THE 2016 MEETING OF THE SOCIETY

The 2016 meeting was a combined meeting of the SOSORT which was held in Banff Alberta from May 25 – 28 2016.
Dr. Edmond Lou and Dr. Eric Parent hosted this 1ST Joint SOSORT-IRSSD education and scientific meeting held at The Banff Centre located in the Rocky Mountains. For the first time, clinicians and researchers from the Society on Scoliosis Orthopaedic and Rehabilitation Treatment (SOSORT) and of the International Research Society on Spinal Deformities (IRSSD) have participated in a joint scientific meeting.
The scientific meeting was held from Wednesday May 25 to Saturday May 28, 2016 with a welcome reception on Tuesday May 24th. A pre-conference educational course on clinical scoliosis care (May 24th) and a post-conference research course (May 28th) will also be offered.
Professor Yong Qiu, President of the Chinese Scoliosis Research Society and Dr Hubert Labelle, research chair in movement science at Hôpital Ste-Justine and chair of the SRS screening task force have provided keynote lectures.