago,IL(CD-ROM),Jul.2000.CoiroD,SmithBT,FinsonR,McGeeB,BetzRR:Gaiteventdetectionfortheapplicationoffunctionalelectricalstimulationtoimproveambulationforchildrenwithcerebralpalsyorincompletespinalcordinjury.WorldCongressonMedicalPhysicsandBiomedicalEngineering,Chicago,IL(CD-ROM),Jul.2000.
RandalR.Betz,MD 96McCarthyJ,BetzR,MarkA,DavidsonR:ThetreatmentofangulardeformitiesofthetibiawithgradualcorrectionusingaT-typefixatorversusacutecorrectionwithamonolateralfixator.PediatricOrthopaedicSocietyofNorthAmericaannualmeeting,Vancouver,May2000.BetzRR,LenkeLG,ClementsDH,LoweTG,NewtonPO:Anteriorinstrumentationforthoracicadolescentidiopathicscoliosis:openandminimallyinvasivetechniques(posterexhibit).AmericanAcademyofOrthopaedicSurgeonsannualmeeting,Orlando,Mar.2000.FestaCJ,SodlJ,FengAK,LeeC,GaughanJ,ClementsDH,BigosD,BetzRR:Preoperativepulmonaryfunction:itscorrelationwiththedurationofpostoperativemechanicalventilationinspinalfusionpatients.SocietyofCriticalCareMedicine,Orlando,Feb.2000.FestaCJ,AbramowitzMC,SodlJ,FengAK,BigosD,GaughanJP,AlburgerPD,ClementsDH,BetzRR:Spinalcordcompromiseduringspinalfusionsurgery:acasecontrolanalysisofvariables.SocietyofCriticalCareMedicine,Orlando,Feb.2000.McCarthyJJ,BetzRR:Thetreatmentofhipfracturesinchildrenwithexistingspinalcordinjuries.H.H.SteelConferenceonSpinalCordInjury:ContemporaryPrinciplesandNewDirections,RanchoMirage,California,Dec.1999.McCarthyJJ,WeibelB,BetzRR:Resultsofpelvicosteotomiesforhipsubluxationinchildrenwithspinalcordinjury.H.H.SteelConferenceonSpinalCordInjury:ContemporaryPrinciplesandNewDirections,RanchoMirage,California,Dec.1999.PontariMA,WeibelB,MoralesV,DeanMD,GaughanJ,BetzR:Improvedqualityoflifeaftercontinenturinarydiversioninpediatricpatientswithquadriplegiaafterspinalcordinjury.H.H.SteelConferenceonSpinalCordInjury:ContemporaryPrinciplesandNewDirections,RanchoMirage,California,Dec.1999.KozinSH,MulcaheyMJ,BetzRR:Anintraoperativemethodtoevaluateelbowflexionandsupinationstrengthduringbiceps-to-tricepstransferfortetraplegia(poster).H.H.SteelConferenceonSpinalCordInjury:ContemporaryPrinciplesandNewDirections,RanchoMirage,California,Dec.1999.BetzRR:FES:Statusofhumantrialsinpediatrics.H.H.SteelConferenceonSpinalCordInjury:ContemporaryPrinciplesandNewDirections,RanchoMirage,California,Dec.1999.SmithBT,MulcaheyMJ,BetzRR:ImplantationofanupperextremityneuroprosthesisingrowingchildrenwithaC5levelspinalinjury.H.H.SteelConferenceonSpinalCordInjury:ContemporaryPrinciplesandNewDirections,RanchoMirage,California,Dec.1999.
RandalR.Betz,MD 97BetzRR,LenkeLG,ClementsDH,LoweTG:Thoracoscopicapproachversusopenthoracotomyforinsertionofanteriorinstrumentationforthetreatmentofthoracicadolescentidiopathicscoliosis.ShrineSurgeonsannualmeeting,Tampa,FL,Nov.1999.LewinJD,BetzRR,ClementsDH,HussGK:Comparisonofsegmentalhook-sublaminarwirehybridconstructswithtraditionalsegmentalhook-rodconstructsforcorrectionofscoliosis.NorthAmericanSpineSociety,Chicago,Oct.1999.LenkeLG,BetzR,LoweT,MerolaA,HaherT,ClementsD,BlankeK,HussG:Curveprevalenceofanewsurgicalclassificationofadolescentidiopathicscoliosis.NorthAmericanSpineSociety,Chicago,Oct.1999.BetzRR:Thefutureforthepatientwithaspinalcordinjury.SCIAdvances,ShrinersHospitalsforChildren,Philadelphia,Oct.1999BridwellKH,ShufflebargerHL,LenkeLG,LoweTG,BetzRR,BassettGS,IffrigTM,BaldusC,BlankeK,WhortonJ:Parent/patientpreferenceinidiopathicadolescentscoliosis:aprospectivepreoperativeanalysis.NorthAmericanSpineSociety,Chicago,Oct.1999;ScoliosisResearchSociety,SanDiego,Sep.1999.LeeCH,FengA,FestaC,BetzR,BigosD.CorrelationbetweendurationofpostoperativeIVanalgesiaandPICUstayafterspinalfusionsurgery.PediatricCriticalCare,Portland,OR,Sep.1999LenkeLG,BetzRR,HaherT,MerolaA,LappM,HarmsJ,ShufflebargerHL,BlankeK:Multi-surgeonassessmentofanewclassificationofadolescentidiopathicscoliosis(AIS):canagreementonclassificationexist?ScoliosisResearchSociety,SanDiego,Sep.1999.JohnstonTE,MulcaheyMJ,SmithBT,BetzRR:Percutaneouselectricalstimulationstrengtheninginanadolescentwithincompleteparaplegia.AmericanParaplegiaSocietyannualmeeting(poster),LasVegas,Sep.1999;PhysicalTherapy’99,Washington,DC,Jun.1999.BetzRR,JohnstonTE,MulcaheyMJ,SmithBT:Implantablefunctionalelectricalstimulationforuprightmobilityinchildren:preliminaryexperience.AmericanParaplegiaSocietyannualmeeting(poster),LasVegas,Sep.1999;AmericanSpinalInjuryAssociationannualmeeting,Atlanta,Apr.1999MulcaheyMJ,BetzRR,SmithBT,DavisSE,JohnstonTE:Thesatisfactionwithtotallyimplantedfunctionalelectricalstimulationonclient-directedoutcomes.AmericanParaplegiaSocietyannualmeeting(poster),LasVegas,Sep.1999;AmericanSpinalInjuryAssociationannualmeeting,Atlanta,Apr.1999.
RandalR.Betz,MD 98JohnstonTE,MulcaheyMJ,BetzRR,SmithBT:TotallyimplantedFESforuprightmobilityinanadolescentwithparaplegia.RESNA’99annualconference,LongBeach,CA,Jun.1999;AmericanPhysicalTherapyAssociationcombinedsectionsmeeting,Feb.1999.ZoureliasHC,BetzRR,RebuckCA:CustomTLSOsforinfantilescoliosis.AssociationofChildren’sProstheticsandOrthoticsClinics,St.Petersburg,Florida,May1999AkersJM,SmithBT,BetzRR,MulcaheyMJ:Implantablefunctionalelectricalstimulationtechnologyingrowinganimals.AmericanSpinalInjuryAssociationannualmeeting(poster),Atlanta,Apr.1999;SixthInternationalConferenceonSurgicalRehabilitationoftheUpperLimbinTetraplegia(Quadriplegia),Cleveland,May1998.LenkeLG,BetzRR,HarmsJ,ClementsDH,LoweTG,BridwellK:Anewandcomprehensiveclassificationsystemofadolescentidiopathicscoliosis.AmericanAcademyofOrthopaedicSurgeonsannualmeeting[scientificexhibit],Anaheim,CA,Feb.1999.LenkeLG,BetzRR,HarmsJ,BridwellKH,ClementsDH,LoweTG:Spontaneouslumbarcurvecorrectionfollowingselectiveanteriororposteriorthoracicfusioninadolescentidiopathicscoliosis.AmericanAcademyofOrthopaedicSurgeonsannualmeeting,Anaheim,CA,Feb.1999.D'AndreaLP,BetzRR,LenkeLG,ClementsDH,LoweTG,MerolaA,HaherT,HarmsJ,HussGK,BlankeK,McGlothlenS:Doradiographicparameterscorrelatewithclinicaloutcomesinadolescentidiopathicscoliosis?AmericanAcademyofOrthopaedicSurgeonsannualmeeting(poster),Anaheim,CA,Feb.1999;ScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting,NewYorkCity,Sep.1998.D'AndreaLP,BetzRR,LenkeLG,HarmsJ,ClementsDH,LoweTG:Theeffectofcontinuedspinalgrowthonsagittalcontourinpatientstreatedbyanteriorinstrumentationforadolescentidiopathicscoliosis.AmericanAcademyofOrthopaedicSurgeonsannualmeeting(poster),Anaheim,CA,Feb.1999;ScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting,NewYorkCity,Sep.1998.HuntingtonCF,BetzRR,MaxyP,ClementsDH,DrewryTD,ShermanMC,PaffordJ:Biomechanicalfiniteelementanalysisofspinopelvicfixationinlongsegmentspinalfixationconstructs.AmericanAcademyofOrthopaedicSurgeonsannualmeeting(poster),Anaheim,CA,Feb.1999.JohnstonTE,MulcaheyMJ,BetzRR,WeissAA:Upperextremitytendontransfersinchildrenwithcervicalspinalcordinjury.AmericanPhysicalTherapyAssociationcombinedsectionsmeeting,Feb.1999.
RandalR.Betz,MD 99BetzRR,CunninghamBW,SelgrathC,DrewryT,ShermanMC:Biomechanicaltestingofawedge-rodsystemforfusionlesscorrectionofscoliosis.AmericanCollegeofOsteopathicSurgeonsannualmeeting,Chicago,IL,1998.ClementsDHIII,BetzRR,BalsaraRK:Thoracoscopicanteriorthoracicinstrumentationandfusionforadolescentidiopathicscoliosis.ScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting(poster),NewYorkCity,Sep.1998.HuntingtonCF,BetzRR,ClementsDHIII:Longsegmentspinopelvicfusioninadultidiopathicscoliosisusingahybridpelvicfixationconstruct.ScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting,NewYorkCity,Sep.1998;ScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting(poster),St.Louis,Missouri,Sep.1997.BetzRR,HarmsJ,LenkeLG,LoweTG,ClementsDHIII,JeszenszkyD:Anteriorrigidrodinstrumentationforthoracicidiopathicscoliosis.ScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting,NewYorkCity,Sep.1998(poster);CombinedMeeting,OrthopaedicAssociationsoftheEnglishSpeakingWorld(poster),Auckland,NewZealand,Feb.1998;NorthAmericanSpineSocietyannualmeeting(poster),NewYorkCity,Oct.1997;ScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting(poster),St.Louis,Missouri,Sep.1997.BetzRR:ImplantationofsacralnervestimulatorsinpediatricSCIsubjects.AmericanParaplegiaSocietyannualmeeting,LasVegas,Sep.1998McCarthyJJ,BetzRR:TherelationshipbetweentighthamstringsandlumbarhypolordosisinchildrenwithCP.ShrineSurgeonsannualmeeting,Shreveport,Louisiana,Sep.1998;Spine+Science+Management(poster),NewOrleans,Nov.1997.HermantinFU,BetzRR,ClementsDH,BosaccoSJ:Postoperativeinfectioninpatientswithmyelodysplasiaorspinalcordinjuryundergoingfusionforscoliosis.ShrineSurgeonsannualmeeting,Shreveport,Louisiana,Sep.1998;AmericanAcademyofOrthopaedicsurgeonsannualmeeting(poster),NewOrleans,Mar.1998;PennsylvaniaOrthopaedicSocietyannualmeeting,Wilmington,Delaware,Nov.1997;ScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting,St.Louis,Missouri,Sep.1997;Spine+Science+Managementmeeting,NewOrleans,Nov.1996.LyonsR,MulcaheyMJ,BetzRR,SpoltoreT,WeissAA:Assessmentoffunctionaloutcomesofthedeltoid-to-tricepstransferinthepatientwithSCItetraplegia.SixthInternationalConferenceonSurgicalRehabilitationoftheUpperLimbinTetraplegia(Quadriplegia)(poster),Cleveland,May1998;AmericanParaplegiaSocietyannualmeeting(poster),LasVegas,Sep.1996;AmericanSpinalInjuryAssociationannualmeeting,Seattle,Apr.1996;AmericanAcademyofOrthopaedicSurgeonsannualmeeting(poster),Atlanta,Feb.1996.
RandalR.Betz,MD 100MulcaheyMJ,BetzR,WeissA,SmithB:Theoutcomesoftendontransfersinchildren.SixthInternationalConferenceonSurgicalRehabilitationoftheUpperLimbinTetraplegia(Quadriplegia),Cleveland,May1998.MulcaheyMJ,SmithB,BetzR:Lowermotorneuronintegrityofarmmusclesinhightetraplegia.SixthInternationalConferenceonSurgicalRehabilitationoftheUpperLimbinTetraplegia(Quadriplegia)(poster),Cleveland,May1998.MulcaheyMJ,BetzRR,WeissA,VogelL,BednarM,JamesM:Amulti-centerstudyoftheFreehandsysteminadolescents.SixthInternationalConferenceonSurgicalRehabilitationoftheUpperLimbinTetraplegia(Quadriplegia)(poster),Cleveland,May1998.SmithB,MulcaheyMJ,DavisS,BetzR:Tendontransferstoprovidebrace-freewriststabilityinadolescentswiththeFreehandsystem.SixthInternationalConferenceonSurgicalRehabilitationoftheUpperLimbinTetraplegia(Quadriplegia)(poster),Cleveland,May1998;AmericanSpinalInjuryAssociationannualmeeting(poster),Cleveland,Apr.1998.DavisS,MulcaheyMJ,BetzRR:UseoftheFreehandsysteminadolescents.SixthInternationalConferenceonSurgicalRehabilitationoftheUpperLimbinTetraplegia(Quadriplegia)(poster),Cleveland,May1998.LiebermanGS,BetzRR:Bracingfordelayingtheprogressionofscoliosisintheimmaturepatientwithspinalcordinjury.AmericanSpinalInjuryAssociationannualmeeting(poster),Cleveland,Ohio,Apr.1998;PennsylvaniaOrthopaedicSocietyannualmeeting,Wilmington,Delaware,Nov.1997;AmericanParaplegiaSociety(poster),LasVegas,Sep.1997.RuggieroRA,MulcaheyMJ,BetzRR:Thefunctionaloutcomeofspinalfusionforparalyticscoliosisfollowingspinalcordinjuryinthepediatricpatient.AmericanSpinalInjuryAssociationannualmeeting(poster);Cleveland,Ohio,Apr.1998;AmericanAcademyofOrthopaedicsurgeonsannualmeeting(poster),NewOrleans,Mar.1998;AmericanParaplegiaSocietyannualmeeting(poster),LasVegas,Sep.1997.BetzRR,HarmsJ,ClementsDHIII,LenkeLG,LoweTG,ShufflebargerHL,JeszenszkyDJ,BeeleB:Comparisonofanteriorversusposteriorinstrumentationforcorrectionofthoracicidiopathicscoliosis.CombinedMeeting,OrthopaedicAssociationsoftheEnglishSpeakingWorld,Auckland,NewZealand,Feb.1998;AmericanAcademyofOrthopaedicSurgeonsannualmeeting,SanFrancisco,Feb.1997;ScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting(consideredforRussellHibbsAward),Ottawa,Sep.1996;AmericanOrthopaedicAssociationannualmeeting(poster),ColoradoSprings,Jun.1996;ShrineSurgeonsannualmeeting,Honolulu,Aug.1995;AmericanAcademyofOrthopaedicSurgeonsannualmeeting[scientificexhibit],Orlando,Feb.1995.
RandalR.Betz,MD 101BetzRR,MulcaheyMJ,WeissAA,SmithBT:Theoutcomesoftendontransfersforhandfunction.CombinedMeeting,OrthopaedicAssociationsoftheEnglishSpeakingWorld,Auckland,NewZealand,Feb.1998.PetersTW,BetzRR,ClementsDH,BosaccoSJ:Prevalenceofpatientswithadolescentidiopathicscoliosiswhocouldbenefitfromanteriorinstrumentation.CombinedMeeting,OrthopaedicAssociationsoftheEnglishSpeakingWorld(poster),Auckland,NewZealand,Feb.1998;PennsylvaniaOrthopaedicSocietyannualmeeting,Wilmington,Delaware,Nov.1997;NorthAmericanSpineSocietyannualmeeting(poster),NewYorkCity,Oct.1997.ClementsDH,BetzRR,HarmsJ,LenkeLG,LoweTG,HussGK:Criticalanalysisofproximalsagittalcontouraftercorrectionofthoracicidiopathicscoliosis:anteriorversusposteriorinstrumentation.CombinedMeeting,OrthopaedicAssociationsoftheEnglishSpeakingWorld(poster),Auckland,NewZealand,Feb.1998;ScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting,St.Louis,Missouri,Sep.1997.LeeGA,BetzRR,ClementsDH,HussGK:Proximalkyphosisaboveposteriorspinalfusionsinpatientswithidiopathicscoliosis.AmericanOrthopaedicAssociationResidents'Conference,Sacramento,CA,Feb.1998;PennsylvaniaOrthopaedicSocietyannualmeeting,Wilmington,Delaware,Nov.1997;NorthAmericanSpineSocietyannualmeeting,NewYorkCity,Oct.1997;ScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting,St.Louis,Missouri,Sep.1997;Spine+Science+Managementmeeting(poster),NewOrleans,Nov.1996.D'AndreaLP,BetzRR:Analysisforsagittalcrankshaftaftercorrectionofidiopathicscoliosiswithanteriorinstrumentationandfusion.Spine+Science+Management,NewOrleans,Nov.1997.ClementsDHIII,BetzRR,BalsaraRK:Techniqueofvideoassistedthoracoscopicanteriorthoracicinstrumentationandfusionforidiopathicscoliosis.InternationalSymposiumonMinimallyInvasiveSpineSurgery,Philadelphia,Nov.1997;4thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques,Munich,Germany,Jul.1997.MulcaheyMJ,BetzRR,FinsonR,AkersJM,StangerM,BertotiDB:Percutaneousfunctionalelectricalstimulationinthechildwithspasticdiplegia:therapeuticandfunctionaleffects.AmericanAcademyofCerebralPalsyandDevelopmentalMedicineannualmeeting(poster),Portland,Oregon,Sep.1997MartinWH,ClementsDH,BetzRR,YoungWF:IntraoperativeEMGmonitoringduringspinalsurgery.SeminaronClinicalNeurophysiology,Jerusalem,Feb.1997.LenkeLG,BetzRR,BridwellKH,ClementsDHIII,HarmsJ,KingHA,LoweTG,ShufflebargerHL:ClassifyingadolescentidiopathicscoliosisbytheKingmethod:isitreliable?AmericanAcademy
RandalR.Betz,MD 102ofOrthopaedicSurgeonsannualmeeting,SanFrancisco,Jan.1997;ScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting,Ottawa,Sep.1996.HuntingtonC,MurrellW,BetzRR,ColeBA,ClementsDH,BalsaraRK:Comparisonofthoracoscopicandopenthoracicdiscectomyinalivesheepmodelforanteriorspinalfusion.AmericanAcademyofOrthopaedicSurgeonsannualmeeting(poster),SanFrancisco,Feb.1997;3rdInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques,Munich,Jun.1996.WeissAA,BetzRR,MulcaheyMJ,KeithM:Reconstructionofhightetraplegiahandactivitywithfunctionalelectricalstimulation:introductiontoemergingneuro-prosthetictechnology.AmericanAssociationforHandSurgery,BocaRaton,Jan.1997.ClementsDH,BetzRR,HarmsJ,LenkeLG,Balsara:Analysisofsagittalcontouraftercorrectionofthoracicidiopathicscoliosis:anteriorvs.posteriorinstrumentation.ScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting,Ottawa,Sep.1996.LenkeLG,BetzRR,BridwellKH,LoweT,ClementsD,HarmsJ,ShufflebargerH:Classificationofadolescentidiopathicscoliosis(AIS):anewsystemaddressingbothcoronalandsagittalplanes.ScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting,Ottawa,Sep.1996.MulcaheyMJ,BetzRR,MullinC:ThecomparisonofFEStoorthosesinchildrenwithspinalcordinjuries.AmericanParaplegiaSocietyannualmeeting(poster),LasVegas,Sep.1996.AkersJM,TrioloRJ,BetzRR:Motorresponsestoimplantableelectrodesinagrowinglimb.AmericanParaplegiaSociety(poster),LasVegas,Sep.1996.ClementsDHIII,MartinWH,HafnerH,BetzRR:EfficacyofintraoperativeSSEPmonitoringoftheupperextremitiesindetectingneuropraxiaduringpositioningforspinalsurgery.ScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting,Ottawa,Sep.1996.CordoverAM,BetzRR,ClementsDH,BosaccoSJ:Thenaturalhistoryofadolescentthoracolumbarandlumbaridiopathicscoliosisintoadulthood.ScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting,Ottawa,Sep.1996;3rdInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques(poster),Munich,Jun.1996;AmericanAcademyofOrthopaedicSurgeonsannualmeeting,Atlanta,Feb.1996;NorthAmericanSpineSocietyannualmeeting,Washington,DC,Oct.1995.DavidsonRS,WeitzelP,StantonRP,BetzRR,AlburgerPD,DormansJP,DrummondDS:Slippedcapitalfemoralepiphysis:amulticenterreviewofthecomplicationsbytreatmentgroupin432hips.EasternOrthopaedicAssociationannualmeeting,HiltonHeadIsland,SC,Oct.1996;AmericanAcademyofOrthopaedicSurgeonsannualmeeting,Atlanta,Feb.1996;PediatricOrthopaedicSocietyofNorthAmericaannualmeeting,BalHarbor,FL,1995
RandalR.Betz,MD 103BetzRR:SpinedeformityinthechildwithSCI.INPediatricSpinalCordInjury:SpecialtyTopics.AmericanAcademyofCerebralPalsyandDevelopmentalMedicineannualmeeting,Philadelphia,Sep.1995.BetzRR,MulcaheyMJ,WeissAA,KeithMW,PeckhamPH:Surgicalaspectsofafunctionalelectricalstimulationhandgraspsystemtoaugmentfunctioninpatientswithtetraplegia.AmericanParaplegiaSocietyannualmeeting(poster),LasVegas,Sep.1995.deMouraAB,MulcaheyMJ,BetzRR:Theeffectoftricepssurfacestimulationonpinchstrengthintetraplegia.AmericanSpinalInjuryAssociationannualmeeting(poster),Orlando,Apr.1995;AmericanAcademyofOrthopaedicSurgeonsannualmeeting(poster),Orlando,Feb.1995;AmericanParaplegiaSocietyannualmeeting(poster),LasVegas,Sep.1994.TalsaniaJ,ThoderJ,BetzR,ClancyM:Whenisthebesttimeforsimplesyndactylyrelease?AmericanOrthopaedicAssociationResidents'conference,Pittsburgh,Mar.1995StollsteimerGT,KolessarDJ,BetzRR:ThevalueofthemeasurementfromT5toT12asascreeningtoolindetectingabnormalkyphosis.AmericanOrthopaedicAssociationResidents'Conference,Pittsburgh,Mar.1995;AmericanAcademyofOrthopaedicSurgeonsannualmeeting(poster),Orlando,Feb.1995.Pierre-JacquesH,BetzRR,BermanAT,ClancyM:Hipinstabilityinchildrenwithspinalcordinjuries.AmericanOrthopaedicAssociationResidents'Conference,Pittsburgh,Mar.1995;AmericanAcademyofOrthopaedicSurgeonsannualmeeting(poster),Orlando,Feb.1995.O'BrienJT,BetzRR,BermanAT:Acomparisonofchildrenwithspinalcordinjurywithandwithoutradiographicabnormality.AmericanOrthopaedicAssociationResidents'Conference,Pittsburgh,Mar.1995;AmericanAcademyofOrthopaedicSurgeonsannualmeeting[paper,poster],Orlando,Feb.1995;PennsylvaniaOrthopaedicSocietyFallmeeting,Pittsburgh,Sep.1994;AmericanParaplegiaSocietyannualmeeting(poster),LasVegas,Sep.1994.BetzRR:Choosinglevelsofanteriorinstrumentationinthethoracicspine.FederationofSpineAssociationsannualmeeting,Orlando,Feb.1995.WeissAA,BetzRR,MatityahuA,KeithMW,ZiglerS:Interphalangealjointstabilizationwithoutarthrodesisforrestorationoflateralpinchintetraplegia:thesplitFPLtransfer.ShrineSurgeonsannualmeeting,Philadelphia,Sep.1994.BarbieriCA,MoynahanM,HaldenEE,BetzRR:Theeffectsoffunctionalneuromuscularstimulationonthegaitcharacteristicsofachildwithspasticdiplegiacerebralpalsy.ShrineSurgeonsannualmeeting,Philadelphia,Sep.1994.
RandalR.Betz,MD 104MulcaheyMJ,BetzRR,SmithBT,WeissAA:Theapplicationoffunctionalneuromuscularstimulationusingatotallyimplantedstimulatorandimplantedelectrodesinadolescentswithtetraplegia.ShrineSurgeonsannualmeeting,Philadelphia,Sep.1994.SmithBT,MulcaheyMJ,BetzRR:FunctionalneuromuscularstimulationforupperextremityfunctioninC4tetraplegia.ShrineSurgeonsannualmeeting,Philadelphia,Sep.1994.MulcaheyMJ,BetzRR:Theactivitiesofadolescentswithspinalcordinjuries:resultsoftheadolescentroleassessment.AmericanSpinalInjuryAssociationannualmeeting,Philadelphia,Apr.1994.MulcaheyMJ,SmithBT,BetzRR:Spinalcordinjuryinchildren:theimpactonparents'routinesofwork,leisure,andrest.AmericanSpinalInjuryAssociationannualmeeting,Philadelphia,Apr.1994.BetzRR,BodenB,TrioloRJ,GardnerER,FifeRS:Theeffectsoffunctionalneuromuscularstimulationonthejointsofthelowerextremityinchildrenwithspinalcordinjury.AmericanSpinalInjuryAssociationannualmeeting(poster),Philadelphia,Apr.1994;AmericanAcademyofOrthopaedicSurgeonsannualmeeting(poster),NewOrleans,Feb.1994;OrthopaedicRehabilitationAssociationannualmeeting,NewOrleans,Feb.1994.BetzRR,BeckT,HussGK,HenzesJ,ClancyM:Hipinstabilityinchildrenwithspinalcordinjury.AmericanSpinalInjuryAssociationannualmeeting(poster),Philadelphia,Apr.1994;AmericanParaplegiaSocietyannualmeeting(poster),LasVegas,Sep.1993.ColeBA,BetzRR,DavidsonRS:Thenaturalhistoryofscoliosissecondarytomodestleglengthinequality.AmericanOrthopaedicAssociationResidents'Conference,Atlanta,Mar.1994;AmericanAcademyofOrthopaedicSurgeons[paperandposter],NewOrleans,Feb.1994.WeisJC,BetzRR,ClementsDH,BalsaraRK:Theprevalenceofperioperativecomplicationsfollowinganteriorspinalfusionforpatientswithidiopathicscoliosis.NorthAmericanSpineSocietyannualmeeting,Minneapolis,Sep.1994;AmericanAcademyofOrthopaedicSurgeonsannualmeeting(poster),NewOrleans,Feb.1994;ScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting(poster),Dublin,Ireland,Sep.1993.BöhmH,BetzRR,HarmsJ,ClementsDH,BalsaraRK:Correctionofadolescentidiopathicscoliosiswithflexibleanteriorinstrumentation.AmericanAcademyofOrthopaedicSurgeonsannualmeeting,NewOrleans,Feb.1994;ScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting(poster),Dublin,Ireland,Sep.1993.
RandalR.Betz,MD 105HurleyJM,BetzRR,ClancyM,SteelHH:TheprevalenceoflatedevelopmentofcontralateralSCFEinpatientstreatedbyinsitupinningvs.castimmobilization.AmericanAcademyofOrthopaedicSurgeonsannualmeeting,SanFrancisco,Feb.1993;ShrineSurgeons'annualmeeting,Spokane,Washington,Sep.1991.HarveyCJJr,BetzRR,ClementsDH,HussGK,ClancyM:ArethereindicationsforpartialribresectioninpatientsundergoingCDinstrumentationforadolescentidiopathicscoliosis?AmericanAcademyofOrthopaedicSurgeonsannualmeeting(poster),SanFrancisco,Feb.1993;FederationofSpineAssociationsannualmeeting,SanFrancisco,Feb.1993;ScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting(consideredforRussellHibbsAward),KansasCity,MO,Sep.1992;ShrineSurgeonsannualmeeting,Greenville,SC,Sep.1992.ClementsDH,BetzRR,HarmsJ,BalsaraRK:TechniqueofHarms/MOSSanteriorthoracicinstrumentationandfusionfortreatmentofthoraciccurvesinidiopathicscoliosis.ScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting[video],KansasCity,MO,Sep.1992.MulcaheyMJ,BetzRR,SmithBT,TrioloRJ,WeissAA,KeithMW,PeckhamPH,MitraA:BipolarlatissimusdorsitranspositionandfunctionalneuromuscularstimulationtorestoreflexioninaC4quadriplegicwithC5denervation.AmericanAcademyofOrthopaedicSurgeonsannualmeeting(poster),SanFrancisco,Feb.1993;AmericanParaplegiaSocietyannualmeeting(poster),LasVegas,Sep.1992;AmericanSpinalInjuryAssociationannualmeeting,Toronto,May1992.HoudayerT,FreedmanW,TrioloRJ,AndrewsB,BetzRR:Prolongedstandingforchildrenwithparaplegiabymeansofhybridorthosis:acasestudy.IEEE-EMBSConference,Paris,Oct.1992.BetzRR,ColeCL,TrioloRJ,GardnerER,CohnJC,FifeRS:Theeffectsoffunctionalneuromuscularstimulationonthejointsofthelowerextremityinspinalcordinjuredchildren.AmericanParaplegiaSocietyannualmeeting(poster),LasVegas,Sep.1992;AmericanSpinalInjuryAssociationannualmeeting,Toronto,May1992.CohnJC,MoynahanM,TrioloRJ,BetzRR:Asurveyofthepediatricspinalcordinjuredpopulationonattitudetowardsstanding(poster).AmericanSpinalInjuryAssociationannualmeeting,Toronto,May1992.UppalGS,WoodKB,BetzRR,OgilvieJW,WatkinsRG,SherkHH:Magneticresonanceimagingevaluationofcongenitalscoliosis[posterexhibit].AmericanAcademyofOrthopaedicSurgeonsannualmeeting,WashingtonDC,Feb.1992;AmericanOrthopaedicAssociationResidents'Conference,KansasCity,Kansas,Apr.1991.
RandalR.Betz,MD 106WeissAA,BetzRR:Transferofparalyzedbutnotdenervatedmusclesforfunctionalnervestimulationrestorationofprehensileactivityinspinalcordinjurypatients.AmericanAcademyofPediatricsOrthopaedicSection,NewOrleans,Oct.1991.SiegelMJ,BetzRR,BridwellKH,ShufflebargerHL,CummingsRJ,MoynahanM,BaldusC,ClementsDH:AcriticalanalysiscomparingZielkeinstrumentationalone,Cotrel-Duboussetinstrumentationalone,andacombinationofthetwoforthetreatmentofadolescentthoracolumbarandlumbaridiopathicscoliosis.ScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting,Minneapolis,Sep.1991.LenkeLG,BridwellKH,BullisD,BetzRR,BaldusC,SchoeneckerPL:Resultsofin-situfusionforisthmicspondylolisthesis.RecipientofRussellS.HibbsAwardforbestclinicalpresentation.ScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting,Minneapolis,Sep.1991.BetzRR,TrioloRJ,HermidaVM,MoynahanM,GardnerER,MaurerA,CookSD,BennettJT:Theeffectsoffunctionalneuromuscularstimulationonthebonemineralcontentinthelowerlimbsofspinalcordinjuredchildren.AmericanSpinalInjuryAssociationannualmeeting,Seattle,Apr.1991.TrioloRJ,ReilleyB,MulcaheyMJ,BetzRR,CohnJ:Developmentandstandardizationofanevaluationforstandingfunctioninchildrenwithspinalcordinjuries.AmericanSpinalInjuryAssociationannualmeeting(poster),Seattle,Apr.1991.MulcaheyMJ,SmithB,TrioloRJ,BetzRR:RestorationofgraspandreleaseinaC7child(poster).AmericanSpinalInjuryAssociation,Seattle,Apr.1991(first-placeorthopaedicposter);AppliedNeuralControlResearchConference,CaseWesternReserveUniversity,Cleveland,May1990.DeckerJE,WeissAA,WebberJB,CioccoR,BetzRR,ClancyM,GiattiniJF:Treatmentoptionsforradioulnarlengthdiscrepancyincludingepiphysiodesisofthedistalulna.AmericanOrthopaedicAssociationResidents'Conference,KansasCity,Kansas,Apr.1991.IorioR,BetzRR,ClancyM,SteelHH,BermanAT:Theprevalenceofmalignantdegenerationinmultiplehereditaryexostosis.AmericanAcademyofOrthopaedicSurgeons,Anaheim,California,Mar.1991;ShrineSurgeons,Erie,Pennsylvania,Sep.1989.LissFE,BetzRR,ClancyM,SteelHH:Lateralfemoralcondylarovergrowthandvaruskneedeformityfollowingdistalfemoralepiphysiodesis.AmericanAcademyofOrthopaedicSurgeons,Anaheim,California,Mar.1991;AmericanOrthopaedicAssociationResidents'Conference,MontereyBeach,Mar.1990.KollmerCE,BetzRR,ClancyM:Associationofhipdysplasiawithpediatricfootabnormalities:AnationalShrinersHospitalsurvey.AmericanAcademyofOrthopaedicSurgeons,Anaheim,
RandalR.Betz,MD 107California,Mar.1991;PediatricOrthopaedicSocietyofNorthAmerica,SanFrancisco,May1990;ShrineSurgeons,Erie,Pennsylvania,Sep.1989;AmericanOrthopaedicAssociationResidents'Conference,MontereyBeach,Mar.1990.IsraeliteCL,BashnerBC,BetzRR,ClancyM,SteelHH,BermanAT:ReliableearlyradiographicdifferentiationofinfantileBlount'sdiseaseandphysiologicbowing:Utilizingtheratioofthefemoralandtibialmetaphyseal-diaphysealangles.AmericanAcademyofOrthopaedicSurgeons,Anaheim,California,Mar.1991;ShrineSurgeons,Lexington,Kentucky,Oct.1990;AmericanOrthopaedicAssociationResidents'Conference,MontereyBeach,Mar.1990.ColeCL,BetzRR,HarrisonM,ClancyM,SteelHH:OrthopaedicmanifestationsofProteussyndrome.AmericanAcademyofOrthopaedicSurgeonsannualmeeting(poster),Anaheim,Mar.1991.MichalskiJA,SteelHH,BetzRR,MesgarzadehM,DavidsonRC,ClancyM:TheBlanchsignrevisited.AmericanAcademyofOrthopaedicSurgeonsannualmeeting(poster),Anaheim,Mar.1991.MileaAC,SteelHH,BetzRR,ClancyM:EpiphysiodesisofthetriradiatecartilageforprotrusioacetabuliinMarfan'ssyndrome:along-termfollow-up.AmericanAcademyofOrthopaedicSurgeonsannualmeeting(poster),Anaheim,Mar.1991.PiccioniL,DavidsonRC,BetzRR,ClancyM,SteelHH:Radiographicassessmentofintraoperativeclubfootcorrection.PennsylvaniaOrthopaedicSociety,Pittsburgh,Nov.1990.BackeHA,BetzRR,MesgarzadehM,ClancyM,SteelHH:Post-traumaticspinalcordsyrinx:AnevaluationbyMRI.AmericanSpinalInjuryAssociation,Orlando,May1990.MulcaheyMJ,TrioloRJ,BetzRR:Restorationofhandfunction:Ademonstrationoffunctionalneuromuscularstimulation.AmericanOccupationalTherapyAssociationannualmeeting(poster),NewOrleans,Apr.1990.McIvorOR,BetzRR,ClancyM,SteelHH:LowbackpainfollowingPSFforidiopathicscoliosis.AmericanOrthopaedicAssociationResidents'Conference,MontereyBeach,Mar.1990.KozinSH,WeissAA,WebberJB,BetzRR,ClancyM,SteelHH:Indexfingerpollicizationforcongenitalaplasiaorhypoplasiaofthethumb.AmericanOrthopaedicAssociationResidents'Conference,MontereyBeach,Mar.1990;AmericanSocietyforSurgeryoftheHand(poster),Seattle,Washington,Sep.1989.
RandalR.Betz,MD 108SmithRC,BetzRR,LoveM,BonakdarpourA,MesgarzadehM,ClancyM,SteelHH,SherkHH:Cervicalspineabnormalitiesinmultipleepiphysealdysplasia.AmericanOrthopaedicAssociationResidents'Conference,MontereyBeach,Mar.1990.CavanaughMF,BetzRR,AlburgerPD,ClancyM,SteelHH:Treatmentofcongenitalhipdislocationinblackinfants.AmericanOrthopaedicAssociationResidents'Conference,MontereyBeach,Mar.1990;AmericanAcademyofOrthopaedicSurgeons,NewOrleans,Feb.1990.MesgarzadehM,WiggillS,SchneckCD,BonakdarpourA,ClancyM,BetzRR:TheMRIstructuralcorrelatesofcarpaltunnelsyndrome(CTS).AmericanAcademyofOrthopaedicSurgeons(poster),NewOrleans,Feb.1990.BridwellKH,BetzRR,HarveyC,CapelliA,FrankenC,HussGK:SagittalplaneanalysisinidiopathicscoliosispatientstreatedwithCotrel-Duboussetinstrumentation.AmericanAcademyofOrthopaedicSurgeons,NewOrleans,Feb.1990;FederationofSpineAssociationsAnnualMeeting,NewOrleans,Feb.1990;6thAnnualC-DInternationalSymposium,MonteCarlo,Sep.1989;ScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting,Amsterdam,Sep.1989;NorthAmericanSpineSociety,QuebecCity,Jun.1989.MesgarzadehM,WiggillS,SchneckCD,BonakdarpourA,ClancyM,BetzRR:TheMRIstructuralcorrelatesofcarpaltunnelsyndrome(CTS)(poster).AmericanAcademyofOrthopaedicSurgeons,NewOrleans,Feb.1990.BetzRR,JohnsonVL,AionaMD,DavidsonRS,KollmerC:Associationofhipdysplasiawithpediatricfootabnormalities:anationalShrinersHospitalsurvey.ShrineSurgeonsannualmeeting,Erie,PA,Sep.1989.GardnerER,TrioloRJ,BetzRR:RepeatabilityofstrengthandenduranceoftheelectricallystimulatedquadricepsinSCIchildren.AmericanPhysicalTherapyAssociationannualconferenceinNashville,Tennessee,Jun.1989.BetzRR,HussGK,ClancyM:IndicationsforribresectionwithCotrel-Duboussetinstrumentationforcorrectionofadolescentidiopathicscoliosis.ABCTravelingFellowship,UnitedKingdomandSouthAfrica,Apr.1989;ShrineSurgeons,Springfield,Oct.1988.EmperWD,BetzRR,ClancyM,SteelHH:Spicacasttreatmentofslippedcapitalfemoralepiphysis.ABCTravelingFellowship,UnitedKingdomandSouthAfrica,Apr.1989;ShrineSurgeons,St.Louis,Oct.1986;AmericanAcademyofOrthopaedicSurgeons,NewOrleans,Feb.1986;AmericanOrthopaedicAssociationResidents'Conference,NewOrleans,May1985.
RandalR.Betz,MD 109BetzRR,DonnerEJ,MesgarzadehM,CampoRD,ClancyM:Magneticresonanceimaginginslippedcapitalfemoralepiphysis.ABCTravelingFellowship,UnitedKingdomandSouthAfrica,Apr.1989;PediatricOrthopaedicSocietyofNorthAmerica,ColoradoSprings,May1988;AmericanAcademyofOrthopaedicSurgeons,LasVegas,Feb.1989.CareyPJ,AlburgerPD,BetzRR:Closedtreatmentofbothboneforearmfractures.OrthopaedicTraumaAssociation,Philadelphia,Oct.1989;AmericanAcademyofOrthopaedicSurgeons,LasVegas,Feb.1989.WolfSB,BetzRR,SteelHH,ClancyM:Conservativelytreatedidiopathicclubfoot:Long-termresults.AmericanAcademyofOrthopaedicSurgeons,LasVegas,Feb.1989;AmericanOrthopaedicAssociationResidents'Conference,Boston,Mar.1988.RobinsonDE,TrioloRJ,BetzRR:Gradedexercisetestinginspinalcordinjuredchildren(poster).APTAannualmeeting,Honolulu,Feb.1989.McAllisterJW,BridwellKH,BetzRR,HussGK,ClancyM,SchoeneckerPL:CoronaldecompensationproducedbyCotrel-Duboussetderotationmaneuverforidiopathicrightthoracicscoliosis.Mid-AmericaOrthopaedicAssociation,Hamilton,Bermuda,Apr.1989;ScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting,Baltimore,Sep.1988.MasonRJ,BetzRR,OrlowskiJP,BellGR:Thesyndromeofinappropriateantidiuretichormonesecretionanditseffectonbloodindicesfollowingspinalfusion.ScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting(consideredforRussellHibbsAward),Baltimore,Sep.1988.LyonsCJ,BetzRR,MesgarzadehM,ReveszG,ClancyM:Theeffectofmagneticresonanceimagingonmetalspineimplants.ScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting,Baltimore,Sep.1988.BetzRR:Congenitalepiphysealplatedisorders.PhiladelphiaOrthopaedicReviewCourse[faculty],Philadelphia,May1988.BetzRR,TrioloRJ,GardnerEG,RobinsonDE,AlmAC:Functionalneuromuscularstimulationinchildrenwithspinalcordinjury:Changesinstrengthandenduranceofthequadriceps(poster).CaseWesternReserveUniversityAnnualNeuralControlResearchDay,May1988.BetzRR,RosenfeldER,MaurerA,TrioloRJ,RobinsonDE,GardnerEG:Bonemineralcontentinchildrenwithspinalcordinjury(poster).AmericanSpinalInjuryAssociation,SanDiego,Mar.1988.EliaEA,ClancyM,BetzRR,SteelHH:Long-termfollow-upofosteogenesisimperfecta.AmericanOrthopaedicAssociationResidents'Conference,Boston,Mar.1988.
RandalR.Betz,MD 110MacMahonEB,IraniRN,BetzRR,HollisS,SchwentkerEP:SignificanceoflateraltibialtorsiontranslationinBlount'sdisease.AmericanAcademyofOrthopaedicSurgeons,Atlanta,Feb.1988.EckerML,BetzRR,TrentPS,MahboubiS,MesgarzadehM,BonakdarpourA,DrummondDS,ClancyM:ComputedtomographicevaluationofCotrel-Duboussetinstrumentationinidiopathicscoliosis.AmericanAcademyofOrthopaedicSurgeons,Atlanta,Feb.1988;FederationofSpineAssociations,Atlanta,Feb.1988.RaisisLW,BetzRR,ClancyM,OstrumRF,SteelHH:Comparisonofpercutaneousversusopenepiphyseodesisforleg-lengthdiscrepancy.AmericanAcademyofOrthopaedicSurgeons,Atlanta,Feb.1988;PennsylvaniaOrthopaedicSocietymeeting,Orlando,Apr.1987.O'DonnellCS,BunnellWP,BetzRR,BowenJR,TippingCR:Electricalstimulationinthetreatmentofidiopathicscoliosis.AmericanAcademyofOrthopaedicSurgeonsannualmeeting,Atlanta,Feb.1988;ScoliosisResearchSocietyannualmeeting(winnerofRussellHibbsAward),Vancouver,BritishColumbia,Sep.1987.GriffithM,MardjetkoS,BetzRR,ClancyM,SteelHH,MillarEA:Reviewoftreatmentofunicameralbonecysts.AmericanAcademyofOrthopaedicSurgeonsannualmeeting,Atlanta,Feb.1988;attheAmericanOrthopaedicAssociationResidents'Conference,SaltLakeCity,Mar.1987;andattheSpringResidents'Conference,ShrinersHospital,Philadelphia,May1986.MaurerR,BetzRR,BonakdarpourA,MesgarzadehM,ClancyM,SteelHH:Radiographicreviewofamyoplasia(arthrogryposis).AmericanAcademyofOrthopaedicSurgeons,Atlanta,Feb.1988(poster);AmericanOrthopaedicAssociationResidents'Conference,SaltLakeCity,Mar.1987.ClementsDH,BetzRR,TruexRE:Diastematomyelia:Naturalhistoryandsurgicalindications.AmericanAcademyofOrthopaedicSurgeons,Atlanta,Feb.1988(poster);AmericanOrthopaedicAssociationResidents'Conference,SaltLakeCity,Mar.1987.BetzRR,ClancyM,HussGK,AlburgerPD:CorrectionofspinedeformitieswithCotrel-Duboussetinstrumentation:Resultsandproblemsinaconsecutiveseries.EasternOrthopaedicAssociation,HotSprings,Virginia,Oct.1987.MannherzRE,BetzRR,ClancyM,SteelHH:Juvenileidiopathicscoliosisfollowedtoskeletalmaturity.FederationofSpineAssociations,Atlanta,Feb.1988;ScoliosisResearchSociety,Vancouver,BritishColumbia,Sep.1987.
RandalR.Betz,MD 111BetzRR,CampoRD:Epiphysealplatefractures.PhiladelphiaReviewCourse[faculty],Philadelphia,Jun.1987.WeidnerPL,AlburgerPD,BetzRR:Treatmentofsupracondylarfracturesofthehumerusbydelayedmanipulativereduction.AmericanAcademyofOrthopaedicSurgeons,SanFrancisco,Jan.1987;AmericanOrthopaedicAssociationResidents'Conference,LosAngeles,May1986;FallPennsylvaniaOrthopaedicSocietymeeting,Philadelphia,Nov.1985.MesgarzadehM,SneckCD,BetzRR,MoyerR,BonakdarpourA:OptimizationofMRimagingofthekneejoint(poster).AmericanAcademyofOrthopaedicSurgeons,SanFrancisco,Jan.1987.GelmanAJ,BetzRR,DeFilippGJ,MesgarzadehM,ClancyM,SteelHH:Magneticresonanceimaginginevaluationofspinalcordinjuredchildren.AmericanAcademyofOrthopaedicSurgeons,SanFrancisco,Jan.1987;ScoliosisResearchSociety,Hamilton,Bermuda,Sep.1986;AmericanOrthopaedicAssociationResidents'Conference,LosAngeles,May1986;PennsylvaniaOrthopaedicSociety,Hershey,Pennsylvania,Apr.1986;AmericanSpinalInjuryAssociation,SanFrancisco,Mar.1986.DearolfWWIII,BetzRR,ClancyM,SteelHH:Spinaldeformityinpediatricspinalcordinjuredpatients.ScoliosisResearchSociety,Hamilton,Bermuda,Sep.1986;AmericanSpinalInjuryAssociation,Boston,Mar.1987;AmericanOrthopaedicAssociationResidents'Conference,LosAngeles,May1986.LombardiAV,BetzRR,BonakdarpourA,ClancyM,SteelHH:Neurofibromatousscoliosis:Thenecessityofanaggressiveapproach.AmericanOrthopaedicAssociationResidents'Conference,LosAngeles,May1986.ThoderJJ,BetzRR,ClancyM,SteelHH:Gluteusmediusandminimusadvancementforcorrectionofinternalrotationgaitinspasticcerebralpalsy.AmericanOrthopaedicAssociationResidents'Conference,LosAngeles,May1986.LinPS,BetzRR,KalamchiA,SteelHH:Thelong-termfollow-upofiliofemoralfusioninproximalfemoralfocaldeficiency.AmericanOrthopaedicAssociationResidents'Conference,LosAngeles,May1986;FallPennsylvaniaOrthopaedicSocietymeeting,Philadelphia,Nov.1985.ScanlonJD,BetzRR,WeaverSA,RosenfeldER,ScheurenMA,BorkCE:Stresstestvaluesofparaplegicsandquadriplegicsversusable-bodiedchildren(poster).AmericanSpinalInjuryAssociation,SanFrancisco,Mar.1986.BetzRR,BaranEM,RosenfeldEM,SteelHH:Somatosensoryevokedpotentials(SEPs)inchronicspinalcordinjury.AmericanAcademyofOrthopaedicSurgeons,NewOrleans,Feb.1986(poster);AmericanSpinalInjuryAssociation,Atlanta,Apr.1985.
RandalR.Betz,MD 112CrossettLS,BetzRR,SteelHH:Congenitalpseudarthrosisofthetibia:long-termfollow-up.AmericanAcademyofOrthopaedicSurgeons,NewOrleans,Feb.1986;AmericanOrthopaedicAssociationResidents'Conference,NewOrleans,May1985.SutherlandRD,BetzRR,SteelHH:Thesequelaeofsepticarthritisofthehip.AmericanAcademyofOrthopaedicSurgeons,NewOrleans,Feb.1986;AmericanOrthopaedicAssociationResidents'Conference,NewOrleans,May1985;PennsylvaniaOrthopaedicSociety,Pittsburgh,Nov.1984.BetzRR,BunnellWP,MacEwenGD:Scoliosisandpregnancy.FederationofSpineAssociations,NewOrleans,Feb.1986;ScoliosisResearchSociety(consideredforRussellHibbsAward),SanDiego,Sep.1985;AmericanAcademyofOrthopaedicSurgeons,Atlanta,Feb.1984.BetzR,SachsI,SteelH:Acquiredspastictalipesequinovarusanditsrelationshiptodystoniamusculorumdeformans.ShrineSurgeonsannualmeeting,Tampa,FL,Oct.1985.BetzRR,MoyerRA,ClementsDH,Mar.ettoP,LachmanJW:Traumaticdiastasisofthefirstandsecondtarsometatarsaljoints.AmericanOrthopaedicSocietyforSportsMedicine,Nashville,Jun.1985;AmericanAcademyofOrthopaedicSurgeons,LasVegas,Feb.1985;AmericanOrthopaedicFootandAnkleSociety,LasVegas,Jan.1985.MaddalonR,BetzRR,SteelHH:EffectofpreoperativeCotreltractiononposteriorspinalfusioninidiopathicscoliosis.AmericanOrthopaedicAssociationResidents'Conference,NewOrleans,May1985.BetzRR,MoyerRA,AlburgerPD,ClancyM,MurphyJ,IaquintoJ:Arthroscopicanteriorcruciatereconstructionusingautogenoussemitendinosusandgracilistendons.AmericanAcademyofOrthopaedicSurgeons,LasVegas,Jan.1985.OstrumRF,BetzRR,ManzioneM,SteelHH:Pitfalls,problems,andlong-termresultsofepiphysiodesis.AmericanAcademyofOrthopaedicSurgeons,LasVegas,Jan.1985;AmericanOrthopaedicAssociationResidents'Conference,AnnArbor,Michigan,May1984;SpringPennsylvaniaOrthopaedicSocietymeeting,Hershey,Apr.1984.BetzRR,MagillJT,LonerganR:Thepercutaneouslateralretinacularrelease:Long-termreview.AmericanOrthopaedicSocietyforSportsMedicine,LasVegas,Jan.1985;PennsylvaniaOrthopaedicSociety,Hershey,Apr.1984;EasternOrthopaedicAssociation,BocaRaton,Florida,Oct.1981.
RandalR.Betz,MD 113BetzRR,SteelHH,MillarEA:Acquiredspastictalipesequinovarusanditsrelationshiptodystoniamusculorumdeformans.PediatricOrthopaedicSociety,Vancouver,BritishColumbia,May1984.HixS,BetzRR,SteelHH:Effectsofendurancetrainingontherehabilitationofspinalcordinjuredandspinabifidachildren(poster).AmericanSpinalInjuryAssociation,Houston,Mar.1984.BetzRR,PalmerC,KumarS,MacEwenGD:Long-termfollow-upofChiariosteotomies.AmericanAcademyofOrthopaedicSurgeons,Atlanta,Feb.1984.TippingC,BetzRR,BunnellWP,BowenJR,KumarS,PizzutilloPD:Electro-spinalorthosis(ESO)inthetreatmentofscoliosis.FallSeminar,AlfredI.DuPontInstitute,Wilmington,Delaware,Oct.1983.BetzRR,SteelHH,AlburgerP,ClementsD:Ligamentumteresreconstruction.OrthopaedicResearchSocietyannualmeeting,Anaheim,CA,Mar.1983InvitedLectures:GrandRounds,St.Peter’sHospital,Sep.29,2016• NewoptionsforgrowthmodulationandflexiblefusionsforscoliosisFellows/ResearchDay,MountSinaiMedicalCenter,NewYork,NY,May12,2016• NewoptionsforsurgicaltreatmentofidiopathicscoliosisHarmsStudyGroup:ContemporaryPediatricSpinalDeformity,LasVegas,NV,Jan.23,2016.• Growthmodulation:who,when,andhow?9thInternationalCongressonEarlyOnsetScoliosis(ICEOS),Boston,MA,Nov.19-20,2015• InstructionalCourseLecture(moderator):Newconceptsforthetreatmentofcomplex
spinaldeformityinchildrenwithneuromusculardiseasesDePuySynthesInstitute:SpinalDeformityPeertoPeerMeeting,SanDiego,CA,Nov.13-14,2015• Paneldiscussion(moderator):Idiopathicscoliosisandfusionlevels• Paneldiscussion(moderator):Neurologicevents:traumaticspinalinjuriesandintra-op
misadventures• Paneldiscussion(moderator):Kyphosisissues50thAnnualScoliosisResearchSocietyAnnualMeetingandPrecourse,Minneapolis,MN,Sep.30-Oct.3,2015
RandalR.Betz,MD 114• Paneldiscussion:FuturedirectionsforthespinaldeformityspecialtyOrthopaedicGrandRounds,IcahnSchoolofMedicineatMountSinai,NewYork,NY,Sep.16,2016• Vertebralbodytethering(flexiblefusion)fortreatmentofscoliosisGlobusMedical:AnnualMERCSymposium,Audubon,PA,Aug.6-7,2015• Casepresentation:scoliosisPediatricOrthopaedicSocietyofNorthAmericaSpineSpecialtyDay,Atlanta,GA,May1,2015• IwouldstaplethatEvidence-BasedPediatricSpinalDeformityCare.HarmsStudyGroupCourse&20thAnniversaryGala,LasVegas,NV,Jan.24,2015• Debate:AllAIS1Ccurvesshouldbefusedselectively(negativestance)• Invitedlecture:Growthmodulation(withPeterNewton)XVIIICongresodelaSociedadArgentinadePatologiadelaColumnaVertebral,Cordoba,Argentina,Oct.1-4,2014• Growinginstrumentationstrategiesforpatientswithearlyonsetscoliosis• Correctiontechniquesforsimpletoseverecurvesinpatientswithadolescentidiopathic
scoliosis• FusionlessalternativesforscoliosistreatmentinyoungpatientswithidiopathicscoliosisInstructionalCourseLecture:ComprehensiveInterprofessionalApproachtoManagementofPediatricSpinalCordInjury,53rdISCoSannualscientificmeeting,Maastricht,TheNetherlands,Sep.2-4,2014• OrthopaedicconsiderationsandcomplicationsAOSpineNorthAmericaAdvancedTechniquesinComplexPediatricSpineSurgery,Tampa,FL,May16-17,2014DePuySynthesSpineDeformitySummit,Raynham,MA,Mar.27-29,2014.• Correctionstrategiesandtechniquesinmatureneuromuscularpatientswithpelvicfixation
(withPaulSponseller)• LevelselectioninAIS(withSukenShahandAmerSamdani)7thInternationalCongressonEarlyOnsetScoliosisandGrowingSpine(ICEOS),RanchoBernardo,CA,Nov.21-22,2013• Instructionalcourse(moderator):Newconceptsforthetreatmentofcomplexspinal
deformityinchildrenwithneuromusculardiseases
RandalR.Betz,MD 115• Freepaper:SmithJT,HeflinJA,VitaleMG,El-HawaryR,BetzR:Theuseofrib-based
distractionindysplasticearlyonsetscoliosisassociatedwithneurofibromatosisAOPediatricSpineDeformity,LongBeach,CA,May31-Jun.1,2013• Youngidiopathicscoliosis:anteriorgrowthmodulation• Adolescentidiopathicscoliosis:anteriorinstrumentation2013• Signallossduringsurgery• Growthmodulationforcongenitalscoliosis40thASIAAnnualMeeting,Chicago,IL,May6-8,2013• ManagementandoutcomesofsecondarymusculoskeletalconditionsofpediatricSCIover
thelast50years(ICL)• BestofSteel:Contemporaryapproachestothepreventionandmanagementof
musculoskeletalconditionsinchildrenwithSCIPOSNA2013AnnualMeeting,Toronto,Ontario,Canada,May1-4,2013• Youfuse,youlose(SpineSubspecialtyDay)VisitationtoChina(DePuy),Beijing,China,Apr.21-28,2013• 3DcorrectionwithCoCr5.5/uniplanarscrew+VBDtechnique• Pediatricstrategy(growingtechnique,Shilla)PediatricSpinalDeformity:CuttingEdgeIV,Miami,FL,Apr.12-13,2013• Growthmodulationforcongenitaldeformity• Anteriorgrowthmodulation• Panelist:Perioperativeneurologicalevents• Moderator:Adolescentidiopathicscoliosis• Scribe:Vertebralderotation:howIdoitEastCoastDeformityPeertoPeer,Miami,FL,Feb.22-23,2013• Complications:non-neurologic• Challengesoftheyoungandoldspine GrandRounds,PhiladelphiaCollegeofOsteopathicMedicine,Philadelphia,PA,Jan.15,2013• Pediatricspinecare:thecontinuumofclinicalcareandresearchHowardH.SteelConference:PediatricSpinalCordInjuriesandDysfunction,LakeBuenaVista,FL,Nov.29-Dec.2,2012• SessionII:Clinicalsymposiumonrehabilitationparadigmsforrecoveryofmotorfunction
(moderator)
RandalR.Betz,MD 116HowardH.SteelConference:PediatricSpinalCordInjuriesandDysfunctionPre-Course:ScientificBasisofSpinalCordInjuryTherapy,LakeBuenaVista,FL,Nov.28,2012• SessionIII:Translatinglaboratoryresearchintoclinicaltrials–assessingoutcomesin
pediatricSCI(moderator)6thInternationalCongressonEarlyOnsetScoliosis&GrowingSpine,Dublin,Ireland,Nov.15-16,2012.• Keynoteaddress:GrowthmodulationforcongenitalscoliosisInstructionalCourse(Moderator):NewConceptsfortheTreatmentofComplexSpinalDeformityinChildrenwithNeuromuscularDiseases(DePuySynthesSpine),Dublin,Ireland,Nov.16,2012• Overviewoftheuniquenessofsurgicaltreatmentsforchildrenwithneuromuscularscoliosis
basedondiagnosisGrandRounds,MontrealChildren’sHospital,Montreal,Quebec,Canada,Jun.3,2012• Pediatricspine2012forallpediatricsurgicalsubspecialtiesHoustonShrinersLectureship,Houston,TX,May3-4,2012• Pediatricspinedeformityupdate2012• EvaluationandmanagementofthechildwithSCI4thPerspectivesonPaediatricSpinalDeformitySymposium,Halifax,NovaScotia,Apr.27-28,2012• Growthmodulationofearlyonsetscoliosis,includingstapling• IstherestillaroleforanteriorsurgeryforpatientswithAISin2012?VisitationtoChina(DePuy),Beijing,China,Mar.29–Apr.4,2012• Pediatricspinedeformityupdate2012• Clinicalstrategiesofpediatricscoliosis:3DcorrectionAOComplexPediatricSpineDeformity,Miami,FL,Mar.23-24,2012• AnteriorinstrumentationtechniquesforAIS• Earlyonsetscoliosisgrowthmodulation:techniquesandresults• GrowthmodulationforcongenitalscoliosisAssociationofSpinalCordInjuryProfessionalsannualmeeting,LasVegas,NV,Sep.3-5,2011• DonaldMunroLecture:AdvancesinthecareofthespineinchronicSCI 18thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques,Copenhagen,Denmark,Jul.13-16,2011• AdvancedtechniquesintreatingAIS(DePuySpine)(instructor)
RandalR.Betz,MD 117• Session2A:Adolescentidiopathicscoliosis(co-moderator)• ICL2B:AdolescentidiopathicscoliosisI:classificationandfusionlevelselection(faculty)• ICL4B:AdolescentidiopathicscoliosisII:correctiontechniquesforsimpletoseverecurves
(faculty) * Posteriorreleases&sagittalplanerestoration• Debate#5:Optimaltreatmentfora15-year-old,two-yearpost-menarchewitha45-degree
Lenke5Cscoliosis • Optimaltreatmentisanteriorinstrumentationandfusion• Debate#8:Optimaltreatmentforprogressive60-degreeearlyonsetscoliosisin4-year-old • OptimaltreatmentisVEPTR• RoundTableCaseDiscussion:Pediatricdeformity(moderator:SukenShah)GrandRounds,MedicalCollegeofWisconsin,Milwaukee,WI,May4,2011• Pediatricspineupdate2011PediatricSpineDeformity:OntheCuttingEdgeIII(co-coursedirector),Apr.1-2,2011,CoralGables,FL• Fusionlesssurgeryinearlyidiopathicscoliosis• Moderator:AdolescentidiopathicscoliosisSpineCare2011LayingtheFoundations:TheInauguralSpineCareConferenceonInnovationandPracticeinChildhoodSpinalConditions.Mar.10-11,2011,Sydney,Australia• Acuteevaluationandmanagementofpediatricspinalcordinjury• PreventionandmanagementofneuromuscularscoliosisGrandRounds,RushUniversityMedicalCenterDepartmentofOrthopaedicSurgery,Chicago,IL,Dec.15,2010• Pediatricspineupdate2010GrandRounds,13thAnnualDeVelPediatricLectureSeries,WesternMichiganUniversity,GrandRapids,MI,Nov.12,2010• Preventionandmanagementofneuromuscularscoliosis2010MastersDeformityPeertoPeer,Raynham,MA,Oct.29-30,2010• CurrentAIStechniquesderotation:Whentouseselectivethoracicfusion?• PrognosticationinAIS:Earlybracing• Moderator:TipsandTricks• Moderator:Complicationsoftheveryyoungandveryold13thAnnualDeVelPediatricLectureSeries:TopicsinPediatricSpinalCordInjury,WesternMichiganUniversity,GrandRapids,MI,Nov.12,2010• Preventionandmanagementofneuromuscularscoliosis
RandalR.Betz,MD 118ONESpine4thAnnualControversiesinSpineSurgery,Nassau,Bahamas,Jun.25-26,2010• Pediatricspinaldeformityupdate• Moderator:CasePanel—Deformitychallenges2010DeformitySummit:AdvancingtheTreatmentofScoliosis,Boston/RaynhamMA,May13-15,2010(ProgramChair)• Moderator:Preoperativeplanningwithlevelselection• 3-Danalysisandfusionlevelselectionofthoraciccurves• Moderator:ScoliScore—CurrentdataandhowtouseitinyourpracticeGrandRounds,NewYorkUniversitySchoolofMedicine,NewYork,NY,Apr.29,2010• FusionlessalternativesinscoliosistreatmentGrandRounds,AlfredI.duPontHospitalforChildren,Wilmington,DE,Apr.14,2010• BonegraftinginchildrenAOSNAPediatricSpineSymposium:AdvancedTechniquesinComplexPediatricSpineSurgery,SaltLakeCity,UT,Mar.26-27,2010• Thoracicinsufficiencysyndrome:ribdistractiontechniquesandoutcomes• SpinestaplingandgrowthmodulationGrandRounds,OrlandoRegionalMedicalCenter/ArnoldPalmerHospital,Orlando,FL,Mar.4,2010• Pediatricspineupdate2010EastCoastDeformityPeertoPeermeeting,Miami,FL,Feb.12-13,2010(ProgramCo-Chair)• Bonegrafting:whatisscience?Whatisthebestchoice?• Moderator:Managementofacutepost-opinfection• Moderator:Tipsandtricks• Moderator:Mynext/lastworsecaseManagementofSCIinChildren(Symposium).InternationalSpinalCordSociety48thannualscientificmeeting,Florence,Italy,Oct.21-24,2009.• OrthopaedicconsiderationsinpediatricSCI(acutemanagementofspinefractures,hipsand
spinedisorders,HO,pathologicalfractures)• Innovativerehabstrategies(activitybasedrehab,bodyweightsupportedambulation,and
FEScycling,ambulation,andUEfunction) 16thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques,Vienna,Austria,Jul.15-18,2009• ICL:MinimallyinvasiveposteriorapproachesforAIS
RandalR.Betz,MD 119• ICL:SelectionoffusionlevelsforAISin2009:anteriorvs.posteriorapproaches• RoundtableCaseDiscussion:PediatricdeformityPediatricSpinalDeformityResidents’Course(DePuySpine),Philadelphia,PA,May9,2009• Keynote:ThefutureofpediatricspinaldeformityAdolescentIdiopathicScoliosis:UnderstandingtheDeformityandCurrentTreatment.POSNAOne-DayCourse,Apr.29,2009• ClinicaloutcomesofNitinolstaples PediatricSpinalDeformity:OntheCuttingEdge,CoralGables,FL,Apr.3-4,2009• Growthmodulation:staples• Pediatricthoracolumbartrauma• ProximalanddistaljunctionalimbalanceaftersurgeryforAIS• Sessionmoderator:Earlyonsetspinaldeformity• Panelist:Neurologicalchangeormonitoringchangewithdeformitysurgery• Panelist:Futurechallengesinpediatricspinaldeformity4thInternationalCongressofSpineDeformityandNonFusionTechniques(SDNT),Shanghai,China,Mar.15,2009• TheuseofMatrixallograftstripsasanalternativetoautogenousbonegraftinAIS• BonegraftingoptionsinchildrenEastCoastPeertoPeerMeeting,DePuySpine,Feb.20-21,2009• Moderator:Cervico-thoracicdeformity• Moderator:Adolescentidiopathicscoliosis• Moderator:EarlyonsetscoliosisControversiesinSpineSurgery,Cancun,Mexico,Feb.6-7,2009• Moderator:Surgicaltechniqueforums8thAnnualCurrentConceptsinSpinalDisorders2009,LasVegas,NV,Jan.29-30,2009• Frontiertechnologies• PediGuard• FusionlessdeformityGrandRounds,JohnsHopkinsHospital,Baltimore,MD,Dec.18,2008• Pediatricspineupdate5thAnnualInternationalPediatricOrthopaedicSymposium,Orlando,FL,Dec.2-6,2008• Hemivertebraresection:indicationsandtechniques• FusionlessoptionsforAIS:stillanexperiment?
RandalR.Betz,MD 120Spine+Science+Management,NewOrleans,LA,Nov.20-22,2008• Moderator:CaseDiscussions:ComplexspineandMASTtechniquesG.DeanMacEwenBasicConceptsinPediatricOrthopaedicSurgery,NewOrleans,LA,Oct.10,2008• Pediatricspinedeformityupdate2008• Evaluationandtreatmentofcongenitalspinedeformities• Pediatricspinalcordinjury:acutetreatmentandorthopaedicproblemsGrandRounds,ColumbiaUniversity/NewYorkOrthopaedicHospital,Jun.26,2008• PediatricSpineDeformityUpdate:2008SpinalDeformitySummit,Miami,FL,Apr.11-12,2008• Moderator:Panelonpediatricdeformity• Earlyinterventioninidiopathicdeformity• Panelist:GeneticsinAISAdvancedTechniquesforSpinalDeformity,Wilmington,DE,Apr.1-2,2008(Co-chairedwithSukenShah)• Pitfallsofallpediclescrewconstructsandvertebralbodyrotationtechniques• Spinalosteotomies:SPO,PSO,andVCR• Sawboneslab:VertebralbodyderotationandinsertionofthoracicpediclescrewsPOSNASpecialtyDay,SanFrancisco,CA,Mar.8,2008• Symposiummoderator:Surgicalcorrectionofseverespinedeformities •The14-year-oldfemalewitha95°idiopathicthoraciccurveGrandRounds,UniversityofMiami,Miami,FL,Feb.28,2008• PediatricspineupdatePediatricSpineForum,SaltLakeCity,UT,Feb.22-23,2008• Fusionlessscoliosis• GrowingrodtechniquesVailSpinalSummit,Vail,Colorado,Feb.10-13,2008• CongenitalandearlyonsetscoliosisupdateAdvancedDeformityPeer-to-PeerMeeting,NewYork,NY,Dec.14-15,2007• Moderator:Surgicaladolescentidiopathicscoliosisinages7-10
RandalR.Betz,MD 121• Moderator:Tips,tricks,andbustedmythsJapaneseScoliosisSociety,Kyoto,Japan,Oct.11-14,2007• Fusionlessscoliosis• NewthoughtsontreatmentofneuromuscularscoliosisScoliosisResearchSocietyRegionalMeeting,Budapest,Hungary,Jun.14-16,2007• Pediatricspineandadolescentidiopathicscoliosis:treatmentadvances• Moderator:Whenisitnecessarytouseallpediclescrewconstructsfordeformitycorrection
techniques?• Panelist:ChallengingadultandadolescentscoliosiscasepresentationsGrandRounds,SUNY-StonyBrook,StonyBrook,NY,May9,2007• PediatricspineupdateGrandRounds,UniversityofToronto,Toronto,Ontario,Apr.26-27,2007• Initialevaluationandearlymanagementofthechildwithaspinalcordinjury• HealthmaintenanceandpromotionforchildrenwithSCI PediatricSpinalDeformity:OntheCuttingEdge,Miami,FL,Apr.13-14,2007• Vertebralstapling:statusin2007• DirectvertebralderotationinAIS GrandRounds,MontefioreMedicalCenter,NewYorkCity,Mar.21,2007• PediatricspineupdateDePuyAdvancedDeformityTutorial,Wilmington,DE,Mar.13,2007• Pitfallsandsalvagetechniques6thAnnualSymposiumonCurrentConceptsinSpinalDisorders(Cedars-SinaiMedicalCenterInstituteforSpinalDisorders),LasVegas,NV,Mar.1-3,2007• Vertebralstapling:currentstatusCurrentConceptsinEmergingTechnologiesinSpine,Vail,CO,Feb.18-21,2007• Pediatricdeformityupdate:fusionlesstechnologies,stapling,directvertebralrotationPOSNASpecialtyDayatAAOSAnnualMeeting,SanDiego,Feb.17,2007• MemoryshapedstaplesOneSpine:ControversiesinSpineSurgery,Feb.3-5,2007,Cancun,Mexico
RandalR.Betz,MD 122• Anewapproachforthegrowingspine:bilateraltitaniumribstothepelvis(withJohnSmith)
(video)19thAnnualSkiwiththeSpineCenter:AContemporaryUpdateonDisordersoftheSpine,Whistler,BC,Canada,Jan.13-19,2007• AdvancedtechniquesinspinopelvicfixationMcColloughLectureship,ShrinersHospitalsforChildren,MexicoCity,Mexico,Nov.9-10,2006• Thefutureofspinedeformitytreatment• Diagnosticstudiesandtreatmentofyoungchildrenwithseverespineandchestwall
impairment• PediatricSCI:acutetreatmentandorthopaedicproblems• SCI:Injurymodulationandregenerationstrategies(withMJMulcahey)• Clinicalandresearchapplicationsoforthoticsandneuroprosthesesforhealthandwellness
ofchildrenwithSCI(withMJMulcahey) 2006PhiladelphiaPediatricSpineSymposium,Philadelphia,Aug.25,2006• Vertebralstapling:currentstatus13thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques,Athens,Greece,Jul.12-15,2006.• Instructionalcourse:Advancesincorrectionmechanicsforspinaldeformitysurgery(withLG
LenkeandDSSkaggs)• Instructionalcourse:Pediatricspinedeformity—treatmentstrategiesforcomplexproblems
(withJTSmithandRCampbell)• Instructionalcourse:Advanceddeformitytechniques(withPONewton,DJeszenszky,HL
Shufflebarger)• Instructionalcourse:NewtechnologiesforPLIFandTLIFfusion• Instructionalcourse:Managementoptionsinthetreatmentofearlyonsetscoliosis(withB
Akbarnia,MYaziciandPONewton) SRSSouthAfricaSpineSocietyMeeting,SomersetWest,WesternCape,SouthAfrica,May31-Jun.1,2006• Pediatricspinedeformity:treatmentadvances• Workshop:Deformitycorrectiontechniques(withOBoachie&BAkbarnia)• Congenitalspine:patientevaluationanddiagnosticimaging• Workshop:Causesandtreatmentoffixedsagittalplanedeformity,includingtrauma(withS
Berven,MLukhele,NFisher-Jeffes)
RandalR.Betz,MD 123GrandRounds,UniversityofMarylandSchoolofMedicine,Feb.23,2006• Congenital,juvenile,andadolescentspinedeformityupdateMayoClinicInternationalSpineSurgeryandTumorSymposium,Kauai,Hawaii,Jan.16-20,2006• Congenital,juvenile,andadolescentspinedeformityupdate• Pediatricspinalcordinjuryandtreatment18thAnnualDisordersoftheSpine,Whistler,Canada,Jan.14-17,2006• Hands-onlab:Advancedtechniquesinspinalpelvicfixation ContemporaryTopicsinPediatricSpinalCordInjury,ShrinersHospitalsforChildren,Philadelphia,Pennsylvania,Oct.10-11,2005.• Injurymodulationandregenerationstrategies.AmericanAcademyforCerebralPalsyandDevelopmentalMedicineannualmeeting,Orlando,Sep.14-17,2005• Instructionalcourse:Considerationsinthemanagementofyoungchildrenwithseverespine
andchestwallimpairments(withMJMulcahey,JCerrone,SPorth) ScoliosisResearchSociety:AsiaPacificSpineConference,JejuIsland,Korea,Aug.25-27,2005• Advanceddeformitycorrectiontechniques(withJ.Harms&K.Kaneda)12thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques,Banff,Alberta,Canada,Jul.7-9,2005• Instructionalcourse:Thoracoscopic/miniopenapproachestothoracicscoliosis(withP
Newton,RGaines,HHalm)• Instructionalcourse:Pediatricspinedeformity--treatmentstrategiesforcomplexproblems
(withR.CampbellandJ.Smith)• Instructionalcourse:Advancedtechniquesforposteriorcorrectionofspinaldeformities
(moderator)(withMO’Brien,PWessberg,PNewton)InternationalScolioticSymposiumandCombinedSRSTravelingFellowsProgram,Beijing,China,May2005• Thefutureofspinedeformitysurgery• Anteriorinstrumentationforthoracicidiopathicscoliosis,includingthoracoscopic
techniques• Advancesinposteriordeformitytreatment:pitfallsandhowtoavoidthem
RandalR.Betz,MD 124GrandRounds,Seattle,OR,May18,2005• Injurymodulationandregenerationstrategies GrandRounds,ShrinersHospital,Chicago,IL,Apr.14,2005• Thechildwithacomplexspinedeformity:treatmentincludingindicationsfortheuseof
VEPTR(titaniumribdevice)• InjurymodulationandregenerationstrategiesAmericanAcademyofOrthotistsandProsthetistsACPOCannualmeeting,Orlando,FL,Mar.16-19,2005.• PresidentialLecture:Newthoughtsonorthoticsforthechildwithspinalcordinjury(with
MJMulcahey)AnInterdisciplinaryApproachtoNeurotraumaCare:SpinalCordInjuries,Washington,DC,Apr.24,2005• Contemporarythoughtsontheassessmentandmanagementoftheupperlimbinpersons
withtetraplegia(withMJMulcahey)
GrandRounds:LenoxHillHospital,NewYork,NY,Dec.16,2004.• Pediatricspinedeformity:newstrategies SpinalDeformityStudyGroupSymposium2004:EmergingTrendsandAdvancedSurgicalTechniques.MedtronicSofamorDanek,St.Louis,MO,Nov.4-6,2004.• Moderator:OpendualrodforthoracicAISwithCDHorizonLegacy4.5• Anteriorinstrumentationtechniques:singlerodtechniqueandclinicalresults ContemporaryTopicsinPediatricSpinalCordInjury,ShrinersHospitalsforChildren,Philadelphia,Oct.11-12,2004• NewhorizonstopediatricSCIresearch• Casepresentations AmericanAcademyofCerebralPalsyandDevelopmentalMedicine,Annualmeeting,LosAngeles,CA,Sept.29-Oct.4,2004.• Preventionandmanagementofscoliosisandhipdysplasiainchildrenandadolescentswith
SCI.In:PediatricSpinalCordInjury:SpecialtyTopics(Instructionalcourse)EvaluationandTreatmentofYoungChildrenwithComplexSpineDisorders,BuenosAires,Argentina,Sep.5,2004• Titaniumribforthemanagementofyoungpatientswithcomplexspinedeformities
RandalR.Betz,MD 12511thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques,Southampton,Bermuda,Jul.1-3,2004• InstructionalCourseLecture(faculty):Advancedfusiontechniquesforscoliosisand
degenerativediscdiseaseusinggrowthfactors• InstructionalCourseLecture(faculty):Advancedtechniquesforposteriorcorrectionof
spinaldeformities• InstructionalCourseLecture(faculty):Advancedtechniquesforanteriorcorrectionofspinal
deformities• InstructionalCourseLecture(faculty):ComplexcongenitalthoracicdeformitySymposiumonSpineDeformityandMinimalInvasiveSpineSurgery,DepartmentofOrthopaedics,ChanghaiHospital,Shanghai,China,Jun.19,2004.• AnteriortreatmentofadolescentidiopathicscoliosisGrandRounds,PekingUnionHospital,Beijing,China,Jun.17,2004• Anteriortreatmentofadolescentidiopathicscoliosis• Thoracicscrewsindeformity14thannualLeonM.Kruger,MDGuestLectureship,ShrinersHospitals,Springfield,MA,May27,2004• Pediatricspinalcordinjuryupdate• Pediatricspine—newstrategies2004AmericanSpinalInjuryAssociationannualmeeting,Denver,CO,May14-16,2004• Functionalelectricalstimulation.In:Theupperextremityintetraplegia(instructional
course)• BackgroundofparalyticspinaldeformitiesFederationofSpineAssociationsannualmeeting,SanFrancisco,CA,Mar.13,2004• BackgroundandclinicalexperienceinvertebralbodystaplingforidiopathicscoliosisAmericanAcademyofOrthopaedicSurgeonsannualmeeting,SanFrancisco,Mar.2004.• Introduction:Congenitalscoliosis.In:Congenitaldeformityofthepediatricspine
(instructionalcourse)• Normalsagittalparametersandscopeoftheproblem.In:Kyphosisinthethoracicand
thoracolumbarspineinthepediatricpatient(instructionalcourse)ChestWallandSpinalDeformityStudyGroupMeeting,LosCabos,Mexico,Feb.5-8,2004•CheungEV,BetzRR,MulcaheyMJ,D’AndreaLP,GuilleJT,CerroneJ,CampbellRMJr,
JohnstonC,LubickyJP,SegalLS:Naturalhistoryandresultsofsurgicaltreatmentofpatientswithfusedribsandcongenitalscoliosis
RandalR.Betz,MD 126UniversityofPennsylvaniaDepartmentofRehabilitationGrandRounds&ResidentsConference,Philadelphia,PA,Oct.28,2003• Acuteevaluation,treatment,andfollow-upoforthopaedicissuesinchildrenwithSCI• FES:UpdateBasicConcepts,NewOrleans,LA,Oct.17-18,2003• G.DeanMacEwenLecture:Advancesinpediatricspine• Congenitalspinedeformityandsagittalplaneabnormalitiesofthespine• Spinalcordinjury:acuteevaluation,treatment,andorthopaedicissues10thInternationalMeetingonAdvancedSpineTechniques,Rome,Italy,Jul.2003.• MemorialLecture:ThomasWhitecloud,MD• InstructionalCourseLecture(faculty):Anteriorscoliosistreatment,includingendoscopic• RoundtableDiscussion(faculty):Pediatriccoronalplanedeformity• SessionVI(moderator):Pediatricdeformity• PanelDiscussion(panelist):EndoscopictreatmentofpediatricspinaldeformitiesThe2003SpinalCordConference,LongBeach,CA,Jun.2003• UniqueaspectsofthepediatricpatientswithSCIandtheeffectsonupperlimb
managementAmericanAcademyofOrthopaedicSurgeonsannualmeeting,NewOrleans,Feb.2003.• Introduction:Congenitalscoliosis.In:Congenitaldeformityofthepediatricspine
(instructionalcourse)• Normalsagittalparametersandscopeoftheproblem.In:Kyphosisinthethoracicand
thoracolumbarspineinthepediatricpatient(instructionalcourse)ShrinersHospitals2002.PresentedatSyriaTemple,Pittsburgh,PA,Sep.30,2002AmericanAcademyforCerebralPalsyandDevelopmentalMedicineannualmeeting,Montreal,Quebec,Sep.2002• ImplicationsofscoliosisonfunctioningofchildrenandadolescentswithSCI.In:Pediatric
spinalcordinjuries:specialtytopics(instructionalcourse)FundamentalsofSpineDeformityII,Seattle,WA,Sep.2002• LenkesurgicalclassificationSurgicalChallengesinSpinalDeformity,Montreaux,Switzerland,May2002• Debate('pro'):AISsinglethoraciccurve:anteriorinstrumentedfusionissuperiorto
conventionalposteriorinstrumentation(hooks,wires,etc.)
RandalR.Betz,MD 127SpineEducationSummit,Vail,Colorado,Mar.2002• Newstrategiesforcorrectionofparalyticspinedeformity• ThoracoscopicanteriorinstrumentationforAIS• PerioperativecomplicationsofsurgeryforAIS• Moderator:ClassificationofAIS(paneldiscussion)TotalSpine:AdvancesinTheory,Techniques,andTechnology,Cancun,Mexico,Mar.2002• VertebralbodystaplingforpreventionofcurveprogressionintheimmaturepatientAmericanAcademyofOrthopaedicSurgeonsannualmeeting,Dallas,TX,Feb.2002• Introduction:Congenitalscoliosis.In:Congenitaldeformityofthepediatricspine
(instructionalcourse)• Normalsagittalparametersandscopeoftheproblem.In:Kyphosisofthethoracicand
thoracolumbarspineinthepediatricpatient(instructionalcourse) BritishScoliosisSocietyHonoraryGuestLecturer,Edinburgh,Scotland,Mar.2001• Idiopathicscoliosis:alternativestotraditionalsurgery• NewthoughtsonthetreatmentofparalyticscoliosisAmericanAcademyofOrthopaedicSurgeons,SanFrancisco,Mar.2001• Background,includingetiology.In:AComprehensiveapproachtoadolescentidiopathic
scoliosis(instructionalcourse)• Scoliosisandkyphosis.In:Theofficepracticeofpediatricorthopaedics(instructional
course)SpineEducationSummit,Vail,Colorado,Feb.2001• Webcastpresentation:Classificationofadolescentidiopathicscoliosis:treatmentbased
(withLGLenke)• VATinstrumentationforadolescentidiopathicscoliosis• UpdateonthoracicanteriorinstrumentationinadolescentidiopathicscoliosisNewYorkSpinalDeformityProgram,NewYorkCity,Dec.2000• Adolescentidiopathicscoliosis-anterioropentreatment-indications/techniquesTheAnnualFrankH.Stelling,IIIVisitingLectureship,Greenville,SC,Nov.2000• Anteriorinstrumentationforscoliosis,includingthoracoscopic• StateoftheartandfuturedirectionsofFESforpatientswithspinalcordinjury5thScientificCongressoftheParalympicGames,Sydney,Australia,Oct.2000
RandalR.Betz,MD 128• Keynoteaddress:Stateoftheartandfuturedirectionsoffunctionalelectricalstimulation
(FES)forpatientswithspinalcordinjury• ImplicationsofscoliosistreatmentonfunctioninchildrenwithspinalcordinjuryAmericanAcademyofCerebralPalsyandDevelopmentalMedicineannualmeeting,Toronto,Sep.2000• MulcaheyMJ,BetzRR,McDonaldC,HutchinsonD,FinsonR,McCarthyJJ:Functionaland
therapeuticelectricalstimulationforneuromusculardisorders:stateoftheartandthescience(instructionalcourse)
TheSurgicalManagementofSpinalDeformityintheYoungChild,Barcelona,Spain,Jul.2000• Anteriorinstrumentationinthethoracicspine:opentechniquesSpinalDeformity:ChallengesandSolutions,LasCroabas,PuertoRico,May2000• Scoliosisclassification:recentdevelopments• Adolescentidiopathicscoliosis:indicationsforposteriorinstrumentation--newtechnical
strategiesSpineTraumaintheMillennium,Chicago,Apr.2000• PediatricSCI:specialconsiderationsAmericanSpinalInjuryAssociationannualmeeting,Chicago,Apr.2000• BetzRR(moderator):Theagingspine(instructionalcourse)AmericanAcademyofOrthopaedicSurgeonsannualmeeting,Orlando,Mar.2000• Acomprehensiveapproachtoadolescentidiopathicscoliosis:background,including
etiology(instructionalcourse)• Officepracticeofpediatricorthopaedics:scoliosisandkyphosis(instructionalcourse)TotalSpine,Cancun,Feb.2000• Adolescentidiopathicscoliosis:indicationsandposteriorinstrumentation SkiwithBigTimeSpine,Keystone,CO,Jan.-Feb.2000• Anteriorinstrumentationinadolescentscoliosis• Scoliosisclassification…recentdevelopments• ThoracoscopicversusopenapproachforanteriorinstrumentationinscoliosisAmericanAcademyforCerebralPalsyandDevelopmentalMedicineannualmeeting,WashingtonDC,Sep.1999
RandalR.Betz,MD 129• Ambulationoptionsforfunctionalmobility,andFESoptionsforbladdermanagement.In:
Innovativetreatmentoptionstoincreaseindependenceforpediatricspinalcordinjury(instructionalcourse)
JanetStelliniMemorialLecturer,Temple/ShrinersOrthopaedicAlumniDay,May1999• SpinalCordInjury:Past,Present,andFutureTotalSpine,Cancun,Mexico,Mar.1999• Thoracoscopictechniqueadvancements:whatcanwedotodaythatwecouldn'ttwoyears
ago?Whereisthefuture?PresidentialGuestSpeaker,AustralianOrthopaedicAssociation,Cairns,Australia,Oct.1998• Slippedcapitalfemoralepiphysis:perspectivesonpredictingandtreatingthecontralateral
slip(instructionalcourse)• Spinalcordinjury:past,presentandfuture(keynoteaddress)• Newclassificationsystemforscoliosis(instructionalcourse)• Anteriorsurgeryincludingendoscopyforidiopathicscoliosis• EarlyevaluationandmanagementofthechildwithSCI(instructionalcourse)
NewTechniquesinScoliosisSurgeries,Frankfurt,Germany,Jul.1998• AnteriorspinalfusionandinstrumentationforadolescentidiopathicscoliosisAnteriorScoliosisInstrumentationseminar,NewOrleans,Mar.1998• Conceptsofanteriorinstrumentation• Indicationsandsurgicaltechnique:thoracicidiopathicscoliosis• ThoracoscopicapplicationoftheanteriorinstrumentationAmericanAcademyofOrthopaedicSurgeonsannualmeeting,NewOrleans,Mar.1998• Treatmentperspectivesfortheadolescentbasedonuntreatedpatientspresentingin
adulthood.In:Aneclecticapproachtoadolescentidiopathicscoliosis(instructionalcourse)• Scoliosisandkyphosis,In:Theofficepracticeofpediatricorthopaedics(instructional
course)• Initialevaluationandmanagementofthechildwithspinalcordinjury.In:Initial
managementofpatientswithSCI(instructionalcourse)Spine+Science+Management,NewOrleans,Nov.1997• AcademicmedicineWhatProgressHaveWeMadeinTreatingSpinalDeformitiesintheLastTenYears?St.Louis,Missouri,Sep.1997• Anteriorsurgeryforscoliosisintheidiopathicadolescent
RandalR.Betz,MD 130AmericanAcademyofCerebralPalsyandDevelopmentalMedicineannualmeeting,Portland,Oregon,Sep.1997• BetzRR,VogelLC,MulcaheyMJ,JamesMA:ProgressivemanagementofthechildwithSCI
(instructionalcourse)NewDirectionsinPediatricSpinalCordInjury,Sacramento,California,Jul.1997• Orthopaedicproblemsinpediatricspinalcordinjury• OverviewoffunctionalelectricalstimulationforchildrenwithspinalcordinjuryXXG.I.S.NationalCongress,ItalianSocietyofVertebralPathology,Genova,Italy,Jun.1997• Doesbracingadverselyaffectthecompensatoryupperthoraciccurveinidiopathicscoliosis?• Thoracoscopicanteriorreleaseandfusionforidiopathicscoliosis:focusontechnique,
morbidity,futureapplications• Theresultsofaprospectivestudycomparinganteriorinstrumentationvs.posterior
instrumentationforthoracicidiopathicscoliosisSpineDeformityinChildrenandAdolescents,Philadelphia,PA,Apr.1997• Idiopathicscoliosis:anteriorspinalfusionNewSurgicalPerspectivesonthePediatricElbowandHip,Rosemont,IL,Oct.1996• Chiariosteotomy(hands-onskillslaboratory)• Sessionmoderator:SlippedcapitalfemoralepiphysisandPerthesdiseaseAmericanParaplegiaSocietyannualmeeting,LasVegas,Sep.1996• Orthopaedicissuesinpediatricspinalcordinjurypatients(instructionalcourse)• Uniquemanagementneedsofpediatricspinalcordinjurypatients:orthopaedicissues
(instructionalcourse)30thBrazilianOrthopaedicandTraumatologyCourse,Curitiba,Brazil,Jul.1996• Managementoftheadultwithspinedeformity• Anteriorinstrumentationforthoracicscoliosis• Pediatricspinalcordinjury• Functionalneuromuscularstimulation• GuidelinestodifferentiatingphysiologicbowingfromBlount'sdiseaseAdvancedTechniquesinSpinalSurgery,Keystone,CO,Mar.1996• Anteriorinstrumentationforthoracicidiopathicscoliosis• TheplaceoftheKingcriteriain1996TotalSpine,Cancun,Mexico,Feb.1996
RandalR.Betz,MD 131• Kyphosiscorrection:4-rodtechniqueAmericanAcademyofOrthopaedicSurgeonsannualmeeting,Atlanta,Feb.1996• AnHS,BetzRR,CotlerJM,VaccaroAR,BalderstonRA:Initialmanagementofpatientswith
spinalcordinjury(instructionalcourse)FederationofSpineAssociationsannualmeeting,Atlanta,Feb.1996• Pediatricspinaltrauma(instructionalcourse)MiamiProject,Miami,Florida,Oct.1995• TrendsinupperextremitymanagementofindividualswithSCIAmericanAcademyofCerebralPalsyandDevelopmentalMedicineannualmeeting,Philadelphia,Sep.1995• Sortingouttheoptions:orthoses,robotics,FES,tendontransfers.In:TrendsintheUpper
ExtremityManagementofIndividualswithSCI(instructionalcourse)TreatmentofScoliosis,Innsbruck,Austria,Mar.1995• Surgicaltreatmentforthoracic,thoracolumbar,andlumbarscoliosis:anteriorapproachAmericanAcademyofOrthopaedicSurgeonsannualmeeting,Orlando,Feb.1995• Initialevaluationandmanagementofthepediatricspinalinjury.In:Initialmanagementof
patientswithspinalcordinjury(instructionalcourse)AmericanAcademyofCerebralPalsyandDevelopmentalMedicineannualmeeting;NewOrleans,Sep.1994• BetzRR,MulcaheyMJ,VogelLC,JamesMA:Thechildwithspinalcordinjury,part2:From
rehabilitationtohabilitation(instructionalcourse)• BetzRR,WeissAA,JamesMA,MulcaheyMJ:Providingahandtowardscompetencyindaily
activities:creativesolutionsforupperextremitydysfunction(instructionalcourse)NeuralProstheses:MotorSystemsIV.Mt.Sterling,Ohio,Jun.1994• UpperextremityapplicationsinthepediatricSCIandCPpopulationsAmericanSpinalInjuryAssociationannualmeeting,Philadelphia,Apr.1994• BetzRR,VogelLC,MulcaheyMJ,MoralesV:Pediatricspinalcordinjury:unique
characteristics(instructionalcourse)AmericanAcademyofCerebralPalsyandDevelopmentalMedicineannualmeeting,Nashville,Sep.1993.
RandalR.Betz,MD 132• BetzRR,MulcaheyMJ,VogelLC,JamesMA:Thechildwithspinalcordinjury,part1:early
rehabilitation(instructionalcourse)MOSSInstrumentation:Biomechanics,IndicationsandTechniques,Jun.1993• AnteriorMOSSforScoliosisSt.Joseph'sHealthCentre,London,Ontario,Canada,Jul.1992• Pelvicosteotomiesfortreatmentofpediatrichipdisorders• Currentcontroversiesinthetreatmentofscoliosis• ReliableearlyradiographicdifferentiationofinfantileBlount'sdiseaseandphysiologic
bowing• Thecontralateralslippedcapitalfemoralepiphysis.Canyoupreventit?Canyoudetectit
early?AmericanAcademyofOrthopaedicSurgeonsannualmeeting,SanFrancisco,Feb.1993• Theroleofnonoperativetreatmentforpatientswithslippedcapitalfemoralepiphysis
(instructionalcourse)GuyA.CaldwellVisitingProfessor,Children'sHospitalandTulaneUniversityMedicalCenter,NewOrleans,Jun.1992• ReliableearlydifferentiationofinfantileBlount'sdiseaseandphysiologicbowing• Pelvicosteotomiesfortreatmentofpediatrichipdisorders• Currentcontroversiesinthetreatmentofscoliosis• CurrentperspectivesontreatmentofSCFE:CanMRIpredictacontralateralslip?FutureResearchinNeurologicalandFunctionalRecoveryinSCI.JeffersonMedicalCollege,Philadelphia,Feb.1992• Upperextremityfunctionalelectricalstimulation:potentialforfutureresearchAmericanAcademyofOrthopaedicSurgeonsannualmeeting,WashingtonDC,Feb.1992• Theroleofnonoperativetreatmentforpatientswithslippedcapitalfemoralepiphysis
(instructionalcourse)UpdateCourseonCotrel-DuboussetInstrumentation,Philadelphia,Jun.1991• LocalhostandmoderatorofSession1:DeformityNemoursChildren'sClinicandNortheastFloridaOrthopaedicSociety,Apr.1991• Perspectivesonslippedcapitalfemoralepiphysis:Ispinningalwaysnecessary?CanMRI
predictanimpendingcontralateralslip?• Backpaininchildren• Currentcontroversiesregardinginstrumentationfortreatmentofspinaldeformity
RandalR.Betz,MD 133BrooklynOrthopaedicSociety,Jan.1991• Perspectivesonslippedcapitalfemoralepiphysis:Ispinningalwaysnecessary?CanMRI
predictanimpendingcontralateralslip?34thAnnualOrthopaedicRehabilitationSymposiumandOntarioOrthopaedicAssociation,Toronto,Ontario,Nov.1990• Post-traumaticspinalcordsyrinx:anevaluationbyMRI• Functionalneuromuscularstimulationinspinalcordinjuredpatients• CasttreatmentofslippedcapitalfemoralepiphysisSt.Joseph'sHospital,Feb.1990:KanedaAnteriorSpinalDeviceInstrumentationIntroductoryCourse• ZielkeanteriorinstrumentationSt.Joseph'sHospital,Dec.1989:Cotrel-DuboussetSpinalInstrumentationIntroductoryCourse• CommonscoliosiscurvaturesandpreoperativeplanningCotrel-DuboussetSpinalInstrumentation,NewOrleans,LA,Nov.1989• Introductiontothecomponents• Idiopathicscoliosisconstructs-thoracic• C-Dinneuromuscularscoliosis• UseofC-DinkyphosisGwynedd-MercyCollege,Oct.1988• Scoliosisanditstreatment:acontemporaryapproachPhiladelphiaOrthopaedicReviewCourse,May1988• CongenitalepiphysealplatedisordersPennsylvaniaAcademyofChiropracticPhysicians,Apr.1988• AnallopathicapproachtodiagnosisandmanagementofscoliosisMemphisOrthopaedicAssociationandLeBonheurChildren'sMedicalCenter,Memphis,Apr.1988• Earlydiagnosisandtreatmentofscoliosis• Evaluationoflowbackpaininchildren• Orthopaedicinfectionsinchildren• Thecurrenttreatmentofthoracolumbarspinefractures
RandalR.Betz,MD 134Children'sHospitalofBuffalo,Buffalo,NewYork,Dec.1987• TheChiaripelvicosteotomyinchildrenandyoungadults• Steel(triple)osteotomyoftheinnominateboneMedicalCollegeofPennsylvania,Philadelphia,Sep.1987• CotrelfixationinscoliosisPerspectivesinPediatricOrthopaedics:ThePediatricHip,Wilmington,DE,May1987• Tripleinnominateosteotomy• ChiariosteotomyPennsylvaniaAcademyofChiropracticSurgeons,Apr.1987• Anatomytoincludeembryologyasitrelatestospinedeformity• Biomechanicsofthespineasitrelatestospinedeformity• Etiologyofscoliosis• Classificationofscoliosis• Historytaking,physicalexaminationanddiagnosticwork-upforpatientswithscoliosis• Naturalhistoryofscoliosis• Conservativetreatmentofscoliosistoincludeexercise,observation,andbracing• Surgicaltreatmentofscoliosis• Backpainassociatedwithscoliosis,andtreatmentanddiagnosis• Psychosocialissuessubsequenttoscoliosis• ProblemsinadulthoodforpatientswithscoliosisFamilyPracticeReview,Lancaster,PA,Mar.1986• Scoliosisintheyoungadult:therapeutic,rehabilitativeandprognosticconsiderations• HistoryandtreatmentofcommonsportsinjuriesShrinersHospitalsforChildren,Chicago,Feb.1984• Orthopaedicmanagementandcomplicationsofspinalcordinjury• Complicationsinspinalcordinjury• Recentresearchinspinalcordinjury