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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.
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