Dear Colleague,
It’s with great enthusiasm that the Johns Hopkins Department of Neurosurgery 
will be hosting our first Spine Business Forum: Strategies for the 
Provider, Investor and Innovator on May 18th, 2013 at the Johns 
Hopkins Chevy Chase Bank Conference Center. This new conference
 will represent a microcosm of United 
Stated healthcare changes in general, with ramifications on delivery, cost,
 investment,innovation and regulation and bring leaders from clinical
 medicine, biomedical industry, investment banking, venture capital, 
 hospital administration, healthcare consulting, insurance providers,
 legal and governmental regulation together to present and discuss the 
current and future issues around spine care. In the last 
30 years, there has been great progress in treating spinal disorders and 
spine care has become a major aspect of clinical medicine, health care 
expenditures, and innovation throughout the world. Such care in the United 
States is undergoing drastic changes that may simultaneously provide new
 obstacles and new avenues for success in the field. However, there is 
currently no forum that combines leaders from clinical medicine, industry, 
hospital administration, insurance providers, and 
legal and governmental regulation. In this conference, we seek to bring
 leaders in each of these fields together to present and discuss
 the current and future issues around spine care.

In the last 30 years, there has been great progress in treating spinal 
 disorders and spine care has become a major aspect of clinical medicine, 
 health care expenditures, and innovation throughout the world. Such care
 in the United States is undergoing drastic changes that may simultaneously 
provide new obstacles and new avenues for success in the field. However,
 there is currently no forum that combines leaders from clinical medicine,
 industry, hospital administration, insurance providers, and legal
 and governmental regulation. In this conference, we seek to bring leaders
 in each of  these fields together to present and discuss the current and future 
 issues around spine care.

Speakers include: Doug King (President of Medtronic Spine), Max Reinhardt
 (Worldwide President of Depuy-Synthes), Rich Grossi (CFO of Johns Hopkins
 Medicine), 
Dr. Zeya Gokaslan (Director of the Spine Center at Johns Hopkins), Dr. Christopher 
 Ames (Director of the Spine Center at UCSF), Youseph Yazdi (Executive 
 Director of Johns Hopkins CBID), Anton Dmitriev (Chief of Spine Devices
 at FDA), Christina Cook (CEO of DC2 Healthcare), Scott Becker(Partner of 
 McGuireWoods LLP, Becker Spine Review), Barry Alexander (Partner of 
Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP), Meg Garrett (Legal Counsel for 
JH Medicine), and more.

I am pleased to invite you, on behalf of Drs. ,Ziya Gokaslan and Daniel Sciubba,
 to attend the Spine Business Forum on May 18th, 2013 in Baltimore, MD. Please
 find the attached agenda for the meeting and due to limited seating availability please
 confirm your attendance at your earliest convenience. In any case; please feel free to
 forward this invitation to any of your colleagues who may be interested in the
 conference. If you have additional questions, please do not hesitate to contact me at mmazlum1@jhmi.edu or 433-287-5962.
For registration: http://www.hopkinscme.edu/CourseDetail.aspx/80031641
For the brochure: /www.hopkinscme.edu/pdfs/80031641.pdf
For the detailed program: http://www.hopkinscme.edu/pdfs/80031641program.pdf
Sincerely,
Mustafa Mazlumoglu

Mustafa F Mazlumoglu, MSc, MBA
Special Project Manager
Johns Hopkins University, School of Medicine
Department of Neurosurgery, Spine Center
600 N.Wolfe Street, Meyer 8-148
Baltimore, MD 21287