From left to right: Agripino Javier, MD, Orthopedic Surgeon and Director of Medical Services; Bruce B. Canto MD; Angel C. Gozum. Chairman, Department of Orthopedics; Saturnino P. Javier, MD, Medical Director; Ronald Tangente, MD president, Philippine Spine Society; and Jason Cheung, MD, AO Spine Asia Pacific Chairman 2025-2027
Makati Medical Center (MakatiMed) welcomed surgeons from the country and overseas for the 4th Philippine Spine Society-Asia Pacific Spine Society (PSS-APSS) Spine Operative Course. MakatiMed’s Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Section of Spine Surgery, worked closely with the Philippine Spine Society (PSS) and the Asia Pacific Spine Society (APSS) to make the two-day event happen.
Some notable foreign guests who were at the two-day event took part in case discussions and lectures. Among these guests were Professor Dato’ Kwan Mun-Keong, MD, president of Asia Pacific Spine Society, as part of the expert panel on Severe Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis (AIS); Professor Yat Wa Wong, MD, incoming president of Asia Pacific Spine Society on Sacropelvic Fixation Techniques with Saw Bone Demonstration; Professor Jason Cheung, MD, Department Chairperson and Clinical Professor of the Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, University of Hong Kong on Non-fusion Surgery; Professor Chris Chan, MD of the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Malaya on Surgical Treatment for Severe Deformities in the Adolescent Spine; and Professor Tomohiko Hasegawa, MD from Hamamatsu University School of Medicine’s Department of Orthopaedic Surgery on Approach to Treatment of Symptomatic Degenerative Scoliosis. Live surgeries on patients with varying diagnoses were also viewed on both days of the event.
The 4th PSS-APSS Spine Operative Course introduced new surgical procedures that exposed MakatiMed surgeons to innovative techniques.
