Name: Paediatric Spine Deformity: Overview and Non-Fusion Techniques
Start: 2025-12-11T18:00:00+02:00
End: 2025-12-11T19:00:00+02:00
Location: University of Nicosia

Paediatric Spine Deformity: Overview and Non-Fusion Techniques

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UNIC Health and Shriners Children’s invite you to the Annual Shriners Children’s Scientific Presentation on Orthopaedics.
Programme:
- 18:00 Introduction
Prof Constantina Constantinou, Professor of Molecular Cancer Biology, University of Nicosia Medical School
- 18:05 Shriners Children's: A brief introduction
John McCabe, Chief Operating Officer, Shriners Children’s
- 18:10 "Paediatric Spine Deformity: Overview and Non-Fusion Techniques" Prof Amer Samdani, Chief of Surgery, Shriners Children’s, Philadelphia, USA, Clinical Professor of Neurological and Orthopaedics Surgery, Thomas Jefferson University, Pensylvania
- 18:45 Q&A
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Amer F. Samdani is Clinical Professor (Adjunct) of Neurological Surgery and Orthopaedic Surgery at the Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia, PA. He also serves as Chief of Surgery at Shriners Children’s Philadelphia. Prof Samdani is certified by the American Board of Neurological Surgery.
He completed his undergraduate degree with honours from Columbia University in New York, NY, and earned his medical degree from Johns Hopkins Medical School in Baltimore, Maryland. He then undertook neurosurgery residency at Johns Hopkins and later completed a paediatric neurosurgery fellowship at Shriners Children’s Philadelphia.
Among Prof Samdani’s academic honours are his membership in the Alpha Omega Alpha Honour Medical Society, the Alfred Blalock Research Award for Residents at Johns Hopkins, and an outstanding poster presentation at the Congress of Neurosurgeons. He has received both the Edgar Dawson Traveling Fellowship and the Scoliosis Research Society Traveling Fellowship.
Prof Samdani has co-edited three textbooks and co-authored 53 book chapters as well as 280 publications in peer-reviewed journals. He serves on the Executive Committee for the Harms Study Group and the Children’s Spine Study Group.
Additionally, he leads the Shrine Spine Surgeons group, which comprises spine surgeons from Shriners Children’s Hospitals who research various topics in spine deformity treatment. Clinically, Prof Samdani specialises in complex paediatric spine deformities, particularly focusing on fusionless treatments for scoliosis and neuromuscular diseases.