Emerging Leaders Course
April 10 – 12, 2025
Indiana Spine Group, Medical Academic Center
Carmel, Indiana
The Emerging Leaders Course further promotes CSRS’s mission of developing young members by creating an open and intimate forum addressing the various challenges faced by early career spine surgeons. This course will be open to 32 total participants. The primary audience is orthopedic or neurosurgeons in their first five years of practice, and neurosurgeons in their last year of residency.
2025 Meeting Chairs: Michael McCarthy, MD & Alpesh Patel, MD, MBA
Learning Objectives
• Create an open participant driven education platform to facilitate honest, “real-life” conversations between attendees & facility.
• Provide useful and informative lectures focusing on topics relevant to young surgeon leaders.
• Emphasis on advanced cervical spine topics and techniques.
• Further explore participants as surgeon leader in and out of the operating room.
• Hands-on labs working one on one with cervical spine experts.
• Promote engagement of early career members within CSRS
• Limited capacity to facilitate group discussion and networking with current and past CSRS presidential line
Highlights from the 2024 Emerging Leaders Course
