Annual Symposium

The Annual MERC Symposium, held in Audubon, Pennsylvania, brings together internationally recognized researchers and surgeon faculty from a variety of multidisciplinary subspecialties on a single platform to discuss current concepts in spinal surgery and facilitate the exchange of scientific and clinical perspectives, with the goal of improving care and treatment of patients with spinal pathologies.

The mission of the MERC Symposium is fourfold:

  1. Provide education on current concepts and challenges in spinal surgery
  2. Showcase innovative research conducted over the past year
  3. Highlight new technologies and next generation advances in material science and device design
  4. Enrich the aforementioned goals by infusing them with the scientific perspectives of esteemed thought leaders.